Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sketches on the Old Road Through France to Florence
But beside all these universal joys, each part of the world affords to the traveller a special joy of its own. Spain gives him the joy of indifference to success Morocco of adventurous captivity; Greece of perfection's epitaph; Albania of picturesque death. Since railways were run up her mountains, and her streams were collected into iron pipes, the joy of Switzerland lies in her toy houses and farm yards. The joy of Germany lies in her Christmas trees and soldiers. The joy of Crete is the sight of a wild goat at evening. The joy of Turkey 15 the muezzin's cry from a village minaret at dawn. In South Africa, oy comes in the cool hour before sunrise when t e sixteen oxen tug at the chain one after another, and the waggon begins to move across the veldt. In Mozambique it came to me when a brown savage, with tufts of bluejay feathers on his breast, a leopard skin round his loins, and a six penny looking-glass lashed to his arm, Sprang from the train and went bounding into the forest to seek his bride.
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