Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Cyrus W. Field’s Trip Around the World. [ARTICLE]

Cyrus W. Field’s Trip Around the World.

By steamer from San Francisco to Yokohama, 68,000 inhabitants ; twentyeight miles by rail to Tokio, 1,000,000 inhabitants ; back to Yokohama ; 200 miles by steamer to Kobe, 8,000 inhabitants ; twenty-two miles by rail to Osaka, 500,000 inhabitants; and by the most beautiful inland sea to Nagasakai, 70,000 inhabitants. Then, leaving Japan, by steamer across the Yellow sea to Shanghai, 250,000 inhabitants; by steamer on the Cliina sea to Hong Kong, 125,000 inhabitants, and by river seventy-five miles to Canton. Then, leaving China, by steamer on the China sea to Saigor, 90,000 inhabitants, in Cochin China. Then by steamer on the same sea to Singapore, 100,000 inhabitants, and by steamer throng] i the Straits of Malacca to Pehang, 60,000 inhabitants, both cities of the Malay peninsula. Then up the Bay of Bengal to Maulmain, 55,000 inhabitants ; by the same bay to Rangoon, 90,000 inhabitants. Then leaving British Burmah by steamer across the Bay of Bengal to India, landing at Calcutta, 895,000 inhabitants. Then 390 miles by rail to Benares, 175,000 inhabitants ; by rail 350 miles to Agra, 150,000 inhabitants ; by rail 115 miles to Delhi, 155,000 inhabitants; by rail 300 miles to Allahabad, 105,000 inhabitants, and by rail 600 miles to Bombay, 650,000 inhabitants. Then across the Arabian sea 1,800 miles to Arabia, landing at Aden, 5,000 inhabitants. Then 1,500 miles through the Red sea to Egypt, landing at Suez, 15,000 inhabitants ; by rail 76 miles to Cairo, 350,000 inhabitants, and by rail 112 miles to Alexandria, 100,000 inhabitants. From Alexandria to Italy, sailing about 1,300 miles across the Mediterranean to Naples, 450,000 inhabitants ; than to Marseilles, 320,000 inhabitants ; then along the French coast by rail twenty miles beyond Nice to Mentone, famous as a sanitary resort. From Mentone to Paris, to London, to Liverpool, down the Irish channel to Queenstown, and. then to New York, having done zigzag enough to make a journey of nearly 30,000 statute miles.