Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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COSSACK TYPES itself defies description. No picture can reveal the splendorof the coloring, or suggest the majestic disciplined turbulenceof the flood of mounted men that now sweeps toward theTsar, like a tinted tidal wave. Then the wave breaks, andits dusty spray is dissipated. The generals and marshals nowform in a semicircle before their Imperial Master. One byone they approach the Tsar. Some present papers orreports, all receive words of compliment for the successful I04 ST. PETERSBURG
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By PasettI THE HUSSARS READY FOR THE CHARGE issue of the day. At this moment a happy thought occurs tome. Rushing to our box I seize a motion-picture instrumentand return to a position between two officers in that salutingsemicircle. I dared not bring a tripod, but holding themotion camera as steadily as possible against my breast, Ibegin to turn the crank. Scarcely has the machine begunits clatter, before His Majesty, with an informal gesture,declares the ceremony at an end, and to my delight ridesdirectly toward me, and his staf^, falling in from both sides,follow him off the field. Any shakiness in the picture is dueto the fact that I was at one and the same time holding asilk hat under one arm, clasping a black box to my breast, ST. PETERSBURG 105 which naturally was heaving with excitement, and trying tolook utterly unconcerned while the Autocrat of all the Rus-sias and the great men of his Empire hied past, envelopingme in clouds of dust. That my attitude was undignified Igrant

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