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Foot-Prints of Travel Foot-prints of Travel by Maturin Murray Ballou BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Author Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 Title Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Language English LoC Class G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation Subject Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 -- Travel Subject Voyages around the world EText-No. 27874 Release Date 2009-01-23 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. Base Directory /2/7/8/7/27874/ The Project Gutenberg EBook of Foot-prints of Travel, by Maturin M. Ballou This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Author: Maturin M. Ballou Release Date: January 23, 2009 [EBook #27874] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOOT-PRINTS OF TRAVEL *** Produced by Julia Miller, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) FOOT-PRINTS OF TRAVEL; OR, JOURNEYINGS IN MANY LANDS, BY MATURIN M. BALLOU. _Armado._ How hast thou purchased this experience? _Moth._ By my journey of observation.--SHAKESPEARE. BOSTON, U.S.A.: PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY. 1889. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, by GINN & COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & CO., Boston, U.S.A. PRESSWORK BY GINN & CO., Boston, U.S.A. [Illustration: Frontispiece. CAPTAIN COOK, THE DISCOVERER.] PREFACE. In these notes of foreign travel the object has been to cover a broad field without making a cumbersome volume, to do which, conciseness has necessarily been observed. In previous books the author has described much more in detail some of the countries here briefly spoken of. The volumes referred to are "Due-West; or, Round the World in Ten Months," and "Due-South; or, Cuba Past and Present," which were published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of Boston. Two other volumes, namely, "Due-North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia," and "Under the Southern Cross; or, Travels in Australia and New Zealand," were issued by Ticknor & Co., of the same city. By the kind permission of both publishers, the author has felt at liberty to use his original notes in the preparation of these pages. It should be understood, however, that about one-half of the countries through which the reader is conducted in the present work are not mentioned in the volumes above referred to. The purpose has been to prepare a series of chapters adapted for youth, which, while affording pleasing entertainment, should also impart valuable information. The free use of good maps while reading these Foot-prints of Travel, will be of great advantage, increasing the student's interest and also impressing upon his mind a degree of geographical knowledge which could not in any other way be so easily or pleasantly acquired. M. M. B. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Crossing the American Continent.--Niagara Falls.--Utah.-- Representatives of Native Indian Tribes.--City of San Francisco.--Sea Lions.--The Yosemite Valley.--An Indian Hiding-Place.--The Mariposa Grove of Big Trees.--Chinatown in San Francisco.--Through the Golden Gate.--Navigating the Pacific.--Products of the Ocean.--Sea Gulls.--Harbor and City of Honolulu. 1 CHAPTER II. Discoveries of Captain Cook.--Vegetation.--Hawaiian Women on Horse-back.--The Nuuanu Valley.--The Native Staff of Life.--The Several Islands of the Group.--Resident Chinamen.--Raising Sugar-Cane.--On the Ocean.--Yokohama, Japan.--Habits of the People.--A Remarkable Idol.--Tokio, the Political Capital.--The Famous Inland Sea of Japan.--Nagasaki.--Products and Progress of Japan. 16 CHAPTER III. Through the Yellow and Chinese Seas.--Hong Kong.-- Peculiarities of the Chinese at Home.--Native Women.--City of Canton.--Charitable Organizations.--Chinese Culture.--National Characteristics.--Sail for Singapore.--A Water-spout.--A Tropical Island.--Local Pen-Pictures.--The Island of Penang.--An Indolent Native Race.--The Cocoanut Tree.--Palm Wine.--Tropical Fruits. 32 CHAPTER IV. Crossing the Indian Ocean.--The Island of Ceylon.--Harbor of Colombo.--The Equatorial Forest.--Native Costumes.-- Vegetation of Ceylon.--Prehistoric Monuments.--Departure for Australia.--The Stars at Sea.--The Great Island-Continent.--The Gold Product--Divisions of the Country.--City of Adelaide.--Public Garden.--West Australia.--Melbourne, Capital of Victoria.--Street Scenes.--Chinese Quarter. 44 CHAPTER V. Gold-fields of Australia.--Kangaroos.--Big Gum Trees.-- Largest Trees in the World.--Wild Bird Life.-- Gold-seeking.--City of Sydney.--Botanical Garden.