The Climate of Malta.--The Furious Grégalé.--Liability to Sunstroke.--The African Sirocco.--Cloudless Days.--A Health Resort.--English Church.--View of Ætna.--Volcanic Disturbances. --Will Malta Eventually Disappear?--Native Flora.--Flower-Girls of Valletta.--Absence of Lakes and Rivers.--The Moon-Flower.-- Grand Stone Aqueduct.--After the Roman Plan of Building.-- Fountains.--Results of Irrigation. 86 CHAPTER VI. Homer's Fabled Siren.--Singular Topographical Formation in Gozo.--Beautiful Island Groves.--Fertile Grain-Fields.-- Flowering Hedges.--Aromatic Honey.--Herds of Goats.--A Favorite Domestic Product.--Milk Supply.--Prolific Sheep.--A Maltese Market.--Quail Shooting.--Rabbato, Capital of Gozo. --The Old Citadel.--Lace Manufacture.--Prehistoric Ruins.--The Giant's Tower.--Attractive Summer Resort.--Pagan Worship. 101 CHAPTER VII. A Maltese Fishing Hamlet.--Old Fort Chambray.--A Grotto shorn of Poetic Adornment.--The "Azure Window."--Bay of Scilendi.-- Pirates' Caves.--Prehistoric Bones and Skeletons.--The Vast Changes of Land and Sea.--Suez Canal.--Geological Matters.-- Native Race of Arabic Descent.--Curious Stone Mortars.-- Primitive Artillery.--Maltese Fungus.--Springtime.--Riches of the Harvest.--Origin of the Island of Gozo. 115 CHAPTER VIII. Valletta, Capital of Malta.--A Unique City.--Bright Faces, Flowers, and Sunshine.--Architecture.--L'Isle Adam and La Vallette, Grand Masters.--Mount Sceberris.--Stone Dwelling-Houses. --Streets of the Capital.--A Specialty.--Fancy Goods Merchants. --The Yacht Sunbeam.--Main Street of the City.--A Grand Opera House.--A St. Giles in Malta.--Strada Santa Lucia.--Street of Stairs.--Thoroughfares.--The Military Hospital.--Characteristic Street Scenes.--Emigration. 129 CHAPTER IX. Ophthalmia.--Profusion of Flowers.--Inland Villages.--Educational Matters.--Public Amusements.--Maltese Carnival.--Italian Carnival. --Under English Rule.--No Direct Taxation.--Code of Laws.--A Summer Palace.--Governor-General Smyth.--San Antonio Gardens.-- Wages.--Oranges.--Life's Contrasts.--Swarming Beggars.--Social Problem.--Churches crowded with Riches.--Starving Population.--A Mexican Experience. 152 CHAPTER X. Broadway of Valletta.--Panoramic Street View.--A Bogus Nobility. --Former Grand Palace of the Knights.--Telegraphic Station.-- About Soldier-Priests.--Interior of the Palace.--Ancient Tapestry.--Old Paintings.--Antique Armory.--An American with a Fad.--Ancient Battle-Flags.--Armor worn by the Knights.--Days of the Crusaders.--Bonaparte as a Petty Thief.--There are no Saints on Earth!--Dueling Ground.--Desecrating Good Friday. 172 CHAPTER XI.