CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE GEEAT ATLANTIC FEERY. 



the Subject Difficulties in some Directions The Great Atlantic Ferry Dickens's Experiences Sea 

 Sickness Night at Sea The Ship Rights And then Wrongs A Ridiculous Situation Modern First-class Accom- 

 modationThe Woes of the Steerage Mark Tapley Immense Emigration of Third-class Passengers -Discomfort 

 and Misery Efforts to Improve the Steerage " Intermediate "Castle Garden, New York Voyage Safer than 

 by the Bay of Biscay The Chimborazo in a Hurricane 1 



CHAPTER II. 



OCEAN TO OCEAN- THE CONNECTING LINK. 



The Great Trans-Continental Railway New York to Chicago Niagara in Winter A Lady's Impressions^-A Pullman 

 Dining Car Omaha " The Great Muddy " Episodes of Railway Travel Rough Roads Indian attempts at catch- 

 ing Trains Ride on a Snow Plough Sherman Female Vanity in the Rocky Mountains - Soaped Rails The Great 

 Plains Summer and Winter The Prairie on Fire- -A Remarkable Bridge Coal Discoveries- -The " Buttes "The 

 City Gates of Mormondom Echo and Weber Canons -The Devil's Gate Salt Lake Ride in a " Mud Waggon " 

 The City of the Saints-Mormon Industry A Tragedy of Former Days Mountain Meadow Massacre The "Great 

 Egg-shell" Theatre The Silver State "Dead Heads "Up in the Sierra Nevada Alpine Scenery The Highest 

 Newspaper Office in the World" Snowed-up "Cape Horn Down to the Fruitful Plains Sunny California- 

 Sacramento Oakland and the Golden City Recent Opinions of Travellers San Francisco as a Port Whither 

 Away? 14 



CHAPTER III. 



THE PACIFIC FEEEY SAN FEANCISCO TO JAPAN AND CHINA. 



The American Steamships A Celestial Company Leading Cargoes-- Corpses and Coffins Monotony of the Voyage- 

 Emotions Caused by the Sea Amusements on board -" Chalked "Cricket at Sea Balls Overboard A Six Days' 

 Walking Match Theatricals Waxworks The Officers on Board Engineer's Life The Chief Waiter " Inspec- 

 tion "Meeting the America Excitement Her subsequent Fate A Cyclone At Yokohama Fairyland The 

 Bazaars Japanese Houses A Dinner menu Music and Dancing Hong Kong, the Gibraltar of China Charming 

 Victoria Busy Shanghai English Enterprise 31 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE PACIFIC FEEEY ANOTHEE EOUTE. 



The Hawaiian Islands King and Parliament Pleasant Honolulu A Government Hotel Honeysuckle-covered Theatre 

 Productions of the Islands Grand Volcanoes Ravages of Lava Streams and Earthquakes Off to Fiji A rapidly 

 Christianised People A Native Hut Dinner Kandavu The Bush Fruit-laden Canoes Strange Ideas of Value- 

 New Zealand Its Features Intense English Feeling The New Zealand Company and its Iniquities The Maories 

 Trollope's Testimony Bracts about Cannibalism A Chief on Bagpipes Australia Beauty of Sydney Harbour- 

 Its Fortifications Volunteers Its War-fleet of One Handsome Melbourne- -Absence of Squalor No Work- 

 houses Required The Benevolent Asylums Splendid Place for Working Men Cheapness of Meat, &c. 

 Wages in Town and Country Life in the Bush" Knocking Down One's Cheque "Gold, Coal, and Iron . . . 45 



CHAPTER V. 



WOMAN AT SEA. 



Poets' Opinions on Early Navigation Who was the First Female Navigator? Noah's Voyage A Thrilling Tale A 

 Strained Vessel A Furious Gale A Birth at Sea The Ship Doomed Ladies and Children in an Open Boat 

 Drunken Sailors Semi-starvation, Cold, and Wet-Exposed to the Tropical Sun-Death of a Poor Baby Sharks 

 about A Thievish Sailor Proposed Cannibalism A Sail ! The Ship passes by Despair Saved at Last- 

 Experiences of a Yachtswoman Nearly Swamped and Carried Away -An Abandoned Ship The Sunbeam of 

 Service Ship on Fire !- Dangers of a Coal Cargo The Crew taken off-Noble Lady Passengers Two Modern 

 Heroines and their Deeds -The St9ry of Grace Darling The Longstone Light and Wreck of the Farfarshire-To 

 the Rescue ! Death of Grace Darling 56 



