The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-11

SEVILLE, Spain, Jan. 9.-It sounds HI
bernian, but is nevertheless true, that the
most interesting things in Cadiz are oft
side OF 1.-THE products OF sea and land
as exempliGed in the fisheries and the wine
trade. The best way TO get a correct idea
Of the former is to turn fisherman your
self, and learn from practical experience
! rather than from records of the annual
catch. First, to the old seawall, where a
motley crowd sits all day long, with legs
hanging over, angling with such persist
ency that their patience has parsed into
a proverb familiar throughout Spiin-"La
paciencia de I'm pescador de cana
Some of the very best fish in the world,
including the celebrated salmonete, or red
mullet the st. Peter" the Nero" the
"Gold-head," are waiting by thousands
10 be hauled up at the end of a line
dangling from a canestalk. At any
rate. TO go fishing from the ram
| parts of Cadiz is something you should
| not miss-not so much for the fl n as for
| the novel experience. The January sun,
which in this latitude is like that of north
ern June, reflects with double intensity
from the FURNISHED sea in front, and the
glare of white walls behind: but the
breeze is cool and constant, and-if wise
in your Gay and geDeration-your brow is
shaded with q broad sombrero.
Sailors from all parts of the world fire.
quent this seawall including maay Moors
and Africans from the other side of the
Mediterranean. There too. are trogns of
King Alfonso's soldiers. in gorgeous uni
forms, whose countenances, like Cassius'.
wear "a lean and hungry look" pompous
officials; French, Spanish and En- ylisn
merchants; Portuguese traders; beegars
and peddlers galore; promenading grsnde
DANES with lace mantillas partially COW
erfng their shining hair; and beyies of gig
Cling senoritas, flirting with fans ard eve
lids under the very noses of watchfui
duennas.
Picturesque Sen View.
The seward view is glorious. The noble
bay of Cadiz, more than thirty miles in
extent, is almost entirely landlocked. The
outer bay, stretching from Rota village.
at the foot of the promontory. to the Qua
dalite River, is lined with medieval forts;
the inner bay. protected by the Latagorda
and Puntales Notifications. the isthmus
San Fernando. These fisheries have been
celebrated through thirty long centuries.
and the salmonete you are hauling up to-
DAY at the end of string may be lineal
descendants of the same which supplied
the luxurious Romans with their favorite
tidbits when Rome was new on her seven |
hills. Perhaps on this very spot wise old |
Apolionias sat when he studied the phe- |
nomena of the tides and arrived AT the |
Rl hat he
and sent out again by submarine winds; |
and Solenus who disputed his theory and |
sagely urged that the ebb and flow was
caused by huge sea animalsi
For funny fishing you must go out in q |
felucca, right under the rusty guns of /
Matagorda and Puntales, to the rocky /
islets called Los Puercos' and LOS Co /
chinos 1.-THE Pigs and Chickens) that OBJ
struct the harbor entrance. The passage Is
also encountered by shifting mud banks,
by the Guadalite and Santi
Petri Rivers, in which the tunnies bury
themselves during the breeding season.
On the mainland, at the mouth of the
Guadalite, is the town of Carraca with
a thousand inhabitants and a most IN
saVory reputation as 10 morals. Il contains
the naval arsenal, defended by the cross
fire OF two forts, and the royal dock
yards, with twelve steps and three spa
cious paslns. close by, on the isthinus,
is fashionable and much-frequented
bathing place, and farther on are n dozen
others, reminding you of the jeweled
crescent of New York Iiarbor by night.
studded with archaeological resorts.
Right here, in the shelter OF San Fer
nando, are the famous funny fisheries,
which supplied the ancients with sea food
If the highest price-the same which gave
Use TO the Greek epigram-
Bass, congers' head. and tunnys under side,