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From Nile to Nile; Rambles of a Kansan in Europe, Palestine and Africa

From Nile to Nile; Rambles of a Kansan in Europe, Palestine and Africa


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...you can dignify the cultivation of a ten acre pateh of mountain side, or a less number of acres of gravelly bottom land, with the distinction that attaches to a farm--are performed without the aid of any four footed beast. The Swiss peasant is, to my mmd, the hardest worked and poorest paid laborer in Europe. His crop of hay, secured for the sustenance of the goats whereby the supply of Sweitzerkase is perpetuated, is packed in bundles and carried on the head, uphill and down, and often a long distance to the goat shed. By reason of the shortness of the season and the sterility of the soil, but a meager crop is secured. Hay in Kansas, marketed under the same circumstances, would be worth, I immagine, about ninety-eight dollars a ton. It is truly pitiable to see these hard-worked, under-paid and under-fed people in the struggle for existence economizing in the minutest respect in everything. Their industry and frugality were a common subject of remark, for they were ever present before us.. Children at the age of four years are taught to knit, and the little weazened faces on the doorsteps that looked at us with eyes askance, the flaxen hair twisted in a little knot like their mother's, the bare feet and coarse though tidy gown, the poor little thin hands that so deftly plied the needles, all told of poverty, but honest poverty, the poverty that would toil on, suffer on, anything but beg. About one woman in every ten is disfigured by the goitre. One person told me that it was the result of a lack of nutritious food through many generations and the custom of carrying heavy burdens on the head and shoulders. Another person thought he had put the cap sheaf on when he said, "that it was considered a mark of great distinction by the Swiss to be the possessor...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235949821
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235949826
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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