The Mighty Seated Figures at Abu Simbel [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
She is on the point of leaving her Country, perhaps for ever [24]
English Soldiers climbing the Pyramids [56]
Jews' Wailing Place, Jerusalem [128]
Swaying its lean unlovely Body to and fro in Time with the Tune [200]
A Carpet Shop, Delhi [224]
The Golden Pagoda [256]
A Burmese Play [288]
A Village built on Piles, Sumatra. Little Brown Boys play about and fish [312]
Our Dinner in a Japanese Inn [336]
Indians as they are now [376]
The Falls of Niagara [388]
STRANGE BRIDGE AT MARSEILLES.
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLD
CHAPTER I
WHICH WAY?
When you have noticed a fly crawling on a ball or an orange has it ever occurred to you how a man would look crawling about on the earth if seen from a great height? Our world is, as everyone knows, like an orange in shape, only it is very much larger in comparison with us than an orange is in regard to a fly. In fact, to make a reasonable comparison, we should have to picture the fly crawling about on a ball or globe fifty miles in height; to get all round it he would have to make a journey of something like one hundred and fifty miles. It would take a determined fly to accomplish that! Yet we little human beings often start off on a journey round the world quite cheerfully, and it is more difficult for us than for the imaginary fly, because the globe is not a smooth surface of dry land, but is made up of jungles and deserts and forests and oceans. There are some places where people can do nothing in the heat of the day, and others where their flesh freezes like cold white marble in a moment if they don't take precautions.