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 for, said our mentor, "all the 'pillos,' or rascals of Spain are now in town, and they do love to mock an Englishman." Be it said that every foreigner is to the Spanish crowd an Englishman until he otherwise proclaims himself. I must admit we were made to feel decidedly conspicuous until we had invested in two broad-brimmed sombreros of a form especially affected by the Sevillian male.

A PORTAL OF THE ALCAZAR, SEVILLE Photograph by Harlow D. Higinbotham

We shall make our way toward the Feria on foot to visit, as we go, a few of Seville's worthiest sights; and first of course comes the Cathedral and the beautiful Giralda Tower—the tower built by Moorish hands and left a lovely reminiscence of the Moslem's taste and power. It is worth while to climb aloft if only to witness the ringing of the great cathedral bells. The tower vividly recalled to me an unfinished Moorish structure which I had seen a few weeks previously at Rabat on the west coast of Africa. It is said that the same Arab Calif built them