 where the lemon-trees bloom?”  The song of
Mignon in Goethe’s _Wilhelm Meister_, introduced in the opera of _Faust_.

{251b}  See note, vol. i. p. 216.

{256}  Born at Amalfi, 1623, a simple fisherman.  He headed the rebellion
of the Neapolitans against the Spanish viceroy, in 1647.  His success as
a leader led to a revulsion of popular feeling, and he was executed or
murdered within a few days of his greatest triumph.

{261}  Chiefly in their pronunciation of the characteristic G and Z of
the Castilian as S instead of TH.  The South-American Spaniards, so
largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is
about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an
educated Englishman.

{262}  Safacoro is the Romany name for Seville; and Len Baro for the
great river, _arabicé_ Wady al Kebir, the Guadalquivir.  See Glossary.

{263}  For further information about Manuel and Luis Lobo, who compiled a
manuscript collection of the pseudo-gypsy writings of _los del aficion_,
or those addicted to the _Gitanos_ and their language, see _The Zincali_,
part iii. chap. ii.

{264a}  Κύριε, voc. of κύριος, the usual mode of address, “sir.”

{264b}  The name of a famous family of Dutch printers (1594–1680).

{266}  Priests.  Greek, παπᾶς; not Spanish, in which language _Papa_
means the Pope (of Rome).

{267}  Τίποτε = nothing at all.

{273}  The secondary signification of “prosperity” or “good fortune” is
more familiar to English ears; the word having come to us by way of the
Spanish, American, and Californian mining camps.

{274}  “The Illustrious Scullion.”

{282}  Lit. a butterfly.

{288}  This was Mr. John Brackenbury.

{292a}  The great Danish poet, born in 1779, died 1850; see _ante_, note,
vol. i. p. 29.

{292b}  October 21, 1805.

{293a}  It is an American in our own day, Captain Mahan, U.S.N., who has
called attention, in his masterly _influence of Sea Power upon History_,
to the transcendent importance of the battle of Trafalgar, hardly
r