{217} The etymology of Andalusia is somewhat of a _crux_; the various authorities are collected and reviewed in an appendix to Burke’s _History of Spain_, vol. i. p. 379. The true etymology may be Vandalusia, the abiding-place of the Vandals, though they abode in Southern Spain but a very short time; but the word certainly came into the Spanish through the Arabic, and not through the Latin, long years after Latin was a spoken language. The young lady was quite right in speaking of it as _Betica_ or _Bœtica_; though the _Terra_ would be superfluous, if not incorrect. {218} He had succeeded to that title on the death of his uncle, December 22, 1838. {219} _I.e._ “My Lord the Sustainer of the Kingdom.” See preface to _The Zincali_, second edition. {221a} _Tio_. A common method of address, conveying no reference to real relationship. So the Boers in South Africa speak of “Oom (uncle) Paul.” {221b} “What beautiful, what charming reading!” {223} _No hay otro en el mundo_. {224a} See note on p. 147. {224b} Κατὰ τὸν τόπον καὶ ὁ τρόπος, as Antonio said.—[Note by Borrow]. _I.e._ “As is the place, such is the character (of the people).” {225} Alcalá de Henares. See note, vol. i. p. 223. {228a} “Good night!” {228b} “Good night to you!” {234} Or _Nevski_ = of the Neva; as we have a Thames Street. {236} Spanish, _duende_. See p. 238. Oddly enough in _Germanía_, or thieves’ slang, _duende_ = _ronda_, a night patrol. {237} Madrid is not a city or _ciudad_, but only the chief of _villas_. {240} In Romany, _Chuquel sos pirela cocal terela_. {242a} _El Nuevo Testamento Traducido al Español de la Vulgata Latino por el Rmo. P. Phelipe Scio de S. Miguel de las Escuelas Pias Obispo Electo de Segovia_. _Madrid_. _Imprenta á cargo de D. Joaquin de la Barrera_. 1837. {242b} The church of San Gines is in the Calle del Arenal; the chapel of Santa Cruz in the Concepcion Jerónima. {246} This is a curious slip; the spelling is found in the first and all subsequent editions. The true name of the defile—it is between Velez el Rubio and Lorca—is, as might be supposed, _La Rambla_, but the narrowest part of the pass is known as the _Puerto de Lumbreras_ (the Pass of Illumination), and from _Rambla_ and _Lumbrera_ Borrow or the printer of 1843 evolved the strange compound _Rumblar_! {248} This would naturally mean, “Most reverend sir, art thou still saying, or, dost thou still say Mass?” which seems somewhat irrelevant. Possibly what “the prophetess” meant to ask was, “Most reverend sir, hast thou yet said Mass?” {251a} “Knowest thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom?” The song of Mignon in Goethe’s _Wilhelm Meister_, introduced in the opera of _Faust_. {251b} See note, vol. i. p. 216.