voyage from Bombay to Hong Kong 158

13. Map of Northern China and Mongolia 174

14. Map showing journey from Shanghai through Japan and
Korea to Dalny 184

15. The Trans-Siberian Railway 203

16. Map showing journey from Stockholm to Paris 216

17. Map showing journey from Paris to Alexandria 230

18. Map of North-Eastern Africa, showing Egypt and the Sudan 237

19. Livingstone's Journeys in Africa 262

20. North-West Africa 298

21. Toscanelli's Map 308

22. North America 325

23. South America 343

24. The South Seas 366

25. The North Polar Regions 378

26. The South Polar Regions 405

PART I

I

ACROSS EUROPE

STOCKHOLM TO BERLIN

Our journey begins at Stockholm, the capital of my native country.
Leaving Stockholm by train in the evening, we travel all night in
comfortable sleeping-cars and arrive next morning at the southernmost
point of Sweden, the port of Trelleborg, where the sunlit waves sweep in
from the Baltic Sea.

Here we might expect to have done with railway travelling, and we rather
look for the guard to come and open the carriage doors and ask the
passengers to alight. Surely it is not intended that the train shall go
on right across the sea? Yet that is actually what happens. The same
train and the same carriages, which bore us out of Stockholm yesterday
evening, go calmly across the Baltic Sea, and we need not get out before
we arrive at Berlin. The section of the train which is to go on to
Germany is run by an engine on to a great ferry-boat moored to the quay
by heavy clamps and hooks of iron. The rails on Swedish ground are
closely connected with those on the ferry-boat, and when the carriages
are pushed on board by the engine, they are fastened with chains and
hooks so that they may remain quite steady even if the vessel begins to
roll. As the traveller lies dozing in his compartment, he will certainly
hear whistles an