My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth YearTrain, George Francis
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My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year
Train, George Francis
Train, George Francis, 1829-1904
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.
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