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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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THE SHIP-DWELLERS 39 like Nelsons and the combined fleets be-sides. They look quiet enough, uglyenough, and drowsy enough now. Sodoes Gibraltar, but it is just as well,perhaps, not to twist the Lions tail. Wehad no intention of doing so, and Idont see why they were so afraid of us.They wouldnt let us visit their shoot-ing galleries—the galleries where theykept their big guns, I mean; they nobody outside of Gibraltar, and only afew people there, can understand; theroad was good; the flowers—bluebells,yellow daisies, dandelions, sweet alyssum,century plant, and heliotrope—all wild—were profuse and lavishly in bloomeverywhere along the way. Had wecome direct to Gibraltar, we should haveraved over these things like enough, andwe did rave a little, but it was a sort
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GIBRALTAR. THE CROUCHING LION OF TRAFALGAR, HAD RISEN FROM THE SEA. wouldnt let us climb the Rock onthe outside; they wouldnt even let usvisit an old Moorish castle whichstands about halfway up. Perhaps theythought we would spike their guns, orsteal the castle, or blow up the Rock.They did let us come ashore in ourtender, and they let us take carriages anddrive along the main streets of the city,through a park or two and out to Eu-ropa Point—I think that was the place.We were interested, but not enthusiastic.After Madeira, one does not go madover the beauties of Gibraltar. Thevehicles were funny little affairs—Span-ish, I suppose; the driver spoke the Eng-lish of Gibraltar—an English which of placid ecstasy. Military hospitalsand barracks and officers quarters arenot the kind of scenery to excite thiscrowd. It was different, though, when we gotto Europa Point. There, on one siderose the great Rock abruptly from thesea, while before us stretched the Medi-terranean, all blue and e

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