An Abandoned Province 31 
The citadel marks the era of war. The Goths followed and 
despised fortifications. Their ornate palaces, enriched with 
escutcheons and sculptured device, lie below, outside the Roman 
walls. 
After the Goths and after the Moors, Trujillo enjoyed a 
transient awakening when Pizarro, son of an Estremenian swine- 
herd, with Cortez (also born hard by), swept the New World 
from Mexico to the Andes, and the glory of her sons, with the 
gold of the Incas, poured into the city. Thereafter destiny 
altered. Instead of consolidating new-won dominions by foster- 
ing commerce, exploiting their resources by establishing forts 
and factories, plantations, harbours, and the like, Spain directed 
her energies to missionising. Instead of commercial companies 
with fleets of merchantmen, she sent out sacred Brotherhoods, 
friars of religious orders, and studded the New World with empty 
names, all acts right enough and laudable in their own proper 
time and place. 
Trujillo boasts an industry in the manufacture of a rough red- 
brown earthenware, chiefly tall water-jars, amphora - shaped, 
which damsels carry upright on their 
heads with marvellous balance; and 
iron-spiked dog-collars as here repre- 
sented. These are not suitable for lap- 
dogs, but for the huge mastifts employed 
in guarding sheep and which, without 
such protection, would be devoured by 
wolves ! WOLF-PROOF DOG-COLLAR 
Hitherto our journeys have led us (eitainol dtamaten.) 
chiefly through the Estremenian plain, 
but after passing Plasencia the country changes. We enter the 
outliers of those great sierras that shut out Estremadura from 
Leén and Castile, from Portugal—and the world! Here one 
quickly perceives signs of greater prosperity, due in part to the 
heavier rainfall from the hills, to a shehtly richer soil, but 
mainly to the superior energy of hill-folk. Wherever the soil 
warrants it, cultivation is pushed right up amidst the jungled 
slopes of the hills. 
In the folds of the sierra grow magnificent woods of Spanish 
chestnut with some walnut trees, and among these we observed 
