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We again passed the hospital and ascended the new zigzag to the right of the Giniguada. The torrent-bed, now bright green with arum and pepper, grows vegetables, maize, and cactus. Its banks bear large plantations of the dates from which Las Palmas borrows her pretty Eastern names. In most places they are mere brabs, and, like the olive, they fail to fruit.
Then we cross the Giniguada wady by a bridge with a wooden floor, iron railings, and stone piers, and enter the Vineta, or official, as opposed to the commercial, town. On the south side is the fish-market, new, pretty, and gingerbread.
Most soothing to the eye is the cool green-grown patio after the prospect of the hot and barren highlands which back the Palm-City. Walking up the right flank of the Giniguada Ribeira, we cross the old stone bridge with three arches and marble statues of the four seasons. It places us in the Plazuela, the irregular space which leads to the Mayor de Triana, the square of the old theatre.
He took warning, fortified his camp, which occupied the site of the present city, beat off the enemy, and defeated, at the battle of Giniguada, a league of chiefs headed by the valiant and obstinate Doramas. The fisherman having suddenly disappeared, incontinently became a miraculous apparition of the Virgin's mother.
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