The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-01
IN EXCURSION ABOUND THE WORLD.

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| To,THx EpIrOR OF THE HsRALD:-
Since my return home in December last have
been frequently applied to, both personally and BY
letter, for information in regard to the most direct
route 10 follow In making the round the world
tour the most interesting points to VISIT the dts
lance to be travelled, the amount OF time and money
necessary to compass the trip, &c.
Since the completion and opening OF the Pacific
Railway these inquiries have greatly multiplied.
Not few applicants have gone SO far as to favor
the organization OF party or company OF excur-
sionsts for the purpose Of making the trip together
The pressure OF business and other engagements
have prevented my giving more than very brief and
partial replies,tO these inquiries. TO very many
have found It impossible to make any response what
ever and my present object IN addressing this COM
municatiOn to you Is mainly to enable me to place
the result of my experience before the largest posi-
BILE circle OF readers. For the sake OF perspicuity
| and brevity will answer the leading queries aG-
vanced categorcaliy.
| Flrst-The distance around the world, following
what Is scientifically known as the "rhOnb," or or
d.nary line of navigation, Is %, 102 miles, Making
needed allowance for the short deours from this line
or interest e,s route more particularly those IN India
and on the coast of Ghina from 1000 to 5000 miles
| should be added
| Sec0nd-As regards time. The entire circuit
be made IN three months, provided the land travel
ne prosecuted by rail and the ocean voyage by the
| established lines Of government mail steamers.
| This computation Is, Of course based upon the as
| sumption that close connections are erected. NO
allowance Is made for stoppages or for extraordinary
| DELAYS TO meet such contingencies three months
more should be added. In short. six months viii
| suffice TO accomplish the trip comfortably
Thud-In reference the of the tour 1t 70 not
so easy to furnish definite aud reliable information.
| Tne sums which go to make up what are known as
| expenditures" win, on the return home be found
to vary in the experience OF every individual mem
| travelled over the same line Of route. The amount
VIII be largely governed by the tastes and Of
the tourist. Is only practicable, or indeed desra
bie for me to give the amount absolutely necessary
This may be stated in round figures at $1,000 or
| about f325 Those intending to make purchases Of
curlositics, small wares, &c. in China and Japan
should add from $500 to 81, 900 to this amount.
respecting the route and the objects OF interest
which IL presents To the tourist 80 closely assmilate
together as far a. practicable.
Taxing New York. then, as the point OF departure,
the usually travelled route Is and will continue 10 be
that via Liverpool, London Paris, Marseilles. Suez
Alden, Bombay. Calcutta, Point de Gale, Singapore
Hong Kong, Yokohama. san Francisco, Great Salt
| Lake City, omaha and Chicago. For those who wish
to visit the Mount Gems tunnel the ''ltahan' route
to Bfndls or the austrian LlOyds" line to Trieste
will be preferable. In either instance, however, the
route eastward from these ports will be the same
VIZ, by steamer down the Mediterranean to Alexan-
above programme may indeed be made at Alden and
many other points after leaving Europe; bur such
| changes will involve greater outlay OF time and
money than the route here indicated, ana Increased
hardship, without adequate compensation in the
have thus briefly but faithfully endeavored to
answer the salient and pertinent points which
the discussion OF this subject suggests and trust
that they WILL for oil practical purposes at least be
adequate to the wants and wishes OF your readers.
A word or two more in regard to the PROPOSED ex.
cursiOn and ! take my leave. Relying upon the
prof'ered AID and CO operation OF those more inme
diatey interested in such movement, have de.
tonrists ana 70 invite Proposals for membership
The time and season are both proptious TAe pre-
sent year, SO memorable in the annals OF CONNER
ola a Ot achievement a.
vorable TO the prosecution and successful accom-
plshment OF sucn scheme. Not ouy Is this the case
III our own country, but IL Is also In very marked
, degree all over the world. The completion oil our
own interoceanic railway system. as well as OF the
great East Indian Railway, together with the open
ing OF the Sucz ship canal affords facilities for cheap
comfortable and speedy transit never before en-
| loved In the experience OF the circumnavigator
What half century ago scarcely dreamed OF IL
= | to-day an accomplished fact The road Is ready
r | the means are at hand. The number among those
\ visiting Europe this year who are DESTROYS to ex
tend their trip through France and Italy to witness
IL already large and daily increasing. To all such
# favorable opportunity VIM be Afforded through
. the agencies which this organization Is dc
signed to put IN operation TO visit hitherto
unfrequented and to them but little know
"A portions of the globe. A new. field 0
y thus be opened to tnem Instead OF returning home
ward TO New York BY the beaten tracks OF trave
in winch, II they have we'll employed their time, the
- have already partially If not wholly exhausted tn
members OF the expedition viii be anIc to attend tn
o. published programme will mark the opening OF tn
:. Suez Canal; TO see The works thrown up by Tn
" Abyssinian expedonary force at Zuiia on the Re
Sea; to visit Bombay, Calcutta and the intermedlal
AZ native cities and towns OF Nagpore, jubDupors
a. Lucknow. Cawnpore, Delhi and Benares. The scene
40 Of the bloody Sepoy mutay and the terrible 0riss
famine Will be within easy reach OF the tourist Lea,
ing Calcutta at the commencement OF the cool ses
=, son the line OF route will lie down the cas-
&c " coast OF India to Madras and Ceylon. fe,
days seaming wiz bring the tourist TO Gale, at th
~ southern extremity OF that lovely island. Here
opportunity Will be offered to visit some OF the COTE
~ plantations and groves Of cocoanut palms for whc
the island IL famous, and to witness that most
nc ing OF all eastern sports an elephant hunt Fror
Gale the tour will be extended by the usually tray
clled route through the lovely straits OF Malacca
beautiful islands of Java, Sumatra Borneo an
others OF the extensive groups or islands whic
u. form the great eastern or Malayan archipelago &
English and American travellers Wallace and BicL
more, can easily be reached. Arrived In Hon
Kong, the most soutnery open port In the Chimes
We make the tour Of Inc entire coast line
)s China proper to visit In turn the imperial and con
mo- mercial cities Of Canton, Annoy, swallow, F0ocho'
lily Tartar capital, PeKin itself; and TO the palace
pagodas temples. gardens and other sights OF Uni
no wonderIu empire. From Shangnae the entire par.
-" can be not only comfortably but uyurousy or0ugl
70 san Francisco by the steamers Oh the pacnc ma
ie- steamship Company, VIA Yokohama, IN Japan. ~
no tour I'm the Japanese waters and empire VIII en-
brace the now famous trip through tne lnland pc
er- which commands q view OF the recently 0pent
en- ports OF HiogO Osaka and KOBE. ~ VIM also !,
IN cude visit TO the imperial cily OF 1euuo Oase "
,es seat OF the TycOons power ana now rendered mo
tie than interesting by reason OF the cVii war
ny tween the rival factions OF the ex-Shogooa and
~ kado, OF which II has oeen the centre. -, -. G.
Ill II ~ expected that the EXPEDITION Will feach -
OF Francisco on It's return towards the cloSe OF L
led NTH month, say OF March. or early III April III
nd VIII then he allowed for such OF inc pntes as oesl
IN 1t to the famed Yosemite Valley, the bg tree
M gcygers ana other OF the more immediate nalur
~. wonders aud euriosutcs 0, the 8etien StHe. I