pronounced travel to be the frivolous part of serious lives, and the
serious part of frivolous ones. To an observant person nothing can be
more instructive than travel; in fact it may be said to be the only
royal road to learning. Travel is a magician,--it both enchants and
disenchants; since while it delights the eye, it often proves the
winding-sheet of many cherished illusions. There is always some bitter
to be tasted with every sweet; but even the bee which finds a thorn on
every rose comes home laden with honey.

M. M. B.

BOSTON, January, 1888.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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Journey across the American Continent.--The Giant City of the
West.--A Chinese Community.--Embarking for a Long Sea-voyage.
--About Ocean Birds.--Navigating the Pacific.--Peculiarities
of Life at Sea.--Curiosities of the Deep.--Ambergris.--City
of Honolulu.--An Island Paradise.--Early Paganism at Hawaii.
--Wholesale Human Sacrifices.--Royalty at the Race-course.--
Not a Kingly Monarch 1-25

CHAPTER II.

Ladies Riding Astride.--Passion for Flower Decorations.--A
Sailor on a Bucking Horse.--A Weekly Gala-day.--Hawaiian
Ladies' Costume.--A Famous Battle-ground.--The Native's
Staff of Life.--Ubiquitous John Chinaman.--Largest Apple-
orchard in the World.--Hawaiians as Cannibals.--An Active
Volcano.--Colony of Lepers.--Unwelcome Visitors.--Our
Political Relations with the Sandwich Islands 26-49

CHAPTER III.

The Samoan Islands.--A Unique Race of Savages.--Diving for
Money.--A Genuine Samoan Mermaid.--German Aggressiveness.--A
South-Sea Nunnery.--A Terrible Disease.--Christianity vs.
Paganism.--Under the Southern Cross.--Grandeur of the Heavens
at Sea.--Landing at Auckland.--A Stormy Ocean.--The Famous
Harbor of Sydney.--England and her Australian Colony.--The
Modern Eldorado.--Early Settlers 50-75

CHAPTER IV.

Interesting Statistical Facts.--Emigration.--Heavy Indebtedness.
--Curious Contrasts.--New South Wales.--A Populous City.--A
Splendid Harbor.--The Yacht "Sunbeam."--Street Scenes.--Gin
Palaces.--Public Gardens of Sydney.--A Noble Institution of
Learning.--Art Gallery.--Public Libraries.--Pleasure Trip to
Parametta.--Attractive Drives.--A Sad Catastrophe in Sydney
Harbor