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MONEA. 
I’ll put a girdle round about the earth 
In forty minutes. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream. 
In accordance with the design explained in the 
address with which this volume opens, we are now 
under the necessity of setting all our canvass, sky- 
scrapers and studding sails, in order to make as rapid 
a passage as possible from Peak Teneriffe to a point 
about six hundred miles up the winding course of 
the sacred river Ganges. Should the reader he of 
opinion that St. Helena, the Cape of Good Hope, the 
Mauritius, Ceylon, and other equally interesting 
points in our track would have been convenient and 
desirable ports, he must be entreated to rest satisfied 
at present with the go-ashore entertainment already 
provided, and console himself with the promise of 
touching and casting anchor in one or more of these 
harbours next voyage. 
A very short sojourn in any foreign country will 
generally suffice to dissipate that sense of novelty 
