84 
FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1921 
Crossing the 
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Doc held the canoe 
steady while I got Mr. 
Moose in the circle of my 
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in the shallow water like a 
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lava, burnt stones and cinders. As we 
ascended slowly, a quartette of singers, 
with guitars, accompanied us for a short 
distance, and regaled us with several 
Neapolitan songs, one being very popu- 
lar at that time and called “Funicula”, 
in reference to the funicular, or rope 
railroad; farther up the slope. Then a 
woman, prettily dressed, appeared from 
a cottage with a waiter bearing two 
glasses of wine, made from the grapes 
of the vicinity, and known as Lacryma 
Christi (Tears of Christ), but not being 
at all sure as to its vintage we declined 
it, so we gave her a couple of liras which 
seemed to be entirely satisfactory; and 
the driver appropriated the wine, seem- 
ingly much to his satisfaction, also. 
Then we passed the Hermitage, a con- 
vent inn, and soon afterward we came to 
the Observatory, and at last arrived at 
the foot of the cable road, or inclined 
plane, where a car was affixed to a 
strong rope running between the rails, 
by which we were hauled up at an angle 
of forty-five degrees to within a hundred 
yards of the crater. Having been fore- 
warned we wore old shoes, for as we ap- 
proached the crater we found the 
ground seamed and shaky, with hot 
vapor and sulphurous fumes oozing out 
from the cracks, crevices and fissures 
beneath our feet. When at last we stood 
on the rim of the crater, on the wind- 
ward side, we felt something akin to 
awe as we gazed into the yawning black 
abyss. Between the oft-recurring blasts 
or explosions emitting lava, stones and 
ashes, we could see the fiery miass boiling 
hundreds of feet below. Some venture- 
some boys, after each eruption, would 
hurry around to the lee side, and in 
small fragments of still plastic lava 
would press a copper coin into each 
piece, and offer them to us as souvenirs 
for a lira or two. 
We returned to Naples late in the 
afternoon, and in the evening we went 
:o San Carlos theater, probably the larg- 
est theatre in the world at that time, 
and witnessed a performance of the 
grand ballet “Messalina,” one of the 
characteristic combinations of panto- 
mime, ballet dancing and spectacular 
displays peculiar to Italy, and known as 
a “ballet”, in which some five hundred 
performers were engaged. Those out- 
door spectacular representations of 
“The Fall of Babylon,” “Rome Under 
Nero,” etc., originating in Cincinnati 
some forty years ago, were founded on 
the Italian Ballet. 
“Messalina”, the wife of the Roman 
Emperor Claudius, was one of the most 
infamous of women, and notorious for 
cruelty, lust and avarice. At her behest 
the best blood of Rome flowed freely. 
She was finally put to death in the gar- 
den of Lucullus in 48 A. D. The per- 
formance portrayed many of the stir- 
ring scenes and incidents that occurred 
during her regime, as love scenes, in- 
trigues and murders, interspersed with 
processions, ballets, acrobatic features 
and gladiatorial combats, all in dumb 
show, aided by gorgeous costumes and 
spectacular scenery and properties. 
T HE next day at the table d’hote din- 
ner Longworth and I sat opposite 
to “Ouida” (Louisa de la Ramee), 
the popular novelist who had made her 
home in Italy for fifteen years. We 
were speaking of our visit to St. Elmo 
that morning, when Ouida told us of an 
amusing incident. It seemed that near 
St. Elmo there was a monastery, in 
which was domiciled a brotherhood of 
monks, who were confirmed misogymists, 
or women haters, and no woman had 
ever darkened their door. Ouida said 
she was determined, and “just crazy” to 
see inside of the old building. So one 
day she pretended to have lost her dog, 
and rang the bell at the entrance door. 
An old and somewhat infirm monk an- 
swered the summons and cautiously 
opened the door. He was greatly 
alarmed and very much confused at her 
appearance, and Ouida quickly brushed 
him aside and entered a hall with a 
number of doors, which she hastily 
opened one after another and peered 
within, meanwhile whistling and calling 
for the imaginary dog, and the old monk 
beseeching her and adjuring her in the 
name of all the saints of the calendar to 
depart. At last she came to a larger 
door, which proved to be the refectory, 
and as she opened it there were disclosed 
to her the brothers sitting at dinner, and 
as she said “pegging away for dear 
life.” The sight caused her to laugh, 
and raising their eyes at the unusual 
sound, they dropped knives, forks and 
spoons, and drew their cowls over their 
faces to shut out the forbidden sight. 
Her curiosity being satisfied she relieved 
their trepidation, and the anxiety of the 
door keeper by hastening to the outer 
door, which had remained open, and 
placing a gold coin on a table she threw 
the old brother a kiss and ran down the 
steps and away, very well pleased with 
her adventure. 
S OME of the most unique and inter- 
esting accessions to the National 
Museum are some fossilized or pre- 
served remains of human, as well as 
some of the lower animals, unearthed 
during the excavations at Pompeii and 
Herculaneum. They are in various un- 
natural and distorted postures, showing 
that death must have been instanta- 
neous. One of them, however, was that 
of a man who seemed to be sleeping 
naturally and peacefully. One of a 
large dog was in a very abnormal and 
distorted posture, indicative of extreme 
terror and suffering. The work of ex- 
cavating the great mass enveloping the 
old cities was carried on under the direc- 
tion of the best engineers, while the re- 
moval of the earth and debris was done 
by peasant women, who carried it away 
in large baskets borne on their heads. 
The peasant women, now as then, still 
perform most of the manual labor, even 
working as section hands on the rail- 
roads, and load and unload freight cars, 
while the men, the Lazzaroni, lie bask- 
ing in the sun under the proverbial blue 
sky, contentedly smoking their pipes. So 
far these women are not organized and 
strikes are unknown ! 
