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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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