706 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1880, 
which rises to the crown of the hill was crowded with 
people of the town below, going up to the cemetery 
with flowers and lamps and candles and drapery, to 
ornament the tombs and graves of relatives, which 
here is done on All Saints’ Day, and we saw the curi- 
ous sight by day and walked up again in the evening, 
when all was alight, and in a chapel a sort of requiem 
service performing. We will not describe the Al 
hambra. I fancied I should think the work finical ; 
but you are carried away by it. But of most interest 
was our visit to the Cathedral of Granada this morn- 
ing and to the Capilla Real, to see all the relics and 
contemporary memorials of Ferdinand and Isabella, 
their effigies, sword, sceptre, etc., their noble tombs, 
more rich and beautiful, I think, than those of the 
Constable and his wife at Burgos, and then to descend 
into the vault and see their rude iron coffins, which 
have not been desecrated nor molested, and also those 
of Philip I. and his poor wife Joanna. (et us tell 
you, some day, of a modern Spanish picture, at Madrid, 
of her and her husband’s coffin, which she wearily had 
earried with her.) All this, and what we see here 
on the spot of the Moorish life, and what we saw at 
the cathedral, gives a vivid reality that nothing else 
can. 
And here my sheet is full and my gossip must be 
eut short, with short space to add the kindest remem- 
brances and love which my wife joins in sending to 
you and yours and daughters. 
