Chapter X: Corunna and Its Hero

The Most Happy and Invincible Armada : Modern Corunna : The
_Miradores_ : Wellington, Napoleon, and the Gallegans : The
Peninsular War : The Tragedy of Moore's Retreat to Corunna : A
Butchered Rearguard : Marvellous Marching : The Last Stand : Moore's
Death : His Burial on Corunna's Ramparts Pp. 179-194

INDEX Pp. 195-203

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Galicia's Golden Sands (_colour_) _Frontispiece_

A Land of Mountain and Flood 1

Peasants in their Sunday Best. Fishwives _To face_ 8

A Galician Laundry 23

A Galician Market Place (_colour_) _To face_ 25

A Granary. A Pigeon-cot _"_ 30

A Merry Roadside Group _"_ 37

A Cattle Market. An Open-air Market _"_ 41

San Simon's Island, Vigo Bay 49

Vigo, Galicia's Gateway (_colour_) _To face_ 51

Galician Children. Afraid of the Camera _"_ 54

On the Quay at Vigo. Fishermen's Cottages at Cangas _"_ 61

Santiago, from the Alameda 69

Santiago de Compostela (_colour_) _To face_ 71

One of Santiago's Twin Towers _"_ 74

Rua del Villar, Santiago (_colour_) _"_ 81

A Logan 97

A Galician Village (_colour_) _To face_ 99

A Galician Fishing-boat. Men and Women rowing up
Vigo Bay _"_ 104

The Church at Bouzas, on the Coast 109

Tuy, a Hill City on the Frontier (_colour_) _To face_ 111

Ferrol, the Spanish Portsmouth _"_ 113

The Bridge at Ramallosa. The Shrine on the Bridge _"_ 118

Oxen towing a Broken-down Motor-bus 125

Pontevedra by Night: the Bull-ring (_colour_) _To face_ 127

A Diligence on the Highway. Oxen Yoked to a Diligence _"_ 128

The Hills of Mondariz 141

Mondariz (_colour_) _To face_ 143

A Peasant's Funeral in the Hills. A Peasant Woman,
with her Distaff, driving a Bullock-cart _"_ 150

Gathering Firewood in the Pine Hills 153

The Fishing Town of Marin (_colour_) _To face_ 155

A Maid of Cangas _"_ 159

Carrying Water. A Woman Threshing Beans _"_ 162

Arosa Bay 165

The Island of La Toja (_colour_) _To face_ 167

The Torre de Hércules, Corunna 179

A Road in the Hills (_colour_) _To face_ 181

Elviña, where Sir John Moore was Mortally Wounded.
The House, Modernised, in which he died _"_ 191

Sir John Moore's Tomb at Corunna. Corunna Bay, from
the Ramparts _"_ 194

Map of Galicia 195