Far Off

About this eBook

Author

Mortimer, Favell Lee, 1802-1878

Title

Far Off; Or, Asia and Australia Described With Anecdotes and Illustrations

Credits

E-text prepared by Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders from page images provided by the Internet Archive Children's Library and the University of Florida

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Asia -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13011

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13011

Release Date

July 24, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FAR OFF;
2. 2.BY THE — AUTHOR OF "THE PEEP OF DAY," — NEW YORK: — 1852.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.ASIA.
6. 6.THE HOLY LAND. — BETHLEHEM. — JERUSALEM. — THE DEAD SEA. — SAMARIA. — GALILEE.
7. 7.SYRIA. — DAMASCUS.
8. 8.ARABIA.
9. 9.TURKEY IN ASIA. — ARMENIA. — KURDISTAN. — MESOPOTAMIA.
10. 10.PERSIA.
11. 11.CHINA.
12. 12.COCHIN CHINA. — TONQUIN.—CAMBODIA.
13. 13.HINDOSTAN. — THE THUGS. — THE HINDOO WOMEN. — THE ENGLISH IN INDIA.
14. 14.CIRCASSIA.
15. 15.GEORGIA. — TIFLIS.
16. 16.TARTARY. — ASTRACAN. — BOKHARA (IN TARTARY). — THE TOORKMAN TARTARS.
17. 17.CHINESE TARTARY.
18. 18.AFFGHANISTAN.
19. 19.BELOOCHISTAN.
20. 20.BURMAH. — THE KARENS. — AVA. — MAULMAIN. — THE MISSIONARY'S BABE.
21. 21.SIAM. — BANKOK.
22. 22.MALACCA. — SINGAPORE. — THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL-GIRLS.
23. 23.SIBERIA. — THE SAMOYEDES. — THE BANISHED RUSSIANS. — THE URAL MOUNTAINS.
24. 24.KAMKATKA.
25. 25.THIBET. — LASSA.
26. 26.CEYLON. — KANDY. — COLOMBO.
27. 27.BORNEO. — BRUNI. — THE DYAKS.
28. 28.JAPAN.
29. 29.AUSTRALIA. — THE COLONISTS OR SETTLERS. — BOTANY BAY. — SYDNEY. — ADELAIDE.
30. 30.VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. — THE YOUNG SAVAGES. — LITTLE MICKEY. — ATTRACTIVE AND INTERESTING — JUVENILE BOOKS,

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