Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER I. OUR START — LIFE ON AN OCEAN STEAMER. The Journey Begun — Daily Life on an Ocean Steamer — Always Journey-ing Homeward — Who is We — Taking the Reader into our Con-fidence — A Parting Look — God be with You till We Meet Again — The Mariposa — Our Fellow Passengers — Gambling on Ship-board— Betting on the Days Run — Where to read Penny Dread-fuls — Lord Blank and his Guardian — One Day on a Pacific Steamer — A Flexible Bath-tub — Something of which there is Enough — Atthe Dinner Table —
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER I. OUR START — LIFE ON AN OCEAN STEAMER. The Journey Begun — Daily Life on an Ocean Steamer — Always Journey-ing Homeward — Who is We — Taking the Reader into our Con-fidence — A Parting Look — God be with You till We Meet Again — The Mariposa — Our Fellow Passengers — Gambling on Ship-board— Betting on the Days Run — Where to read Penny Dread-fuls — Lord Blank and his Guardian — One Day on a Pacific Steamer — A Flexible Bath-tub — Something of which there is Enough — Atthe Dinner Table — Sighing for Home-made Bread and Butter —Wanted, Milk from a Cow instead of from a Tin Can — Mrs. BostoneseBrains — The Tramp, tramp, tramp of the Passengers—Ring-Toss andShuffle-Board — Sunday on the HE traveler on his way aroundthe world is always journeyinghomeward. Every revolutionof the car wheels, every vibra-tion of the steamers propellerbrings him nearer to the pointof his departure. He has no1 weary miles of sea or land toretrace. When deserts daunthis spirits, and dreary Avastes ofinterminable, tumbling wavesoppress the very imagination,as they are sure to do before his journey ends, he can sayto himself: I shall not go this way again. I have butto keep on and the desired home haven will be assure my readers that before the wide open doors of3 (37) 38 personally conducted. the Golden Gate had been left many days in the distance,we had reason to summon all our philosophy and to extractall the sunshine which we could obtain from such sentimen-tal cucumbers; for, to make the best of it, there are, on sucha journey as this book relates, monotonous days and home-sick (not to say seasick) hours, and discomforts in abun-dance, to offset the new experiences, novel sensa
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