Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands

We embark at Gibraltar for Tangier in a small coasting steamer, crossing the straits which separate Europe from Africa, a distance of less than a hundred miles. As we draw away...

On our way southward we pass through the beautiful, though small Indian city of Jeypore, which is under native rule; those we have heretofore visited are subject to Great Britai...

We embark at Genoa for Leghorn by a coasting-steamer. On arriving at the latter port the first thing which strikes the traveller is the mixed character of the population, compos...

The province of Victoria is the special gold-field of Australia, and has produced two-thirds of all the precious metal which statistics credit to the country at large. One of th...

Our course now lies across the Indian Ocean, westward. The rains which we encounter are like floods, but the air is soft and balmy, and the deluges are of brief continuance. The...

Undoubtedly Vienna is the finest city on the European continent next to Paris, and it is often called the Northern Paris. It resembles the French capital both in its social life...

In passing through Paris we shall pause to present a few sketches representative of the great French capital. It is the gayest metropolis of Europe, the spot where the traveller...

From Auckland we take a steamer for Asia by way of Sydney and other ports of Australia, crossing the Indian Ocean and landing at the extreme southerly point of India, at Tuticor...

Upon landing at Honolulu we find ourselves in a city of some twenty thousand inhabitants, presenting all the modern belongings of a metropolis of the nineteenth century, such as...

Upon landing at Nassau we find everything quite different from our late experiences in the large European cities, and are brought face to face with nature,--with a tropical race...

Venice is a genuine surprise to the stranger. No matter what idea he may have formed concerning it, he can hardly have approximated to the truth. It is unique, mystical, poetic,...

The title of the book in hand is sufficiently expressive of its purpose. We shall follow the course of the sun, but diverge wherever the peculiarities of different countries pro...

As we advance northward, our experiences become more and more peculiar. It seems as if humanity, like nature, is possessed by a certain sleeplessness in these regions during the...

Bergen is situated some two hundred miles northwest of Christiania, and may be reached from thence by a carriole (a peculiar native vehicle) journey across the country, over exc...

One day's sail due north from Copenhagen, through the Sound,--Strait of Katte,--brings us to Gottenburg, the metropolis of Southwestern Sweden. The Strait, which is about a hund...

We shall speak only incidentally of London; to describe such a mammoth city even superficially would require an entire volume. It is situated on the river Thames, fifty miles fr...

In pursuing our course towards St. Petersburg, Russia, from Stockholm, we cross the Baltic,--that Mediterranean of the North, but which is in reality a remote branch of the Atla...

We embark at Hobart by steamship, for Southern New Zealand. After following the course of the river Derwent for a distance of twelve miles, its mouth is reached, where the ship'...

From Nagasaki, in following our proposed course, we sail for Hong Kong, through the Yellow and Chinese seas, a distance of eleven hundred miles. This is very sure to be a rough...

Auckland, the northern metropolis of New Zealand, was formerly the capital of the country until Wellington was selected for the headquarters of the government, as being the more...

We must travel by railway three hundred miles further towards the centre of the empire and in a northerly direction, to reach Nijni Novgorod, that is, Lower Novgorod, being so c...

The island of Cuba was discovered by Columbus, in October of the year 1492; the continent of America was not discovered until six years later,--that is, in 1498. Columbus and hi...

From Warsaw we turn towards Munich, the capital of Bavaria, reaching the quaint old city by way of Vienna, a description of which we have given in a previous chapter. Munich has...

The Palace of Peterhoff is situated about sixteen miles from St. Petersburg, on the shore of the Neva where the river expands to a width of eight or ten miles. This place has al...

Discovery of Cuba by Columbus.--The Native Race.--Historical Matters.--Headquarters of Spanish Military Operations in the West.--Invasion of Mexico by Cortez.--African Slave Tra...

Arrival in India.--Insect and Reptile Life.--Madura.-- City of Trichinopoly.--Car of Juggernaut.--Temple of Tanjore.--Travelling in India.--Madras.--Street Dancing Girls.--Arriv...

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.--L...

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 Titi...

City of Paris.--Sunday in the French Capital.--The Flower Market.--Notre Dame.--The Morgue.--Pere la Chaise.--The Story of Joan of Arc.--Educational Advantages.--City of Lyons.-...

Peculiar Sleeplessness.--Tromsoee.--The Aurora Borealis.-- Short-lived Summer.--Flowers.--Trees.--Laplanders and their Possessions.--Reindeers.--Customs of the Lapps.-- Search f...

Palace of Petershoff.--Peter the Great.--Religious Denominations.--On the Way to Moscow.--Through the Forests.--City of Tver.--The Volga.--Water-ways of Russia.--Picturesque Mos...

Nijni-Novgorod.--Valley of the Volga.--One of the Great Rivers of the World.--Famous Annual Fair-Ground.--Variety of Merchandise.--A Conglomerate of Races.--A Large Temporary Ci...

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 V...

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 Mu...

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.--R...

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...

Tangier, Capital of Morocco.--An Oriental City.--Slave Market.--Characteristic Street Scenes.--Malaga, Spain.--A Neglected Country.--Grenada.--The Alhambra.--The Banished Moors....

Gottenburg, Sweden.--Intelligence of the People.--The Gotha Canal.--Troellhatta Falls.--Christiania, Capital of Norway.--Legal Code.--Public Buildings.--Ancient Viking Ship.--Br...

PAGE Crossing the American Continent.--Niagara Falls.--Utah.-- Representatives of Native Indian Tribes.--City of San Francisco.--Sea Lions.--The Yosemite Valley.--An Indian Hidi...

Bergen, Norway.--Local Products and Scenes.--Environs of Bergen.--The Angler's Paradise.--Troendhjem.--Story of King Olaf.--A Cruel Imprisonment.--Journey Northward.--Night turn...

Crossing the Indian Ocean.--The Island of Ceylon.--Harbor of Colombo.--The Equatorial Forest.--Native Costumes.-- Vegetation of Ceylon.--Prehistoric Monuments.--Departure for Au...

Through the Yellow and Chinese Seas.--Hong Kong.-- Peculiarities of the Chinese at Home.--Native Women.--City of Canton.--Charitable Organizations.--Chinese Culture.--National C...

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.--S...

Vienna, the Northern Paris.--Art Galleries and Museum.-- Prague, Capital of Bohemia.--Ancient Dungeons.--Historic Mention.--Dresden, Capital of Saxony.--The Green Vaults.--Berli...

London, the Metropolis of the World.--Some of its Institutions.--The Tower of London.--Statistics of the Great City.--Ancient Chester.--Rural England.--Stratford-on-Avon.-- Edin...

Munich, Capital of Bavaria.--Trying Employments of the Women.--A Beer-Drinking Community.--Frankfort-on-the-Main.-- Luther's Home.--Goethe's Birthplace.--Cologne on the Rhine.--...

Abo.--Helsingfors, Capital of Finland.--Remarkable Fortress of Sweaborg.--Fortifications of Cronstadt.--Up the Neva to St. Petersburg.--Grandest City of Northern Europe.--Street...

Nassau, New Providence.--Trees, Flowers, and Fruits.--Curious Sea Gardens.--The Finny Tribes.--Fresh Water Supply.--Tropical Skies.--The Gulf Stream.--Santiago de Cuba.--Cienfue...