The
object of both is said to be to produce the ecstatic state in which the
soul enters the world of dreams and becomes one with God. There is no
question as to the ecstatic, nay frenzied state many of them attained.
Our last day was the eve of the Ramadan Fast. At eight o'clock that
night we left by train to journey homeward overland, for time demanded
that we should go back much quicker than we came.
We broke our journey for two days at Buda-Pesth, and looked on the
Danube; at Vienna we stayed a little longer, and found that gay city hard
to leave. We drove and rode in the Prater, and horseback exercise in
such a place was, I need not say, delightful. We stopped at Frankfort,
enjoyed its opera and other things, then, _via_ Ostend, wended our way to
London.
CHAPTER XXVI.
A CONGRESS AT PARIS, THE PROGRESS OF IRISH LINES, EGYPT AND THE NILE
"Will you undertake to report on the subject of Light Railways for the
International Railway Congress at Paris?" This question was put to me in
the year 1899, and although I was busy enough, without shouldering
additional work, I at once said "Yes," and this was how I came to spend
part of my 1900 annual holiday in the beautiful but crowded capital of
France.
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