WELL DE LAS ALGIVES, ALHAMBRA 180 EXTERIOR OF THE ALHAMBRA 182 PAVILION OF THE COURT OF LIONS, ALHAMBRA 185 FOUNTAIN, COURT OF LIONS, ALHAMBRA 187 MALAGA FROM THE ALAMEDA 219 MOSQUE, CORDOVA 251 CHAPEL IN MOSQUE, CORDOVA 253 MOORISH MILLS, CORDOVA 255 TORRE DEL ORO 262 HALL OF DON PEDRO, THE ALCAZAR, SEVILLE 270 CITY GATE, VALENCIA 297 WANDERINGS IN SPAIN, ETC. ETC. CHAPTER I. FROM PARIS TO BORDEAUX. Departure from Paris--Subterranean Dwellings--Château-Regnault--Tours--Châtellerault--Angoulême--The _Landes_--Cubzac--Bordeaux--The Theatre--The Cathedral--St. Michael's Tower--Mummified Corpses--the Museum. A few weeks ago (April, 1840), I happened, in an off-hand manner, to give utterance to the following phrase:--"I should like to go to Spain." Five or six days afterwards, my friends had suppressed the prudent "I should like," with which I had qualified my wish, and had told every one who chose to listen that I was about to undertake a trip to Spain. This positive formula was soon followed by the interrogation, "When do you set out?" while I, without thinking of the obligation under which I was placing myself, replied, "In a week." At the end of the week people began to manifest some astonishment at seeing me still in Paris. "I thought you were at Madrid," said one. "What! come back?" asked another. I saw at once that I owed my friends an absence of several months, and that I must pay the debt with the least possible delay, unless I wished to be mercilessly pursued, without a moment's respite, by my obliging creditors. The lobbies of the theatres, the various asphaltic and bituminous pavements of the Boulevards, were to me forbidden luxuries for the time being. All I could obtain was the grace of three or four days, and on the 5th of May I commenced relieving my native land of my importunate presence, by scrambling into the Bordeaux diligence.