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Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ul place to live in, notin the towns, a frequenter of book-teas, but in solitudeas a hermit upon some haunted hill among the shatteredpillars of old cities, with vineyard slopes beneath and thesea beyond. Only I should like to be a rich hermit—tothe poor that profession must be irksome—and then Iwould restore Bella Pais and see what the land couldgrow. A friend of mine did in fact turn anchorite inCyprus, but I noticed that he always seemed to find itnecessary to come home for his militia training, andwhen I re-visited his hermitage the other day, lo! it wasdesolate. Fortunately the road from Nicosia to Limasol bywhich the traveller departs runs through the verydreariest districts of the island, and thereby eases thefarewell. For three hours journey, or more, on eitherside of it stretch bare, barren hills, worn to the greybones, as it were, by the wash of thousands of years ofrain and bleached in the fiery Cyprian sun. I daresay,however, that with care even the most unpromising of
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