In all Tenerife there is no better country inn than that, or rather those (for there are a rival pair of them), at Matanza. The hostess of the one I favoured was buxom and comely, and she had learnt to a nicety how to fracture the shell in which the ...

Here at Rambla, however, I was suddenly immersed in an atmosphere of perfume, when I pushed aside the heavy wooden door. It was the Friday before Palm Sunday; and in preparation for the day the pavement was littered with the petals of roses and red g...

The duties of the present recalled the Alcalde from his kindly retrospect. A sound that was half howl and half sob broke upon the still air when we were passing the Municipal buildings. The Alcalde was at first puzzled to explain it. But his memory d...

In the neighbourhood of Rio, where the surface is formed of singularly even strata of hard grayish tufa, are several hundred troglodytes. They may be regarded as direct descendants of the Guanches, who, five hundred years ago, also lived in caves on ...