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UNEXPLORED SPAIN
ABEL CHAPMAN’S WORKS
BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS. First Edition, 1889;
—— ——, Second Edition, 1907.
WILD SPAIN. (With W. J. B.) 1893.
WILD NORWAY. 1897.
ART OF WILDFOWLING. 1896.
ON SAFARI (In British East Africa). 1908.
UNEXPLORED SPAIN. (With W. J. B.) 1910.
H.M. King Alfonso XIII spearing a boar.
UNEXPLORED
SPAIN
BY
ABEL CHAPMAN
AUTHOR OF ‘WILD SPAIN,’ ‘WILD NORWAY,’ ‘ON SAFARI,’ ETC.
AND
WALTER J. BUCK
BRITISH VICE-CONSUL AT JEREZ
AUTHOR OF ‘WILD SPAIN’
WITH 209 ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JOSEPH CRAWHALL, E. CALDWELL, AND ABEL CHAPMAN
AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW YORK
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD
1910
INSCRIBED
BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION
TO THEIR MAJESTIES
KING ALFONSO XIII.
HIMSELF AN ACCOMPLISHED SPORTSMAN
AND
QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA OF SPAIN
WITH DEEP RESPECT
BY THEIR MAJESTIES’ GRATEFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANTS
THE AUTHORS
Preface
THE undertaking of a sequel to Wild Spain, we are warned, isdangerous. The implication gratifies, but the forecast alarms not.Admittedly, in the first instance, we occupied a virgin field, andnaturally the almost boyish enthusiasm that characterised the earlierbook—and probably assured its success—has in some degree abated. Butit’s not all gone yet; and any such lack is compensated by longerexperience (an aggregate, between us, of eighty years) of a land welove, and the sounder appreciation that arises therefrom. Our ownresources, moreover, have been supplemented and reinforced by friends inSpain who represent the fountain-heads of special knowledge in thatcountry.
No foreigners could have enjoyed greater opportunity, and we have doneour best to exploit the advantage—so far, at least, as steady ploddingwork will avail; for we have spent more than two years in analysing,checking and sorting, selecting and eliminating from voluminou