The pillars of Hercules

A travel narrative recounts journeys through Spain and Morocco, detailing encounters with Arab domestic life and hunting boars, descriptions of rural industries and the environmental decline caused by cork-stripping, and visits to baths, desert clans, and Jewish communities in Barbary. It examines local food customs and domestic crafts, records landscapes and antiquities including druidical circles near Tangier, and follows travel from Rabat through El Garb to Tangier and Seville. Extended sections describe Seville’s island and cathedral, evaluate Spanish painting and dance, and trace architectural connections among Moorish, Gothic, and ancient Canaanite forms.