The sea gypsy (1924)

Record Details:

Title:
The sea gypsy
Date:
1924
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The sea gypsy
Leaf #:
00060
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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52 The Sea Gypsy could see them on both sides of the train scurrying away as we approached. In the late afternoon of that day we came near our journey's end. "You will see two men hanging on a gallows now," said the sombreroed wine drummer. The train rose over the crest of a hill, then started down a long winding grade. Taylor and I pressed to the window. Below us in a valley lay a small plateau covered by an eucalyptus tree forest. Not a house to be seen. "Addis-Abeba!" cried the liquor man. The town was lost in the forest. "Lord!" said Taylor. "We will never dare show photographs taken here. Everybody will swear they were made at Hollywood," for Hollywood is likewise shaded by eucalyptus trees. From high up in the surrounding mountains to the edge of the eucalyptus forest wound the long line of tiny figures. We could see camels loaded down with grain and hides ; mules and donkeys staggering under bundles of faggots; white-robed riders, gun barrels glistening in the sunshine, astride of mountain ponies ; black women and boys and men afoot driving flocks of sheep and goats — as far as we could see this endless chain of travellers twisted down from the mountain and was lost in the eucalyptus forest in the valley. Abyssinia was bringing in its weekly tithes to the capital of its Empress ! The train dipped around another turn. "Now look," cried our liquor-selling companion.