AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY, SIXTY-SEVEN, AND SIXTY DAYS
1870, 1890, 1892
I went around the world in eighty days in the year '70, two years before
Jules Verne wrote his famous romance, Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts
Jours, which was founded upon my voyage. Since then I have made two
tours of the world, one in sixty-seven and a half days, and the other in
sixty. The last voyage still stands as the record trip in circling the
globe.
I have always been something of a traveler, restless in my earlier
years, and never averse to visiting new scenes and experiencing new
sensations. In Australasia I had improved every opportunity to see the
new world of the South Seas, and later had visited every part of the
Orient that I could by any possibility reach during my various journeys
in that portion of the globe. Europe I had traversed quite thoroughly,
from the Crimea to Nijnii Novgorod, from the Volga to the Thames, from
Spain to Finland. When I left Australia it was my intention to
establish a great business in Yokohama, and, when that had been done, I
intended to pass on across the Pacific, thus girdling the globe; but my
first effort to go around the world was prevented by the war in the
Crimea, and so I turned back and came home, as already described, by way
of China, India, Egypt, and Europe.
The desire for travel possessed me mightily in '69, just after the
golden spike was driven at the completion of the Union Pacific Railway,
by which California and New York were made nearer one another by many
days of travel. The circumference of the globe had been shrunken. I
wanted, naturally, to be the first man to utilize the great advantage
thus given to travel by making the quickest trip around the world.
After closing my lecture tour on the Pacific coast in the spring and
summer of '70, I prepared for such a trip, carefully calculating that it
could be made within eighty days, even with the inevitable losses due to
bad connections at different ports. I wanted to take my sons, George and
Elsey, with me, but, at the last moment, they were prevented from going.
I found out only a few days ago, when accusing my daughter Sue of
keeping them in Newport, that their mother had given them ten golden
eagles each not to go. I sailed from San Francisco August 1, '70. On the
same ship was Susan B. King, whom I found in San Francisco waiting to
sail, as she was tired of the way her affairs were going in New York and
wanted a long trip for rest and recreation. She had $30,000 with her,
which she said she would try to invest profitably on the voyage. She was
then quite an old woman, as the world generally estimates age.
I made Yokohama in very good time, and went immediately to the Japanese
capital, the new seat of the Emperor, Tokyo. I may record here a very
curious thing. I believe I was the last man--the last foreigner, at
least--who had taken part in an old national custom of Japan, by which
persons of opposite sex bathe together, without bathing suits. It was
then considered, in that land of good morals and fine esthetic sense,
that no impropriety was involved in this custom. Manners and customs
there were open and free as in Greece, when Athens was "the eye of
Greece" and the center of the world's civilization. I went to one of the
public baths to experience a decidedly new sensation. I was allowed to
bathe with old men and women, young men and maidens--and no one, except,
perhaps, myself, felt any degree of embarrassment or false modesty.
But the fact that a foreigner was bathing in this way with Japanese
women and girls made something of a stir in Tokyo that had been
unexpected by me. It seems that, a short time before, some Englishmen
had gone into one of the public baths and made themselves very
offensive. This had taught the Japanese that they could not trust the
foreigner, and they had already nearly decided to exclude foreigners
from their baths, or to separate the sexes. My experience was,
therefore, the last, as I believe. After this the sexes were not
permitted to bathe together.
I observed that the Japanese used small paper packages for tea, thus
making it convenient to handle tea. I then recalled the custom of the
Chinese in compressing tea for transportation by caravan to the great
Fair of Nijnii Novgorod. Here was an opportunity, I thought, and I
suggested to Susan B. King that she might invest her $30,000 to good
purpose in sending to New York a cargo of tea put up in little paper
packages, and that, if she wanted to try it, I would give her letters to
men in Canton who could arrange the matter for her. She undertook the
scheme, and I wrote a description of it for Anglin's Gazette, in
Yokohama. The tea was shipped to New York, and was handled at the
Demorest headquarters. The tea was in half-pound and pound packages.