--Public Institutions.--Sheep-raising.--Brisbane, Capital of Queensland.--The Aboriginal Race.--Native Legends.--The Boomerang.--Island of Tasmania.--How named.--Launceston.-- Hobart, the Capital.--Local Scenes.--A Prosperous Country. 62 CHAPTER VI. Embark for New Zealand.--The Albatross.--Experiments with Sea Water.--Oil upon the Waves.--Geography of New Zealand.--Mineral Wealth.--City of Dunedin.--Public Schools.--Native Cannibals.--Christchurch.--A Wonderful Bird.--Wellington, Capital of New Zealand.--Habits of the Natives.--The Race of Maori Indians.--Liability to Earthquakes.--A Submerged Volcano in Cook's Strait. 81 CHAPTER VII. City of Auckland, New Zealand.--A Land of Volcanoes.-- Suburbs of the Northern Metropolis.--The Kauri-Tree.-- Native Flowers.--The Hot Lake District.--A New Zealand Forest.--A Vegetable Boa-constrictor.--Sulphurous Hot Springs.--Fiery Caldrons.--Indian town of Ohinemutu.-- Typical Home of the Natives.--Maori Manners and Customs.--The Favorable Position of New Zealand.--Its Probable Future. 93 CHAPTER VIII. Arrival in India.--Insect and Reptile Life.--Madura.-- City of Trichinopoly.--Car of Juggernaut.--Temple of Tanjore.--Travelling in India.--Madras.--Street Dancing Girls.--Arrival at Calcutta.--Cremating the Dead.--A Fashionable Driveway.--The Himalayan Mountains.--Apex of the Globe.--Tea Gardens of India.--A Wretched Peasantry.--Ancient Ruins.--City of Benares.--Worship of Animals.--Cawnpore.--Delhi.--Agra.--A Splendid Tomb. 105 CHAPTER IX. Native City of Jeypore.--Poppy and Opium-raising.-- Bombay.--The Parsees.--The Towers of Silence.--Historical View of India.--Voyage to the Red Sea.--Cairo, Capital of Egypt.--Local Scenes.--The Turkish Bazaars.--Pyramids of Gizeh.--The Sphinx.--The Desert.--Egypt, Past and Present.--Voyage to Malta.--City of Valetta.--Church of St. John.--Gibraltar.--View from the Signal Station.--English Outposts. 122 CHAPTER X. Tangier, Capital of Morocco.--An Oriental City.--Slave Market.--Characteristic Street Scenes.--Malaga, Spain.--A Neglected Country.--Grenada.--The Alhambra.--The Banished Moors.--Cordova and its Cathedral-Mosque.--Madrid, Capital of Spain.--Museo Art Gallery.--Sunday in the Metropolis.-- Toledo.--The Escurial.--Burgos.--San Sebastian.-- Bayonne.--Spain, Past and Present.--Bordeaux.--Rural Scenery in France. 141 CHAPTER XI. City of Paris.--Sunday in the French Capital.--The Flower Market.--Notre Dame.--The Morgue.--Père la Chaise.--The Story of Joan of Arc.--Educational Advantages.--City of Lyons.--Marseilles.--Nice.--Cimies.--Mentone.--The Principality of Monaco.--A Gambling Resort.--Mediterranean Scenes.--Over the Corniche Road.--City of Genoa.--Marble Palaces.--Italian Navigation.--The Campo Santo or Burial Ground. 164 CHAPTER XII. Port of Leghorn.--Ancient City of Pisa.--Remarkable Monuments.--The Bay of Naples.--Neapolitan Beggars.--A Favorite Drive.--Out-of-door Life.--Vesuvius.--Art Treasures of the Museum.--Pompeii.--Environs of Naples.--Rome, the "Eternal City."--Local Scenes.--Artists' Models.--Favorite Promenade.--The Coliseum.--St. Peter's.--Florence and its Environs.--Art Treasures.--Home of Dante and Michael Angelo. 181 CHAPTER XIII. Venice.--The Gondola.--On the Grand Canal.--Venetian History.--Piazza of St. Mark.--Cathedral of San Marco.--The Campanile.--Academy of Fine Arts.--Doge's Palace.--Tombs of Titian and Canova.--Milan.--The Wonderful Cathedral.-- Original Picture of the Last Supper.--Olden City of Pavia.--Innspruck, Capital of the Tyrol.--Among the Alps.--Salzburg, Birthplace of Mozart.--Industries of German Women. 200 CHAPTER XIV. Vienna, the Northern Paris.--Art Galleries and Museum.-- Prague, Capital of Bohemia.--Ancient Dungeons.--Historic Mention.--Dresden, Capital of Saxony.--The Green Vaults.--Berlin, Capital of Prussia.--Hamburg.--Copenhagen, Capital of Denmark.--The Baltic Sea.--Danish Progress.-- Thorwaldsen.--Educational.--Palace of Rosenborg.--The Round Tower.--Elsinore and Shakespeare's Hamlet. 215 CHAPTER XV. Gottenburg, Sweden.--Intelligence of the People.--The Gotha Canal.--Tröllhatta Falls.--Christiania, Capital of Norway.--Legal Code.--Public Buildings.--Ancient Viking Ship.--Brief Summers.--Swedish Women in the Field.--Flowers in Arctic Regions.--Norwegian Lakes.--Animals of the North.--Mountains and Glaciers.--A Land of Fjords, Cascades, and Lakes.--Dwellings situated like Eagles' Nests. 233 CHAPTER XVI. Bergen, Norway.--Local Products and Scenes.--Environs of Bergen.--The Angler's Paradise.--Tröndhjem.--Story of King Olaf.--A Cruel Imprisonment.--Journey Northward.--Night turned into Day.--Coast of Norway.--Education.--The Arctic Circle.--Bodöe.--The Lofoden
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