My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year

by George Francis Train

My own rapid tours of the world are, therefore, typical of my life. Thus an account of them seems to round it off fitly with a "Bon voyage" to every one.

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[H]

[I]

[J]

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[L]

[M]

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Z

• Achinese, subjugation of the, [178].
• Aden, visit to,[ 208].
• Adirondack Railway,[ 260].
• American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia, an,[ 222].
• Andaman Islands,[204].
• Anglo-American, the,[ 72],[ 144].
• Anglo-Saxon, the,[ 55],[ 58],[ 72].
• Anjer, visit of the natives at,[ 174].
• Antietam, Battle of,[ 282].
• Ariens, Admiral,[ 251].
• Around the world tours,[ 331].
• Around the World in Eighty Days,[ 301],[ 331].
• Ashburner, George,[ 204].
• Astor, John Jacob, Jr.,[ 44].
• Atlantic and Great Western Railway,[ 237],[ 269].
• Australia, begin business in,[ 127];
  • gold-fever in,[ 130],[ 141];
  • outlaws of,[ 152],[ 156];
  • railway system of,[ 269];
  • rebellion in,[ 156].
• Austria, travels in,[ 233].

• Bailey, Crawshay, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway,[ 244].
• Balaklava, visit to,[ 217].
• Balmoral, visit to,[ 92].
• Banka, tin mines of,[ 179].
• Banking and gambling compared,[ 86].
• Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P.,[ 38],[ 58].
• Baring, Thomas, visit to America,[ 71].
• Bartley, Judge,[ 244].
• Bastile at Lyons, a prisoner in the,[ 310].
• Batavia, Java, beauty of,[ 175].
• Bemis, Emery,[ 37].
• Bemis, George Pickering,[ 8],[ 48],[ 273],[ 311].
• Bennett, James Gordon,[ 222].
• Beyrout, visit to,[ 215].
• Birkenhead, tramways in,[ 261].
• Black Hole of Calcutta,[ 205].
• Blockade running,[ 272].
• Bly, Nellie, trip round the world,[ 335].
• Bombay, India, railroad in,[ 270].
• "Bonanza nugget," the, story of,[ 141].
• Boomerang, the,[ 169].
• Booth, Edwin, in Melbourne,[ 166].
• Botany Bay,[ 144].
• Bougevine, Gen., in China, 196.
• Bowling, skill in,[ 79];
  • in Australia,[ 135].
• Braemar, meeting with Lord John Russell at,[ 92].
• Bridges, the phrenologist,[ 122].
• Briticisms,[ 91].
• Brooke, "Sarawak,"[ 179].
• Brougham, John, visit to Liverpool,[ 124].
• Bunker Hill Day,[ 112].
• Bury, Lord, [105].
• Bushnell, the actor, in Melbourne,[ 167].

• Cairo, land trip from Suez to,[ 209].
• Calcutta, visit to,[ 204].
• Caldwell, Captain, partner in the Australian house,[ 127],[ 136],[ 223].
• California, discovery of gold in,[ 71].
• Canada, visit to,[ 86].
• Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India,[ 207].
• Canton, visit to,[ 182],[ 185].
• Cape May, in 1850,[ 79].
• Carleton, Mrs., meeting with,[ 83].
• Castiglione, Countess,[ 230].
• Ceylon, visit to,[ 208].
• Chatsworth, visit to,[ 102].
• China, visit to,[ 180];
  • population of,[ 190].
• Chinese, civilization of the,[ 197];
  • customs of the,[ 190];
  • honesty of the,[ 187].
• Choate, Rufus, retained in the Franklin case,[ 62].
• Chronicle, London, purchase of the,[ 272].
• Cincinnati, honeymoon trip to,[ 116].
• Civil War in the United States, England and the,[ 271].
• Claflin, Tennie C., arrest of,[ 323].
• Clarke, John, Jr.,[ 7],[ 9].
• Clay, Cassius M., debate with,[ 279].
• Clay, Henry, calls on,[ 81].
• Cluseret, Gen. Gustave Paul, summoned from Switzerland,[ 305].
• Collie, Alexander,[ 180].
• Collingwood, home at,[ 135].
• Commune, the,[ 301].
• Constantine, Grand Duke, meeting with, at Strelna,[ 251].
• Constantinople, visit to,[ 216].
• Cook, Captain, in Botany Bay,[ 145].
• Copenhagen, tramway in,[ 269].
• Cozzens's Hotel, Omaha,[ 296].
• Crédit Foncier,[ 285].
• Crédit Mobilier of America,[ 260],[ 285],[ 316].
• Crimea, in the,[ 217].
• Cristina, Queen Maria, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway,[ 227],[ 237].
• Crystal Palace,[ 103],[ 104].

• Dalhousie, Lord, Governor-General of India,[ 207].
• Dallas, George M.,[ 250].
• Daniel Webster, the,[ 117].
• Darlington, England, tramways in,[ 269].
• Davis, Col. George T. M.,[ 110],[ 116],[ 259].
• Delane, John, editor London Times,[ 251].
• Delmonico's, McHenry's $15,000 dinner at,[ 246].
• De Morny, Count,[ 228].
• De Questa, Rodrigo, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway,[ 238].
• Derby, J. C.,[ 273].
• Devonshire, Duke of, meeting with the,[ 101].
• Dinsmore, Mr., meeting with,[ 87].
• Dombriski, Prince, received by,[ 255].
• Donohue, Irish patriot,[ 165].
• Donovan, the phrenologist,[ 122].
• Drinking by women in 1850,[ 83].
• Dublin, imprisonment in,[ 314].
• Duckbill, the Australian,[ 169].
• Durant, Dr. T. C., president of Crédit Mobilier,[ 260].

• Elephants as carriers,[ 208].
• Emerson, Ralph W., lecture at Waltham,[ 39];
  • engages passage for Europe,[ 60].
• Emigration, Irish, to America,[ 76];
  • of the Landsdowne tenants,[ 97];
  • to Tasmania,[ 148].
• "Emperor, the," fountain at Chatsworth,[ 102].
• England, first impressions of,[ 90];
  • introduction of tramways in,[ 259];
  • and the Civil War in the United States,[ 271].
• Excelsior, the Chinese,[ 193].

• Fallow, Christopher and John,[ 239].
• Fenton, Reuben E.,[ 243].
• Fillmore, Millard, President,[ 113].
• Fiske, Stebbins,[ 13].
• Fitzroy, Sir Charles, Governor of New South Wales,[ 143].
• "Five-Star Republic," the, of Australia,[ 157].
• Flowers, love of,[ 177].
• Flying Cloud, the,[ 72],[ 221].
• Flying-fish, experience with,[ 208].
• Fowler, the phrenologist,[ 123].
• France, travels in,[ 233].
• Franklin, wreck of the,[ 61].
• Franklin, Sir John, house in Tasmania,[ 150].
• Frost, Abigail Pickering,[ 10].
• Frost, George W.,[ 14].
• Frost, Leonard[, 39].
• Fu-chow, visit to,[ 200].
• Fuller, Frank, builder of Crystal Palace,[ 104].
• Fuller, Col. Hiram,[ 93].