This was long before Sir Thomas Lipton employed this method of putting
up teas.
At Saigon, in French Cochin-China, I met the United States ship Alaska;
and from that port sailed on a ship of the Messagerie Imperiale line for
Marseilles. The remainder of the voyage was uneventful, except for the
diversion just before we left Singapore of hearing the news of the fall
of the Second Empire, the defeat of Louis Napoleon at Sedan, and the
establishment of the republic.
I have already recorded, in the chapter on the Commune in France, my
arrival at Marseilles and my experiences in the brief period of my
visit. After I had been arrested and liberated, and had had my interview
with Gambetta at Tours, I passed on rapidly to New York, and finished my
tour of the world inside of eighty days.
My second trip was made in the year '90. I planned it while I was in
jail in Boston for a debt that I did not contract. There had been some
note-worthy efforts on the part of newspaper writers to make a
record-breaking trip, and Miss Bisland had gone around in seventy-eight
days, while Nellie Bly had succeeded in making the voyage in
seventy-three days. I proposed to Col. John A. Cockerill, of the New
York World, who had sent Nellie Bly on her trip, to make the circuit in
less time; but he did not care to upset the World's own record. I then
telegraphed to Radebaugh, proprietor of the Tacoma Ledger, that if he
would raise $1,000 for a lecture in Tacoma, I would make a trip around
the world in less than seventy days. He told me to come on.
As I started West, to sail on the Abyssinia, I received message after
message from Radebaugh. Instead of the $1,000 I had asked for, $1,500
had been subscribed by the time I reached Chicago, and at St. Paul it
had gone up to $3,500. I soon reached Tacoma, and lectured there to an
immense audience, taking in $4,200, the largest amount ever paid for a
single lecture--and sailed out into the Pacific March 18th. I was
accompanied by S. W. Wall, editor of the Ledger. Lafcadio Hearn, the
distinguished writer, was on the same ship, on his way to Japan. He was
so ill that he did not leave his state-room during the voyage.
We made Yokohama in sixteen days, and the moment I landed I telegraphed
to the American legation at Tokyo to get me a passport. It had always
taken three days to get a passport, but I said that I must have this at
once, and I got it. In seven hours I was on the way to Kobe, overland,
three hundred miles across Japan. I caught the German ship for Nagasaki,
from which point, after a short delay, I sailed for Hongkong. In a trip
of this kind, of course, one sees little of interest. It is a mere
question of rushing from vessel to vessel the moment you get into port,
or of catching trains, or of chartering boats to bridge gaps, or of
haggling with ship-captains or railway managers about getting extra
accommodations at very extra prices.
My longest delay was at Singapore, where I lost forty hours. The next
longest loss of time was in New York--wonderful to relate--where I was
delayed thirty-six hours, although four railways were competing for the
honor of taking me across the continent on a record-breaking journey. I
arrived on Saturday, and had to charter a special car--which cost
$1,500--and could not get away until Monday morning. I was near being
delayed a day at Calais, France, but succeeded in chartering a boat to
take me over the Channel. As this boat carried the British mails, I was
relieved of the expense by the British Government.
At Portland I met with a most annoying delay of five hours, due entirely
to mismanagement. This most unexpectedly lengthened out my tour at the
very end, and so angered me that I refused to attend a banquet the
people had prepared for me. I pushed on to Tacoma as soon as I could get
anything to carry me, and arrived there exactly sixty-seven days,
thirteen hours, two minutes, and fifty-five seconds from the time I had
started. The actual time of traveling was fifty-nine days and seven
hours. Seven days and five hours had been lost. This was then the
fastest trip around the world. It has been beaten since by myself.
