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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the sun, andremain thus exposed for from one to three days, when theyare ready for the press. The long wooden troughs, or IcKjarcs, having beenpartially filled with grapes, a couple of swarthy bare-legged fellows in striped shirts, and leathern shoes studdedwith broad-headed nails, jump into each Icuiar and, afterspreading out the bunches, commence footing it ankle-deep among the crushed fruit, while the juice pours forththrough spouts into casks placed to receive it. The mendance with a rapid swaying movement which is held toexpress the juice from the grapes in a more satisfac-tory manner than can be accomplished by any knownmechanical appliance. After being trodden, the grapes are finally subjected tothe action of a screw, which is fixed over the centre of eachlagar. The pile of half-crushed fruit is enclosed in a bandof esparto-matting, and the handles of the screw beingturned, a wooden slab descends, and the remaining juicepours forth through the interstices of the esparto, and is
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bo a O ao 1-5 55 a s ON VITICULTURE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. 829 collected in the butts beneath. These casks, as tilled, arehoisted upon bullock-carts, and sent jolting away to theJerez bodegas. The rindiiiiia, or vintage, is always an animated scene,whether on the gently undulating vine lands of Aiidalucia,or in Portugal, on the steep terraced slopes of the moun-tains which shut in the wild Alto Douro. x\far acrossthose Lusitanian glens resound the musical chant andcharacteristic sing-song ditties of the Gallegan peasantry—like cicadas, they sing and answer each other fromhill to hill the livelong day, the happy, despised, bond-slaves of the Peninsula, who, at vintage-time, flock fromtheir rude barren province of Galicia to revel in abun-dance in the Alto Douro on a couple of testoons, say,tenpence a day, supplemented by an allowance of oil, afew salted sardines, rice, and stock-fish, and of hwa, ormaize-bread, and the accommodation of mother-earth tosleep upon, with a roof overhead

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