Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . have nofear; how the ship, with its 276 souls, was cast on therocks; how they came to a place where two seas met and when they were escaped, then they knew the island wascalled Malta. You wiU remember also they were abarbarous people, who were kind and kindled a fire, andhow the viper came out of the fire and hung upon Paulshand. You will remember also that Paul shook the viper,which is a wise thing to do with venomous beasts, and thatthe people were amazed because Paul did not swell andfall de
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . have nofear; how the ship, with its 276 souls, was cast on therocks; how they came to a place where two seas met and when they were escaped, then they knew the island wascalled Malta. You wiU remember also they were abarbarous people, who were kind and kindled a fire, andhow the viper came out of the fire and hung upon Paulshand. You will remember also that Paul shook the viper,which is a wise thing to do with venomous beasts, and thatthe people were amazed because Paul did not swell andfall dead, and said he was a god, and treated himcourteously and honored him with many honors, and onhis departure laded him with such things as were necessary. AROUND THE WORLD. 207 If there were no other historical attractions in Maltabut what is thus written in the New Testament it wouldbe well worth a visit. But Malta now, one of the strong-holds of the British Empire, one of the citadels on herIndian highway, has had more than her share of themutations of human fortune. It is supposed to have been. J- rimmniiiRUINS AT MALTA. the Island of Ogygia, where Homer gave a home toCaly^Dso. It fell in the hard hands of the the Bomans came and threw it into their came the Vandals, the Goths and Arabs in fiercesuccession. Afterward came the unique dominion of theKnights of St. John, who came from Bhodes when theTurks pulled down the cross. In 1800 Napoleon, then onhis way to Egypt, took the Island; but in 1802 it cameinto the hands of the English, who have made it as strongas Gibraltar; strong enough to be regarded as had made fast to our anchorage and had fired the 208 GRANTS TOUR salute of twenty-one guns, by which a vessel of war doeshonor to a foreign port, when an officer reported to GeneralGrant that the Duke of Edinburgh was coming on ship next to the Vandalia was the Sultan, a nobleEnglish iron-clad under the command of His Koy
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