As I had started on my second trip from a Pacific coast point, there was
a good deal of rivalry among the growing towns in that section with
regard to the honor of being the starting-point of my third trip in '92,
in which I eclipsed all previous records. I had already announced that
this could readily be done, as the Pacific steamships were very much
faster than they had been at the time of my former voyage, and as the
connections at various ports were much better. Sir William Van Horne
had also written that he wanted me to make another tour of the world,
using one of the fast ships of the Canadian Pacific road, the famous
Empresses, that soon would be put on the line to Yokohama. The new town
of Whatcom, on Puget Sound, in the extreme northwest of Washington,
raised the amount necessary for the trip, and I made my start from that
point, catching the Empress of India from Vancouver.
An account of this voyage would necessarily be only a panoramic glance
at a narrow line around the world. I made Yokohama in eleven days, was
at Kobe, Japan, in thirteen, and at Shanghai in fifteen. Here I had some
difficulty in finding a fast steamer for Singapore, but succeeded in
getting aboard a swift German boat, the Friga, which put me in Singapore
in time to catch the Moyune, the last of the fast tea ships, and on her
I sailed as far as Port Said, through the Suez Canal. At Port Said I
boarded the Ismaila for Brindisi, Italy. Then I again rushed across
Europe, and caught the Majestic at Liverpool for New York. I found a
distinguished company on board, including Ambassador John Hay, D. O.
Mills, Lady Stewart, Mrs. Paran Stevens, and Senator Spooner.
[Illustration: Dinner in the Mills Hotel given by George Francis Train.]
I arrived in New York in good time, had a very slight delay in
comparison with that of my second voyage, and went flying across the
continent to Whatcom. The entire trip, giving a complete circuit of
the globe, was made in sixty days.
To these three trips I attach no more importance, I hope, than is fairly
their due. In each of them, in succession, I had beaten all previous
records of travel; and this was something in the interests of all
persons who travel, as showing what could be done under stress, and as a
stimulus to greater efforts to reduce the long months and days consumed
on voyages from country to country. But they were, as I consider them,
merely incidents in a life that has better things to show. One of these
voyages, the one in which I "put a girdle round the earth" in eighty
days, has the honor of having given the suggestion for one of the most
interesting romances in literature. This, at least, is something.
But I give this brief account of my voyages, at the end of my
autobiography, chiefly because I regard them as somewhat typical of my
life. I have lived fast. I have ever been an advocate of speed. I was
born into a slow world, and I wished to oil the wheels and gear, so that
the machine would spin faster and, withal, to better purposes. I
suggested larger and fleeter ships, to shorten travel on the ocean. I
built street-railways, so that the workers of the world might save a few
minutes from their days of pitiless toil, and so might have a little
leisure for enjoyment and self-improvement. I built great railway
lines--the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Union Pacific--that the
continent might be traversed by men and commerce more rapidly, and its
waste places made to blossom like the rose. I wished to add a stimulus,
a spur, a goad--if necessary--that the slow, old world might go on more
swiftly, "and fetch the age of gold," with more leisure, more culture,
more happiness. And so I put faster ships on the oceans, and faster
means of travel on land.
My own rapid tours of the world are, therefore, typical of my life. Thus
an account of them seems to round it off fitly with a "Bon voyage" to
every one.
INDEX
Achinese, subjugation of the, 178.
Aden, visit to, 208.
Adirondack Railway, 260.
American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia, an, 222.
Andaman Islands, 204.
Anglo-American, the, 72, 144.
Anglo-Saxon, the, 55, 58, 72.
Anjer, visit of the natives at, 174.
Antietam, Battle of, 282.
Ariens, Admiral, 251.
Around the world tours, 331.
Around the World in Eighty Days, 301, 331.
Ashburner, George, 204.
Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 44.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237, 269.
Australia, begin business in, 127;
gold-fever in, 130, 141;
outlaws of, 152, 156;
railway system of, 269;
rebellion in, 156.
Austria, travels in, 233.
Bailey, Crawshay, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 244.
Balaklava, visit to, 217.
Balmoral, visit to, 92.
Banka, tin mines of, 179.
Banking and gambling compared, 86.
Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P., 38, 58.
Baring, Thomas, visit to America, 71.
Bartley, Judge, 244.
Bastile at Lyons, a prisoner in the, 310.
Batavia, Java, beauty of, 175.
Bemis, Emery, 37.
Bemis, George Pickering, 8, 48, 273, 311.
Bennett, James Gordon, 222.
Beyrout, visit to, 215.
Birkenhead, tramways in, 261.
Black Hole of Calcutta, 205.
Blockade running, 272.
Bly, Nellie, trip round the world, 335.
Bombay, India, railroad in, 270.
"Bonanza nugget," the, story of, 141.
Boomerang, the, 169.
Booth, Edwin, in Melbourne, 166.
Botany Bay, 144.
Bougevine, Gen., in China, 196.
Bowling, skill in, 79;
in Australia, 135.
Braemar, meeting with Lord John Russell at, 92.
Bridges, the phrenologist, 122.
Briticisms, 91.
Brooke, "Sarawak," 179.
Brougham, John, visit to Liverpool, 124.
Bunker Hill Day, 112.
Bury, Lord, 105.
Bushnell, the actor, in Melbourne, 167.
Cairo, land trip from Suez to, 209.
Calcutta, visit to, 204.
Caldwell, Captain, partner in the Australian house, 127, 136, 223.
California, discovery of gold in, 71.
Canada, visit to, 86.
Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, 207.
Canton, visit to, 182, 185.
Cape May, in 1850, 79.
Carleton, Mrs., meeting with, 83.
Castiglione, Countess, 230.
Ceylon, visit to, 208.
Chatsworth, visit to, 102.
China, visit to, 180;
population of, 190.
Chinese, civilization of the, 197;
customs of the, 190;
honesty of the, 187.
Choate, Rufus, retained in the Franklin case, 62.
Chronicle, London, purchase of the, 272.
Cincinnati, honeymoon trip to, 116.
Civil War in the United States, England and the, 271.
Claflin, Tennie C., arrest of, 323.
Clarke, John, Jr., 7, 9.
Clay, Cassius M., debate with, 279.
Clay, Henry, calls on, 81.
Cluseret, Gen. Gustave Paul, summoned from Switzerland, 305.
Collie, Alexander, 180.
Collingwood, home at, 135.
Commune, the, 301.
Constantine, Grand Duke, meeting with, at Strelna, 251.
Constantinople, visit to, 216.
Cook, Captain, in Botany Bay, 145.
Copenhagen, tramway in, 269.
Cozzens's Hotel, Omaha, 296.
Credit Foncier, 285.
Credit Mobilier of America, 260, 285, 316.
Crimea, in the, 217.
Cristina, Queen Maria, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 227,
237.
Crystal Palace, 103, 104.
Dalhousie, Lord, Governor-General of India, 207.
Dallas, George M., 250.
Daniel Webster, the, 117.
Darlington, England, tramways in, 269.
Davis, Col. George T. M., 110, 116, 259.
Delane, John, editor London Times, 251.
Delmonico's, McHenry's $15,000 dinner at, 246.
De Morny, Count, 228.
De Questa, Rodrigo, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 238.
Derby, J. C., 273.
Devonshire, Duke of, meeting with the, 101.
Dinsmore, Mr., meeting with, 87.
Dombriski, Prince, received by, 255.
Donohue, Irish patriot, 165.
Donovan, the phrenologist, 122.
Drinking by women in 1850, 83.
Dublin, imprisonment in, 314.
Duckbill, the Australian, 169.
Durant, Dr. T. C., president of Credit Mobilier, 260.
Elephants as carriers, 208.
Emerson, Ralph W., lecture at Waltham, 39;
engages passage for Europe, 60.
Emigration, Irish, to America, 76;
of the Landsdowne tenants, 97;
to Tasmania, 148.
"Emperor, the," fountain at Chatsworth, 102.
England, first impressions of, 90;
introduction of tramways in, 259;
and the Civil War in the United States, 271.
