Archive image from page 174 of Discovery Discovery discovery0102londuoft Year: 165 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 s
Archive image from page 174 of Discovery Discovery discovery0102londuoft Year: 165 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 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
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