{266b} Cean Bermudez, the celebrated art critic, traveller, and dilettante, the author of numerous works on art and architecture, more especially in the Peninsula, was born in 1749, exiled 1801–8, and died in 1829. _C_ and _z_ before _e_ have the same sound in Castilian. {268} See Glossary. {269a} Nowadays he would call himself a Έλλην. {269b} “Good luck to thee, Antonio!” {271} Mr. Southern. {274a} Romany _chal_ = gypsy lad. {274b} “Good horse! gypsy horse! Let me ride thee now.” {277a} _Céad mile fáille_! Pronounce _Kaydh meela faulthia_. {277b} _Estremeño_, a native of the province of Estremadura. {279} See note on p. 193. {280a} The _Colegio de Nobles Irlandeses_, founded in 1792 by Philip II., is at present housed in a building of the earliest and best period of the Spanish _cinquecento_, founded in 1521 by Archbishop Fonseca as the _Colegio Mayor del Apostol Santiago_. It was built by Pedro de Ibarra. {280b} As is recorded in the second chapter of _Gil Blas_. {282} I.e. _el cura_, the parish priest; Fr. _curé_. Our “curate” is rather _el vicario_; Fr. _vicaire_. {284} _Arapiles_ is the name by which the great English victory of Salamanca is known to French and Spanish writers. It was fought on July 22, 1812, and the news reached Napoleon on the banks of the Borodino on September 7, inducing that strange hesitation and want of alacrity which distinguished his operations next day. The village of Arapiles is about four miles from Salamanca. {287} Savage mules. {290} “See the crossing! see what devilish crossing!” _Santiguar_ is to make the sign of the cross, to cross one’s self. _Santiguo_ is the action of crossing one’s self. {291} As late as 1521, Medina del Campo was one of the richest towns in Spain. Long one of the favourite residences of the Castilian court, it was an emporium, a granary, a storehouse, a centre of mediæval luxury and refinement. But the town declared for the _Comuneros_ of Castile, and was so pitilessly sacked, burned, and ravaged by the Flemish Cardinal Adrian, acting for the absent Charles of Hapsburg (in 1521), that it never recovered anything of its ancient importance. The name, half Arab, half Castilian, tells of its great antiquity. To-day it is known only as a railway station! {292} “_Carajo_, what is this?” {293a} We have adopted in English the Portuguese form Douro, which gave the title of Marquis to our great duke . . . of Ciudad Rodrigo, as the Spaniards prefer to call him. {293b} Madhouse. {293c} “May the Virgin protect you, sir:” lit. “May you go with the Virgin.” {293d} Valladolid, like so many place-names, not only in southern, but in central Spain, is Arabic, _Balad al Walid_, “the land of _Walid_,” the caliph in whose reign the Peninsula was overrun by the Moslems. The more ancient name of _Pincia_ is lost. {295} A friend and comrade of Zumalacarregui, who came into notice after the death of the greater leader in June, 1835.