Excelsior, the Chinese, 193.
Fallow, Christopher and John, 239.
Fenton, Reuben E., 243.
Fillmore, Millard, President, 113.
Fiske, Stebbins, 13.
Fitzroy, Sir Charles, Governor of New South Wales, 143.
"Five-Star Republic," the, of Australia, 157.
Flowers, love of, 177.
Flying Cloud, the, 72, 221.
Flying-fish, experience with, 208.
Fowler, the phrenologist, 123.
France, travels in, 233.
Franklin, wreck of the, 61.
Franklin, Sir John, house in Tasmania, 150.
Frost, Abigail Pickering, 10.
Frost, George W., 14.
Frost, Leonard, 39.
Fu-chow, visit to, 200.
Fuller, Frank, builder of Crystal Palace, 104.
Fuller, Col. Hiram, 93.
Gambetta, interview with, 311.
Gambling at Saratoga in 1850, 85.
Geneva, Switzerland, tramway in, 269.
Georgetown Convent, visit to, 82.
Germany, travels in, 233.
Ginger, preparation of Canton, 190.
"Godowns," 185.
Golden Age, the, and Black Warrior incident, 143.
Gold-fever, in California, 71;
in Australia, 130, 141.
Gordon, "Chinese," 196.
Governor Davis, the, 64.
Grant, U. S., election to the presidency, 321.
Gray Nunnery, Montreal, visit to the, 87.
Greeley, Horace, nomination of, 320.
Green, E. H., in Hongkong, 182.
Greig, Colonel, entertained by, 254.
Guild, B. F., editor of Boston Commercial Bulletin, 276.
Harris, Townsend, 179.
Havelock, General, 208.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 58.
Hayes, Kate, in Melbourne, 167.
Heard, Augustine, author of The Chinese Excelsior, 193, 200.
Henry, voyage to Boston on the, 7, 16.
Herald, New York, in 1856, 221.
Hill, Rowland, English postal reformer, 108.
Hobart Town, Tasmania, visit to, 149.
Holmes, Joseph A., secure employment with, 42.
Hongkong, visits to, 182, 203.
Hooligan, finder of the "bonanza nugget," 141.
Horsemanship, 112.
Hotel scheme for London, 105.
Howe, Joseph, ex-Governor of Nova Scotia, 113.
Howitt, William and Mary, 149.
Hudson, Captain, 249.
Hudson, Frederick, 222.
Hunt, Thornton, made editor of London Morning Chronicle, 272.
Imprisonment, 314, 334.
India, visit to, 204.
Inventions, 106.
Irish immigration to America, 76.
Italy, travels in, 233.
Japan, leaves Australia for, 168, 171;
trip abandoned, 200.
Java, visit to, 174.
Jerusalem, visit to, 211.
Joppa, visit to, 211.
Joshua Bates, the, 58, 72.
Kangaroos, Sidney Smith on, 169.
Keene, Laura, in Melbourne, 166.
Kennard, Thomas, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 243.
King, Susan B., 332.
Krakatoa, volcano of, 175.
Kremlin, at the, 255.
Lachine Rapids, shooting the, 86.
Laird, John, and the Birkenhead tramways, 261.
Lake Champlain, visit to, 88.
Lake George, visit to, 88.
Lamartine, Alphonse de, meeting with Seward, 232.
Lansdowne, Marquis of, 97.
Latrobe, Governor, 158.
Launceston, Tasmania, visit to, 151.
Lawrence, Abbott, United States Minister, 98.
Lawrence, Bigelow, marriage to Sallie Ward, 114.
Leghorn, explosion at, 233.
Lemon, Mark, 105.
Lexington, burning of the, 10, 36.
Lightning, the, 221.
Ligue du Midi, the, 305.
Li Hung Chang, meeting with, 195.
Lillo, Leon, 227;
and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 238.
Lincoln, President, and emancipation, 280.
