text:  We do not mean to recommend Spain as a desirable travelling ground for those adventurous English dames whom we have occasionally met journeying by coachfuls in France Germany and other peaceable lands unsquired and unescorted save by their waiting-maids: to them the encounter of _rateros_ _salteadores_ or other varieties of Spanish banditti might be in various respects disagreeable; but for men who without leaving Europe may wish to visit other scenes than those in which every Cockney tourist has wandered we know of few expeditions more interesting than one into the interior of Spain