The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

tive of the government, you resign
yourself into the hands of the guides,
and your misery commences and aug
ments with every step. To climb a
very steep hill several hundred feet
high is unpleasant, but when you are
walking over and through ashes which
cover the tops of your shoes, when
you slip back and can with difficulty
retain a perpendicular position, then
you are willing to sit down and re-
main there until some one bodily hoists
you along.
It is assuredly a very undignified po-
sition to hang on to a rope which is
held in the dirty hands of a yet more
dirty guide, and which passes over his
shoulder, to lean back as far as you
can and have a second guide assist
ing your locomotion by showing you
forward and upwards with his two
hands placed on the small of your back.
Yet that is the way you go up Vesu-
vius AS you reach the summit you
are likely enough assailed by a strong
ly laden sulphurous cloud of smoke
from the crater.
Enough of Volcanoes.
You gaze down for a moment and
see more smoke, or perhaps a faint sus-
picion Of something bubbling up, and
that's Vesuvius
You are rushed down the hill again
by your guide, who assures you that
a wife and nine children are awaiting
his home coming, and that earth has
no greater joy in store for him than
to sit down beneath his own vine and
fig tree that night and, at your eX-
pense, drink your health and that of
your anxious friends in far off Amer
lea. 1 could tell stories of how some
of our Georgia party went up Vesuvlus,
but l forbear. l would rather live
over home for ten years than again
climb Vesuvius.
After getting small portion
of our wasted breath, we again
took the cable car and went to the
first stopping place, where a half-hour
delay is given for no other purpose
that I could see than to enable a
curiosity shop to inveigh us into buy
ing mementos of our trip. Once more
we took the trolley and at station
were given time for a much needed
wash and dinner A short ride brought
us once more bv cable to the end of
the line, whore a miscellaneous col
lection of brigands, mounted on car
riage seats, gathered us in and took
us back to Naples and Cook.
Visited ST. Elmo.
Friday June II. We spent the day
visiting st. Elmo and the beautiful
church of St. Martin, where a most
wonderful assortment of marbles is
emploed in the decoration of the church,
and where paintings by some of Italy's
masterhands and wood carving and
wood inlaying reveal such a vision of
genius as defies description.
We spent a little while at the mu-
scum which would take days to visit,
and whole editions of the Morning News
to describe, and with one or two excur-
sions on the trolley lines and a few
carriage rides ended our Neopolitan
sight seeing.
Tomorrow we turn our faces Rome
ward. and so to-day l consign my
hurried notes to the tender mercies of
the Italian post and send them home
ward.
Some idea can be formed of the
travel across the sea when / tell that
l endeavored to secure passage to Amer
lea by a steamer sailing from Liver
pool on Aug. 25 and the answer lies
before me as l write:
Have not berth to offer. Steam
er full"
Many things see bring back
thoughts of home. and / miss so
many things here which are very
much in evidence in Georgia. Just
think of it, / have seen only one negro
since I left the statesl and he could
not speak English. B. J. X.