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Title: Due West
or Round the World in Ten Months

Author: Maturin Murray Ballou

Release Date: February 28, 2009 [eBook #28222]

Language: English

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DUE WEST

Or

Round the World in Ten Months

by

MATURIN M. BALLOU

Plus je vis l'etranger, plus j'aimai ma patrie.
DE BELLOY

Third Edition.

[Illustration: Logo]

Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1885

Copyright, 1884,
by Maturin M. Ballou.
All rights reserved.

Riverside, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by
H. O. Houghton and Company.

_I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness._--
Two Gentlemen of Verona.

PREFACE.

To circumnavigate the globe in our day is only a question of time and
money, the facilities being ample, and the inducements abundant.
Intelligently and successfully to consummate such a purpose is an
education in itself. The tourist will find all previous study enhanced
in value by ocular demonstration, which imparts life and warmth to the
cold facts of the chroniclers, besides which a vast store-house of
positive information is created which time cannot exhaust. Perhaps the
majority of travelers see only that which comes clearly before them; but
this they do most faithfully, being possessed of a stronger sense of
duty than of