The vessels which make this circuit stop at each of the large ports to discharge and take on cargo, thus enabling the traveler to land and get a very good general idea of each place with its near surroundings.
The lofty, gorgeous colored, and eccentric temples which the traveler regards with such curious interest in India belong to a much more modern period.
Only in far-away, mid-ocean Hawaii does the traveler see this gorgeous tree so perfectly developed.
Here the traveler will see that rare and favorite fruit, the mangosteen, flourishing, and, so far as we could learn, it is one of the few districts in Ceylon where it is to be found.
Dreamy orientals ascend this mountain solely for devotional purposes, but the westerntraveler comes up hither with infinite labor to enjoy the grand view from such an elevation, and to see the sun rise in all its glory.
Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveler who wrote seven centuries ago, spoke of the peak as containing the tomb, not the footmark, of Adam.
Cleanly houses do not harbor them, though they do sometimes annoy the traveler in the public rest-houses where he is often compelled to pass the night.
At each station in Ceylon, pretty children of both sexes offer the traveler tempting native fruits.
It seems to a casual visitor to be the most attractive district in the island, forgetting, as every reasonable traveler learns to do, the few local annoyances.
We met at Pollonarua one enthusiastic traveler who had neither eyes nor ears for anything else but that which related to the almost forgotten past.
An experienced traveler in the low latitudes is apt to anticipate the probabilities when starting forth on a new tropical route, but one must behold in order to properly understand the nature of Ceylon forest scenery.
When there is pointed out to the traveler in Japan a location where a big and populous city once stood, but which is now only a series of thrifty grain-fields, no great surprise is felt.
In La Plata, Paraguay, and other countries to the south of Brazil, nearly every person smokes, and an American traveler quoted by Mr. Cooke states that women and girls above thirteen years of age use the weed in the form of quids.
A traveler gives the following graphic description of smoking among them: [Illustration: Turk smoking.
A traveler who has observed this custom more particularly than any other, says of the use of tobacco in Peru:-- "Scarcely in any regions of the world is smoking so common as in Peru.
A late traveler says concerning them:--"Accustomed to smoke only Havana cigars, I was unprepared to recognize any others as being worthy even of the name of cigars.
To thetraveler in Havana, this is easy enough, as he can there buy sample boxes from any of the factories and of any of the brands.
No people can entertain their friends with better cheer and welcome; and stranger and traveler is here treated in the most free, plentiful, and hospitable manner; so that a few Inns or Ordinaries on the road are sufficient.
Some traveler coming after us is attacked by these horrible beasts.
But when the snowstorms sweep across the mountains it is impossible to see ten paces before you, and if the traveler leaves the path he is lost.
I'm an old traveler and have found that I never gain anything by being in a hurry.
Instead of entering the splendid Emerald City as a respectable traveler who was entitled to a welcome and to hospitality, he was being brought in as a criminal, handcuffed and in a robe that told all he met of his deep disgrace.
As for the misfortune that had befallen him, it offered one more example of the preternatural rashness of the English traveler in countries unknown to him.
I need only add that I willingly kept his secret, simply speaking of him in the neighborhood as a traveler from foreign parts who had met with an accident.
Happily for her, an English traveler visiting the island was among the first men who volunteered to render help.
There is the bucket of cold water from the spring, the wood fire to which the chilled traveler rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
Here the horses that had fallen on the way were replaced by fresh ones, shady trees offered a pleasant shelter from the heat of the sun, and on the mountains the fires of the inns protected the traveler from cold and snow.
When the flesh was sodden, he sat down with, his fellow-traveler to supper, and invited the peasant and his family to partake of the repast.
An old Alaskan traveler had come on board at Juneau, taking passage to a cannery in which he was interested, farther north.
Sunday was as fair as the most exacting travelercould wish.
I spoke to him of everything except his journeys; but the traveler showed himself full of unmistakable humanity.
When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him, but maintain a correspondence by letters with those of his acquaintance which are of most worth.
So thinking, he fell into one of the treacherous quicksands which deceive the inexperienced travelerin the desert, and from which there is seldom any escape.
A “hole in the air” to the sky traveler is what a yawning chasm is to a speeding automobile or an unexpected cataract to a hydroplane.
A month had now gone by, and only the skeleton of the mammoth air traveler had so far been constructed.
The traveler describes the house as resembling a French château, with octagon rooms, doors of polished oak, lofty ceilings, and large mirrors.
