Transcribed from the 1896 John Murray edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Seville] THE BIBLE IN SPAIN; OR, THE JOURNEYS, ADVENTURES, AND IMPRISONMENTS OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN AN ATTEMPT TO CIRCULATE THE SCRIPTURES IN THE PENINSULA. BY GEORGE BORROW. * * * * * _A NEW EDITION_, _WITH NOTES AND A GLOSSARY_, BY ULICK RALPH BURKE, M.A., AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF SPAIN,” ETC. * * * * * _IN TWO VOLUMES_. VOL. I. * * * * * WITH MAP AND ENGRAVINGS. * * * * * LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1896. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. PREFACE. It is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years most books have been sent into the world without any. I deem it, however, advisable to write a preface, and to this I humbly call the attention of the courteous reader, as its perusal will not a little tend to the proper understanding and appreciation of these volumes. The work now offered to the public, and which is styled _The Bible in Spain_, consists of a narrative of what occurred to me during a residence in that country, to which I was sent by the Bible Society, as its agent, for the purpose of printing and circulating the Scriptures. It comprehends, however, certain journeys and adventures in Portugal, and leaves me at last in “the land of the _Corahai_,” to which region, after having undergone considerable buffeting in Spain, I found it expedient to retire for a season.