[208] 1836.
[212a] Dom José Agostinho Freire was minister of war to Dom Pedro, and subsequently minister of the interior under the Duke of Terceira. In 1836 he was murdered at Lisbon by the National Guard, while driving in his carriage.
[212b] The Carlist leader. See Duncan, The English in Spain, p. 88.
[214] Latin, Bætis = the river afterwards named by the Arabs Wady al Kebir, the Guadalquivir.
[215] The vane, porque gira. The modern tower is about 275 feet high. See Girault de Prangey, Essai sur l’Architecture des Maures et Arabes (1841), pp. 103–112.
[216a] The largest and perhaps the grandest of the mediæval cathedrals, not only of Spain, but of Europe. It was commenced in 1403, and completed about 1520.
[216b] 1350–1369.
[216c] Triana, for long the Whitefriars or Alsatia of Seville, the resort of thieves, gypsies, and mala gente of every description. See Zincali, pt. ii. chap. ii. The Arabic Tarayana is said to perpetuate the name of the Emperor Trajan, who was certainly born in the neighbourhood, and who would not be proud of his supposed conciudadanos! The modern suburb was almost entirely destroyed by the overflowing of the Guadalquivir in 1876. There is now (1895) a permanent bridge across the river.
[218] This is, I think, a good English word. The Spanish form would be desesperados.
[220] King of the gypsies in Triana.