[PREFACE]
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PREFACE TO THE NEW (8TH) EDITION.
IN adding to this book two chapters which form the record of one of my later journeys, I have not changed the earlier portions of the work otherwise than by striking out some statements which had obviously ceased to be true, and by adding a few notes. My title has become hackneyed, and my stories have become stale; but I could hardly abandon the former, and my publishers tell me of the latter that the public like old friends.
C. W. D.
76, SLOANE STREET, CHELSEA.
1885.
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perceive that she has done more than found plantations of her own--that she has imposed her institutions upon the offshoots of Germany, of Ireland, of Scandinavia, and of Spain. Through America, England is speaking to the world.
Sketches of Saxondom may be of interest even upon humbler grounds: the development of the England of Elizabeth is to be found, not in the Britain of Victoria, but in half the habitable globe. If two small islands are by courtesy styled "Great," America, Australia, India, must form a "Greater Britain."
C. W. D.
76. SLOANE STREET, CHELSEA,
1868.
[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS
PART I.
CHAP. PAGE
I. --VIRGINIA................. 3
II. ---THE NEGRO............ 14
III. --THE SOUTH............. 23
IV. --THE EMPIRE STATE.. 28
V. --CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT......... 36
VI. --CANADA.................. 46
VII. --UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ............... 57
VIII. --THE PACIFIC RAILROAD .................. 64
IX. --OMPHALISM ............ 70
X. --LETTER FROM DENVER..................... 74
XI. --RED INDIA............ 83
XII. --COLORADO............... 89
XIII. --ROCKY MOUNTAINS... 93
XIV. --BRIGHAM YOUNG.. 99
XV. --MORMONDOM........ 104
XVI. --WESTERN EDITORS 107
XVII. --UTAH.................. 118
XVIII. --NAMELESS ALPS.... 125
XIX. --VIRGINIA CITY...... 138
XX. --EL DORADO......... 148
XXL--LYNCH LAW......... 159
XXII. --GOLDEN CITY...... 172
XXIII. --LITTLE CHINA...... 182
XXIV. --CALIFORNIA.......... 189
XXV. --MEXICO............... 194
XXVI. --REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT......... 199
XXVII. --BROTHERS............ 208
XXVIII. --AMERICA............. 216
PART II.
I. --PITCAIRN ISLAND...... 227
II. --HOKITIKA............... 233
III. --POLYNESIANS........... 245
IV. --PAREWANUI PAH...... 250
V. --THE MAORIES...... 267
VI. --THE TWO FLIES.... 274
VII. --THE PACIFIC........ 279
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PART III.
I. --SYDNEY ................. 285
II. --RIVAL COLONIES....... 291
III. --VICTORIA................. 297
IV. --SQUATTER ARISTOCRACY.................. 309
V. --COLONIAL DEMOCRACY................. 314
VI. --PROTECTION............ 323
VII. --LABOUR.................. 331
VIII. --WOMAN.................. 339
IX. --VICTORIAN PORTS... 342
X. --TASMANIA.............. 345
XI. --CONFEDERATION..... 356
XII. ---ADELAIDE.............. 359
XIII. --TRANSPORTATION.... 368
XIV. --AUSTRALIA............. 379
XV. ---COLONIES............... 385
PART IV.
I. --MARITIME CEYLON... 395
II. --KANDY.................... 405
III. --MADRAS TO CALCUTTA.................. 411
IV. --BENARES. ................. 419
V. --CASTE.. ................... 425
VI. --MOHAMEDAN CITIES.. 436
VII. --SIMLA..................... 444
VIII. --COLONIZATION.......... 456
IX. --THE "GAZETTE"..... 462
X. --UMRITSUR............... 470
XI. --LAHORE..... ............ 479
XII. --OUR INDIAN ARMY... 483
XIII. --RUSSIA.... ................ 488
XIV. --NATIVE STATES........ 498
XV. --SCINDE.................. 508
XVI. --OVERLAND ROUTES.. 515
XVII. --BOMBAY................. 523
XVIII. --THE MOHURRUM..... 529
XIX. --ENGLISH LEARNING. 535
XX. --INDIA................... 542
XXI. --DEPENDENCIES....... 553
XXII. --THE SECOND EMPIRE IN THE EAST........ 558
XXIII. --THE ENGLISH......... 564
XXIV. --ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN JAPAN............. 566
XXV. --ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN CHINA............. 591
INDEX............. 609
