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whole length of the island to Batavia, not and the Madras Presidency and Ceylon, to
along the high road, but generally on the Egypt by way of Aden and the Red Sea.
south sea-side of the island, yet nearly cross- Five months he devoted to the examination
ing it eleven times in traversing its length. of the ruins of that fascinating land, and it
He traveled along most of the west coast of is some of the results of this examination,
Sumatra. Into Panda, making a collection both on paper and in the way of exhumed
of tin specimens from its tin- mines, which and otherwise obtained relics and monuments,
would be called in California tin placers. that especially interest our readers at present
Again to Singapore, which he was in and out -and that we hope are to enrich the literaof seven times. To Tenasserim. To Maul- ture and the museums of California.
main. To Pegu and Burmah. To Irrikan. One positively wearies at repeating the
To Calcutta twice. Through Bengal, Oude, long list of places further noted and enlarged
the North - west Provinces, and the Punjab. upon in, Mr. Shaw's huge portfolios of jourAcross the Himalayas to Cashmere, and nal, or whose mementoes abound in his packthrough that country. Nearly across the ing-cases, stowed in the warehouses of San
whole breadth of the Himalayas into Thibet. Francisco or still to arrive. Let us only hurAlong the extreme northern frontier of the riedly say that from Egypt he went to Pal.
British possessions in India, often in sight of estine, crossed the Jordan, floated on the
the Hindoo Koosh, to Peshawer. Through waters of the Dead Sea, and trod the streets
the Kerbola Pass into Afghanistan, though of the Holy City. Hired camels at Damasthat pass was forbidden to White men and cus, and set out for Palmyra (or Tadmor),
had not been previously entered by Europe- within twenty hours' travel of which he was
ans during fourteen years. To Attock, where compelled to retreat by the spears of the Behe had a scow made on which he floated be- douins. He went to Horus, Hanna, Beyroot,
tween the gorges and down the rapids of the Cyprus, Rhodes, Smyrna, Ephesus. Through
untraveled Indus River, clear down to Dera the AEgean Sea, the Hellespont, the Sea of
Ismail Khan. Thence horseback into Be- Marmora, to Constantinople, and so into Eu loochistan and down to Dera Ghaza Khan. rope, to Finland, central Russia, and the
Across the country of Sinde, or Sindia, to better-known countries of the centre and
Mooltan. Again to Lahore, Umritsir, Jullin- west of the continent-where we will not fol der, Umballah, Delhi, Multra, Agra, Cawn- low him. Then back to Asia, to Persia,
poor, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, Gaze- where, within some ten hours' ride of Tehe poor, etc. Through Central India (not by ran, he was taken with malarial fever and
rail), Nagpoor, Hyderabad, Aurungabad, compelled to return to Europe as rapidly as
Dawlatabad, Ellora, Almadnuggar, Poona, practicable.
Bombay, Surat, Baroda, Kurrachee, Muscat. Including travels previously performed by
Away again along the Persian coast, up the him into and around South America, and in Persian Gulf, up the Tigris River to Bagdad. to the Antarctic Ocean, he has been on the
On horseback to Nineveh, Mosul, and the Arctic and the Antarctic, and upon every
lands of the Yezidees. Built a raft at Mo- ocean and large sea on the globe, and among
sul and floated down the Tigris to Nimrood almost every race of mankind, and into near and then to Bagdad. Crossed Mesopotamia ly every populous nation at present in exist and the Desert of Arabia to Babylon, to ence. Mr. Shaw has brought to San Fran Kerbola (the Persian Mecca), to Kufa, and cisco over sixty cases of books, maps, histor back to Hillah -deciding, as he says, to ical relics, and pictures of immense value.
his own satisfaction what the famous "Tow- He has a great Nineveh stone, five feet by
er of Babel" (Birs - Nimrood ) really is; his ten feet, full of cuneiform characters and with
conclusion differing completely from that of a beautiful bass-relief of a high-priest six feet
other investigators of the subject. Crossed tall. His antiquities are from Nineveh, Nim back into Persia. Examined Persepolis and rood, Babylon, Kufa, Kerbola, Persepolis,
surrounding places. Thence, after a return Egypt, and a host of other places. Further,
trip to India (in which country he spent alto- he is now having constructed in London, for
gether two years), especially southern India, San Francisco or some other place in Califor
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