Excerpt from A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth
The above is intended as an ingenious means of deluding people into reading a preface, who would skip it directly if the Word Preface were printed on the top in big letters. But as a junior devil I am naturally of an antic disposition, and so may be easily imagined to be Sitting on my reader s shoulder grinning, and girding, and mopping, and mowing heartily at the success of my device.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE BULL FIGHT, 15 FOREST SCENE IN PERU, ..... 23 THE PALM TREE, ... 27 A GATE OF MANDALAY, 31 RAPID TRANSIT IN MEXICO, -- 37 VIEW OF MANDALAY, CAPITAL OF BURMAH, -39 KING THEBAW AND HIS TWO QUEENS, -- 47 THE KINGS PAGODA, MANDALAY, 55 THE SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT, MANDALAY, -- C3 COSTUME OF BURMESE AMBASSADORS, 71 THE SLAUGHTER-GATE AT LUCKNOW, 79 THE TAJ-MAHAL AT AGRA, -87 ROYAL PALACE AT MANDALAY, -91 THE SNAKE-CHARMER OF INDIA, -- 101 VIEW OF CAIRO, EGYPT, 109 FOREST SCENE, ISLAND OF MAURITIUS, 117 THE WHITE TERRACE, -125 THE PINK TERRACE, --133 A KANGAROO HUNT IN AUSTRALIA, -- 139 A ZULU KRAAL, -143 SCENES IN THE STREETS OF HEOGO, JAPAN, -- 151 LADIES OF CEYLON, -157 AN ELEPHANT HUNT CEYLON, -- -- 163 VALETTA, THE CAPITAL OF MALTA, -169 THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, -- 175 NEAR HAY, NEW SOUTH WALES, -177 SCEXE NEAR LAUXCKSTON, TASMANIA, -- 181 A GVMPIE MINEH, -- 183 GRAVES OF THE CALEPHS, -- ..
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