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54 TRAVELS IN AFRICA.';fbe signal-bouse herè has a vastcommand ·ofthe Straits, as is sev~relyfelt by our merchantmen in timé .ofwar..JOURNEY FROM TARIFFA TO CADIZ.First Nigltt's Halt.-This was made with herdsmeu ln their rancho,what in America wonld be called a wigwam, built of boughs, witbhenches of sad around, strewed. with rushes ta sleep on" and a fire inthe centre.It brought ta mind the night passed by. the hero of LaMancha with the goatherds; but inaptitude intbelangl.lage.preduq·edsuch deep discourse. The accommodations of the galdenage seem .tahave been but indifferent: but these good herdsmen.in their rude circumstanceshad aU the 'courteousness assignedto it, and ..the tr~v~llersthe full extent of that accomUlOdation he was capable of extending.The face of the country is a dead fiat, and thesoilrich.me.adowland.In the mpre broken tracts, whère they present themselves with schist,heath and furze, tb.e largest. lizardsev.er seen,ofthe.greenkind,bas~uiJ;lthe sun, drawn at.ruid-day [rom their holes by the·sn}triu..ess .of t1)eweatller~ The tr~ct is fllrtber intersper~ed bywoods pfcork-tree, andis interseGted1;ly)akes with low bçrders, .clothed with high reeds, Jhe1'esort of aqu~tic birds, amongst which the crane stalksgigantically onthe verge pf the confined horizon.On this route is.passedMedina, atOWll in a commanding situation: but the ele\'ation is toP iabruipt formod~rn warfare. N ext is ellten~d Xonil, on the sea-shoreju1't north ofthe ancient Geryon (Trafalgar), the triple.,headed I1lOnstersubdlleq bythe nautic Hercules, to whom, hard by i this place, was a tem,pIe appositelyplaced. Hei'e is a tunny-fishery, which yieldsgreat re,turQs.Jtj~a principal supp1'y of not bad tooçl to Spain. It causes agreati.b~stJ~bere. No inertues~ appears toclog the ene.rgy C)fit4f;k.Span~iard,in,tb.isOÇCllI?ation.Cervantes mentions the aggregaljon.,~n,ag.edasa