Almost nothing is recorded about Elgar's activities or the events that he encountered during the trip, which gave the novelist James Hamilton-Paterson considerable latitude when writing Gerontius, a fictional account of the journey.
Case non se conservan datos sobre os sucesos que tiveron lugar durante a viaxe de Elgar, o que lle deu marxe de manobra ao novelista James Hamilton-Paterson cando escribiu Gerontius, un relato ficticio da viaxe.