Liverpool, take charge of business in, 79, 90;
business facilities of, 94;
return to, after marriage, 117;
introduction of street-railways, 260.
London, visits to, 98, 104;
introduction of tramways, 263.
Lyons, imprisonment at, 310.
Macao, visit to, 182.
MacDonald, Sir John A., 113.
MacFarlane, Rev. J. R., companion in the Holy Land, 211.
McGill, James, Australian outlaw, 159.
McHenry, James, 94, 108, 121, 231;
and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237.
Mackay, Charles, author, 125.
Mackay, Donald, 72, 223.
Mackay, John W., 76.
MacMahon, Marshal, in the Crimea, 219.
Madras, visit to, 208.
Marriage, 109.
Marseilles, in the Commune, 301.
Marsh, John Alfred, 121.
Marshall, Matthew, Jr., and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 245.
Martin, John, Irish patriot, 165.
Marvin, the hotel-keeper, 83.
Mavrockadatis, the, trip to Newfoundland on, 274.
Melbourne, Australia, begin business in, 127;
in 1854, 133;
public improvement in, 170.
Methodism, New England, 21, 45.
Mirage, a, 209.
Montez, Lola, in Melbourne, 167.
Montreal, visit to, 86.
Morse, Salmi, 133.
Moscow, visit to, 255.
Mount Vernon, visit to, 82.
Munoz, Fernando, 237.
Nana Sahib, 208.
Naples, visit to, 234.
Napoleon, Emperor Louis, 272;
hatred of, 226.
New Orleans, yellow fever at, 2.
New South Wales, gold-fever in, 130, 141.
New York, to sell Flying Cloud, 73;
vacation in, 79.
Niagara Falls, visit to, 86, 111.
Nicholson, Sir Charles, 143.
Nijnii Novgorod, visit to, 256.
Noroton, Conn., Soldiers' Home in, 164.
O'Brien, Smith, Irish patriot, 165.
Ocean Monarch, the, 72;
burning of, 59.
Omaha, development of, 294.
Opium trade, 67;
English, in China, 196.
Otis, Mrs. Harrison Grey, meeting with, 84.
Outlaws, Australian, 152.
Palestine, visit to, 211.
Paris, first visit to, 224, 226.
Parker, Dr., United States Minister to China, 180.
Parliament, the, trip to Liverpool on, 90.
Paxton, Sir Joseph, meeting with, 103.
Pennock, Commander, 249.
Peto, Sir Morton, 246.
Philippines, war in the, 178.
Phillips, Wendell, and the negro, 281.
Phrenology, experiences with, 121.
Pickering, Rev. George, 1, 21.
Pickering, Judge Gilbert, 23.
Pickering, Maria, 1.
Pidgin-English, 185, 192.
Pigeon-netting, 30.
Pirates, Chinese, 182, 201.
Plymouth Rock, the, trip to Melbourne on, 127.
Point de Galle, Ceylon, visit to, 208.
Porter, Capt. David D., visits Melbourne, 143.
Portland, Ore., speech at, 297.
Presidential aspirations, 314.
Pyramids, trip to the, 209.
Railway building, in Australia, 131, 269;
Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237, 269;
English street-railways, 259;
Union Pacific Railway, 269, 283.
Red Jacket, the, 221;
the incident at Melbourne, 138.
Rhoades, Sallie, 24.
Rianzares, Duke of, 227, 237.
Richardson, Albert D., Beyond the Mississippi, 291.
Ripley, George, 38.
Ristori, meeting with, 228.
Rome, hailed as "liberator" in uprising my 235.
Rumford, Count, 38.
Rush, Mrs., meeting with, 84.
Russell, Lord John, meeting with, at Braemar, 92;
and the Civil War, 272.
Russia, visit to, 249.
St. Petersburg, visit to, 251.
St. Petersburg, the, 64.
Sala, George Augustus, 105;
in America, 260.
Salamanca, Jose de, Spanish banker, 228;
and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 240.
