Around the World: A Friendly Guide for the World TravelerHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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Página xi
... railway train , there is much to be said in favor of your doing that at the start instead of at the finish . If , like most of our trans - atlantic travelers , you have never been west of Chicago , you have , in the vernacu- lar of the ...
... railway train , there is much to be said in favor of your doing that at the start instead of at the finish . If , like most of our trans - atlantic travelers , you have never been west of Chicago , you have , in the vernacu- lar of the ...
Página xii
... railway systems , as follows : Pacific Mail , Dollar Line , and Toyo Kisen Kaisha from San Francisco ; Admiral - Oriental from Seattle and the Canadian Pacific from Vancouver , British Columbia . It takes fifteen , twelve , and ten days ...
... railway systems , as follows : Pacific Mail , Dollar Line , and Toyo Kisen Kaisha from San Francisco ; Admiral - Oriental from Seattle and the Canadian Pacific from Vancouver , British Columbia . It takes fifteen , twelve , and ten days ...
Página xiii
... Railway , direct for Los Angeles and San Francisco . Glimpses of moss - festooned trees surrounding little hamlets which have dotted the diked Louisiana land- scape , unchanged since the Civil War , meet the traveler's eye as the train ...
... Railway , direct for Los Angeles and San Francisco . Glimpses of moss - festooned trees surrounding little hamlets which have dotted the diked Louisiana land- scape , unchanged since the Civil War , meet the traveler's eye as the train ...
Página xvii
... railway tracks are suspended over the rushing river from either side of the narrowed gorge , where there is about enough room for a railway train to pass . An eerie place where the roar of the torrent drowns that of the train . A stop ...
... railway tracks are suspended over the rushing river from either side of the narrowed gorge , where there is about enough room for a railway train to pass . An eerie place where the roar of the torrent drowns that of the train . A stop ...
Página xix
... railway trip through the Cas- cade Range itself is worth all it costs and you can finish in Portland , via the Columbia River Cañon , or go direct to Seattle , with the same facilities for continuing your journey as have already been ...
... railway trip through the Cas- cade Range itself is worth all it costs and you can finish in Portland , via the Columbia River Cañon , or go direct to Seattle , with the same facilities for continuing your journey as have already been ...
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beautiful Benares boat British Buddha built Canton carved century China Chinese colored coolies cryptomerias dollars El Aguila Emperor exquisite face fact feet high Filipino five gates Gautama Buddha Government hand Heaven hills Hindu holy Hongkong hundred and fifty hundred feet imagine India interesting island Jain Japan Japanese Jeypore Korean Kublai Khan Kyoto lake Lake Lanao look magnificent Manila marble miles morning Moro mosque Mount Abu mountain native never night Nikko opium Orient pagoda Palace Peking Philippines priests Quézon railway Rajput ride river road royal sacred Sandakan shrine side Siva Siva's southern spot Sri Rangam stands steamer stone street Sulu summit temple there's thing thousand feet tion Tokyo tomb tower Towers of Silence town train traveler trees trip twenty-five Udaipur walls wonderful worship worth
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Página 190 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Página 71 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Página 160 - From The Virgins my mid-sea course was ta'en "Over a thousand islands lost in an idle main, " Where the sea-egg flames on the coral and the long-backed breakers croon "Their endless ocean legends to the lazy, locked lagoon.
Página 120 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 180 - When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Página 13 - twill all be well." "Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: But fill me with the old familiar Juice, Methinks I might recover by and by.
Página 1 - I'd sell my tired soul for the bucking beam-sea roll Of a black Bilbao tramp, With her load-line over her hatch, dear lass, And a drunken Dago crew, And her nose held down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail From Cadiz south on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new.
Página 51 - When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
Página 89 - It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men — nay, of ten millions — tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downwards, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside I Beside this, we must take account of the fact that in China breathing seems to be optional.
Página 44 - And have ye not read this Scripture ; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner...