PART II
I. STOCKHOLM TO EGYPT--
TO LONDON AND PARIS 215 NAPOLEON'S TOMB 218 PARIS TO ROME 222 THE ETERNAL CITY 225 POMPEII 229
II. AFRICA--
GENERAL GORDON 236 THE CONQUEST OF THE SUDAN 247 OSTRICHES 250 BABOONS 252 THE HIPPOPOTAMUS 253 MAN-EATING LIONS 256 DAVID LIVINGSTONE 261 HOW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE 275 THE DEATH OF LIVINGSTONE 282 STANLEY'S GREAT JOURNEY 287 TIMBUKTU AND THE SAHARA 297
III. NORTH AMERICA--
THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD 306 NEW YORK 317 CHICAGO AND THE GREAT LAKES 326 THROUGH THE GREAT WEST 333
IV. SOUTH AMERICA--
THE INCA EMPIRE 341 THE AMAZONS RIVER 351
V. IN THE SOUTH SEAS--
ALBATROSSES AND WHALES 358 ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND 362 ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN 365 ACROSS AUSTRALIA 372
VI. THE NORTH POLAR REGIONS--
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE 377 THE VOYAGE OF THE "VEGA" 386 NANSEN 392
VII. THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS 404
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Dr. Sven Hedin in Tibetan Dress _Frontispiece_
I. Berlin 6
II. Constantinople 13
III. Oil-Well at Balakhani 36
IV. A Persian Caravanserai 43
V. The Author's Riding Camel, with Gulam Hussein 46
VI. Tebbes 51
VII. A Baluchi Nomad Tent 76
VIII. Srinagar and the Jhelum River 87
IX. Digging for Water in the Takla-makan 94
X. The Author's Boat on the Yarkand River 102
XI. Tashi-lunpo 125
XII. Simla 131
XIII. The Taj Mahal 134
XIV. Benares 136
XV. Tame Elephants and their Drivers 147
XVI. On the Canton River 159
XVII. The Great Wall of China 165
XVIII. Gate in the Walls of Peking 176
XIX. A Japanese Ricksha 189
XX. Fujiyama 190
XXI. The Great Buddha at Kamakura 192
XXII. A Sedan-Chair in Seoul 199
XXIII. The Kremlin, Moscow 208
XXIV. Paris 216
XXV. Napoleon's Tomb 219
XXVI. The Colosseum, Rome 228
XXVII. Pompeii 233
XXVIII. The Great Pyramids at Ghizeh 238
XXIX. A Hippopotamus 254
XXX. The Fight on the Congo 294
XXXI. A Group of Beduins 300
XXXII. "Sky-Scrapers" in New York 323
XXXIII. Niagara Falls 331
XXXIV. Cañons on the Colorado River 339
XXXV. Cotopaxi 344
XXXVI. Indian Huts on the Amazons River 353
XXXVII. A Coral Strand 369
XXXVIII. Country near Lake Eyre 373
XXXIX. The "Fram" 393
LIST OF MAPS
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1. Map showing journey from Stockholm to Berlin 2
2. Map showing journey from Berlin to Constantinople 10
3. Plan of Constantinople 13
4. Map showing journey from Constantinople to Teheran, latter part of journey to Baku, and journey from Baku across Persia to Baghdad and back to Teheran 30
5. Map showing journey from Orenburg to the Pamir 56
6. Map showing journey from Teheran to Baluchistan 73
7. Map of Northern India, showing rivers and mountain ranges 82
8. Map of Eastern Turkestan 90
9. Tibet 112
10. Map of India, showing journey from Nushki to Leh, and journey from Tibet through Simla, etc., to Bombay 132
11. The Sunda Islands 154
12. Map showing voyage from Bombay to Hong Kong 158
13. Map of Northern China and Mongolia 174
14. Map showing journey from Shanghai through Japan and Korea to Dalny 184
15. The Trans-Siberian Railway 203
16. Map showing journey from Stockholm to Paris 216
17. Map showing journey from Paris to Alexandria 230
18. Map of North-Eastern Africa, showing Egypt and the Sudan 237
19. Livingstone's Journeys in Africa 262
20. North-West Africa 298
21. Toscanelli's Map 308
22. North America 325
23. South America 343
24. The South Seas 366
25. The North Polar Regions 378
26. The South Polar Regions 405