San Francisco, lectures in, 296.
Saratoga, visit to, 83.
Savage Club of London, organization of the, 263.
Schenck, Robert E., 244.
Scotland, visit to, 92.
Seattle, speech in, 299.
Sebastopol, visit to, 217.
Seward, William H., in Paris, 231;
and the Mavrockadatis incident, 274;
in Washington, 281.
Seymour, Thomas H., Minister to Russia, 251.
Shanghai, visit to, 194.
Shelley, Sir John Villiers, 268.
Sherman, John, 244.
Ships, naming of, 174.
Singapore, visit to, 179.
Slave trade, Chinese, 184, 203.
Smith, Archdeacon, meeting with, 88.
Smith, Sidney, on kangaroos, 169;
prophecy in regard to Sydney, Australia, 143.
Smuggling, 67.
Smyrna, visit to, 215.
Sovereign of the Seas, the, 74, 221.
Spectator, the London, purchase of, 273.
Spence, Carroll, 217.
Spencer, Bishop of Jamaica, meeting with, 88;
dinner with, in London, 98.
"Spread-Eagleism," 244.
Staffordshire, introduction of tramways in, 268.
Staffordshire, the, 74.
Stettin, visit to, 251.
Stevens, Paran, 106.
Stoddard, Captain, meeting with, 87.
Street-railways, first English, 259.
Strelna, meeting with Grand Duke Constantine at, 251.
Suez, visit to, and land trip to Cairo, 209.
Sumner, Charles, speaks in Boston on the war, 277.
Swans, black, 168.
Sydney, visit to, 143.
Tai-ping rebellion, 196.
Tasmania, visit to, 148;
gold-fever in, 130, 141.
Taylor, Moses, 166.
Taylor, President, introduced to, 80.
Tea, Chinese and Russian, 191, 334.
Temperance, 47, 99.
Ten-pins, skill in, 79;
in Australia, 135.
The Hague, visit to, 251.
Ticonderoga, visit to, 88.
Tilden, Samuel J., and Union Pacific Railway, 288.
Tilly, Governor, of New Brunswick, 113.
Tombs, imprisonment in the, 324.
Train, Ellen, 5.
Train, Col. Enoch, 52, 126, 223;
failure of, 173.
Train, Josephine, 3.
Train, Louisa, 9.
Train, Louise, 5.
Train, Oliver, 1, 7.
Train Villa, Newport, 314.
Tramways. See Street-railways.
Trescot, Commodore, meeting with, 88.
Tucker, Beverley, consul in Liverpool, 123.
Tweed Ring, exposure of the, 32.
Unicorn, the wreck of, 118.
Union Pacific Railway, 269, 283.
Upas-tree, fable of the, 189.
Upton, George B., 223.
Verne, Jules, Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours, 301, 331.
Victoria, Queen, 92, 104.
Vienna, visit to, 235.
Wade, Benjamin, 244.
Wales, visit to, 101.
Waltham, Mass., homestead at, 1, 19, 21.
Ward, Frederick Townsend, in China, 196.
Ward, Alfredo, 109.
Ward, Gen. C. L., 243.
Ward, Sallie, marriage to Bigelow Lawrence, 114.
Washington, vacation trip to, 79.
Washington Irving, the, 58, 72, 144.
Webster, Daniel, letter from, 80, 87, 92;
retained in the Franklin case, 63;
Secretary of State, 80.
Wellington, Duke of, 100.
West Point, visit to, 82.
Whistler, Major, 255.
Willis, N. P., John Brougham on, 124.
Wilson, Henry T., 148.
Winslow, Henry A., 10.
Woodhull, Victoria C., arrest of, 323.
World tours, 331.
Young America Abroad, 93, 103, 257.
Young America in Wall Street, 125.
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Transcriber's note:
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
page 280: "nonogenarian" changed to "nonagenarian" (who is now a
nonagenarian, in his armed castle in Kentucky).