Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.

Towering Palms of Rio.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
BY SAMUEL MURRAY Author of From Clime to Clime
NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY 1918
Copyright, 1918, by MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
Published, February, 1918

I was early aboard the fastest ship that ever foamed the seas. Later, a long, strong whistle blast blew—the signal for starting—and soon she headed southward, the great vessel traveling through New York harbor to Sandy Hook as noiselessly as a bobsleigh drawn through two feet of unpacked snow.
I had secured a second class ticket to Buenos Aires, Argentina, by way of England, this marking the first of several legs of the world over which I had planned to travel. Thirteen hundred and fifty dollars, representing years of economical living, was the sum deemed as necessary to accomplish what I had purposed doing. By trade I am a printer and linotype operator.