With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

by Unknown

SUBJECT	AUTHOR	PAGE
New Dependencies of the United States	Oliver H. G. Leigh	[9]
Winter and Summer in New England	Harriet Martineau	[22]
Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands	Charles Morris	[31]
From New York to Washington in 1866	Henry Latham	[39]
The Natural Bridge and Tunnel of Virginia	Edward A. Pollard	[49]
Plantation Life in War Times	William Howard Russell	[62]
Among Florida Alligators	S. C. Clarke	[74]
In the Mammoth Cave	Thérèse Yelverton	[83]
Down the Ohio and Mississippi	Thomas L. Nichols	[94]
From New Orleans to Red River	Frederick Law Olmsted	[104]
Winter on the Prairies	G. W. Featherstonhaugh	[114]
A Hunter’s Christmas Dinner	J. S. Campion	[124]
A Colorado “Round-Up”	Alfred Terry Bacon	[133]
Among the Cow-boys	Louis C. Bradford	[141]
Hunting the Buffalo	Washington Irving	[147]
In the Country of the Sioux	Meriwether Lewis	[157]
The Great Falls of the Missouri	William Clarke	[168]
Hunting Scenes in Canadian Woods	B. A. Watson	[178]
The Grand Falls of Labrador	Henry G. Bryant	[189]
Life Among the Esquimaux	William Edward Parry	[200]
Fugitives from the Arctic Seas	Elisha Kent Kane	[210]
Rescued from Death	W. S. Schley	[220]
The Muir Glacier	Septima M. Collis	[230]
A Summer Trip to Alaska	James A. Harrison	[239]
The Fort William Henry Massacre	Jonathan Carver	[249]
The Gaucho and His Horse	Thomas J. Hutchinson	[257]
Valparaiso and Its Vicinity	Charles Darwin	[265]
An Escape from Captivity	Benjamin F. Bourne	[274]

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List of Illustrations

VOLUME I

The Prodigal’s Return	[Frontispiece]
Morro Castle, Havana	[14]
Washington Elm, Cambridge	[28]
New York and the Brooklyn Bridge	[42]
On the Coast of Florida	[78]
Sunrise From the Summit of Pike’s Peak	[134]
A Kansas Cyclone	[144]
The Catskills—Sunrise From South Mountain	[180]
Parliament Houses, Ottawa	[198]
Winter in the Far North	[214]
Muir Glacier, Alaska	[236]

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PREFACE.

Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world’s ways. It is the highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign travel, now so easy of accomplishment, we see but very little of the great world. The fact that ocean voyages are now called mere “trips” has not made us over-familiar with even our own kinsfolk in our new dependencies. Foreign peoples and lands are still strange to us. Tropic and Arctic lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia, America from Africa, as markedly as ever. Man still presents every grade of development, from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization, and our interest in the marvels of nature and art, the variety of plant and animal life, and the widely varied habits and conditions, modes of thought and action, of mankind, is in no danger of losing its zest.

These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and unfamiliar localities, as displayed in the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the wonders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of discoverers.

One indisputable advantage belongs to this work over the average record of travel: the reader is not tied down to the perusal of a one-man book. He has the privilege of calling at pleasure upon any one of these eminent travellers to recount his or her exploit, with the certainty of finding they are all in their happiest vein and tell their best stories.