Round the world in any number of days by Maurice Baring (1919) PDF book

Round the world in any number of days by Maurice Baring

Round the world in any number of days

ROUND THE WORLD IN ANY NUMBER OF DAY

 there is a school of people who say the world is flat. I asked H. G. Wells (who ought to know) whether the world was flat: He said he thought it improbable (mark the scepticism of H. G. Wells!), but he said the proofs generally given of the world’s roundness were bosh. 

The dogmas of science go round and round, from reaction to progress, and from progress to reaction, like the dogmas of medicine. 

One has only to remain very conservative to find one’s self a revolutionary. ‘“But,’’ some one may say, “‘whether the world is round and you are going round it, or whether it is flat and you are going across (or along?) it, that is no reason for describing your voyage — nowadays a hackneyed affair; you might just as well describe a journey round the Place de la Concorde or Trafalgar Square.”’

Excerpt 

Tilbury: June 21

There is a dock-strike going on: but the leaders say this has been defeated; the newspapers say it is over. I reach Tilbury Docks by noon of Friday, June 21. There, evidences of a strike are manifest in the shape of a local body of special police. The porter who wheels my luggage points them out and alludes to them in vivid and disrespectful terms. He says they are a pack of — you know the rest. I am sailing in one of the Orient ships: one of the big ones, twelve thousand tons or so. As soon as I get on board the lift-boy assures me that there are only eight old hands on board — all the rest have struck. “But who are the new hands?”’ I ask. “ Casual amateurs?”’ | “Oh! just any one we would get,” he says. It turns out that five hundred members of the police have been on board the ship for a week.

Travel around the world : 

Contents

TILBURY: JUNE 21 i

BAY OF BISCAY: JUNE 24 8

GIBRALTAR: JUNE 28 n

NAPLES: JUNE 29 12

PORT SAID: JULY 3 18

THE RED SEA: JULY 22

THE GULF OF ADEN: JULY 28
THE INDIAN OCEAN: DURING THE

MONSOON 38

CEYLON: JULY 42
FROM COLOMBO TO FREMANTLE: JULY 47

FREMANTLE: JULY 59

ADELAIDE: JULY 61

MELBOURNE: JULY 65

SYDNEY: AUGUST 2 66
ONBOARD THE MAUNGANUI! AUGUST 76

WELLINGTON: AUGUST 10 96

NEAR PALMERSTON: AUGUST 20 100

WELLINGTON: SEPTEMBER 104

RORATONGA AND TAHITI : SEPTEMBER no
ACROSS THE PACIFIC: SEPTEMBER 21-

OCTOBER 3 127

SAN FRANCISCO: OCTOBER 3 132

NEW YORK: OCTOBER 157

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