Some of the Quaker City's passengers had arrived in Venice from Switzerland and other lands before we left there, and others were expected every day.

We heard of no casualties among them, and no sickness.
We were a little fatigued with sight seeing, and so we rattled through a good deal of country by rail without caring to stop.

I took few notes.
I find no mention of Bologna in my memorandum book, except that we arrived there in good season, but saw none of the sausages for which the place is so justly celebrated.
Pistoia awoke but a passing interest.
Florence pleased us for a while.

I think we appreciated the great figure of David in the grand square, and the sculptured group they call the Rape of the Sabines.

We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course.