Excerpt from My Circular Notes, Vol. 1 of 2: Extracts From Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and Other Notes, Written While Travelling Westwards Round the World, From July 6, 1874, to July 6, 1875
Scotland is all spoiled, said a great man one day, about 1848 or 1849. I'll never go there again. It's all full Of dismal creatures, rushing about here and there seeking for an excitement. These are globe-trotters. A friendly polite French steward, who knew Alexandre Dumas, and had Seen him writing on board Of a steamer in the Black Sea, or somewhere else, warned this writer, whom he took for a writer Of fiction, to lock up his papers. Ces gens-la sont capables de les imprimer; ils sont tres-voleurs.
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