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Updated: June 17, 2025
The wild evil of the Spanish contrabandistas seems atoned by that wildness; but this dull wickedness has no flush of colour, no poppy on its dirt heaps. Over one barrow the sailors had fixed up a tent canvas stretched from corner poles, two fellows sat almost on the shafts outside; they were well.
After taking a long draught, he continued, while the stranger closely watched him: "Yes, he's here; and his feet must be rather cold, for he's been waiting about the mountains ever since sunset, with his guards and our comrades. Thou knowest our bandoleros, the true contrabandistas?" "Ah! and what do they hunt?" said Jacques. "Ah, that's the joke!" answered the drunkard.
In a word, the strand of San Lucar in ancient times, if not in modern, was a rendezvous for ruffians, contrabandistas, and vagabonds of every, description, who nested there in wooden sheds, which have now vanished. San Lucar itself was always noted for the thievish propensities of its inhabitants the worst in all Andalusia. The roguish innkeeper in Don Quixote perfected his education at San Lucar.
I am sure that no one ever felt any repugnance on being introduced by Cervantes to the muleteers, contrabandistas, servants and serving-maids, and idle vagabonds of Spain, any more than to an acquaintance with the beggar-boys and street gamins on the canvases of Murillo.
Although it would be interesting to linger over the passages dealing with Spain, it is perhaps better to turn to his account of leaving it, which he did under the most singular circumstances namely, as one of a band of contrabandistas.
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