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DUE WEST
OR
ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MONTHS
BY
MATURIN M. BALLOU
Plus je vis l'étranger, plus j'aimai ma patrie.
De Belloy
THIRD EDITION.
BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1885
Copyright, 1884,
By MATURIN M. BALLOU.
All rights reserved.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
PREFACE.
To circumnavigate the globe in our day is only a question of time andmoney, the facilities being ample, and the inducements abundant.Intelligently and successfully to consummate such a purpose is aneducation in itself. The tourist will find all previous study enhancedin value by ocular demonstration, which imparts life and warmth to thecold facts of the chroniclers, besides which a vast store-house ofpositive information is created which time cannot exhaust. Perhaps themajority of travelers see only that which comes clearly before them; butthis they do most faithfully, being possessed of a stronger sense ofduty than of imagination. The clear, direct vision of such people hasits merit. There are others who both see and feel, to whom the simplestobject in its suggestiveness may be full of beauty. It is the latter whopluck delightful mysteries out of travel; and who, after viewing nature,it may be in her calmest moods, bring away with them upon the tablets ofmemory a Claude Lorraine. The eyes will operate automatically, but it isof little avail unless one exercises the observing power; then theybecome luminous. You will find poetry nowhere unless you[Pg viii] bring somewith you, says Joubert. If the author succeeds in imparting to thereader but a shar