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Working my Way Around the World

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A traveler with minimal funds and a camera journeys around the world by taking odd jobs and earning passage from place to place. The narrative chronicles crossings and overland marches through Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Far East, offering episodic accounts of shipboard life, mountain crossings, and city and village scenes. It moves through Egypt and the Nile, Palestine, India, Burma, Siam, and Japan, blending descriptions of markets, temples, and jungles with practical observations on languages, local customs, and the improvisations required to keep traveling.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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A baker’s cart of Holland on the morning round 14
 
Boundary line between France and Germany 21
 
My entrance into Paris 22
 
The Bridge of Sighs 39
 
My gondolier on the Grand Canal 41
 
Country family returning from market 49
 
Italian peasants returning from the vineyards to the village 53
 
The lonely, Bedouin-infected road over the Lebanon 76
 
On the road between Haifa and Nazareth I met a road repair gang 98
 
The shopkeeper and traveling salesman with whom I spent two nights and a day on the lonely road to Jerusalem 117
 
The Palestine beast of burden 119
 
A woman of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying two bushels of oranges 130
 
An abandoned mosque outside the walls of Cairo 132
 
An Arab café in Old Cairo 134
 
Sais or carriage runners of Cairo, clearing the streets for their master 138
 
An Arab gardener 140
 
Egypt—A young Arab climbing down the pyramid 142
 
On the top of the largest pyramid 143
 
A trip to the pyramids 144
 
“Along the way shadoofs were ceaselessly dipping up the water” 147
 
The Egyptian fellah dwells in a hut of reeds and mud 156
 
Soudan steamer on the Nile 160
 
Arab passengers on the Nile steamer 162
 
A Singhalese woman stops often to give her children a bath 182
 
The yogi who ate twenty-eight of the bananas at a sitting 187
 
The thatch roof at the roadside 190
 
I take a last ’rickshaw ride before taking the steamer for India 205
 
“Haywood” snaps me as I am getting a shave in Trichinopoly 209
 
The Hindu street-sprinkler does not lay much dust 228
 
I do a bit of laundry work 235
 
A lady of Delhi out for a drive in a bullock cart 240
 
The chief of a jungle village agrees to guide us for one day’s journey 267
 
A freight carrier crossing the stream that separates Burma from Siam 277
 
My companion, Gerald James of Perth, Australia, crossing the boundary line between Burma and Siam 279
 
The sort of jungle through which we cut our way for three weeks 292
 
Myself after four days in the jungle, and the Siamese soldiers who invited us to eat a frog and lizard supper 297
 
An elephant, with a Mahout dozing on his head, was advancing toward us 307
 
Bangkok is a city of many canals 317
 
My ’rickshaw man 322
 
Numadzu 323
 
Some street urchins near Tokio 325
 
Osaka 326
 
Horses are rare in Japan 328
 
Japanese children playing in the streets of Kioto 329
 
Women do most of the work in the rice-fields of Japan 330
 
Yokohama decorated in honor of Secretary Taft’s party 334
 
A Yokohama street decorated for the Taft party 338
WORKING MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD