Chapter I: Foreword

The pages that follow are an account of a three-year trip I made around the world, starting from San Francisco with only a five-dollar gold piece and earning my way. My wanderings took me to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally across the Atlantic to America. I think the book covers a new field in travel narrative in that it shows that it is possible to work one's way around the world and do so with a considerable degree of comfort. In most instances I held good positions, met the representative people of each country and travelled in moderate style. I, of course, had numerous hardships and adventures, which I relate.

I wish to extend my thanks to Mr. Ralph J. Richardson, my travelling companion on part of the trip, for the photographs which illustrate the edition and to Mr. Stanley Richardson for many valuable suggestions in connection with the manuscript of the volume. I also wish to express my gratitude to _The Wide World Magazine_ for the courtesy of permitting me to republish the narrative from its pages.

A.C.B.F.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I TWO WORLD-BEATERS 1

II HAWAII BY STEERAGE 13

III GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS AT PEARL
HARBOR 26

IV LIVING AS JAPANESE IN JAPAN 42

V ARRESTED AS SPIES IN JAPAN 59

VI A PROFESSOR IN A CHINESE COLLEGE 74

VII ADRIFT IN THE CHINESE EMPIRE 89

VIII RURAL CHINA BY CART 109

IX ASSORTED JOBS IN THE PHILIPPINES 120

X A PORT-HOLE VIEW OF SOUTHERN ASIA 135

XI TWO TRAMPS IN INDIA 150

XII A SAILOR TO SUEZ 171

XIII AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS IN JERUSALEM 186

XIV WANDERING IN THE NEAR EAST 204

XV GREECE AND ROME FROM A THIRD-CLASS
COACH 218

XVI EUROPE ON A VANISHING BANK-ROLL 241

XVII FROM LUXURY TO HUNGER 257

XVIII A RESIDENT OF THE ARCTIC ZONE 269

XIX MINING UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN 284

XX TO AMERICA AS AN IMMIGRANT 304

ILLUSTRATIONS

The author _Frontispiece_
FACING
PAGE

On the beach at Waikiki 4

Our Kaneohe cottage 10

"Grub is ready; get your gang together" 10

The Steerage Trio 18

The _Gaylord_, the only drag-bucket dredger in existence 30

A restaurant where nothing but "grub" is served 30

Bound for Japan 48

Taisuke Murakami, our host at Nagoya 48

The picture that caused our arrest 66

A group of our Korean friends 76

Every day is wash-day in Korea 76

Provincial officials attending China's first track meet 80

The author in Chinese garb 84

A pagoda bridge in the Forbidden City 96

Country boys of North China 104

Sample of an irrigation system 104

Crossing a Chinese country bridge 112

The inn where Richardson put up for a night 112

An old church in Manila 122

The house in which Richardson lived during his employ
at the prison 130

The foreign business section of Singapore 142

The village drummer summoning the people on our
arrival 142

A _jutka_ or "jitney" used in Central India 150

Washing clothes in the Ganges 162

A single tree--a banyan 162

The Sphinx 178

The Mount of Olives 194

Our start for Nazareth 208

The port of Dedeagatch 214

A market in Constantinople 224

The Temple of Theseus 234

The Roman Forum--a "vacant lot" of Rome 248

St. John's Church, Needham Market 262

The author's home in Tromso 274

Tromso in summer-time 274

Pack ice in Ice Fjord 286

Twenty miles from land 286

The first load for shore 292

The ice pack from the crow's nest 300

The _Munroe_ alongside the ice--60 miles from land 306

Longyear City, Spitzenbergen--700 miles from the
North Pole 306

Norwegian wireless station in Ice Fjord 314

FROM JOB TO JOB
AROUND THE WORLD

FROM JOB TO JOB AROUND THE WORLD