COMFORTLESS APARTMENTS. 1C9 



and sleep until a new day. Groping our way 

 through the houses, our guide stopped us at 

 last with the welcome announcement that we 

 might dismount, AVe had reached our sleep- 

 ing quarters. 



A perilous ladder, no bad exercise for 

 young climbers, led to the second storey of the 

 cancellaria, where beyond a balcony were two 

 rooms, one of which had rafters to support a 

 floor, but no floor, and the other a floor, per- 

 haps, if one could find it beneath accumula- 

 tions of varied dirt. The windows were open 

 to the pure night air, or rather the casements 

 were windowless, and the air and rain when 

 there was any was as much at home indoors 

 as without. But there was a table, and in a 

 few minutes Frank had o-ot the tent-bas" laid 

 out for a pillow, whilst I took the saddle ; and 

 head to tail, side by side, with our boots in 

 dangerous proximity to each other's mouths, 

 we were soon ready for sleep and our insect 



