A Californian circling the globe

Chapter I. A Tale Six Thousand Miles Long

An idea outgrowing- the bean that Jack planted — 500 miles up the California Coast — Looking out of the Golden Gate— Over theSierra Nevadas — Through Utah— Meandering across many States— Memories of childhood — Sailing down the Hudson — New York — Coney Island — Across the Atlantic — Ireland — In "bonnie" Scotland — Loch Lomond — Loch Katrine — The Trossacks — Through Rob Roy's countr3 r — Where poets grow — Edinburgh— Love blossoming in Melrose Abbey.

Chapter II. London, Paris And Germany

Car window observations in England — Manchester — Liverpool — London — Excitement over money lost — Shah of Persia — Spurgeon's Tabernacle — City Temple— Kensington Museum — Fireworks at Sydenham — British Museum — Big Ben — Houses of Parliament — London Tower — John Wesley's Grave — Across the English Channel — "La Belle" France — Dieppe — Normandy — Paris — Eiffel Tower — Notre Dame Cathedral — Versailles — On wrong train — Brussels — Rotterdam — Dusseldorf — Great German Exposition — Glimpses of German life — Cologne — Cologne Cathedral.

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Chapter III. From Moscow To Mii,an

Berlin — Arranging- passports — In Poland Russia — Meditating in Warsaw — Darwin's theory disproved — Russian Peasant life — Moscow — Forced to abandon a Russian train at 1 o'clock at night — Second act of meditation in Warsaw — At the German frontier — Breslau — Over the Continental divide of Europe— Budapest— No old people in heaven — Vienna — Sweeter than angel's food — Salzburg- Mayence — Sailing down the Rhine — Castles and romance — Another glimpse at German life— Eucerne — Sunrise and sunset in the Alps — Climbing St. Gothard's Pass — Through the Tunnel — Northern Italy — Milan and its Cathedral.

Chapter IV. Prom Rome To Smyrna

Genoa — Rome "the Eternal City" — The largest church in the world, St. Peters — Mamertine prison — Ossian Way — Temple of Hercules — St. Paul's Cathedral — Three Fountains — In the Catacombs — Appian Way--Arch of Titus — Coliseum — Roman Forum — Palatine Hill — Naples — Pompeii — Climbing Mount Vesuvius — Standing on the rim of it's Crater— Southern Italy— Brindisi — Sailing on the Adriatic — A Supernatural vision — In Greece — Old Corinth — A stairway higher than the stars — Athens — The Acropolis — Mars Hill — Piraaus — On the ^Egean Sea — Chios — S myrna.

Chapter V. Ephesus, Damascus And Palestine

Ephesus — Isle of Patmos — Island of Cyprus — Island of Rhodes — Meresina the Seaport of Tarsus — Tripoli — Beirrout — Caifa— Joppa — Scared by giants away from "the Promised Eand — Under quarantine in Beirout harbor —

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Across the Lebanon Mountains where the cedars grew — Plains of Beeka— Wonders of Baalbec — Over the Anti- Lebanon mountains — Damascus "the oldest city in the world" — River Abana — Straight street — Houses of Ananias and Naaman — Camping to Jerusalem— Near Mount Hermon— Ca^sarea Philippi— Sources of the Jordan— Village of Dan — Sea of Merom — Juaneh — Safed— Fishing in the Sea of Galilee — Plain of Gennesaret.

Chapter VI. Traveling In Palestine

Safed — Rocks and curses hurled at us in an Arab village — Plain of El Buttauf — Armed Turkish soldiers placing us underquarantine — Release — Nazareth Women quarreling at night for water — Plain of Esdraelon — River Kishon — Mount Carmel — Jenin — Nablous — Jacob's Well — Climbing Mount Gerizim — A Samaritan Synagogue — Shiloh — Bethel — Parting place of Abraham and Lot — Mount Scopus — Jerusalem — Mosque of Omar — Church of Holy Sepulchre — New Calvary — Garden of Gethsemane — Mount Olivet — Bethany — Jericho — Mount of Temptation — Elisha's Spring- Dead Sea — River Jordan — Rachel's Tomb — Bethlehem — Church of Nativity — Solomon's Pools — Tombs of the Judges— Mizpeh — Gibeon.

