To  see  that  man  sitting  astride  his  donkey  on  his  road
to  market,  is  a  rare  treat  to  the  observant  traveller.  The
patient  animal  —  laden,  as  to  panniers,  M-ith  wine,  olives,  or
every  conceivable  description  of  vegetables — still  finds  room
for  its  lazy  master,  who  perches  himself  in  the  midst  of
the  ivipcdimenla,  running  his  feet  into  a  leathern  strap  fiist-
ened  round  the  donkey's  neck,  clase  to  the  poor  brute's
head.  He  smokes  and  sings  —  such  droning!  and  stops  to
gossip,  or  to  let  his  dapple  graze,  or  upon  any  excuse  that
may  offer ;  and,  his  cargo  once  disposed  of,  becomes  a
man  upon  town.  He  Ls  good-humored,  civil,  but  languid.
There  is  no  "go"  in  him;  his  vim  would  seem  to  have
deserted  him,  leaving  nothing  but  the  outward  semblance
of  a  man.
CHAPTER   XXVIII.
GENERAL   GRANT  VISITS   GIBRALTAR — SAILING   OVER    JTEM-
ORABLE    TRAFALGAR  —  GIBRALTAR    AS    A    CLASSIC    AND

MODERN   TOWN ANCIENT   MEMORIES  OF  GIBRALTAR  —

HOW    THE    MOOR,   SPANIARD,   AND    ENGLISHMAN     HAVE
STRUGGLED     FOR    THE    ROCK  —  GENERAL     GRANT     AND

LORD    NAPIER  —  AN    AMERICAN    WELCOME A    REVIEW

AND   SHAM   BATTLE — THE  AMERICAN   GENEBAL's   OPIN-
ION  OF   THE   BRITISH   SOLDIERS.
General  Grant  and  his  party  left  Cadiz,  on  the  morn-
ing of  November  17th,  for  Gibraltar.  Our  correspondent
thus  relates  the  subsequent  events:  —  We  left  Cadiz  in  the
early  morning,  and  the  sea  was  in  her  gentlest  mood.
General  Duffie,  our  gallant  and  genial  Consul,  was  with  us.
