London one exquisite autumn day to go to southern France by easy stages, the idea of extending my wanderings to Aalesund and Tetuan never for a moment entered my head. While I had heard of Khartoum and Merv, and could point them out on maps, Aalesund and Tetuan were strange looking words, whose significance might belong to biography as well as to geography; and had I been asked to explain them, my discomfiture would have been complete. Lying so remote from the routes usually taken by travellers, and being so unimportant in the worlds eye, these widely separated towns are rarely visited, although of late they are getting into society a little more, and are beginning to lose some of their shyness. The odd circumstance connected with my journey was, that I never dreamed of such places until chance set me down in them. As I never heard old travellers speak of them, I often wondered how I happened to go there, unless it was because the names attracted me. Having abundant time at my disposal, there was no occasion to hurry and rush, so I allowed myself two years for the journey, lingering here and there as long as it Suited my fancy; then moving on, regardless of plans, until I knew both Aalesund and Tetuan, and many other towns beside.
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