ROUND THE WORLD

IN SEVEN DAYS

BY

HERBERT STRANG

ILLUSTRATED BY A. C. MICHAEL

1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER.

        PRELUDE

I               THE CABLEGRAM

II              EASTWARD HO!

III             ACROSS EUROPE TO THE BOSPHORUS

IV             A FLYING VISIT

V              THE TOMB OF UR-GUR

VI            WITH GUN RUNNERS IN THE GULF

VII            THE WHITE DJINN

VIII          A SHIP ON FIRE

IX             A PASSENGER FOR PENANG

         INTERLUDE

X              SOME PRAUS AND A JUNK

XI            AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALITY

XII           STALKED BY PIGMIES

XIII          THE RESCUE

XIV          SIR MATTHEW IMPROVES THE OCCASION

XV          HERR SCHWANKMACHER'S CABBAGES

XVI          A STOP-PRESS MESSAGE

XVII         A MIDNIGHT VIGIL

XVIII        THE LAST LAP

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"THE AEROPLANE CIRCLED OVER THE HEADS
OF THE SPECTATORS"

"THE CAPTAIN LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY FROM
THE TWO GRIMY TRAVELLERS TO THE
SPICK-AND-SPAN ENGLISHMAN"

"THE MACHINE SUDDENLY SPRANG UPWARDS,
AND RODIER FELL BACKWARD AMONG HIS
CAPTORS"

"THEY SUDDENLY DARTED FORWARD WITH A
WILD WHOOP"

"THE PRAUS HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO PADDLE
FRANTICALLY AWAY"

"SMITH OVERTOOK A GROUP OF THE ISLANDERS
BEFORE THEY REACHED SHELTER"