American - Journalist | April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard Harding Davis
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I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
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Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
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I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.
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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
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All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
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As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.
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I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
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