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42_42 Monaco, Monte Carlo Jan. 20. From Algiers we steamed to Monaco. Having been here before I had not so much interest in the place - but in the old town with its narrow streets there is interest. We went to the Anthropological Museum with its displays of the culture of the cave men of southern France, - including the Dordogne. But far more interesting in the Hydrographic Institute, the most complete exposition of the life of the ocean which I have ever seen. Its skeleton of a great whale (? 70 or 80 feet long) was very impressive. The Giant Crabs from Japan are also very remarkable. All sorts of ocean life was represented from seals to porpoises and sharks and octopi. |
42_43 Naples, Jan 21, 1926 Very remarkable is the aquarium - a large and very fine collection of and very fine collection of fishes and anemones and crabs and so on. Each collection seemed perfect in its kind and all are exceedingly well cared for and excellently displayed. At Naples the sky was overcast but Vesuvius showed up in the afternoon with huge clouds of smoke drifting off from its crates. The day was dull mostly and no day for the appreciation of Naples such as I had before, when here. I vastly enjoyed the scenes in the narrow stretch and the scalita on staired streets - the little shops, the strange goods, the beautiful flowers so wonderfully and lightly arranged - displayed on the street wall - every blossom |
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