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The Author
FROM JOB TO JOB AROUND the WORLD
BY
ALFRED C.B. FLETCHER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1916, By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
DEDICATED TO
RALPH J. RICHARDSON
A GOOD COMPANION AND AN INTELLIGENT TRAVELLER
FOREWORD
The pages that follow are an account of a three-year trip I made around the world, starting from San Francisco with only a five-dollar gold piece and earning my way. My wanderings took me to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally across the Atlantic to America. I think the book covers a new field in travel narrative in that it shows that it is possible to work one's way around the world and do so with a considerable degree of comfort. In most instances I held good positions, met the representative people of each country and travelled in moderate style. I, of course, had numerous hardships and adventures, which I relate.
I wish to extend my thanks to Mr. Ralph J. Richardson, my travelling companion on part of the trip, for the photographs which illustrate the edition and to Mr. Stanley Richardson for many valuable suggestions in connection with the manuscript of the volume. I also wish to express my gratitude to The Wide World Magazine for the courtesy of permitting me to republish the narrative from its pages.
A.C.B.F.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I Two World-Beaters 1
II Hawaii by Steerage 13
III Government Inspectors at Pearl Harbor 26
IV Living as Japanese in Japan 42
V Arrested as Spies in Japan 59
VI A Professor in a Chinese College 74
VII Adrift in the Chinese Empire 89
VIII Rural China by Cart 109
IX Assorted Jobs in the Philippines 120
X A Port-hole View of Southern Asia 135
XI Two Tramps in India 150
XII A Sailor to Suez 171
XIII An American Christmas in Jerusalem 186
XIV Wandering in the Near East 204
XV Greece and Rome from a Third-class Coach 218
XVI Europe on a Vanishing Bank-roll 241
XVII From Luxury to Hunger 257
XVIII A Resident of the Arctic Zone 269
XIX Mining Under the Midnight Sun 284
XX To America as an Immigrant 304