VOYAGE TO EGYPT 93 



** At seven this morning we were due at Gibraltar, 

 and the clocks having been put on an hour during 



the night we arrived there punctually. 



Breakfast was advanced an hour, and so 

 really the usual night was minus two hours. It 

 would be idle here to go into any descriptive details 

 of Gibraltar, where the new works seem to be pro- 

 gressing fast. The Mediterranean Fleet was well 

 represented in the harbour, and about 7.30 H.M.S. 

 Victorious came out and steamed close past us, 

 her business of the day being torpedo practice. 



" There being no time to waste, we speedily got 

 away with others in a launch, and Mr. Darling 

 being at once singled out by one David Haros, 

 courier of the Hotel Cecil, Gibraltar, arranged 

 surprisingly moderate terms for himself and me 

 to be driven round and shown all that was worth 

 seeing. We were consequently off and away im- 

 mediately on landing, and, having repaired to 

 the telegraph office, were then taken through the 

 market, past the Governor's house, on to the 

 gates, which are shut against all comers at 7 p.m. 

 Here are the lines of British sentries ; then a few 

 hundred yards of neutral ground, and on the other 

 side the Spanish lines. At the gates there people 

 are searched in thorough fashion, as attempts to 

 smuggle are frequent, but we are passed through, 

 and then go on foot through the Spanish town, 



