. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. at I will not attempt any descrip-tion of it. Our visits next day, in ideal weather, includedmany places of interest in the town, amongwhich are a monastery and the catacombs. Wealso inspected two handsome villas, the botanicalgardens and in the evening took in the theatre. Our steamer was due to sail the followingmorning, and on emerging from the theatre welearned to our disgust that the car had not ar-rived. We were also told that at Trapani, wherewe had hoped to load the car, the crane was hotsufficiently strong to lift t
. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. at I will not attempt any descrip-tion of it. Our visits next day, in ideal weather, includedmany places of interest in the town, amongwhich are a monastery and the catacombs. Wealso inspected two handsome villas, the botanicalgardens and in the evening took in the theatre. Our steamer was due to sail the followingmorning, and on emerging from the theatre welearned to our disgust that the car had not ar-rived. We were also told that at Trapani, wherewe had hoped to load the car, the crane was hotsufficiently strong to lift the motor, and it wouldhave to be put on board at Palermo. Once more,therefore, our hopes were shattered, and oncemore we were haunted by visions of a weeksextra delay, owing to our Hoodoos mischievouswork. To add to our misfortunes Payne hadcaught a bad cold in one of his eyes through driv-ing to the monastery without goggles. At breakfast, next morning, we were stillwithout news of the car, and our boat was to sailat one in the afternoon. Paynes eye was badly [42]. o< H InO WO< k4 <1H o NAPLES TO PALERMO inflamed, but he kept looking to the sea trip forrest and a cure. At half-past ten a telephone mes-sage announced the arrival at the station of thevan containing our wandering car. I need notdescant on the cost of getting it there in thematter of tips. It had been side-tracked afterleaving Messina, and I verily believe that every-body throughout the length and breadth of Sicilyknew all about that car and its adventures alongthe north shore of the island. And now things began to be as exciting as ahorse-race. The question was, who would win?The steamship agents flatly refused to load thecar, declaring that it was now far too late andmust stay on the island another week. Thecustoms officials also were shy, and everythingwas at a standstill. But gold soon set them inmotion again, and we finally left the hotel ladenwith our bags for the good ship. ^Ye got onboard at half-
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