X Unexplored Spain 
as a damask serviette. Living captives at least give form; but 
that is all. The loss of freedom, with all its contingent perils, 
involves the loss of character, the pride of life, and of independ- 
ence. Once remove the first essential element—the sense. of 
instant danger, with all that the stress and exigencies of wild-life 
import—and with these there vanish vigilance, carriage, spright- 
liness, dignity, sometimes even self-respect. 
Not a man who has watched and studied wild beasts and wild 
birds in their native haunts, glorified and ennobled by self- 
conscious aptitude to prevail in the ceaseless “struggle for 
existence,” but instantly recognises with a pang the different 
demeanour of the same creatures in captivity, albeit carefully 
tended in the best zoological gardens of the world. 
To Mr. Joseph Crawhall (cousin of one author) we and our 
readers are indebted for a series of drawings that speak for 
themselves. 
Further, we desire most heartily to thank H.R.H. the Duke 
of Orleans for notes and photographs illustrative both of Baetican 
scenery and of the wild camels of the marisma; also the many 
Spanish and Anglo-Spanish friends whose assistance is specifically 
acknowledged, passim, in the text. 
Should some slight slip or repetition have escaped the final 
revision, may we crave indulgence of critics? “Tis not care that 
lacks, but sheer mnemonics. In a work of (we are told) 150,000 
words the mass of manuscript appals, and to detect every single 
error may well prove beyond our power. We have lost, moreover, 
that guiding eye and pilot-like touch on the helm that helped 
to steer our earlier venture through the shoals and seething 
whirlpools that ever beset voyages into the unknown. 
A. ©. 
W. J. B. 
BritisH VIcE-CONSULATE, JEREZ, 
December 1910. 
