CONTENTS

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Introductory[iii]-[v]
LEG ONE
CHAPTER I
Incidents of Ocean Travel—Sights and Scenes in England—LondonRailways and Traffic—Public InstitutionsContrasted [3]
CHAPTER II
Off for South America—Storm in Bay of Biscay—Impressionsof Lisbon, Portugal—Madeira Island—NovelPublic Hack—"Neptuning" Passengers—Crossingthe Equator—Southern Cross[10]
CHAPTER III
Brazilian Ports—Rio de Janeiro—Monroe Palace—ToweringPalms of Rio—Uruguay—The RiverPlate—Characteristics of the People—Buenos Aires—Offfor South Africa[19]
LEG TWO
CHAPTER I
A Tramp Ship at Sea—Wonderful Birds—Ashore inSouth Africa[37]
CHAPTER II
Durban—Its Mixed Population—Sanitary and Clean—TheChrist Thorn—Novel Ways of Trapping Monkeys—TheIndian Coolie, a Taxed Ulcer—"Spiking"a Hindu's Tongue—Horned Ricksha Pullers—Laborin Politics—Harpooning and Cutting upWhales[43]
CHAPTER III
Trip to Zululand—Home Life of the Natives—Wivesfor Cows—Calling on an Old Printer[74]
CHAPTER IV
South African Railway Travel—Scenes of Massacres—Johannesburg—TransvaalGold Mines[90]
CHAPTER V
Pretoria and the Boers—The Kruger Monument—PuzzlingNames[109]
CHAPTER VI
On to Mafeking—Interesting Natives and Souvenirs—SightingRhodes' Grave—Rhodesia—Bulawayo—VictoriaFalls, a Mile of Amber-Colored Lace—FallsCompared—Deadly African Fever[115]
CHAPTER VII
Kimberley, the Diamond City—Bloemfontein, the ConventionCity—Crossing the Dry, Barren KarooCountry—The Ostrich—Capetown—Climate theBest in South Africa—Table Mountain[129]
LEG THREE
CHAPTER I
Leaving the Baltic Sea for Australia—A White Country—TheGold Fields—Crossing the Great AustralianBight—Melbourne—Pensions for Aged—ImmigrationEncouraged[145]
CHAPTER II
Trip to Adelaide—Finest Homes in the World—KangarooCalled the Native—Visit to Ballarat[157]
CHAPTER III
The Heads—Sydney, Its Noted Harbor—Rural Educationon Wheels[162]
CHAPTER IV
Crossing Bass Straits—Tasmania—Hobart—Port Arthurand Its Prison Walls and Memories[170]
LEG FOUR
CHAPTER I
Crossing the Tasman Sea—Last White Settlement—Dunedin,a Scotch City—Christchurch—Wellingtonand Its Splendid Harbor—Pelorus Jack, thePilot Fish[179]
CHAPTER II
To Maoriland—Rotorua—Geyserland—The Maori—Nose-Rubbing—Auckland—Courteous,ProsperousPeople[190]
CHAPTER III
South Sea Islands—The Fijians—Free Railroad Travel—AVegetable Marvel[199]
CHAPTER IV
An Ocean Park—Natives of the Samoan Group—NoLocked Doors—The Samoan a Fatalist[208]
CHAPTER V
Friendly Islands—Pretty Harbor of Vavau—Customs—AStriking, Strapping King—Sacred Animals[215]
LEG FIVE
CHAPTER I
A "Red Ticket" for South Africa—Eight Weeks' Travelfor Ninety Dollars—Portuguese East Africa—Inhambane,Where Death Revels—Beira, the "TrolleyTown"[225]
CHAPTER II
German East Africa—Women in Iron Yokes—Zanzibar—OldSlave Mart—Cloves Thrive—Tanga[232]
CHAPTER III
Mombasa—A Three Years' Residence Limit—In theBig Game Country—Nature's "Greatest Show onEarth"—Nairobi—Dead Left to Wild Beasts[240]
CHAPTER IV
Naked Natives—Victoria Nyanza—Bubonic Flea—Uganda—African"Freight Train"—SleepingSickness—Deadly Tsetse Fly—Beautiful Entebbe—TheRubber Country—Ant Eaters—Kampala—Jinjaand Ripon Falls—River Nile[250]
LEG SIX
CHAPTER I
Off for India—Ship Doctor Hunting for Jiggers—Seychelles—Bombay—TheParsi—Towers of Silence—HandsomestRailway Station[265]
CHAPTER II
In Baroda—Sacred Monkeys—Ahmedabad—Birds,Animals and Insects Worshiped—Agra—The TajMahal—Plural Wives—Delhi, Rebuilding—Elephant"Rocks" the Cradle[278]
CHAPTER III
Aligarh—Novel Water Carrier—Cawnpore—TheMassacre Well—Lucknow—Benares—HinduGods—Monkey Temple—Bathing Ghats—Sarnathand Its Temple Ruins[292]
CHAPTER IV
Himalayas—Magnificent Views—Kinchinjanga, theGiant—Darjeeling—Mountain Tribes[306]
CHAPTER V
Calcutta—Memories of "The Black Hole"—Blood Offerings—AMecca for Hindu Widows Who Bathe—Madras—FirstChristian Church in India[316]
CHAPTER VI
Colombo—Ceylon—Cinnamon Tree Industry—TrottingBullocks Afford Rapid Transit—Kandy—Buddha'sTooth—Elephants in Trucking—NutmegTrees[327]
LEG SEVEN
CHAPTER I
Nine Weeks to the Orient—Singapore—Malay StatesRubber Mad—Straits Settlements—Hogs in Baskets—Chinamenin Motor Cars—A "Dutch"Wife—Off to Hongkong—A Horseless Town—MountainTravel[335]
CHAPTER II
Canton—Chinese Pirates—Lost Within the City Walls—Cityof the Dead—"Feeding" the Dead—QuaintHome Customs—Chinese Industrious—NoWaste Land[347]
CHAPTER III
Manila—Poor Water, Whisky Plentiful—Consumption—SquirrelNest Homes—Chinese OpiumSmugglers—Evicting the Dead—No Vault Rent,No Resting Place—The Manila Wall[354]
CHAPTER IV
Shanghai—Professional Weepers—Family Feeding byContract—Wheelbarrow Transit—The Bund—LeavingWusung for Japan—Japanese Girls CoalingShip[362]
CHAPTER V
The Inland Sea—Kobe—The Jap's Home—StreetCars and Rickshas in Competition—Men, Womenand Children in Harness—Income Tax on Labor—KyotoPaper Houses—Kyoto Temples—Yokohama—Kamakura—TheDaibutsu Bronze Giant[371]
CHAPTER VI
Tokyo—Mikado's Palace—Asakusa Temple—GeishaWomen—Hari-Kiri—Black Teeth—Nikko, ItsTemples—Funeral Festivals[383]
CHAPTER VII
To Honolulu, Hawaii—Recrossing the 180th Meridian—CheapIce and Bananas—"Don't Spit" Signs—SugarCane—The Prize "Black Maria" of theWorld—Education—Natives Seek Easy Jobs—Homeof the Last Queen—Hilo—To KilaueaCrater—The Volcano in Action—An AppallingScene[394]
Itinerary[405]
Map.