Round the Wonderful World
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Mitton Geraldine Edith. Round the Wonderful World
CHAPTER I. WHICH WAY?
CHAPTER II. REALLY OFF!
CHAPTER III. FIERY MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER IV. THE STRANGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER V. THE HIGHWAY OF EGYPT
CHAPTER VI. A MIGHTY MAN
CHAPTER VII. THE CITY OF KINGS
CHAPTER VIII. ON THE NILE
CHAPTER IX. A MILLION SUNRISES
CHAPTER X. A WALK ABOUT JERUSALEM
CHAPTER XI. THE COUNTRY OF CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER XII. AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIII. THE GATEWAY OF THE EAST
CHAPTER XIV. THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN
CHAPTER XV. A TROPICAL THUNDERSTORM
CHAPTER XVI. A SACRED TREE
CHAPTER XVII. UNWELCOME INTRUDERS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CAPITAL OF INDIA
CHAPTER XIX. TO THE DEATH!
CHAPTER XX. A CITY OF PRIESTS
CHAPTER XXI. THE GOLDEN PAGODA
CHAPTER XXII. THE KING'S REPRESENTATIVE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE
CHAPTER XXIV. ON A CARGO BOAT
CHAPTER XXV. JIM'S STORY
CHAPTER XXVI. THROUGH EASTERN STRAITS AND ISLANDS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LAND OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. IN A JAPANESE INN
CHAPTER XXIX. THOUSANDS OF SALMON
CHAPTER XXX. THE GREAT DIVIDE
CHAPTER XXXI. ON A CATTLE RANCH
CHAPTER XXXII. THE GREAT LAKES
CHAPTER XXXIII. OLD FRIENDS AGAIN
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When you have noticed a fly crawling on a ball or an orange has it ever occurred to you how a man would look crawling about on the earth if seen from a great height? Our world is, as everyone knows, like an orange in shape, only it is very much larger in comparison with us than an orange is in regard to a fly. In fact, to make a reasonable comparison, we should have to picture the fly crawling about on a ball or globe fifty miles in height; to get all round it he would have to make a journey of something like one hundred and fifty miles. It would take a determined fly to accomplish that! Yet we little human beings often start off on a journey round the world quite cheerfully, and it is more difficult for us than for the imaginary fly, because the globe is not a smooth surface of dry land, but is made up of jungles and deserts and forests and oceans. There are some places where people can do nothing in the heat of the day, and others where their flesh freezes like cold white marble in a moment if they don't take precautions.
To set out on foot around such a world would be folly, and man has invented all sorts of ingenious machines to carry him, – trains and steamers, for instance, – and with their help he can do the journey in a reasonable time. It costs money, of course, but it is a glorious enterprise.
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The houses have a strange look; it is chiefly because every single one of them, even the poorest, has sun-shutters outside the windows, set back against the wall; they are of wood, mostly painted green and pierced with slits. In countries where the sun is hot and strong at midday the rooms must be kept cool by such shutters.
When we are once clear of the town the train soon gets up great speed, and we race through green fields with hedgerows and trees as in our own land, and yet even here there is something different. It may be because of the long lines of poplars, like "Noah's Ark" trees, which appear very frequently, or it may be the country houses we see here and there, which are more "Noah's Ark" still, being built very stiffly and painted in bright reds and yellows and greens that look like streaks. At the level crossings you see women standing holding a red flag furled, for women seem to do as much of the work on the railways as men; and waiting at the gates there is often a team of three or four horses, each decorated with an immense sheep-skin collar, that looks as if it must be most hot and uncomfortable. Occasionally we catch sight of what looks like a rookery in the trees seen against the sky; however, the dark bunches are not nests at all, but lumps of mistletoe growing freely. Rather a fairytale sort of country where mistletoe can be got so easily!
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