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one may proceed 

 northward to Delhi, 

 and so to Calcutta, 

 through Cawnpore 

 and Allahabad as 

 Ross-Smith did, or 

 via Ahmadabad and 

 Bombaj' across 

 country to Calcutta 

 through Nagpur. 

 These routes, and 

 also the route from 

 Calcutta to Port 

 Dar\vin in the North 

 of Austraha, are 

 showTi in the fourth 

 map. 



From Calcutta the 

 route to Australia, 

 as flown by Ross- 

 Smith, is via Ran- 

 goon and Bangkok 

 to Singapore, thence 

 to Kalidjati in Java, 

 and via Bima to At- 

 amboea in Dutch Timor. 

 The final stage across 

 the sea to Port Darwin 

 is a distance of 460 

 miles. 



Of all the aerial routes, 

 the one which probably 

 appeals most to the im- 

 agination is that between 

 Cairo and the Cape. 

 This has been recenth- 

 flown. Along this route, 

 a distance of between 

 five and six thousand 

 miles, there exists a 

 chain of forty-three 

 aerodromes. The route 

 can be best followed by 

 reference to the third 

 map. From Cairo to 

 Eleri in the main the 

 course of the Nile is 

 followed. From Jinga 

 to Mwanza, Lake Vic- 

 toria is skirted on the 

 eastern shore. A diffi- 

 cult piece of country is 



»IAP 3.— AIR ROUTE, CilRO TO CAPE TOWN. 



encountered between 

 Mwanza and N'dola. 

 From N'dola to 

 Palapwe the route 

 follows roughly the 

 railway, and thence 

 via Pretoria and 

 Bloemfontein it ends 

 at Cape Town. 



The journey from 

 this country to 

 America is likely to 

 be the most difficult 

 of all to accomplish 

 regularly by air. As 

 is well known, the 

 Atlantic has been 

 crossed in a flying- 

 boat via the Azores 

 by Commander Read 

 of the U.S. Navy, by 

 direct flight in an 

 aeroplane by the late 

 Sir John Alcock, and 

 out and back by Major 

 Scott in an airship. 



From St. John's, New- 

 foundland, to Clifden in 

 Ireland is a distance of 

 1,930 miles, and to Lis- 

 bon via the Azores is 

 nearly 2,400 miles, so 

 that getting over is a 

 " tough proposition." 



In the fourth map the 

 air routes of the world are 

 shown. The oversea dis- 

 tances are given in miles. 

 The letters are the initial 

 letters of the names of 

 towns, and should suggest 

 the names without diffi- 

 culty. C.V. stands for 

 Cape Verde Island. 



The map embodies, in 

 addition to the routes de- 

 scribed, routes which have 

 been suggested for cross- 

 ing Canada, crossing Aus- 

 tralia to New Zealand, 

 and for getting to China 

 and Japan, 



