The Sea Road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei Six Lectures Prepared for the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office

As we steam towards it, Aden appears as a rugged mass of dark 48 rock, ending in sharp edges and peaks. Along its base runs a narrow strip of level ground, and a row of mean-loo...

The rice field, the coconut palm and the river provide the Malay with an easy living, supplemented in the past by the proceeds of occasional piracy. He was not likely to be indu...

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Yet all is not bare and dry, as we shall see if we continue 15 our tour of the peninsula. We drive through the old south gate to the Alameda gardens, the beauty spot of Gibralta...

We steam onwards, and across the Equator, passing by the coastline of Italian Somaliland and British East Africa, to where, nearly two thousand miles from Aden, and close in to...

The East India Company made many attempts to establish factories in Borneo and the neighbouring islands; but all came to nothing, so that the early history does not concern us h...

Before we start on our tour let us study the map and form some 8 idea of the shape and nature of the land which we are about to visit. Ceylon hangs like a pearl, as the eastern...

In the ancient world it came under control of one after another of the great Powers ruling the mainland: Egypt, Phœnicia, Assyria, Media; though the control was often nominal, b...

The tea plant and rubber tree need plenty of warmth and moisture for their growth, and these conditions are only to be found 56 in part of Ceylon. In Colombo it is hot and wet f...

We steam round the eastern headland, with its white lighthouse 44 nestling below the gloomy hills, and soon a wide bay begins to open out ahead of us. We have reached the end of...

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