Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
CHAPTER XVIII.--TRAVELS 223
Improvements in Modern Travel 223 1871--Franco-Prussian Battlefields 225 1891--Costa Rica 225 Jamaica 228 1892--Mexico 228 Conversion of Mexican Southern Railway Bonds 229 President Diaz 230 1905--America: Tour with Lord Claud Hamilton 235 President Roosevelt 236 1906--The Desert of Sahara 238 The Count's Garden, Biskra 240 Egypt 243 1907--India: Impressions of 244 1906--Lord Clive: The result of a Motor Tour 250