{177b} _Montero_ in Spanish means “a hunter;” and a _montero_ cap, which every reader of Sterne is familiar with at least by name, is a cap, generally of leather, such as was used by hunters in the Peninsula. {177c} Twelve ounces of bread, small pound, as given in the prison. [Note by Borrow.] {178} According to the late Marquis de Santa Coloma, as reported by Mr. Wentworth Webster (_Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society_, vol. i. p. 151), “in Madrid Borrow used to ride a fine black Andalusian horse (_v. p_. 261), with a Russian skin for a saddle, and _without stirrups_.” This was, however, during his second visit, and _Don Jorge_ may have changed his practice. That he could ride without stirrups, or saddle either, is certain (p. 308, and _Lavengro_, chap. xiii.). {180a} General Cordova had been entrusted from the beginning of the war with high command in the queen’s armies. He succeeded Valdez as commander-in-chief immediately after the death of Zumalacarregui, at the end of June, 1835, to the end of August, 1836, when he was succeeded by Espartero. See Duncan, _The English in Spain_, pp. 58, 72. {180b} See Introduction, and _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 15 fevrier, 1851. {181a} May, 1836. {181b} Don Francisco Xavier de Isturitz was born in 1790, and after taking part in the various liberal governments from 1808 to 1823, was forced to fly to England on the absolutist counter-revolution in that year. He returned to Spain on the amnesty in 1834, and on the fall of his old friend Mendizabal in 1836, he became minister for foreign affairs, and lived to negotiate the “Spanish marriages,” and to occupy many high political and diplomatic posts under Isabella II. {181c} See Introduction, p. xxiii. {183} “He will do what you want for you: will gratify your fancy.” {186} “Stuff and nonsense.” {187} Charles III. of Spain (1759–1788). See _The Zincali_, part i. chap. xii. {188} “How goes it?” {190} Whether this episode of Benedict Mol has any foundation in fact I cannot say. I was on the point of starting for Compostella, where I might have investigated the incident detailed, vol. ii. p. 183, and I had actually paid for my ticket to Irun (May 2, 1895), when I was summoned to a more distant shrine on the slopes of the Southern Pacific. {191} A _cuarto_, a trifle over an English farthing, being almost exactly 4/34 of 2½_d._ {192} “In short.” {193a} Borrow writes indifferently _Saint James_, _St. Jago_, and _Santiago_. The last is the correct Spanish form, while the English usually speak of the place as Compostella. It has been thought best to retain the form used by the author in each case. {193b} Witch. Ger. _Hexe_.—[Note by Borrow.] {193c} “Thanks be to God!” {194} See note on p. 340.