Chapter VII. Eight Hundred Miles Up The Nile

Leaving Jerusalem — On a Turkish railway — Joppa — Watching for a steamer — Oldest seaport in the world — Embarking — Jonah and the whale— Port Said — Alexadria — In quarantine three days — Release — Delta of the Nile — Cairo — Heliopolis — Land of Goshen — Racing on a bridge — Jacob's Well — Bedrechein — Memphis — Annual overflow of the Nile — Oldest pyramid in the world — 30,000,000 Egyptians buried in one cemetery — A desert ride — Serapheum — Where Sacred bulls were buried — the Sphinx — Cheops — On top of the largest pyramid in the world — By rail to upper Egypt —

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Euxor— Temple of Karnak— Tombs of Pharoahs— Temple of Medinet— Haboo— Colossi of Memnon— Temple of Luxor — Ancient Thebes— Assouan — In Nubia — Temple of Philae — On the Libyan desert — Illumination of Assouan.

Chapter VIII. Egypt And India

Opening of the largest dam in the world, at Assouan — Obelisk quarry — Assouan to Cario — Cairo Museum — Mummied Pharoahs of Moses' time — Ishmalia — Port Said — Booking on the steamship Arabia to India — Sailing through Suez Canal— Suez — Crossing-place of the Israelites in the Red Sea — Mt. Sinai — Aden — Arabian Sea — Southern Cross — Bombay — Towers of Silence on Malabar Hill— Glimpses of India from a railway train — Tundla Junction — Delhi Durbar — Great elephant parade — Amritsar — Weaving rugs — Golden temple of the Sikhs — Burning Hindoo body — New Years in Delhi — Art Exhibition — Fireworks — Delhi public library — Chandni Cbonk — An Eurasians clever dodge — Eucknow — North India Methodist Episcopal Conference.

Chapter IX. India China And Japan

Agra — Taj Mahal — Agra Fort — Ahmednager — Bubonic plague — Meditation — Dharangaon — Across India — Howrah — Calcutta — An idea — Crossing the Ganges — Siliguri Junction — A toy train — Climbing the Himalayas — Gnoom — Darjeeling — Hiring a dandy — Trip to Tiger Hill — The Tallest mountains in the world — Eooking towards Thibet — Return to Calcutta — Booking to Hong Kong — On the Hugli — Bay of Bengal — Andaman Islands — Penang — Malacca Straits — Singapore — China Sea — Hong Kong — Shanghai — Nagasaki — Inland Sea — Kobe — Osaka — Yokohama — Tokio — Chickens with tails twelve feet long — Shogun Temples — Empress of India — Pacific Ocean — Victoria — Vancouver — Sumas — Uncle Sam's custom house — Home.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Frontispiece — The "Calif ornians" Leaving Home. Bullhead Fountain of Marble, at Ephesus . . .10 River Abana, Damascus ...... 16

Street Scene in Damascus . . . . . . 22

Donke3 T Loaded With Weeds for Fuel near Damascus 26 ' Street Scene in London . . . . . . .32

Old Site of Memphis (during Nile overflow) . . 36

Wesley's Grave, Cit} r Roads Chapel, London . .40 Oldest Pyramid in Fgypt, near Memphis . . . 46 v

The Nile at Assouan December 10th, 1902 . . .56' Carriage in Moscow ....... 68

One Source of River Jordan at Caesarea Philippi. . 78

On the Rhine, Germany 88

Fallen Statue of Rameses II, Memphis . . .94

Rebuilding Ruins, Karnak, Egypt .... 102

Arch of Titus, Rome 108

Street in Pompeii. Chariot Ruts from Four to Five

inches in Depth. ....... 114

Parthenon, Athens 130

Camel Caravan Loaded with Cotton .... 138

Isle of Patmos 142

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbec 154

Camping from Damascus ....... 160

Interior of Jewish Home (inner court) Damascus . 164 Treading Corn with Oxen, Jordan Valley, Palestine . 168

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Plain of Gennesaret, Sea of Galilee .... 176 Fountain of the Virgin in Nazareth .... 184 Donkey and Ox Plowing, just outside walls of Jerusalem 200

Off for Gibeon from Jerusalem 210

Natives Going to Market, Memphis .... 230

Sphinx and Cheops 236

Crossing the Nile at Ancient Thebes . . . 242

Temple Ruins at Ancient Thebes 246

Temple of Phila?, Nubia 250

Assouan Dam (largest in the world) .... 254 Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Khedive of

Egypt 256

Vultures Awaiting Parsee Funeral, Malabar Hill,

Bombay 272

State Fntry of Durbar, Delhi, December 29th, 1902 . 278

Taj Mahal, Agra, India 294

Native Carts Iyoaded with Cotton, Dharangaon, India. 300

Darjeeling, in the lofty Himalayas .... 304

Natives Stripping for Plague Inspection, Calcutta. 312

Ox-cart, Yokahama 316

Taking a Jinrickisha Ride, Penang ... . . 322