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CHAPTER PAGE I. En Route for Bavella--An Eccentric Landlord 1 II. The Forest of Bavella 16 III. Sartene 29 IV. The Lion of Roccapina 38 V. Bonifacio 45 VI. Curiosities of Bonifacio 58 VII. A Sermon by the Wayside 67 VIII. To Vico 88 IX. Evisa among the Hills 103 X. Giant Fores...
As far as is known, the first colonization of the island was the work of Phocæans; but, about 260 B.C., it fell into the hands of the Romans. The conquest of Corsica, even in th...
14. CHAPTER XIII.After an affectionate farewell to Hôtel Germania, its comforts and its cleanliness, bearing each of us a sweet-smelling bouquet of rosebuds, geraniums, and heliotrope, presented...
8. CHAPTER VII.We had ordered a relay of horses from Ajaccio next day, to meet us half-way between Sartene and the capital, so as to do the whole return distance in two days; and we quite look...
11. CHAPTER X.The day fixed for our forest expedition to Aïtone and Valdoniello was wet and cloudy, and it was with many misgivings that we breakfasted at 7 a.m., and before eight o'clock sta...
18. CHAPTER XVII.It was seven o'clock on a tremendously hot sunny morning when we started for our last day's journey, to Bastia. Our lofty banquette was shared by the driver, and was a veritable...
15. CHAPTER XIV.When at last cold dawn had passed away, and given place to rosy morning, such a view was gleaming in through the little open window as seemed almost to compensate for horrors past.
12. CHAPTER XI.The next day, after our long expedition, we rose late, and with depressed spirits watched the sheets of rain that came driving across the valley, hiding the mountain tops, and p...
9. CHAPTER VIII.A few days' quiet at Ajaccio, was quite sufficient for us. The hotel, lately so lively, was now completely deserted, and even the white-capped chamber-maids had taken flight unt...
2. CHAPTER I.Sainte Lucie di Tallano is the halting-place for the forest of Bavella. From thence you can mount up to the Bocca; starting early, and spending the whole day in the forest, retu...
3. CHAPTER II.We were favoured by the most perfect day imaginable; and from morning till evening, not a mist wreath came to hide a single peak or confuse a single line of the mountain ranges.
6. CHAPTER V.The town of Bonifacio proper is within the citadel walls, and two roads ascend to the heights. One is wide and handsome, winding round the lofty walls and entering the citadel b...
16. CHAPTER XV.The road wound above the torrent bed, and past Christalisione, descending rapidly, and gradually becoming enclosed on either side by steep rocky crags of great height. Behind us...
10. CHAPTER IX.This important person was represented by a pretty rosy-cheeked girl of twelve, who combined her chamber duties with those of waitress, and who, at this stage of the morning, was...
17. CHAPTER XVI.The breakfast next morning at Vivario was so deliciously and unwontedly clean and refined in appearance, as to tempt us to linger over its luxuries, and almost to forget the rai...
7. CHAPTER VI.The history of Bonifacio is rich in stories of romantic sieges and heroic deeds of valour. In 833 a Tuscan Margrave, on his road home from Africa, first built a fortress there,...
4. CHAPTER III.After passing the queer old Pisan bridge, however, it branches off to the left, into a soft green shady road, faced by a handsome conical mountain, and bordered by ilexes, cork-...
13. CHAPTER XII.When we left our rooms next morning, the skies were black with rain, and the downpour obliged us to put off our start till 11 a.m.; when the pelting had turned into a gentle spa...
5. CHAPTER IV.Some of these boulders were remarkable for their strange hollowness, and would have made excellent bandit caves, had they been a little more hidden by the cystus and arbutus whi...
1. Volume I: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44993CHAPTER PAGE I. En Route for Bavella--An Eccentric Landlord 1 II. The Forest of Bavella 16 III. Sartene 29 IV. The Lion of Roccapina 38 V. Bonifacio 45 VI. Curiosities of Bonifa...