Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-11-23
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THE GREAT STATEMAN's
OWN STORY OF his TRAV-
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His opinion of the Oriental Statesmen
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The New York Sun, of Tuesday, de
votes an entire page to the report of 6
conversation held by a representative
of that journal with Mr.. Seward, i'm
mediately after his arrival at his home
in Auburn from his journey around
the world. The admirable description
which the venerable statesman gives
of his travels, adventures and impres.
sions, recall the wonderful stories oi
the Arabian Nights, and proves that
whatever impress 'Times's decaying
fingers" may have left upon his bodi.
ly powers, his sympathies are as warm.
his sensibilities as acute, and his intel
lect as clearand elastic, as when he enter.
ed the State Department ten years ago.
We give the essentials of the inter
view, Omitting the reporters share in
the conversation, condensing the Sec
retary's descriptions here and there,
and throwing the whole into the form
of continuous narrative.
Mr.. Seward was absent a little over
fourteen months on his travels, and
they were continuous, with the eXcep-
ton of a couple Of months during last
summer. They extended over dis
lance of forty-four thousand miles, or
an average of more than a hundred
miles day. rr-c- ..,r.-za -,
HIS ROUTE AND WHY HE WENT
He said; I left Auburn on the 9th of
August, last year My idea in making
the journey was: this; / found after a
brief trial, on my return here from
Washington, that rest for me was rust;
that activity in some form was indis-
pensable to my health. Travel was
the simplest and easiest: and where
should / travel but where Ihave not
travelled before? The perplexities of
politics, i have always believed, arise
from our want of knowledge of hui
man nature. I thought that while l
was staving of physical infirmities 1
might try, by stnd dying the various ma
tions and races of the world, to make
some progress in that great knowledge.
Icrossed the, continent to San Fran
cisco, and then struck by a straight
course across the Pacific to Yokohama.
I remained in Yokohama and YeddO
fortnight, travelling between the two
cities and through the interior by car
riages anda1teamers. II then went by
steamer 20 Hiago, where I. stopped at
Osaka. after which / travelled through
the inland sea of 'Nagasaki, on the
western coast of Japan, and thence
across the Yellow Sea to Shanghai.
I went by steamer up the Yellow Sea
and crossed the Gulf.of Pe-chi-li to the
mouth of the Peiho river, stopping at
Chee-foo. / proceeded by steamer to
Tien-tsin, the place of the terrible mas
saere of Christians, which had occurred
in the month Of June before. From
Tien-tsin on slack-Water or canal navi
cation we went to Tung-chow, by
small boats towad by men when the
wind failed US. From Tung-chow we
took chairs and mules to Pekin, from
which point we made excursions to all
places of interest in the capital and its
environs, and travelled by chairs and
litters over the toughest road ever seen
to the great wall of China. Returning
thence by the same route through Pc
kin, we came down again to Shanghai.
From that place we went by steamer
ID Hankow, about seven hundred
miles up the Yank-tse-Kiang The
Yank-tse-K Kiang is the Mississippi of
China. On our return we stopped at
and all the, principal cities,
and entered and inspected the Grand
Imperial Canal of China, which cons
meets Pekfn with Canton After a fur
ther stay of a. week in Shanghai, we
proceeded by sea to HOng-Hong, on
the island of that name, which is a
British possession and colony.
COCHIN oHINA.A BRITISH INDIA.
From Hong-Kong by sea, and up the
Saigon river, we reached Saigon. the
French capital of Cochin China; thence
through the China Sea to Singapore,
near the mouth of the Straits of Malac-
ca. From there, by seaagain, of courses,
we went to Batavia, and spent week
in a delightful. Journey through the
mountains of Java. Thence by sea
again we reached Singapore, stopping
at Penang, the capital town of the Brit
ish Straits settlement. Thus far, we
had been in the lands of the japanese,
the Chinese, and the Malays. At Cey-
lon we came into the country OF the
Hindoos. From Ceylon we proceeded
by sea to Madras. After remaining
there a fortnight with my old friend
Lord Napier, who is now the Govern
or of that Presidency, we proceeded up
the Bay of Bengal to Calcutta. From
Calcutta we went by rail to Benares,
on the Ganges, and so on to Allahabad, ,
Cawnpore, in the old Rundown of Dude,
Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, Lahore, stop
ping to visit Prince Puttailla. From
there, diyerging northwesterly, we
set our feet upon the Himalaya noun
tains. From there we went back to
Allahabad, and thence DETECTED through
JubbuIpore and Berer to Bombay, on
the Persian Gulf. Wealso. visited Goa,
the capital of Portuguese India, about
.45O miles south of Bombay, on the
coast of Malabar.
e1i. Egypt AND THE NILE.
= Leaving Bombay, we crossed the
Arabian sea to Socotra and Alden, the
gate of British India. We visited the
Notifications and naval depot at Alden,
and then proceeded up the Red Sea to
Suez. From Suez we over the Vice
royal Railroad and through the
Arabian Desert to Cairo, stopping and
diverging. to. inspect at all important
points the Suez Canal. We studied
The monuments and antiquities OF
Cairo and its surrounding, including
Heliopolis, Old Cairo, the Pyramids
and the Syhinx at Ghizeh, and spent
the Nile, visiting the ruins Of Memphis,
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