Note 40 — Chapter XXIII · LAS HURDES (ESTREMADURA) AND THE SAVAGE TRIBES THAT INHABIT THEM

A later Spanish work, the Diccionario enciclopedico hispano-americano (Barcelona, 1892), regards some of Pascual Madoz’s descriptions as over-coloured and exaggerated. Our own observation, however, rather tended to confirm his views and to show that subsequent amelioration exists rather in name than in fact.