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| “Many of the mountain passes were so narrow ... that we were forced
to run with one wheel on a sloping side wall and the other on the crest
of the deepest rut,” |
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| “Once in awhile a good sort of winding dirt road gave promise of speed,” |
10 |
| “Insular urchins, partly curious and partly fearful, were half-hidden
in the doorways,” |
22 |
| “Everywhere was stone.... Each mile was gained by defiant effort,” |
22 |
| “A hill like a natural stairway of great, rough limestone steps,” |
28 |
| “The clearance of an ox cart is thirty-eight to forty-eight inches,” |
32 |
| “At Jaruca, the whole town joined us at luncheon,” |
32 |
| “Through the clear rippling water of this first river the car shot
with a great splurge,” |
36 |
| “We drove under the everlasting palms and among boulders half-hidden
in the luxuriant grass,” |
44 |
| “On these ruts we tore tires off the wheels at two miles an hour,” |
56 |
| “We enjoyed the rare experience of ‘beating it,’” |
56 |
| “Palm trees by the thousand, and, scattered among them, small ponds
made by heavy rainfall,” |
62 |
| “The car looked like some big black beast, wallowing along in
boundless marsh,” |
62 |
| “The valley became muddier and muddier,” |
68 |
| “The sun’s farewell glance spread a woven gold mantilla on the naked
shoulders of a grim, forbidding world and the motor car sank, helpless,
into the mud as if, also, its day was done,” |
68 |
| “A river would be reached by following down a tortuous pass,” |
74 |
| “We had to ford ... a fast flowing torrent set down in a gorge ...
which had no path leading to a crossing of any kind,” |
82 |
| “Digging to obtain a footing for the wheels in the roughest
ravines,” |
90 |
| “At last we found the promised highway,” |
100 |
| “The oldest cathedral in Cuba, weatherbeaten, but proudly rising
over the low tiled houses of the town,” |
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