Excerpt from A Winter With the Swallows I arrived late in December, thus escaping the miseries or diversions (for under what circumstances cannot travellers in good health and spirits amuse themselves of quarantine. But a sort of lesser quarantine awaits all those foolish travellers who embark too late to have their baggage registered; and whilst other people went off in the happy assurance that their effects would be locked up and cared for, I had to wait for permission to carry my own away, or leave them to chance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.