Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . of Cape York, and at this safe anchorage, the first part ofthe cruise of the Chingtu has come to an end. CHAPTEE VII. THE CRUISE OF THE CHINGTU. — CONTINUED. All the Days of the Week — A Convenient Nomenclature — A Diet of SeaWorms — Trade in Bloodsuckers — Reminiscences of My Boyhood — AHideous Delicacy — The Pearl Fishery — Plums in the Pudding — ThePearl Divers Equipment — A Short but not a Merry Life — A BakingDay and Steamy Night — The Aborigines — In the Celebes Sea — TheConnecticut of the
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . of Cape York, and at this safe anchorage, the first part ofthe cruise of the Chingtu has come to an end. CHAPTEE VII. THE CRUISE OF THE CHINGTU. — CONTINUED. All the Days of the Week — A Convenient Nomenclature — A Diet of SeaWorms — Trade in Bloodsuckers — Reminiscences of My Boyhood — AHideous Delicacy — The Pearl Fishery — Plums in the Pudding — ThePearl Divers Equipment — A Short but not a Merry Life — A BakingDay and Steamy Night — The Aborigines — In the Celebes Sea — TheConnecticut of the South Sea — The Nutmeg at Home — The Possibili-ties of a Ball of Twine — How the Bride Wore the Trousers — Euro-pean Clothes and Civilization — A Snake Story — An UnwelcomeGuest—Dislodging his Serpentship — A Battle with a Python — TheSpicy Breezes — The Noble Work of the Missionary — How the ChiefTook the Census — At His Wits End — A Shrewd Rajah — SomePassengers — Some Members of the Feline Tribe — The Tale of Tor-toise-shell >HUBSDAY ISLAND is the onlyisland in the little archipelago tothe north of Australia that con-tains any considerable settlementof Europeans, but the other daysof the week are not neglected byany means, for there is FridayIsland and Saturday Island, Sun-day Island and Monday Island,Tuesday Island and WednesdayIsland; and the Chingtu steams-by nearly all of them in going inor out of Thursday Island harbor. A convenient method of nomenclature this, which wewould commend to geographers who have lands to name, ifthere remain any new lands to be discovered. Then, when (131) 132 NAMING COUNTRIES FROM THE CALENDAR. the days of the week have been exhausted, they would findan almost unfailing source of supply in the days of themonth, as, for instance, the Fifth of November, and the Twenty-third of July, and January Eighteenth. Then the hours of the day might be resorted to, and weshould read up
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