A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.
is seldom that the number does not include authors, artists, musicians, and
actors of eminence traveling between Europe and America, such events
are likely to be of peculiar interest, and the last memory of the journey
before reaching home a pleasant one.
FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE ORIENT.
The waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, north and west of Aus-
tralia, are traversed by scores of great steamships of modern construction
under the British flag, which provide frequent and rapid communication
between the ports of Australia, the East Indies. and the Asiatic continent,
as well as with the home ports of Europe. These lines are operated under
the flag of the British India Steam Navigation Company, The Queensland
Royal Mail, and the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company. The
fleets in this service are enormous and their volume of tragic correspondingly
large. It is true that they do not carry the larger volume of passenger traffic
between Europe and Australia, most of this business going by way of the
southern Australian ports, instead of the northern. As has been related in
previous pages, such lines as the Peninsular and Oriental, the Orient,
the North German Lloyd, and the Messageries Maritimes afford a luxurious
and swift service between London and Sydney, via Melbourne. Adelaide,
Albany, Colombo, Aden, and Suez. But there is another series of attrac.
tions to the north of Australia, reached by equally comfortable methods of
travel, and altogether novel. The sailing port for these steamers is Brisbane,
the capital of Queensland. From this city lines start whose other terminals
include all the commercial ports from Yokohama to Aden, as well as the
through service to London. It is quite worth while to consider these less
frequented lines of travel in planning a journey 'round the world. From
Brisbane to the northernmost extremity of the Australian continent at Gape
York is a distance of nearly 2,000 miles. On the way there are many inter,
esting ports of call, including Rockhampton, Townsville, and Cooktown.
These and the half-dozen others which breas the journey for a few hours
are by no means uninteresting to the traveler beginning the long ocean voyage.
Some of them are outlets for large gold-mining industries in the interior of
the colony. Others are agricultural markets for wheat, mutton, wool, and
sugar cane. The northward journey takes one farther and farther into the
tropics, and at the first port beyond the Australian continent one enters the
waters of Torres Strait, notable for the savagery of the natives discovered
on the shores which bound it. Thursday Island is the port right in the
strait, York Cape a few miles to the southward, and the mountains of
New Guinea are in sight to the north. New Guinea has been subdivided
of late years by those colonial promoters of the East Indies, the British,
Germans, and Dutch, each of whom has taken a segment for development.
Nevertheless this largest of all islands is still to a great extent unexplored,
and the natives in the remoter parts are as dangerous as they were in the
days of the first explorers. The recent unprofitable rush of gold seekers
into the island from Australia brings the last mentioned fact forcibly to
mind. Thursday Island is the center of pearl,shell fisheries of great value.
It is recognized as an important strategic point, and has been fortified
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