The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 402
the oars and the sides of the boat present thesame appearance, and you almost think they are painted. As soon as we were inside the grotto one of the boatmen (therewere two in our boat), proposed that his comrade should plunge intothe water on payment of a franc from each of us, and let us see… … other boats that came into fthe grotto was a similar \arrangement made. Everypassenger, therefore, was topay one franc to reward the boatman for his trouble in removing his ordinary clothing and don-ning a bathing costume for the amusement of the visitors in the cavern. The affair turned out to be…
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