[118] Get down directly.
[119] Perhaps a flight of woodcocks will arrive to-night. Is it not true, good father?
[120] “It is infested with banditti at each step. Is it not true, Don Diego, that that rocky path beyond Alcalà is called the road to the infernal regions?” “Yes, yes—as true as holy writ.”
[121] Rock of Sancho.
[122] The little stream that empties itself into the sea, near Tarifa, is called El Salado, par excellence, in consequence of the great victory gained on its banks by Alfonso XI.; but, properly speaking, it is El Salado de Tarifa.
[123] Hirtius, Bel. Hisp. cap 7.
[124] Ibid. cap. 8.
[125] Dion—Lib. 48.
[126] Dion and Hirtius.
[127] Cap. 27.