text:  Some travelling bagman or half-fledged subaltern on his way to the Mediterranean gets ashore at Cadiz or Gibraltar takes a run through three or four of the principal Andalusian cities perhaps has a letter of introduction or else meets at a _fonda_ with some good-natured Spaniard who compassionates his "goose look" and evident helplessness invites him to his house and introduces him at a tertulia or two