[197a] Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 7th June 1837.
[197b] Ibid.
[197c] Ibid.
[198] Letter from Borrow to the Rev. A. Brandram, 27th February 1837.
[199] As the method adopted was practically the same in every town he visited, no further reference need be made to the fact, and in the brief survey of the journeys that Borrow himself has described so graphically, only incidents that tend to throw light upon his character or disposition, and such as he has not recorded himself, will be dealt with.
[200a] Via Pitiegua, Pedroso, Medina del Campo, Dueñas Palencia.
“I suffered dreadfully during this journey,” Borrow wrote, “as did likewise my man and horses, for the heat was the fiercest which I have ever known, and resembled the breath of the simoon or the air from an oven’s mouth.”—Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 5th July 1837.
[200b] Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 5th July 1837.
[201] The Bible in Spain, pages 352–4.
[202] The Bible in Spain, page 364.