B. A. WATSON 178
The Grand Falls of Labrador HENRY G. BRYANT 189
Life Among the Esquimaux WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY 200
Fugitives from the Arctic Seas ELISHA KENT KANE 210
Rescued from Death W. S. SCHLEY 220
The Muir Glacier SEPTIMA M. COLLIS 230
A Summer Trip to Alaska JAMES A. HARRISON 239
The Fort William Henry Massacre JONATHAN CARVER 249
The Gaucho and His Horse THOMAS J. HUTCHINSON 257
Valparaiso and Its Vicinity CHARLES DARWIN 265
An Escape from Captivity BENJAMIN F. BOURNE 274

List of Illustrations

VOLUME I

THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN _Frontispiece_
MORRO CASTLE, HAVANA 14
WASHINGTON ELM, CAMBRIDGE 28
NEW YORK AND THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE 42
ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA 78
SUNRISE FROM THE SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK 134
A KANSAS CYCLONE 144
THE CATSKILLS--SUNRISE FROM SOUTH MOUNTAIN 180
PARLIAMENT HOUSES, OTTAWA 198
WINTER IN THE FAR NORTH 214
MUIR GLACIER, ALASKA 236

PREFACE.

Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men
and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and
enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world's ways. It is the
highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over
fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all
our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign travel, now so easy
of accomplishment, we see but very little of the great world. The fact
that ocean voyages are now called mere "trips" has not made us
over-familiar with even our own kinsfolk in our new dependencies.
Foreign peoples and lands are still strange to us. Tropic and Arctic
lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia,
America from Africa, as markedly as ever. Man still presents ever