Around the World 
BY THE 
Canadian Pacific Route 
Australia has made easy of reach, the great wool-raising plains, the rich 
gold fields that helped so much to make Australia famous, and has enabled 
tourists to visit one colony after another easily, and in a short time. 
Sydney is famous for its beautiful harbor, and its early existence as the 
headquarters of government and centre of business in the first half of the 
century, has given it a pre-eminent distinction. In the proper season it 
is a delightful centre from which to make excursions through the beautiful 
teountry and waters of the neighborhood. Melbourne, though younger than 
■^Sydney, is distinguished by its rapid strides in growth and commercial 
importance since the discovery of gold. There are numerous pleasant 
towns within rail communication of Melbourne, along the shores of Hob- 
son’s Bay — St. Kilda, Brighton, Geelong, etc. From Melbourne and from 
Sydney there is steamship communication with Tasmania, the two chief 
cities of which are Launceston and Hobart. 
Passengers for New Zealand may transfer at Suva to the Union 
S. S. Co.’s steamship direct to Auckland, or they can travel by way 
of Sydney. ' These gems of the southern seas, which England conquered 
almost foot by foot from the Maoris, the finest and most intelligent of all 
natives of these latitudes, have acquired celebrity both from the commer- 
cial value of their industries and from the peculiar beauty of their scenery 
and luxuriousness of climate. Their mountains, lakes and cascades, their 
geysers, of which travellers have spoken in such enthusiastic strain, are 
8ui generis, because the latitude and climate make these vistas unlike cor- 
responding freaks of nature in northern climes. Wellington and Auckland 
on North Island, and Dunedin and Christchurch on South Island are the 
principal cities. 
From Sydney or Melbourne the “ Around the World ” tourist crosses 
the Indian Ocean to Colombo, where those taking the Japan-China route 
are met. Here those travelling via the Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.’s 
Line or the Messageries Maritimes have the option under certain conditions 
of continuing the journej' straight to Aden, or deviating to Bombay or to 
Calcutta and through Hindustan to the Arabian Sea; those travelling by 
the Orient-Pacific Line, the North-German Lloyd or Messageries Maritimes 
proceed direct across the Arabian and Red Seas. 
INDIA 
Should the route via Calcutta be chosen, the tourist is transferred 
to another steamer, and in about four days reaches the Hooghly,, 
on which Calcutta is built, about ninety miles from the sea. Calcutta 
is the seat of the supreme government of India, the capital of the com- 
merce of Bengal, and from its handsome buildings has been called “ The 
City of Palaces.” Its history is almost the history of the British in India. 
It was founded by the establishment of a small trading post in 1690, and 
remained in that insignificance for nearly a century, until Clive, in aveng- 
ing the iniquity of the “ Black Hole ” of Calcutta, deposed Surajah 
Dowlah and commenced the operations — military, political and commercial 
— that resulted in the present Indian Empire. Calcutta is the solidity of 
Europe grafted on the barbaric splendor of the East. The fashions apd 
manners of London jostle the customs and traditions of the Mogul Empire. 
It is associated with the names of England’s greatest soldiers and states- 
men, and its history is a story of the most marvellous triumph of western 
over eastern civilization that the world has ever read. Calcutta has a 
number of good hotels and other conveniences for the comfort of travellers, 
anw every information can readily be obtained as to the several routes into 
the interior. There is rail in Cawnpore, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi and other 
places made famous in the Sepoy mutiny and re-conquest of India in 1858. 
The beautiful city of Agra, which in its own way is without a rival, is a 
little to the north of the main route to Bombay. Here is the celebrated 
Taj, which Sir Edwin Arnold declares to be the crown of all the triumphs 
of Mogul art. The Imperial tomb, built of white marble, cost three 
million sterling and occupied twenty thousand workmen for seventeen years. 
A little beyond Agra is Delhi, the city of Aurungzebe and the capital of 
the Mogul Empire, the capture of which, with the seizure of the , king, 
was the crowing victory of the British arms in the great mutiny. Bom- 
bay, on the Arabian Sea, is perhaps the pleasantest and most beautiful of 
the English cities in India. It is on an island connected by bridges with 
the mainland, and is divided into a native and a European town, the 
former being especially interesting from the bazaars and native manufac- 
tures there carried on, as well as from the motley nature of its Indian 
population. The European portion is remarkable for the handsome resi- 
dences of the merchants, in which art and science have been employed to 
provide the comforts and luxuries of eastern life. Near Bombay are the 
celebrated towers for the reception of the dead. From Bombay the steamer 
crosses the Arabian Sea to Aden and thence up the Red Sea to Ismailia, 
w’here passengers intending to visit Egypt disembark. 
EGYPT 
From Port Said and Ismailia there is rail communication to Cairo and 
Alexandria, from either of which points the tourist can take passage in one 
of the much-written-about Nile Dahabeahs and leisurely examine the land 
of the Pharaohs, climb the pyramids under which they are buried, investi- 
gate the Sphinx, and, if he desires, visit some of the battlefields of the 
recent wars against Arabi Pasha and the Mahdi. From October till May 
is the season for doing Egypt and the Nile, After that the weather 
becomes warmer than is agreeable to the majority of European and 
American travellers, and one service of boats specially designed for such 
tourists is discontinued. 
