LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| VOLUME I. | |
| PAGE | |
| VIEW FROM THE BULLER | Frontispiece. |
| A CINGHALESE GENTLEMAN | Frontispiece. |
| PROFILE OF “JOE SMITH” | [150] |
| FULL FACE OF “JOE SMITH” | [150] |
| PORTER ROCKWELL | [154] |
| FRIDAY‘S STATION—VALLEY OF LAKE TAHOE | [176] |
| TEAMING UP THE GRADE AT SLIPPERY FORD, IN THESIERRA | [178] |
| VIEW ON THE AMERICAN RIVER—THE PLACE WHEREGOLD WAS FIRST FOUND | [180] |
| THE BRIDAL VEIL FALL, YOSEMITE VALLEY | [228] |
| EL CAPITAN, YOSEMITE VALLEY | [228] |
| MAPS. | |
| ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD | [78] |
| LEAVENWORTH TO SALT LAKE CITY | [92] |
| SALT LAKE CITY TO SAN FRANCISCO | [158] |
| NEW ZEALAND | [278] |
| VOLUME II. | |
| THE OLD AND THE NEW: BUSH SCENERY—COLLINSSTREET EAST, MELBOURNE | [24] |
| GOVERNOR DAVEY‘S PROCLAMATION | [86] |
| MAPS. | |
| AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA | [16] |
| OVERLAND ROUTES1340 | [290] |
PART I.
AMERICA.
G R E A T E R B R I T A I N.
CHAPTER I.
VIRGINIA.
FROM the bows of the steamer Saratoga, on the 20th June, 1866, I caught sight of the low works of Fort Monroe, as, threading her way between the sand-banks of Capes Charles and Henry, the ship pressed on, under sail and steam, to enter Chesapeake Bay.
Our sudden arrival amid shoals of sharks and kingfish, the keeping watch for flocks of canvas-back ducks, gave us enough and to spare of idle work till we fully sighted the Yorktown peninsula, overgrown with ancient memories—ancient for America. Three towns of lost grandeur, or their ruins, stand there still. Williamsburg, the former capital, graced even to our time by the palaces where once the royal governors held more than regal state; Yorktown, where Cornwallis surrendered to the continental troops; Jamestown, the earliest settlement, founded in 1607, thirteen years before old Governor Winthrop fixed the site of Plymouth, Massachusetts.