But I give this brief account of my voyages, at the end of my autobiography, chiefly because I regard them as somewhat typical of my life. I have lived fast. I have ever been an advocate of speed. I was born into a slow world, and I wished to oil the wheels and gear, so that the machine would spin faster and, withal, to better purposes. I suggested larger and fleeter ships, to shorten travel on the ocean. I built street-railways, so that the workers of the world might save a few minutes from their days of pitiless toil, and so might have a little leisure for enjoyment and self-improvement. I built great railway lines--the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Union Pacific--that the continent might be traversed by men and commerce more rapidly, and its waste places made to blossom like the rose. I wished to add a stimulus, a spur, a goad--if necessary--that the slow, old world might go on more swiftly, "and fetch the age of gold," with more leisure, more culture, more happiness. And so I put faster ships on the oceans, and faster means of travel on land.
My own rapid tours of the world are, therefore, typical of my life. Thus an account of them seems to round it off fitly with a "Bon voyage" to every one.
Achinese, subjugation of the, 178. Aden, visit to, 208. Adirondack Railway, 260. American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia, an, 222. Andaman Islands, 204. Anglo-American, the, 72, 144. Anglo-Saxon, the, 55, 58, 72. Anjer, visit of the natives at, 174. Antietam, Battle of, 282. Ariens, Admiral, 251. Around the world tours, 331. Around the World in Eighty Days, 301, 331. Ashburner, George, 204. Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 44. Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237, 269. Australia, begin business in, 127; gold-fever in, 130, 141; outlaws of, 152, 156; railway system of, 269; rebellion in, 156. Austria, travels in, 233.
Bailey, Crawshay, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 244. Balaklava, visit to, 217. Balmoral, visit to, 92. Banka, tin mines of, 179. Banking and gambling compared, 86. Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P., 38, 58. Baring, Thomas, visit to America, 71. Bartley, Judge, 244. Bastile at Lyons, a prisoner in the, 310. Batavia, Java, beauty of, 175. Bemis, Emery, 37. Bemis, George Pickering, 8, 48, 273, 311. Bennett, James Gordon, 222. Beyrout, visit to, 215. Birkenhead, tramways in, 261. Black Hole of Calcutta, 205. Blockade running, 272. Bly, Nellie, trip round the world, 335. Bombay, India, railroad in, 270. "Bonanza nugget," the, story of, 141. Boomerang, the, 169. Booth, Edwin, in Melbourne, 166. Botany Bay, 144. Bougevine, Gen., in China, 196. Bowling, skill in, 79; in Australia, 135. Braemar, meeting with Lord John Russell at, 92. Bridges, the phrenologist, 122. Briticisms, 91. Brooke, "Sarawak," 179. Brougham, John, visit to Liverpool, 124. Bunker Hill Day, 112. Bury, Lord, 105. Bushnell, the actor, in Melbourne, 167.