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Antwerp to Boom

1

On the Willebroek Canal

8

The Royal Sport Nautique

16

At Maubeuge

25

On the Sambre Canalised: to Quartes

33

Pont-sur-Sambre:

We are Pedlars

42

The Travelling Merchant

51

On the Sambre Canalised: to Landrecies

59

At Landrecies

67

Sambre and Oise Canal: Canal boats

75

The Oise in Flood

83

Origny Sainte-BenoÎte

A By-day

95

The Company at Table

105

Down the Oise: to Moy

116

La FÈre of Cursed Memory

124

Down the Oise: Through the Golden Valley

133

Noyon Cathedral

137

Down the Oise: to CompiÈgne

145

Changed Times

157

Down the Oise: Church interiors

167

PrÉcy and the Marionnettes

177

Back to the world

194


ESSAYS OF TRAVEL

by

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1905

second impression

Contents

page

I.

The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook—

The Second Cabin

3

Early Impressions

11

Steerage Scenes

21

Steerage Types

30

The Sick Man

42

The Stowaways

53

Personal Experience And Review

69

New York

81

II.

Cockermouth And Keswick

93

Cockermouth

94

An Evangelist

97

Another

100

Last Of Smethurst

102

III.

An Autumn Effect

106

IV.

A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway

131

V.

Forest Notes—

On The Plains

144

In The Season

149

Idle Hours

153

A Pleasure-Party

157

The Woods In Spring

164

Morality

169

VI.

A Mountain Town In France

175

VII.

Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum

189

VII.

The Ideal House

199

IX.

Davos In Winter

207

X.

Health And Mountains

212

XI.

Alpine Diversion

217

XII.

The Stimulation Of The Alps

222

XIII.

Roads

227

XIV.

On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places

237


MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

THE DYNAMITER

by

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
and
FANNY VAN de GRIFT STEVENSON

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