“The sandy shore behind Torresadas, with numerous boats pulled onto land, served as a gathering place for all the farm people. Stretched out on their stomachs, the children played cards under the shade of the ships. The old men smoked clay pipes brought from Algeria, and talked about fishing or about the wonderful journeys taken in former times to Gibraltar or to the coast of Africa before the devil took it into his head to invent something that called the tobacco customs house..." The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.