text:  It happened to be rather a breezy day towards the fall of the leaf and after a pretty sharp and tedious journey enlivened however by our friend's various and interesting converse--for he had been a marvellous traveller and had crossed the globe from Spitzbergen to Caffraria in one direction and circled it from Pekin to Peru _via_ Paris in another--we arrived at our _point d'appui_