GREETINGS, AMERICA!.
GREETINGS, AMERICA!.
From other coast you seem more close and look about, kej!.
The proletarian poet Majakovsky floated 75 years ago from Europe in
America 18 days. Today for flight from Frankfurt to Washington has sufficed
Nine hours. Do not think, that I the inveterate traveller crossing
Continents just for the hell of it. I have received the invitation to act with
The report at the international archaeological conference, which
It was spent at Florida university. And, that is important for
The Ukrainian scientist, all expenses were incurred by a receiving party.
The first impressions.
... Flight passes in evening darkness. Everyone is engaged in by the business. Who
Sleeps, who watches TV, who reads newspapers. And the businessmen
Have spread out the portable computers and continue to work, saving
Time. It is not believed, that under you - Atlantic. Only the short-term
The jolting called, obviously, air holes, has reminded: below the same
The most winter ocean which so has inhospitably met passengers
The sunk "Titanic".
The plane has started to decrease, and the coast which has been lighted up miriadami seemed
Fires. We come in the land, and here I - in a building of the airport Washington Dalles.
I pass customs. To be guided at change it is easy: everywhere hang
TVs, on which screens - the schedule of flights and number of exits to
To planes. Here and planting to flight in Orlando. Night I have spent in hotel
The airport.
Midday. Young workers of Florida university - SHerin and her husband
Patrick - meet me in hotel. Approaches also familiar to me on
Conferences in the United Kingdom the English archeologist, too
Spending the night in hotel. We go on a university minibus of department
Anthropology in gejnsvill. To Patrick operating the car,
It is necessary to stop and pay for use repeatedly
Roads "trifle" - on 1-2 baksika.
The rarity of traffic signs on a line is evident. Americans not
Like symbols and seldom them use. But there are tablets with inscriptions,
Limiting speed, a marking on proezzhej parts, traffic lights.
The last on pedestrian crossings are supplied not by symbols, and words -
"Go" (with green colour) and "stand" (with red). And on the parties are seen
Palm trees, citron groves, the boggy earths. Florida, as well as
California, - orange staff. Northern part of peninsula -
The subtropical country, and southern is in a tropical zone. District
- Absolutely equal, as sheet, and its height hardly more than 30 m over level
Ocean. Neither lifting, nor descent! At last we turn to the right and it is driven
In gejnsvill. Me, as well as other participants of conference, settle in
Luxurious hotel of university, on the fifth floor. And on the second
There passed our sessions. Lifting and descent - only on the lift, a ladder -
Under the lock. Lecturers on gejnsvillskoj represented to a meeting ones and a half
Ten countries, mainly to the USA and the Great Britain. On one or two
The report participants have made of Canada, Uruguay, New Zealand, Israel,
Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Greece, Ukraine, Russia.
In the bus - across Florida.
One of days has been completely devoted bus excursion on
To archaeological monuments and natural sights
Subtropical Florida. To the south from gejnsvilla is Silver-Springs -
Natural park, in which centre - istokovyj river basin Silver with
The underwater caves having powerful artesian sources.
Silently we float on huge pool by a boat with a glass bottom. Under
Us - large exotic dark blue fishes. And at the bottom, near to coast,
On depth about ten metres, has cosy hidden having a rest
Alligator.
This animal from group of crocodiles. North American (pike)
The alligator lives now only in bogs, the rivers and lakes of Florida.
Length of a body at it to 6,3 m, hardly less, than at the largest,
nilskogo, a crocodile. Eats frogs, snakes and fishes, but not
Is inclined to refuse an attack on the higher pozvonochnyh. In Florida
Alligators are protected, and in Arkansas and California them plant on
Farms for the sake of the valuable skin going on portfolios, suitcases and saddles.
Alligators - favourites of Florida public. The truncated word "gator" is possible
More often to see on publicity boards, and at restaurants on tables stand
Figures of these reptiles.
We arrive on island Hontun - it is in the middle of the river Sent-Dzhouns,
Running into Atlantic ocean. On island excavation was once conducted
Barrows, were otryty human skeletons, iron axes are collected,
Silver and gold ornaments, ceramics. Among finds on Hantune -
Subjects from organic materials, including four-metre
Wooden idol in the form of an owl. Finds - as dokolumbovogo, and more
Late age. We have a seat on katerok with ecologically pure engine
Also we float on the river.
Swimming has come to the end - we have arrived to a superficial place under the name
Blju-Spring with a hot source. Someone manages here to bathe.
