Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 61269-h.htm or 61269-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61269/61269-h/61269-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61269/61269-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/searoadtoeastgib00sargrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). These lectures each had a set of associated slides, a complete list of which can be found on pages 117-124 at the end of the book. These slide sets were sold separately and are not part of the book. Some of the slides (those highlighted in =bold= in the slide list) were inserted as illustrations in the original book, and the captions of these illustrations are reproduced in this etext. The numbers in the right margin of the etext are the numbers of the associated slides. Several of these margin slide numbers are in parentheses ( ) to indicate that this particular slide is being shown for a second time at this point in the lecture. There are no Footnotes in this book. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: (_See page 115._ WORLD ROUTES TO THE EAST.] [Illustration: _Copyright._) (_See page 14._ VALETTA.] THE SEA ROAD TO THE EAST Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei Six Lectures Prepared for The Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office by A. J. SARGENT, M.A. London George Philip & Son, Ltd., 32, Fleet Street Liverpool: Philip, Son & Nephew, Ltd., South Castle Street 1912 (All rights reserved) THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF MEATH, K.P., Chairman. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, G.C.M.G. SIR JOHN STRUTHERS, K.C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch Education Department. SIR CHARLES HOLROYD, Director of the National Gallery. SIR PHILIP HUTCHINS, K.C.S.I., late Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. SIR EVERARD IM THURN, K.C.M.G., C.B., late Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. SIR CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. DR. H. FRANK HEATH, C.B., of the Board of Education. A. BERRIEDALE KEITH, D.C.L., of the Colonial Office. H. J. MACKINDER, M.P., lately Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. W. H. MERCER, C.M.G., Crown Agent for the Colonies. PROFESSOR MICHAEL E. SADLER, C.B., LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.