text:  Out of its five locandas who shall declare the worst? Of that in which we had first taken refuge (as in a snow-storm on the Alps any _roof_ is Paradise ) we were obliged to quit the shelter and walk at _noon_ at _midsummer_ and in _Sicily_ a good mile _up_ a main street which beginning in habitations of the dimensions of our almshouses ends in a few huts intolerably revolting about which troops of naked children defy vermin and encrust themselves in filth