"...I perceived that what I had taken for a quickset hedge was a dense aftergrowth of opuntia six feet high, plump aloes and a sort of stunted palm-tree, probably chamaerops, and the jaded trees were, I found, date-palms, while the brown tilled plain was apparently Andalusia."
An illustration from the book "Letters From Spain" written and illustrated by Karel Capek, translated by Paul Selver, published by George Bles, London, 1931. Capek, (1890-1938), the Czech writer best known for his plays, wrote a number of travel books in an amused and urbane style which suffused his accompanying drawings as well. He invented the word 'robot'.

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