. Eight journeys abroad. hootingat an imaginary enemy, and others hiding all the way back,and some marching, as if reserve forces. Grand Hotel Imperial,Ragusa, Sunday, April 17th, Frank: Here we are at last in beautiful Ragusa, and it is evenmore perfect than I expected! We came by night boat fromSpalato, and had a very bad night. I awoke at six, an hourbefore we were due to arrive, and in that time, managed tobe very ill, and we could not get a comfortable room until thelate afternoon. 643 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD I had been trying for two weeks to take care of myself, sostayed in bed
. Eight journeys abroad. hootingat an imaginary enemy, and others hiding all the way back,and some marching, as if reserve forces. Grand Hotel Imperial,Ragusa, Sunday, April 17th, Frank: Here we are at last in beautiful Ragusa, and it is evenmore perfect than I expected! We came by night boat fromSpalato, and had a very bad night. I awoke at six, an hourbefore we were due to arrive, and in that time, managed tobe very ill, and we could not get a comfortable room until thelate afternoon. 643 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD I had been trying for two weeks to take care of myself, sostayed in bed this a. m. We have a balcony, and such a viewfrom it, down the coast! great promontories jutting out intothe sea; then the old town wall climbing steeply up, withgreat round towers, all ivy covered; then such flowers, Banksiaroses, oleanders, mimosa and arbors everywhere covered withwistaria, palms and pines. Maria went out to see the country people, who come inon Sunday dressed in their best costumes, which have a great. THE DALMATIAN COAST deal of gold embroidery and tissue. All still are giants, and here wear a fez or red turban and baggy trousers. One feels as if it must be an Opera Bouife it is all so unreal. Their belts are stuck full of knives and pistols, but fierce as they look, they all seem very pleasant and good natured. I am writing in the reading room, which has a balcony with tables and chairs where we take tea. It overhangs the hotel garden, and past it flows the life of the city though we are outside the walls. We walk down this street and come to a little Piazza called the Brisalje, which looks like a scene set 644 THE BALKANS AND AUSTRIA for one of Hammerstelns Operas, In the middle a beautifulstatue, a cafe on the left where all sorts of people are sea makes the background, coming in between two greatround towers on high rocks. The old moat, has now beenturned into a garden, and the old drawbridge into a modembridge. This is the first hotel we h
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