CONTENTS

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Introductory iii-v
LEG ONE
CHAPTER I
Incidents of Ocean Travel—Sights and Scenes in England—London Railways and Traffic—Public Institutions Contrasted 3
CHAPTER II
Off for South America—Storm in Bay of Biscay—Impressions of Lisbon, Portugal—Madeira Island—Novel Public Hack—"Neptuning" Passengers—Crossing the Equator—Southern Cross 10
CHAPTER III
Brazilian Ports—Rio de Janeiro—Monroe Palace—Towering Palms of Rio—Uruguay—The River Plate—Characteristics of the People—Buenos Aires—Off for South Africa 19
LEG TWO
CHAPTER I
A Tramp Ship at Sea—Wonderful Birds—Ashore in South Africa 37
CHAPTER II
Durban—Its Mixed Population—Sanitary and Clean—The Christ Thorn—Novel Ways of Trapping Monkeys—The Indian Coolie, a Taxed Ulcer—"Spiking" a Hindu's Tongue—Horned Ricksha Pullers—Labor in Politics—Harpooning and Cutting up Whales 43
CHAPTER III
Trip to Zululand—Home Life of the Natives—Wives for Cows—Calling on an Old Printer 74
CHAPTER IV
South African Railway Travel—Scenes of Massacres—Johannesburg—Transvaal Gold Mines 90
CHAPTER V
Pretoria and the Boers—The Kruger Monument—Puzzling Names 109
CHAPTER VI
On to Mafeking—Interesting Natives and Souvenirs—Sighting Rhodes' Grave—Rhodesia—Bulawayo—Victoria Falls, a Mile of Amber-Colored Lace—Falls Compared—Deadly African Fever 115
CHAPTER VII
Kimberley, the Diamond City—Bloemfontein, the Convention City—Crossing the Dry, Barren Karoo Country—The Ostrich—Capetown—Climate the Best in South Africa—Table Mountain 129
LEG THREE
CHAPTER I
Leaving the Baltic Sea for Australia—A White Country—The Gold Fields—Crossing the Great Australian Bight—Melbourne—Pensions for Aged—Immigration Encouraged 145
CHAPTER II
Trip to Adelaide—Finest Homes in the World—Kangaroo Called the Native—Visit to Ballarat 157
CHAPTER III
The Heads—Sydney, Its Noted Harbor—Rural Education on Wheels 162
CHAPTER IV
Crossing Bass Straits—Tasmania—Hobart—Port Arthur and Its Prison Walls and Memories 170
LEG FOUR
CHAPTER I
Crossing the Tasman Sea—Last White Settlement—Dunedin, a Scotch City—Christchurch—Wellington and Its Splendid Harbor—Pelorus Jack, the Pilot Fish 179
CHAPTER II
To Maoriland—Rotorua—Geyserland—The Maori—Nose-Rubbing—Auckland—Courteous, Prosperous People 190
CHAPTER III
South Sea Islands—The Fijians—Free Railroad Travel—A Vegetable Marvel 199
CHAPTER IV
An Ocean Park—Natives of the Samoan Group—No Locked Doors—The Samoan a Fatalist 208
CHAPTER V
Friendly Islands—Pretty Harbor of Vavau—Customs—A Striking, Strapping King—Sacred Animals 215
LEG FIVE
CHAPTER I
A "Red Ticket" for South Africa—Eight Weeks' Travel for Ninety Dollars—Portuguese East Africa—Inhambane, Where Death Revels—Beira, the "Trolley Town" 225
CHAPTER II
German East Africa—Women in Iron Yokes—Zanzibar—Old Slave Mart—Cloves Thrive—Tanga 232
CHAPTER III
Mombasa—A Three Years' Residence Limit—In the Big Game Country—Nature's "Greatest Show on Earth"—Nairobi—Dead Left to Wild Beasts 240
CHAPTER IV
Naked Natives—Victoria Nyanza̵
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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