. St. Nicholas [serial] . A\ Gibraltar, Nov. 8th. . The last day on the steamer Merzipore coming from London was Guy Fawkesday, sowe had a very merry time; we had all kinds ofraces, cock-fights and we had a potatoe race onlyfor the ladies and a flat race only for the were seven childern on board, we madeit three more which is ten. ... I think Gibraltaris a very pretty place. . We went to the housewhere the guards stay and got a guide. He tookus up a beautiful path with flowers blooming allover the wall. Then we went up a big hill and came to ^B ^^ THE ^^^B ,x THREE- where the ca
. St. Nicholas [serial] . A\ Gibraltar, Nov. 8th. . The last day on the steamer Merzipore coming from London was Guy Fawkesday, sowe had a very merry time; we had all kinds ofraces, cock-fights and we had a potatoe race onlyfor the ladies and a flat race only for the were seven childern on board, we madeit three more which is ten. ... I think Gibraltaris a very pretty place. . We went to the housewhere the guards stay and got a guide. He tookus up a beautiful path with flowers blooming allover the wall. Then we went up a big hill and came to ^B ^^ THE ^^^B ,x THREE- where the cannons are. and we went out and saw real live ^^^H ^^^^LEOGED RACE. monkeys, not in a cage, but wild and cross, climbing all over the trees and coming in through the cannon holes to get some water to drink. . November . We went to Algeciras where we saw two very young bulls used for the Bull fight. Nineyoung horses and two pretty little poneys, seven dogs two aggravate the bull, a little wild hog and. 3i8 A LITTLE GIRLS DIARY IN THE EAST. [Feb. two big white mice with little pink ones. In more cages were other white mice with littlebits of pink eyes. . Suez, January 9, we came from Naples in the Orizaba we went through the Suez canal; there werelots of little and big Arab boys begging for money and they ran along the sand-bank until we got to Suez. Miss F a friend of mine only on the steamer lent me some of her paints to sketch the sand-bank while we were ^A standing still. I made a sketch and put it in my Journal. 4|J| |Bk They have no ladies saddles here so everybody has ™j |8k to ride on gentle-mans saddles. Helen, Papa and I went out riding yesterday and just as the donkeyboys heard that somebody wanted to have a ridethey all came rushing because they wanted to havetheir donkeys taken so they could earn somemoney. They all came around Papa and crowdedhim so that he said he thought he was goingto be swallowed up. The Hostess came outwith a whip to drive the
Size: 1710px × 1461px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordodgemar, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookyear1873
