PREFACE.
My husband, during his six years' tenure of the office of Director of Criminal Investigations, took the greatest interest in the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage.
In taking leave of his young friends he promised to keep for their benefit a record of our travels through the British Empire and America.
I have endeavoured to the best of my power to relieve him of this task.
It is but a simple Journal of what we saw and did.
But if the Police will accept it, as a further proof of our admiration and respect for them as a body, then I feel sure that others who may be kind enough to read it will be lenient towards the shortcomings of a first publication.
ETHEL GWENDOLINE VINCENT.
1, Grosvenor Square, London.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
|---|---|
| Across the Atlantic | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| New York, Hudson River, and Niagara Falls | [4] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| The Dominion of Canada | [17] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| The American Lakes, and the Centres of Learning, | |
| Fashion, and Government | [26] |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| To the Far West | [43] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| San Francisco and the Yosemite Valley | [66] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| Across the Pacific | [88] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| Coaching through the North Island of New Zealand; | |
| its Hot Lakes and Geysers | [102] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| The South Island of New Zealand; its Alps and Mountain Lakes | [146] |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| Australia—Tasmania, and Victoria | [161] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| Australia—New South Wales, and Queensland | [181] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] | |
| Within the Barrier Reef, Through Torres Straits to Batavia | [200] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] | |
| Netherlands India | [212] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] | |
| The Straits Settlements | [235] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] | |
| The Metropolis of India and its Himalayan Sanatorium | [250] |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] | |
| The Shrines of the Hindu Faith | [274] |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] | |
| The Scenes of the Indian Mutiny | [287] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] | |
| The Cities of the Great Mogul | [304] |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] | |
| Gwalior and Rajputana | [332] |
| [CHAPTER XX.] | |
| The Home of the Parsees | [352] |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] | |
| Through Egypt—Homewards | [361] |