Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.