The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-13
Gibraltar. IBelgravia.l

Military discipline is here the great order of the day. Never for one mo- mens can you forget the ruling spirit. You dare not produce pencil and note book sill your sketching pass is duly signed and countersigned, and even that is only given for limited period, and with the pToviso that you must make no drawing of any fortihcatiion las if you could omit the one characteristic of the Place( At every turn you come on new batteries, great guns and mortars, with t. cir thousand hard, black eyes, keeping watch and ward. Deaths playthings every
 where, the very gardens yielding enly srapesho: and other Dead Sea fruit. Be- side the graceful flower vases are heaped
 up great pyramids of cannon balls; fixed
 bayonets glesm beneath the spiked aloes 1; tall plumes of grasses wave over plumed
 bonnets, and scarlet bloss oms resolve themselves into tartans as first one, then
 another well-knewn regiment marches
 down with pipes playing, for there is a picturesq que spot as you are likely to find, and Spaniards and Moors Jews and
 Britons are among the spectators, to say nothing of Rock ScorpiSns, as English children born on Old Gib." are called. Doubtless, also, the Baroary apes are looking down on us from their haunts among the cliffs, where they still find refuge, being protected by stringent laws. They are tailless, of course, as their name implies. Poor. humble-looking creatures, yet more precious than all their long, tailed brethxen, inasmuch as they are the sole representative of the monkey tribe still existing n Europe. They are found, however, in vast numbers on the coast of Barbary; and this handful of the rock seems to corroborate the stsry of the for mer union of the two continents. It hould seem that the making of the Phe. nician canal had cut of the retreat of this little garrison, isolating them from their fellows. But, though they alone remain as living proofs of the time when Europe and Africa were one, there are wonder ful caves in the rock where bones of ele- plants and rhinoceroses, leopArds and hyenas, lie bleaching together, as they have lain for countless centuries strange memorials of still more remote ages when they and their fellows were free to wander at large through Spanish and Italian forests; and thence pass undis. turbed to Calais and across the dry land to Dover, there to leave their old bones for the wonder and edi6cation of curious and inquisid.e human beings of the nineteenth century. The caves are not all antediluvian tombs. Some have been homes of the living, who have sought an asylum in times of danger One of the most interesting of these rock dwellings is known as Martins cave its only entrance is from the actual face of the precipice, the perpendicular cliff sow- ering 700 feet above it, while an equally precipitous wall of natural and artificial notifications lies between it and the calm blue sea below. The only access to this cave is along steep and dangerous rocky ledge, scarcely to be called path, whence one false step would hurl you through mid-air to find your rest in the qaiet waters of the Mediterranean But within the cavern you will find still quieter waters. You pass from the glowing sun- light into the dim, ghostiy cave, where tall stAlagmites rise up 10 meet the pen dant stalactites which adorn the roof, giving an effect of gray pillars, some slender, some massive, and as you peer through these into the innermost recesses of the cave you perceive a still, dark pool, into which from time to time one single drop of water falls with a dull splash from the rock above.