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5 September 1884 — Milan | |
Tuesday. 5th September [1884]. Took a walk with Henry in the morng & went into the Duomo. Lunched at 12. Morelli came to bid us good bye & we left for Venice by 1.20 train. There were very few people in the train; we had a carriage to ourselves & got to Venice at 7.40. Luigi met us & there before we left the station we were all bundled into a little room & fumigated—the smell was sickening but luckily only lasted 5 minutes. We had to have all our boxes open at the station for 2 hours that they might be fumigated & we went home to dinner & sent back for them later. We were allowed to take our night bags & such things as we cd carry in our hands with us. Gigia said a man got into the train at Padua who told a pitiful story of having been mistaken for another man who had come from Spezia. He was seized, in spite of all his protests—stuck into fumigation for 3 hours– Being thereby made violently sick he was kept 3 hours more in another fumigation & then shut up for 7 days. In vain he wrote, telegraphed & protested they wd not believe him but kept him 7 days & would have done so 14 but that at last he managed to prove his identity. He was a commercial traveller & having boxes full of new goods they were entirely spoilt by fumigation. | |
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