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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Acquiescence, instead of ridding us ofthe nuisance, only increased their demands—andnumber. The whole hillside is covered deep inaloe and cacti plants growing in the wildest pro-fusion to the exclusion of every thing else. Ofcourse we were inveigled into one of the manycaverns and treated to a gipsy dance. Theinteriors of the caves are rather quaint, in the onewhere the dance was thrust upon us there wasbarely room to stand upon the earthen floor withoutrisk of knocking against the uneven rocky roof Inone corner a double bed stood, its upright endstouching the jagged ceiling, in another corner a stovewas placed for cooking; round about, on woodenshelves, were the little brass ornaments and tinywooden statues that the gipsies force upon theunwary stranger at outrageous prices. Of windowsthere were none, all the light being admitted bythe narrow doorway through which we had entered.Several chairs that must have seen better days longago were collected and placed for us, and several222
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THE PALACE OF A VANISHED PEOPLE old, dark-skinned untidy women, and a few heavy,rough-looking men stood with their backs to therocky wall between us and the door. The narrowdoorway was soon filled by the bodies of our escort,their numbers swelled by a few men and womenfrom neighbouring burrows. Four girls in gipsycostume performed the dance. At a signal fromthe old women in charge the company presentstruck up a wailing chant, clapping their hands atintervals. The dance, or series of dances, wasmainly of a gliding nature, suggestive of a snakelooking a scared rabbit in the eye. Sometimesthe girls danced in unison, sometimes separately,but ever with the same interminable snaky glide;often with knees bent and one hand working abovethe head they M^ould prowl round the cave liketiger cubs in a cage, all the while encouraged bythe evil faces of the sun-blackened company. Afterthe dance we were forced to listen to a vocal soloby an unshaved man of villainous countenance, in avery curious sty

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