The Cruise of the Gyro-Car

by Herbert Strang

To the few Europeans, including J. G. von Hahn, Edward Lear, H. A. Brown, and E. F. Knight, who at no little personal risk have made a study of this romantic land and people, I am indebted for many interesting particulars, and especially to Miss M. E. Durham for the stories of “The Man and the Ass,” and the “Dismembered Cow.” The opening up of the country under the new régime in Turkey may soon render the visit of a motor- or gyro-car not more perilous there than in other parts of Europe, at present of better repute. But it will be long before the Via Egnatia, once the eastward continuation of the Appian Way, becomes as good a highway for motor or other traffic as it was two thousand years ago.

My young friend, George Buckland, is at present the sole possessor of a gyro-car, and he looks forward somewhat ruefully to the day when his scamper across Europe will no longer have the charm of novelty.

Herbert Strang.

CONTENTS

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[Chapter I]
	INTRODUCES THE GYRO-CAR	[11]
[Chapter II]
	UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS	[26]
[Chapter III]
	THE YELLOW CAR	[45]
[Chapter IV]
	RUNNING THE PLANK	[63]
[Chapter V]
	ACROSS THE ALPS	[76]
[Chapter VI]
	A NARROW MARGIN	[91]
[Chapter VII]
	AN ACT OF WAR	[103]
[Chapter VIII]
	A ROMAN ROAD	[115]
[Chapter IX]
	THE HONOUR OF AN ALBANIAN	[129]
[Chapter X]
	SOME RIDDLES AND A NURSERY RHYME	[142]
[Chapter XI]
	IN THE SMALL HOURS	[154]
[Chapter XII]
	THE SWAMP	[164]
[Chapter XIII]
	A LANDSLIP IN THE HILLS	[177]
[Chapter XIV]
	A RUSH THROUGH THE RAPIDS	[188]
[Chapter XV]
	THE END OF THE CRUISE	[207]
[Chapter XVI]
	RECONCILIATION AND REWARDS	[231]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[THE NEW AND THE OLD (frontispiece)]:	see page	[14]
[A DESPERATE EXPEDIENT]		[73]
[A TENSE MOMENT]		[156]
[THE RAPIDS OF THE BLACK DRIN]		[199]
[MAP OF THE ROUTE OF THE GYRO-CAR],	to face page	[11]