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 FROWNING TOWARD SPAIN

FROM TANGIER

Landing, we see above us the Moorish Castle, said to be the oldest Arabian structure in all Spain. Below it clings the modern town, both of them dominated by the granite mass of the rock itself. The higher portion of the rock is forbidden ground. One of the pinnacles is crowned by the semaphore tower, where the passing of every ship is signaled. These peaks are haunted by a band of apes, existing in a state of savagery, but in whose welfare the crew of this aerial station takes much interest. In 1860 the monkeys were reduced by disease to a meager dozen; now the band numbers about fifty members. As an instance of the careful record of the inhabitants of Gibraltar kept by the British authorities, the men of the signal station have orders instantly to report by telephone to the governor's palace whenever it is observed that the