. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. cutari? Allsense of being at sea fades from you as the ship pene-trates ever more deeply into the secret recesses ofthe mountains. This is like superb lake scenery,austere, grand, almost terrible, and yet is even coquettish on this perfect morning ofautumn, for in these remoter regions she has cast aswathe of the lightest and whitest possible mist, likeone of those scarfs of Tunis, over the cultivated landwdiich edges the precipices. As the ship draws near,the mist seems to disperse in a sparkle of gold, re-vealing intimate b
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. cutari? Allsense of being at sea fades from you as the ship pene-trates ever more deeply into the secret recesses ofthe mountains. This is like superb lake scenery,austere, grand, almost terrible, and yet is even coquettish on this perfect morning ofautumn, for in these remoter regions she has cast aswathe of the lightest and whitest possible mist, likeone of those scarfs of Tunis, over the cultivated landwdiich edges the precipices. As the ship draws near,the mist seems to disperse in a sparkle of gold, re-vealing intimate beauties, full of charming detail: alittle Byzantine church with a pale-green cupola, apriest In a sunny garden leaning over a creeper-cov-ered wall, white horses trotting briskly along acurly, white road, soldiers marching through a vil-lage with a faint beat of drums, children perhapsgoing to school through a riot of green. But themist Is ever there In the distance, part of the spirit ofautumn. 44 THE JESUITS CHURCH AND THE MILITARYHOSPITAL, RAGUSA. I-roin a photo>,rapti by the Detroit Publishins: Company PICTURESQUE DALMATIA Do not miss the tiny twin islands with their twolittle churches. One of them, Santa Maria delloScalpello, is a place of pilgrimage. Old, gray, mi-nute yet dignified, with its few tall cypresses aboutit, it so completely covers the island that you see onlya church with cypresses apparently floating uponthe water. Now there is a scatter of ivory-whitebirds on the steel-colored surface, a glint of powder-blue on the ridges made by the ship. Marvelousharmonies of pearl color, gray, and blue, with hereand there faint dashes of primrose-yellow, makemagic in the distance before you. This is really anenchanted place, home of a peace that seems touchedwith eternity. And the ship creeps on, as if fearingperhaps to disturb it, farther and farther into placesmore secret still, and of a peace even more profound,till the pearl color and the gray, with their hints of
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