THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Albert U. Godoy 



A TRAVELING RESTAURANT IN SINGAPORE, MALAY PENINSULA 



The successful landing of the Vimy at Singapore was accomplished by a resort to acro- 

 batics. The improvised aerodrome being too small for the landing and "take-off" of a 

 machine as large as the Vimy, one of the mechanics clambered out of the cockpit and slid 

 along the top of the fuselage down to the tail-plane. His weight dropped the tail down 

 quickly, with the result that the machine came to a halt within ioo yards after touching 

 the ground (see page 322). ■ 



Jumna as far as Benares, we headed 

 southeast and followed the railroad to 

 Calcutta. Forty miles north of Calcutta 

 we came above the River Hooghly. 



Here and there factories and jute mills 

 came into view, with villages clustering 

 around them. The villages grew dense 

 and became the outskirts of a great and 

 expansive city — a mighty congestion of 



buildings, white, glaring in the sun ; green 

 patches and gardens, thoroughfares teem- 

 ing with people, a vast fleet of shipping, 

 of docks and activities — and Calcutta 

 slipped away beneath us. 



Thousands of people had collected on 

 the race-course, at the far side of the city, 

 to witness our arrival, and when we 

 landed it was with great difficulty that 



