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1. Genoa and the Sunset Shore — La Grande Cor- 

 niche — Eze and La Turbie — Monte Carlo, 

 Monaco — Hyeres — Frejus — The golden 

 cornice of the Esterel — Cannes — On the 

 Kleist to Colombo — Koerner — Naples — Scylla 

 and Charybdis — Port Said — The Red Sea — 

 Djidda — Aden — Somaliland — Kandy — Col- 

 lecting sea snails — A marvel of plant growth — 

 A marvel of credulity — Not to be shaken off — 

 University of Perth — Australian Blacks 



2. Revisiting Welton Stanford — In the Australian 

 Alps — Melbourne friends — Absent colleagues 



— Baseless fear — A heroic figure — The Ander- 

 sons of Sydney — National characteristics — A 

 waterspout — At the Pyramids — Nostalgia 



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1. Holman — In Croatia — The Iron Gate — 

 Turnu-Severin, Samovet, and Plevna — Mark- 

 ham — Scholarship and orthodoxy — Sofia — • 

 Prophets not without honor — The Bulgarian 

 parliament — Malinoff — Bulgaria's evil genius 



— Radoslavoff — Robert College graduates — 

 The first Balkan war — Bulgarian blunders — A 

 degree of palliation — Markham's plan 



2. Good advice not officially heeded — A touching 

 appreciation — Furnajieff's misadventures — 

 Queen Eleanora — The queen's purposes — 

 Hard luck — • Carmen Sylva — Dobruja and Ka- 

 vala — Bulgarian sour milk — Vatralsky — A 

 scholar's table — Local urge for federation 



3. The queen's automobile — In Samokov — 'A 

 disappointed host — War ravages — Dzumaia 



— Turkish graveyards — The hlac at home — 

 Sandansky and Miss Stone — Petritch — An un- 

 happy community — Powerlessness of great 

 powers — • A lost American — An irate officer — 

 The Bistritza — Tyranny of the frontier 



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