Around the World 
^ BY THE 
Canadian Pacific Route 
THE MEDITERRANEAN 
Then at his leisure, always remembering that his ticket is good for 
two years from the date of issue, the tourist returns to Ismailia 
and selects the route by which he will travel to England. There are several 
at his option, varying somewhat by the different lines. He can go by the 
all-sea route through tlie Mediterranean, calling at Brindisi and Malta, 
and passing Gibraltar on to London; or by Marseilles and Straits of 
Gibraltar; or from Alexandria to Brindisi or Naples and Genoa, the 
birthplace of Columbus-; or he may disembark at Brindisi, Naples, Genoa 
or Marseilles and continue his journey overland through Europe. By the 
time he reaches London the Canadian Pacific Railw'ay Company’s globe- 
circling tourist will have had an opportunity to see the latest and the 
oldest civilizations in the world. The frontiers of , the far west have been 
succeeded by the double civilization of the Japanese, and the ancient 
and unchanging methods and customs of the Cliinese. The novelty of 
Australian life has closely followed the wondrous beauty of the sub-tropi- 
cal isles of the Pacific. The Hindoo traditions have jostled those '?f the 
Moslem, where the fashions of Piccadilly are side by side with the rem- 
nants of Aurungzebe’a Empire, and the evidences of Egypt’s antiquity 
and the monuments of forty centuries have been observed from the deck 
of a London tourist organizer's boat. Not only will the tourist have 
experienced the pleasure derived from the strange and beautiful sights 
which he has seen, but he will liave gained an insight into the trade and 
economy of those' eastern and western peoples whose easy intercommuni- 
cation is so rapidly influencing the trade and political relations' of the 
world. 
The tourist may invert the order of his journey, and by leaving Eng- 
land in the early winter may visit the cities of the continent, the points 
of interest in Egypt, India, Java, China, Japan and America each in the 
pleasantest season. 
CAPE of' GOOD HOPE-CAPE HORN 
While interest in South Africa is so predominant, it may be the desire 
of the traveller to visit the Dark Continent. He is enabled to follow his 
inclination by taking the Shaw, Savill & Albion or the New Zealand Ship- 
ping Company’s lines (which run alternately) from London or Plymouth 
to Santa Cruz, the port of Teneriffe (Canary Islands), famous for its 
“ peak ” and rich in British and Spanish naval associations, sail down the 
West African coast to Cape Town, where Table Mountain and Table Bay 
and the interesting English colony are to be seen, thenoe across the Indian 
Ocean to Hobart, Tasmania, -where steamer connection is made with Sydney, 
from which point the voyage can be continued by the Canadian-Australian 
line to Vancouver, or by way of China and Japan to Hong Kong, where 
one of the White Erapre^es of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company is 
taken to Vancouver, the North American Continent traversed by the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway, and England reached by one of the Atlantic liners 
from Montreal, Quebec, St. John, N.B., Halifax, Boston or New York. 
Cape Horn and Brazil may also be visited in another tour by proceeding 
from London to Sydney via Canada, Hawaii and New Zealand, or via 
Canada, Japan and China, thence to Sydney, and re-embarking at Hobart, 
Tasmania, or Wellington, New Zealand, on the Shaw, Savill & Albion or 
New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamers, the traveller doubles Cape 
Horn, gets an insight of South American life at Monte Video or at Rio 
de Janeiro, with its magnificent harbor and wonderful Botanical Gardens, 
touches at Teneriffe and then sails direct to Plymouth and London. 
T he success of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s globe-circling 
excursions has been so marked that the Company has arranged not 
only to continue them, but, with its growing system and ever- 
increasing connections, to offer the travelling public additional privileges 
and new and attractive routes. 
Tickets for the tours hereinafter described can be obtained at the 
rates named, and numerous variations and side trips may be made either 
free of charge or at a slight additional cost. 
Sterling payment, as named, or its equivalent, will be required in all 
countries except on the American Continent, where gold, as named, or its 
equivalent, must be paid. 
Two years will be allowed as the time during which tickets may be 
used, and stop-over privileges will be given at all points of interest. 
The tickets are first-class throughout, and include m^ls and berths 
on ocean and Canadian Pacific lake steamships betwen Owen Sound and 
Fort William, but not on railways or other steamers. Tickets for meals 
and sleeping car berths on the Canadian Pacific Railway, when travelling 
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, via their main line and Toronto 
or Montreal, can be obtained by holders of Round-the-World tickets for 
£6, or $30.00 in gold. 
Canadian Pacific Railway meal coupons will be good for meals only 
while in transit, and will not be received in payment for additional meals 
or rooms while stopping over at hotels. To provide for various routes which 
are different in time, etc., more coupons than are generally required are 
supplied, and the Company therefore, will not refund on unused coupons 
at end of journey, but expect them to be returned to the Company. 
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