Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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CHAPTER I. The Party—Across America to Vancouver—On Board the Warrimo—Steamer Chairs—The Captain—Going Home under a Cloud—A Gritty Purser—T…
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The captain, with his gentle nature, his polish, his sweetness, his moral and verbal purity, seemed pathetically out of place in his rude a…
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His legs almost gave way under him. The horse was walking leisurely along the road. Brown trotted after it, saying, “Whoa, whoa, there's a…
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Several of our passengers belonged in Honolulu, and these were sent ashore; but nobody could go ashore and return. There were people on sho…
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The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned i…
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Yes, exhaustion is likely to make a boy quiet. If the distressed boy had been the speaker's son, and the captors savages, the speaker would…
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The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. He sa…
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That hot wind sweeps over Sydney sometimes, and brings with it what is called a “dust-storm.” It is said that most Australian towns are acq…
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“A good old Hindoo gentleman told me where my trouble lay. He said 'We Hindoos recognize a god by the work of his hands—we accept no other…
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The tickets were round-trip ones—to Melbourne, and clear to Adelaide in South Australia, and then all the way back to Sydney. Twelve hundre…
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No, as I have suggested, novelties are rare in the great capitals of modern times. Even the wool exchange in Melbourne could not be told fr…
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The successor of the sheet-iron hamlet of the mangrove marshes has that other Australian specialty, the Botanical Gardens. We cannot have t…
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Before I saw Australia I had never heard of the “weet-weet” at all. I met but few men who had seen it thrown—at least I met but few who men…
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1. “In the summer of 1852 I started on horseback from Albany, King George's Sound, to visit at Cape Riche, accompanied by a native on foot.…
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The surface-soil of Ballarat was full of gold. This soil the miners ripped and tore and trenched and harried and disembowled, and made it y…
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All people think that New Zealand is close to Australia or Asia, or somewhere, and that you cross to it on a bridge. But that is not so. It…
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The Natives were not used to clothes, and houses, and regular hours, and church, and school, and Sunday-school, and work, and the other mis…
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We had a glimpse of the museum, by courtesy of the American gentleman who is curator of it. It has samples of half-a-dozen different kinds…
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Also we saw a complete skeleton of the giant Moa. It stood ten feet high, and must have been a sight to look at when it was a living bird.…
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November 29. The doctor tells me of several old drunkards, one spiritless loafer, and several far-gone moral wrecks who have been reclaimed…
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This 'Oceana' is a stately big ship, luxuriously appointed. She has spacious promenade decks. Large rooms; a surpassingly comfortable ship.…
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There was a vast glazed door which opened upon the balcony. It needed closing, or cleaning, or something, and a native got down on his knee…
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But now that he was gone, and was off my mind and heart, my spirits began to rise at once, and I was soon feeling brisk and ready to go out…
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A lady. Complexion, new parchment. Another lady. Complexion, old parchment. Another. Pink and white, very fine. Man. Grayish skin, with pur…
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“The Magistrate having granted the Public Prosecutor's application, the accused Krishni went into the witness-box, and, on being examined b…
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Now then, you see what a handsome, spacious, light, airy, homelike place it was, wherein to walk up and down, or sit and write, or stretch…
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That good dog not only did me that good turn in the time of my need, but he won for me the envious reputation among all the theatrical peop…
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The most devoted fisherman must have a bite at least as often as once a week or his passion will cool and he will put up his tackle. The ti…
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For instance—the Suttee. This is the explanation of it: A woman who throws away her life when her husband dies is instantly joined to him a…
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In Bombay the forewoman of a millinery shop came to the hotel in her private carriage to take the measure for a gown—not for me, but for an…
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“Let a Hindoo regiment be marched through the district, and as soon as they cross the line and enter the limits of the holy place they rend…
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The first subject was a man. When the Doms unswathed him to wash him, he proved to be a sturdily built, well-nourished and handsome old gen…
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And suppose we found this paragraph in the newspapers: “Yesterday a visiting party of American pork-millionaires had a picnic in Westminste…
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“When I went down into the public room, the Frenchman had his bottle of wine and plate of food on a bare table black with grease, and was '…
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In India, the annual man-killings by snakes are as uniform, as regular, and as forecastable as are the tiger-average and the suicide-averag…
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Ten days before the outbreak (May 10th) of the Mutiny, all was serene at Lucknow, the huge capital of Oudh, the kingdom which had recently…
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I know that I ought to do with the Taj as I was obliged to do with Niagara—see it fifteen times, and let my mind gradually get rid of the T…
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Then there came a great day when this illusion was more pronounced than ever. A rich Hindoo had been spending a fortune upon the manufactur…
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“It was a fatal admission. The officer at once made me pay sixpence import-duty on the whisky-just from ship to shore, you see; and he fine…
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Population 1851, 185,000. The increase is due mainly to the introduction of Indian coolies. They now apparently form the great majority of…
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The chameleon in the hotel court. He is fat and indolent and contemplative; but is business-like and capable when a fly comes about —reache…
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Jameson was intercepted by the Boers on New Year's Day, and on the next day he surrendered. He had carried his copy of the letter along, an…
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If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with. I would move su…
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The news flew around, and the South African diamond-boom began. The original traveler—the dishonest one—now remembered that he had once see…