Around the World and South America; Letters Written on the Way for a Home Paper While Traveling from New York to India, China and Japan in 1907, and During a Sojourn in South America in 1910 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II. ITALY AND EGYPT. LOVELY NAPLES, HEARTLESS NEAPOLITANS.?SNOW CLAD, SMOKING MT. ETNA.?BOISTEROUS WELCOME BY EGYPTIANS.?WONDERFUL CAIRO. THE GATEWAY OF THE ORIENT. Cairo, Egypt, January 21st, 1907. OWING to the fact that one of our passengers was buried at sea a few days before reaching the port of Naples, the medical officials there made a most rigid inspection before any one on board the ship could land in Italy. In 1903, the captain of an American ship from Boston carefully concealed the fact that smallpox had broken out on board his ship. Some of the passengers were debarked at Naples, which caused the disease to break out in that city and in Rome. Hence, more careful inspection and more annoyances for the traveler. We all love the land at Naples, where nature has provided a most charming place. Everything that is natural, in and around the great old city, is beautiful and grand. "Only man is vile" there. There are numerous mansions on the hills, and also many hovels by the wayside. I noticed, in many respects, a marked improvement in that far-famed old city, yet I see amid the throng upon the streets, the same degenerate little horse and the same half- 854618 starved and faithful donkeys?striving and groaning under their great loads?while the cruel drivers apply their ruthless whips, apparently unconscious of the inhuman treatment these useful animals are constantly receiving from the men they are serving so well. But this is Naples?a large Latin city, and it is well known the world over, that a Latin has not much feeling for an animal that has no soul. The time will come when there shall be humane societies in these Latin countries and the animals will suffer less then. These inhuman masters have little more brain?and much less sympathy...