Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 27, 2025
"What do you call a book-muster?" said the globe-trotter, who was spending a month in the country, and would naturally write a book on it. Why, a book-muster is something like dead-reckoning on a ship. You know what dead-reckoning is, don't you?
A dinner party which included a globe-trotter, were listening to a victim of an advanced stage of Californoia. He had just disposed of the East, South and Middle West with a few caustic phrases and had started on his favorite subject. "You are certainly a wonderful people," the globe-trotter said, when he had finished.
And when the poor globe-trotter, who has long since spent more money than he ever meant to spend, and loaded himself with things which he could have got cheaper in London or New York, tries to shake off his tormentors by getting up and leaning over the balcony rails, the shrill voice of the snake-charmer will assail him from below, promising him, in a torrent of sonorous Hindustanee, variegated with pigeon English and illuminated with wild gesticulations, such a superfine tamasha as it never was the fortune of the sahib to witness before.
The most beautiful tour is along the river Vág, starting from the most northerly point in Hungary near the beautiful old stronghold of Árva in the county of Árva. All those that care to see a country as it really is, and do not mind going out of the usual beaten track of the globe-trotter, should go down the river Vág.
For now, at the end of the toilsome passage, that place which should be sacred to loving memories and tender thoughts, is desecrated by placards and picnickers, defaced by advertisements, strewn with the wrapping-paper, tin cans, and bottles with which the modern globe-trotter marks his path through the beautiful and sacred scenes in nature.
Tom Appleton was nearest him, but Tom loved Paris better, and was a "globe-trotter," as often in Europe as in Massachusetts, while the Doctor hardly left the Hub even for a vacation; there was nothing beyond it that was of great import to him.
There was also that noted lady globe-trotter, Miss Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman of undoubted refinement, highly educated whose volume, "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains," is one of the earliest and most picturesque accounts of that time upon whom "Rocky Mountain Jim" exerted his blandishments.
Given the vehicle, no doubt many volunteers would offer for the journey; Columbus could get a ship, but the chances of his arriving at his proposed destination must have appeared as problematical to him as the Moon enterprise in a balloon would to a world-weary globe-trotter of to-day.
"Without exception." "She looked a stout, comfortable ship," assented Marlow. "Uncommonly comfortable. Not very fast tho'." "She was fast enough for any reasonable man when I was in her," growled Mr. Powell with his back to us. "Any ship is that for a reasonable man," generalized Marlow in a conciliatory tone. "A sailor isn't a globe-trotter." "No," muttered Mr. Powell.
When we arrived there at noon the steamer had been gone for three-quarters of an hour; and when the German globe-trotter, the rival of Bly and Bisland, rushed on to the platform, it was to learn that the said steamer was then going out of the mouths of the Pei-Ho into the open sea. Unfortunate traveler!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking