CHAPTER XVII 



NAPLES AND SOME OF THE MISFORTUNES WHICH 

 OVERTOOK US THERE AMERICA AT LAST. 



When we reached Naples we felt relieved. 

 We thought our troubles were over. Accord- 

 ing to our contract with the steamship agent 

 in Alexandretta the horses were to be trans- 

 ferred from the steamer to a barge and then 

 to the Nord A7nerica, a much larger boat, 

 where they would be put on the middle deck in 

 the hold. But we were wrong. Our troubles 

 were only beginning. We learned almost at 

 once that the Nord America was filled up 

 with emigrants and that the horses would have 

 to be put ashore, and possibly taken to a stable. 



Argument was of no avail. We had to take 

 the horses ashore, and the only consolation for 

 the "shindy" that followed was that Naples 

 had for once a real horse show. The young 

 stallions had been eating their heads off for 

 two weeks on a smooth Mediterranean voyage 



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