360 CREATURE COMFORTS. therefore, on my arrival, was the rehabilitation of the inner and outer man, for which I ordered a bath and dinner. Baths, that necessary luxury of hotels, have but recently been attached to the fondas of Spain, nor are now a general institution with them. They are procurable of course in cities and large towns; the Moors left them in every street and almost in every house; but in fondas even otherwise commendable, they are not yet generally prevalent. The Leon de Oro had lately introduced them. You pay in Spain an extra charge for soap, which is a monopoly, and consequently dear. With a bath and tolerable dinner, I found, like Candide, life very comfortable; but I concluded to make no perquisitions in Grenada till after a night's repose. The view from my chamber-window commanded a portion of the Alhambra. Its turrets under a mid-summer moon rose clear and distinct to my eye, and, after I had sought my couch, mingled their histories with my dreams. But neither the visions of the night nor the expectations of the morning interfered with my appetite for breakfast. I made a hearty meal upon tortillas y pescado, and café con leche, omelet, fish, and coffee. Then with a cigar de papel I started for the Alhambra. Following the banks of the Xenil, I entered the great square of the Vivarambla, famous in Moorish story, where the Abencerages and the Zegris so often indulged their death-feuds, and the monarch father and son, Muley Abul Hassan, and Boabdil, sought in unnatural strife each other's blood. Here still remain as they left them, some of the buildings of the Alcaceria -the former bazaar of the Moors-one entire row of houses with Spanish windows, being untouched even by time. 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