. Un viaggio attraverso l'Italia, la Sicilia, la Tunisia, l'Algeria e la Francia meridionale. Panorama, il cratere fumante dell'Etna in lontananza. Camere deliziosamente pulite con luce elettrica, un salotto e un bagno, gaveus l'occasione gradita per rilassarsi e per tastare ancora una volta la gioia di essere vivi. Sabato, 28 dicembre, è stata una bella giornata, e la abbiamo trascorsa scattando fotografie del Monte Etnaand di diverse vedute del mare così come di numerose scene della città. Per alleviare la monotonia del resto della giornata abbiamo visitato il famoso teatro greco sulla cima della collina, molto interessante e in una posizione splendida. Poi è venuto

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. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. panorama, the smoking crater ofMount Etna in the distance. Delightfully cleanrooms with electric light, a parlor and bath, gaveus the welcome opportunity to relax and to feelonce more the joy of being alive. Saturday, December 28, was a beautiful day, andwe spent it taking photographs of Mount Etnaand of several views of the sea as well as numerousscenes of the town. To relieve the monotony ofthe remainder of the day we visited the famousGreek theatre on top of the hill, most interest-ing and beautifully situated. Then came wordfrom Messina by telegraph, that the car wastwenty-four hours late. We wired to Messinainstructing the mechanic to be at Taormina withthe car the next morning, without fail, afterwhich we retired to rest leaving a call for fiveoclock the next morning. I was now gettingdecidedly nervous, for unless the car arrived thefollowing morning at seven oclock we would notbe able to take the inland route to Palermo, a twodays trip, and reach there in time to catch the [38]. CHURCH IN THE VILLAGE OF TAORMINA NAPLES TO PALERMO steamer which we had decided on taking fromTrapani, at the western end of the Island. Sucha mishap would cause numerous complications, entailing a delay of a whole week on the Island ofSicily, and shortening our trip to northern Africaby just that amount of time. The next morning we were up long before sun-rise and were waiting, fully dressed for the road, the long-looked-for arrival of the car. As we stoodat the hotel door in anxious expectancy we thoughtevery sound we heard was the machines exhaustas it panted up the side of the mountain, but, alas, it was a false alarm every time. We becameso restless that we finally hired a small car belong-ing to a private individual in the town to take usto the foot of the mountain, where the roadsbranch, one leading to Catane, the other to Mes-sina. We hoped, by this means, to save fromhalf an hour to forty-five minutes, when o

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