But beyond the vale of Seathwaite, he was unknown until the year 1754, when a traveler discovered him, and published an account of his way of life.
The saddle was a matter of great importance, as well as its girths and crupper strap, all of which an experienced traveler subjected to most careful examination.
Lord Orrery having amused himself by copying this machine, a French traveler who saw it complimented the maker by naming it an Orrery, which has led many to suppose it to have been an invention of that lord.
Yea, we should think that this passage alone might set any man out on this pilgrimage, might bring many a careless traveler up to the gate of this glorious palace to say, Set down my name, Sir!
I am, as you see, an old man, and have been a traveler in this road many a day; and I have taken notice of many things.
Let's spread some shade that's refreshing and deep Where some tired traveler may lie down and sleep.
There would be little to strike the eye of a traveler accustomed to picturesque scenes, on approaching the small town of L----.
It was like the traveler unaccustomed to fatigue and change, forced to commence a journey, unassured of his way, and ignorant of his destination.
This ignorance of what we may term the immediate vicinity of a place is experienced by every traveler who has occasion to make a long journey over the reservation and employs a guide.
So prevalent is this custom of placing the houses in out-of-the-way places that the casual traveler receives the impression that the region over which he has passed is practically uninhabited.
Except at Sulphur springs, warm volcanic springs about 30 miles south of the San Juan, the ordinary traveler will not find sufficient water between the foot of the mountains and the river, a distance of over 50 miles.
Sheep and goats belong exclusively to her, and the head of the family can not sell a sheep to a passing traveler without first obtaining the consent and approval of his wife.
As a rule, however, each hogán stands by itself, and it is usually hidden away so effectually that the traveler who is not familiar with the customs of the people might journey for days and not see half a dozen of them.
To the traveler in the valley the country appears to consist of sandy plains bounded in the distance by rocky cliffs.
The shifting direction of the turning trail and the various altitudes of the traveler present constantly changing scenes -- mountains and mountains ramble on before one.
Then the unhappy traveler loses his human head and must have the head of some animal or bird.
It is good to eat, but not before we find some rich traveler to pay the bill.
Run to your places lest you frighten thetraveler whoever it may be.
Here he finds the unlucky traveler and takes him to his court.
Another traveler says that they have a few excellent qualities; they are very fond of each other and their children; they also become attached to their keeper and make themselves useful to him.
But no oasis in the flaming desert could be more welcome to the traveler dying with thirst than was this simple structure to the panting fugitives.
Since that event another system of restitution has been followed, the sum exacted in excess of the legal fare being deposited at the prefecture of police, whither the traveler is compelled to go in quest of it.
But it is not to the actual traveler only that these volumes will be of use and give pleasure.
Some traveler has said that on the coast of Syria the Arabs have a proverb that the "sultan of fleas holds his court in Jaffa, and the grand vizier in Cairo.
It is the proper office of the latter, as it is his duty to amend these faults; the traveler being bound in justice to look at the good as well as the evil.
The analogy of a traveler in a railway train is useful; if he could never leave the train, nor alter its pace, he would probably consider the landscapes as necessarily successive, and be unable to conceive their co-existence.
Although the traveler was carelessly noticed by the village idlers, and received without ceremony by the Widow Duval, he was by no means so ordinary and uninteresting a stranger as the rustics of the place were pleased to consider him.
My nephew promised that, in the event of any matters of importance, he would inform us if he finds a traveler bound for Brittany.
And the traveler may prize himself happy if the little Dus do not drop their false coiners' hammers and start to dance, compelling him to join in their reel until death closes upon him.
I am now left all alone, like a traveler among strangers; I have no relatives left to help me in case adversity overtake me?
I am now left all alone, like a traveler among strangers; I have no relatives left to help me in case adversity overtake me.
I was told the hills were not high, and that eighteen miles on foot would land the traveler at Wakamatsu on the sea of Japan, fronting Korea, but seeing only the sea, and I feel tolerably sure there is nothing there to repay the tramp.
For we had stopped simply to change kuruma, and the unwritten rule of the road runs that so long as the traveler keeps moving he is safe.
One of their chief charms to the traveler lies in their open-sesame effect upon obdurate landlords.
The place used not to fancy foreigners, and its inns bandied the European traveler about like a bale of undesirable merchandise with the duties still due.
