Excerpt from A Vagabond Voyage Through BrittanyFor two days we stayed in the little fortified, a11 but-island city, but with vicious attacks of sand ¿eas and the continued aboard-ship feeling, augmented by insistent odours of open drainage, my impressions of St. Malo are primarily of personal discomfort.We never tired of walking round the walls, from which elevation the narrow streets looked even narrower and older than when picking our way over the cobbles, and (as it was the height of the season), dodging Paris-clad pedestrians, and because the first day we both felt the desirability of fixing our attention inland, we gained a friendly acquaintance with the slanting roofs and dormer windows which give such charm to the town.The second day, less averse to looking seaward, we compared the vessels entering and leaving the harbour, with the picture in our mind's eye of the ship on which the brave Jacques Cartier set sail from here in 1534 to discover Canada. We also watched with much amusement several people who had availed themselves of the ebbing tide to visit theo5 0 as.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.