nd see reflected in bitter shallow water at your feet the flames of
such a sunset glory as you never yet have imagined. Or you can ride out
across the same desert lying white as snow beneath a moon far larger and
more glistening than any you ever see here. You shall watch volcanoes
shooting out columns of fire which roll down toward the villages
nestling in their vineyards below, and you shall gaze at mountains which
raise their stately heads far up into the silent region of eternal snow.
You shall see the steel-blue waves rising in great heaps with the swell
of an unquiet sea. You shall talk to the mischievous little Burmese
women and watch them kneeling before their pagodas of pure gold, and
shall visit the little Japs making merry in their paper houses; you
shall find the last representatives of the grand races of North American
Indians in their wigwams. And these are only a very few of the wonders
of the world.

Where shall we begin? That requires some consideration. As the world is
not a solid block of level ground we shall have to choose our track as
best we can along the routes that are most convenient, and we can't
certainly go right round in one straight line as if we followed a piece
of string tied round the middle of the earth. Of course we shall have to
start from England, and we shall be wisest to turn eastward first,
coming back again from the west. The eastern part is the Old World, and
the western the New World, of which the existence was not known until
centuries later. It is natural, therefore, to begin with the older part
first. If we do this we must start in the autumn so as to arrive at
some of the hottest countries in what is their winter, for the summer is
unbearable to Europeans. So much is easily settled.

Have you ever realised that Great Britain is an island? I hear someone
say "Silly!" under their breath; it does seem an absurd question, for
surely every baby knows that! Well, of course even the smallest children
have been told so, directly they begin to learn anything, but to
_realise_ it is a different matter. An island is surrounded by water,
and none of us have ever sailed round our own country and made the
experiment of seeing for ourselves that it is so. You have been to the
sea certainly, and seen the edge of our island home, but have you ever
thought of that long line which runs away and away from your seaside
place? Have you followed the smooth sandy bays and the outlines of the
tow