Transcribed from the 1905 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org ESSAYS OF TRAVEL BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [Picture: Decorative image] LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1905 SECOND IMPRESSION Contents PAGE I. The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook— The Second Cabin 3 Early Impressions 11 Steerage Scenes 21 Steerage Types 30 The Sick Man 42 The Stowaways 53 Personal Experience And Review 69 New York 81 II. Cockermouth And Keswick 93 Cockermouth 94 An Evangelist 97 Another 100 Last Of Smethurst 102 III. An Autumn Effect 106 IV. A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway 131 V. Forest Notes— On The Plains 144 In The Season 149 Idle Hours 153 A Pleasure-Party 157 The Woods In Spring 164 Morality 169 VI. A Mountain Town In France 175 VII. Random Memories: _Rosa Quo Locorum_ 189 VII. The Ideal House 199 IX. Davos In Winter 207 X. Health And Mountains 212 XI. Alpine Diversion 217 XII. The Stimulation Of The Alps 222 XIII. Roads 227 XIV. On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places 237 I. THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT To ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON