Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. No attempt has been made to correct or normalize the spelling of non-English words. Archaic spelllings (i.e. divers, ecstacy, graneries, asthetic, etc.) have been retained. (note of etext transcriber.)] [Illustration: MONT ST. MICHAEL.] NASBY IN EXILE: OR, SIX MONTHS OF TRAVEL IN England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, WITH MANY THINGS NOT OF TRAVEL. BY DAVID R. LOCKE, (Petroleum V. Nasby.) PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. TOLEDO AND BOSTON: LOCKE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1882. COPYRIGHT, 1882, BY DAVID R. LOCKE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. BLADE PRINTING AND PAPER CO., _Printers and Binders_, TOLEDO, O. PREFACE. On the afternoon of May 14, 1881, the good ship "City of Richmond," steamed out of New York harbor with a varied assortment of passengers on board, all intent upon seeing Europe. Among these was the writer of the pages that follow. Six of the passengers having contracted a sort of liking for each other, made a tour of six months together, that is, together most of the time. This book is the record of their experiences, as they appeared originally in the columns of the TOLEDO BLADE. It is not issued in compliance with any demand for it. I have no recollection that any one of the one hundred thousand regular subscribers to the TOLEDO BLADE ever asked that the letters that appeared from week to week in its columns should be gathered into book form. The volume is a purely mercantile speculation, which may or may not be successful. The publishers held that the matter was of sufficient value to go between covers, and believing that they were good judges of such things, I edited the letters, and here they are. The ground we went over has been gone over by other writers a thousand times. We went where other tourists have gone, and what we saw others have seen. The only difference between this book and the thousands of others that have been printed describing the same scenes, is purely the difference in the eyes of the writers who saw them. I saw the countries I visited with a pair of American eyes, and judged of men and things from a purely American stand-point.