But Blju-Spring - first of all a winter haven strange water
Animals - lamantinov, which here fair quantity. Them it is good
It is visible on shoal - having a rest or floating. These animals from group
Sirens remind simultaneously dolphins and seals. Length of a body - to 4-5
M. the Horizontal tail fin - roundish, back finitenesses
No, and lobbies - in the form of fins with three nogtevidnymi hooves.
One more moving, and we - near a unique monument under the name
Maunt-Rojel (the Imperial barrow) on the river Sent-Dzhouns. The barrow has been built
Between 1250 and 1500, but district where it was, accustomed
People already about 10 thousand years ago.
gejnsvill - a city of students and scientists.
My departure in Orlando is planned on Monday, and today - Saturday.
It is possible to meet in the afternoon a city, and to listen to lecture in the evening
Soviet ex-president Michael Gorbachev who has arrived to America. As
Time during time convenient for me its meeting with teachers is appointed,
Students and other townsmen.
gejnsvill - a university city true. 810 hectares
Its southern part it is occupied by high school in which 43 thousand students are trained.
The university posesses 850 buildings, switching on 142 cases with audiences
And laboratories. In library - over 3 million volumes and 5 million
Microfilms. The streets which have been planted trees and shrubs by palm trees and other plants,
Are crossed mainly under a right angle. Passing a part densely
It is occupied by rushing cars, but sidewalks - are empty. In streets of the night
Simferopol it is possible to see more people, than in gejnsville among it is white
Day. Even on Saturday and Sunday all are engaged in by business! And it is not enough shops.
Such in the Western Europe I did not see. December in Florida - as September
Or May in Crimea. People carry shorts, tenniski and T-shorts. But early in the morning
And in the evening the warm clothes will not prevent.
Often it is possible to see a national flag over the usual house or office.
With the Soviet president - on the American earth.
To me carried on meetings with party secretaries general. Vladimir Lenin and Joseph
Stalin has visited in the mausoleum when they still were considered as the intimate
By friends also were exhibited together. Nikita Khruschev came in legkovushke
On my native land, in Walk-field, and again I it (and the Polish leader
Vladislav Gomulku) saw in Moscow: two secretaries stood in the opened
To the car, it is dazzling sparkling bald heads. With Leonid Brezhnev I
Has communicated in Simferopol. Ilyich spent just visited in Crimea
American president Nixon and in high spirits
Came back in the car on JUBK. Sat near to the driver, having lowered
Glass, smoked also broad masses a hand welcomed.
And here I contemplated Gorbachev only on the TV and never would see
It, if not America. For a quarter of hour before its lecture the streets conducting
To sports palace About ` the Konnol-centre, have quickened from the people which have flooded them.
It is the huge amphitheatre reminding Roman Collosseo. On the step
Seats have taken places 12 thousand gejnsvilltsev. Order watched 2-3
The policeman, and it was enough that people have taken places, and then
Have easy left a building.
I was arranged on the top, just opposite to chair, where
The ex-president should act. He spoke long about democracy,
Protection of the ecological environment and other good things. The translator
Translated, listeners listened and applauded, that I did also, not
Coming off collective. Then gejnsvilltsy set questions before
Microphone. And one listener, undoubtedly native from "the one fifth part
Globe ", has asked in the cleanest Russian, why, contrary to
Democracies, have been entered armies into Lithuania. Michael Sergeevich was protected,
But it is not absolutely convincing.
The destiny had been provided one more my contact to the construction superintendent of reorganisation.
On Monday morning I have taken off from the airport of Orlando, safely
Has arrived to Washington, was registered and has taken a place near an exit to
To the plane. Many passengers were going to. The hail suddenly was heard
The policeman, demanding to release road. I have bent down to lift with
Floor the diplomat. During this moment someone has aloud pushed me. I
It was straightened and has seen five or six men who were promptly making the way
Through crowd in single file towards the transoceanic plane. One of them,
In the chain centre, it has appeared to a pain acquaintance - former secretary general Michael
Gorbachev. Only after a while the permission to planting of a distance by the other
To passengers. But the liner did not taxi aside exactly hour after already all
Were on the places. Thus I could cross
Atlantic ocean together with Michael Sergeevichem. But it flied,
Obviously, in a special compartment.
Grigory of DRILLS,
The professor of Taurian national university,
The doctor of historical sciences.
"Crimean time" 2000.05.12
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