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to that of a very small child showing that these tombs were used for 
the interment of both sexes and at all ages. The Spaniards of course 
attribute them to the Moors, a convenient form they invariably 
apply to everything about which they know nothing. The tombs 
face all directions and their localities appear to have been chosen 
solely to obtain a good horizontal surface of rock, free from 
joint or blemish to work upon. Possibly these rock sepulchres are 
of Phoenician origin but this is a matter which requires further 
research. 
To revert to the search for our cliff, although less than a mile 
from the serrated crags on the watershed beyond us, we were 
separated from them by a deep rocky valley with steep sides over- 
grown with impenetrable scrub. It became necessary therefore to 
seek a vereda or track down towards the coast several hundred 
feet below us, so as to cross the valley where it widened out and 
became more practicable. This we effected and remounting our 
horses commenced the toilsome ascent of the hill beyond; as we 
gradually mounted the slope, the feeling grew in me that I had at 
last found the way to the cliff I sought, nor was I disappointed, 
for on reaching a plateau and rounding the extremity of a rocky 
bluff we suddenly came in view of a fine cliff some 300 ft. in 
height and fronting south-west. 
Near its foot was a charming white cottage built on three sides 
of a patio or courtyard which I instantly recognized as a land- 
mark I had noted down in 1884 when on my way to Egypt. 
The desolate nature of these rocky hills and their inaccessibility may 
be gauged by the fact that it is easy for a considerable cliff, such 
as is this, to be thus comfortably hidden away out of sight of most 
of the surrounding country. 
As may be imagined, the view of a cliff from the deck of a 
steamer some seven miles or more out at sea, gives one but a small 
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