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Title: Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand miles..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Clark, Francis E. (Francis Edward), 1851-1927 Clark, Harriet E. (Harriet Elizabeth), b. 1850
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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larger world around us. We were just steering out of Moreton bay, were we not,when we went below to look at our strange assortmentof passengers % The water is smooth and glassy, and over just such anunruffled sea the captain tells we are likely to sail for morethan two weeks, for, during the first week, we shall keepwell within the Great Barrier reefs which effectually preventthe rude Atlantic waves from buffeting our progress; andduring the second week, the many islands off the coast ofNorthern Australia and the Malay Archipelago act as break-waters for our course, so that, practically, with the exceptionof the last three days, the whole cruise of the Chingtu is.within landlocked seas. This assurance is a great delight tosome of our company, for even the most indifferent sailorcannot fail to enjoy such a trip as this. Those sunbaked, blistered mountains on our left markthe coast of Queensland, and what a tremendous colony itis! More than five times the size of Great Britain and Ire-
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WHITE MAN, HE TOO SALT. 125 jMmS:. land, the geographies tell us, and we can well imagine thatthey are not exaggerating the truth, as we sail on, day afterday, day after day, invain effort to get beyondthe northern point ofCape York. Far off yonder inNorthern Australia areunexplored wilds andsavage black men, whowould not only takepleasure, so our captaintells us, in flaying usalive, but in eating agood tender Yankee afterhe has been well flayedand cooked. These blacksprefer Chinamen, how-ever, so he assures us, toYankees or to people ofEuropean extraction of any kind, for they are muchfresher says our epicurean aboriginal. White man, hetoo salt, is the verdict of this fastidious savage. Well, wewill rejoice in our saline characteristics, for if we should becast ashore on this inhospitable coast, salt, as is its nature,may preserve us. On the left or Australian side, as we steam northward,headland succeeds headland; on the right, island succeedsisland, and so all day long and all the

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