Chapter I: Front Matter

WORKING MY WAY
AROUND THE WORLD

WORKING MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD

REWRITTEN BY
LENA M. FRANCK
FROM
HARRY A. FRANCK’S “VAGABOND JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD”

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND WITH MAPS

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1918

Copyright, 1918, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published, September, 1918_

DEDICATED TO
ALL YOUNG FIRESIDE TRAVELERS

Still, as my Horizon grew,
Larger grew my riches, too.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I “CROSSIN’ THE POND WI’ THE BULLOCKS” 3

II “ON THE ROAD” IN THE BRITISH ISLES 7

III IN CLEAN HOLLAND 12

IV NOT WELCOME IN THE FATHERLAND 17

V TRAMPING THROUGH FRANCE 24

VI CLIMBING OVER THE ALPS 29

VII IN SUNNY ITALY 32

VIII AMONG THE ARABS 56

IX A LONELY JOURNEY 75

X CITIES OF OLD 82

XI THE WILDS OF PALESTINE 106

XII CAIRO AND THE PYRAMIDS 129

XIII A TRIP UP THE NILE 146

XIV STEALING A MARCH ON THE FAR EAST 164

XV IN THE LAND OF THE WANDERING PRINCE 180

XVI THE MERRY CIRCUS DAYS 194

XVII THREE WANDERERS IN INDIA 204

XVIII THE WAYS OF THE HINDU 216

XIX IN THE HEART OF INDIA 224

XX BEYOND THE GANGES 242

XXI TRAMPING THROUGH BURMA 250

XXII IN THE JUNGLES OF BURMA 265

XXIII IN SIAM 276

XXIV HUNGRY DAYS 287

XXV FOLLOWING THE MENAM RIVER TO BANGKOK 304

XXVI ON THE WAY TO HONG-KONG 316

XXVII WANDERING IN JAPAN 322

XXVIII HOMEWARD BOUND 332

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Harry A. Franck _Frontispiece_

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A baker’s cart of Holland on the morning round 14

Boundary line between France and Germany 21

My entrance into Paris 22

The Bridge of Sighs 39

My gondolier on the Grand Canal 41

Country family returning from market 49

Italian peasants returning from the vineyards to the
village 53

The lonely, Bedouin-infected road over the Lebanon 76

On the road between Haifa and Nazareth I met a road
repair gang 98

The shopkeeper and traveling salesman with whom I spent
two nights and a day on the lonely road to
Jerusalem 117

The Palestine beast of burden 119

A woman of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying two bushels of
oranges 130

An abandoned mosque outside the walls of Cairo 132

An Arab café in Old Cairo 134

Sais or carriage runners of Cairo, clearing the streets
for their master 138

An Arab gardener 140

Egypt—A young Arab climbing down the pyramid 142

On the top of the largest pyramid 143

A trip to the pyramids 144

“Along the way shadoofs were ceaselessly dipping up the
water” 147

The Egyptian fellah dwells in a hut of reeds and mud 156

Soudan steamer on the Nile 160

Arab passengers on the Nile steamer 162

A Singhalese woman stops often to give her children a
bath 182

The yogi who ate twenty-eight of the bananas at a
sitting 187

The thatch roof at the roadside 190

I take a last ’rickshaw ride before taking the steamer
for India 205

“Haywood” snaps me as I am getting a shave in
Trichinopoly 209

The Hindu street-sprinkler does not lay much dust 228

I do a bit of laundry work 235

A lady of Delhi out for a drive in a bullock cart 240

The chief of a jungle village agrees to guide us for one
day’s journey 267

A freight carrier crossing the stream that separates
Burma from Siam 277

My companion, Gerald James of Perth, Australia, crossing
the boundary line between Burma and Siam 279

The sort of jungle through which we cut our way for
three weeks 292

Myself after four days in the jungle, and the Siamese
soldiers who invited us to eat a frog and lizard
supper 297

An elephant, with a Mahout dozing on his head, was
advancing toward us 307

Bangkok is a city of many canals 317

My ’rickshaw man 322

Numadzu 323

Some street urchins near Tokio 325

Osaka 326

Horses are rare in Japan 328

Japanese children playing in the streets of Kioto 329

Women do most of the work in the rice-fields of Japan 330

Yokohama decorated in honor of Secretary Taft’s party 334

A Yokohama street decorated for the Taft party 338

WORKING MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD