ALL YOUNG FIRESIDE TRAVELERS

Still, as my Horizon grew,

Larger grew my riches, too.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I“Crossin’ the Pond wi’ the Bullocks”[3]
II“On the Road” in the British Isles[7]
IIIIn Clean Holland[12]
IVNot Welcome in the Fatherland[17]
VTramping Through France[24]
VIClimbing Over the Alps[29]
VIIIn Sunny Italy[32]
VIIIAmong the Arabs[56]
IXA Lonely Journey[75]
XCities of Old[82]
XIThe Wilds of Palestine[106]
XIICairo and the Pyramids[129]
XIIIA Trip Up the Nile[146]
XIVStealing a March on the Far East[164]
XVIn the Land of the Wandering Prince[180]
XVIThe Merry Circus Days[194]
XVIIThree Wanderers in India[204]
XVIIIThe Ways of the Hindu[216]
XIXIn the Heart of India[224]
XXBeyond the Ganges[242]
XXITramping Through Burma[250]
XXIIIn the Jungles of Burma[265]
XXIIIIn Siam[276]
XXIVHungry Days[287]
XXVFollowing the Menam River to Bangkok[304]
XXVIOn the Way to Hong-Kong[316]
XXVIIWandering in Japan[322]
XXVIIIHomeward Bound[332]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Harry A. Franck[Frontispiece]
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A baker’s cart of Holland on the morning round[14]
Boundary line between France and Germany[21]
My entrance into Paris[22]
The Bridge of Sighs[39]
My gondolier on the Grand Canal[41]
Country family returning from market[49]
Italian peasants returning from the vineyards to the village[53]
The lonely, Bedouin-infected road over the Lebanon[76]
On the road between Haifa and Nazareth I met a road repair gang[98]
The shopkeeper and traveling salesman with whom I spent two nights and a day on the lonely road to Jerusalem[117]
The Palestine beast of burden[119]
A woman of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying two bushels of oranges[130]
An abandoned mosque outside the walls of Cairo[132]
An Arab café in Old Cairo[134]
Sais or carriage runners of Cairo, clearing the streets for their master[138]
An Arab gardener[140]
Egypt—A young Arab climbing down the pyramid[142]
On the top of the largest pyramid[143]
A trip to the pyramids[144]
“Along the way shadoofs were ceaselessly dipping up the water”[147]
The Egyptian fellah dwells in a hut of reeds and mud[156]
Soudan steamer on the Nile[160]
Arab passengers on the Nile steamer[162]
A Singhalese woman stops often to give her children a bath[182]
The yogi who ate twenty-eight of the bananas at a sitting[187]
The thatch roof at the roadside[190]
I take a last ’rickshaw ride before taking the steamer for India[205]
“Haywood” snaps me as I am getting a shave in Trichinopoly[209]
The Hindu street-sprinkler does not lay much dust[228]
I do a bit of laundry work[235]
A lady of Delhi out for a drive in a bullock cart[240]
The chief of a jungle village agrees to guide us for one day’s journey[267]
A freight carrier crossing the stream that separates Burma from Siam[277]
My companion, Gerald James of Perth, Australia, crossing the boundary line between Burma and Siam[279]
The sort of jungle through which we cut our way for three weeks[292]
Myself after four days in the jungle, and the Siamese soldiers who invited us to eat a frog and lizard supper[297]
An elephant, with a Mahout dozing on his head, was advancing toward us[307]
Bangkok is a city of many canals[317]
My ’rickshaw man[322]
Numadzu[323]
Some street urchins near Tokio[325]
Osaka[326]
Horses are rare in Japan[328]
Japanese children playing in the streets of Kioto[329]
Women do most of the work in the rice-fields of Japan[330]
Yokohama decorated in honor of Secretary Taft’s party[334]
A Yokohama street decorated for the Taft party[338]

WORKING MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD

CHAPTER I
“CROSSIN’ THE POND WI’ THE BULLOCKS”