TRAVEL STORIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Victoria Falls, Zambesi] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRAVEL STORIES RETOLD FROM ST. NICHOLAS NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. Copyright, 1920, by THE CENTURY CO. PRINTED IN U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE THE GRAND CAÑON OF ARIZONA _William Haskell Simpson_ 3 IN RAINBOW-LAND _Amy Sutherland_ 16 TRAVELING IN INDIA _Mabel Albert Spicer_ 25 WHERE THE SUNSETS OF ALL THE YESTERDAYS ARE FOUND _Olin D. Wheeler_ 38 FIRECRACKERS _Erick Pomeroy_ 51 CURIOUS CLOCKS _Charles A. Brassler_ 64 MOTORING THROUGH THE GOLDEN AGE--PART I _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 74 MOTORING THROUGH THE GOLDEN AGE--PART II _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 97 LETTER-BOXES IN FOREIGN LANDS _A. R. Roy_ 119 LOST RHEIMS _Louise Eugénie Prickett_ 124 WHERE DOROTHY VERNON DWELT _Minna B. Noyes_ 135 GLIMPSES OF FOREIGN FIRE-BRIGADES _Charles T. Hill_ 142 DUTCH CHEESES _H. M. Smith_ 162 A GEOGRAPHY CITY "COME ALIVE" _Lindamira Harbeson_ 167 THE GIANT AND THE GENIE _George Frederic Stratton_ 180 OUT IN THE BIG-GAME COUNTRY _Clarence H. Rowe_ 195 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Victoria Falls, Zambesi _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Camel Carriages of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 32 Strings of Firecrackers 60 Hexagonal Bundles of Firecrackers Drying in the Sun 60 View of Constantinople from the Galata Side 170 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRAVEL STORIES THE GRAND CAÑON OF ARIZONA BY WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Many of those who seek and love earth's greatest scenery have declared that they found it at the Grand Cañon of Arizona. Travelers flock to it from the ends of the earth, though the majority of the visitors, numbering every year about a hundred thousand, are Americans.