New York city to buy the `New York Herald.' My father has made
it a great paper, but I mean to make it greater. I mean that it
shall be a newspaper in the true sense of the word. I mean that
it shall publish whatever news will be interesting to the world at
no matter what cost."

"After that," said I, "I have nothing more to say. Do you mean
me to go straight on to Africa to search for Dr. Livingstone?"

"No! I wish you to go to the inauguration of the Suez Canal
first, and then proceed up the Nile. I hear Baker is about
starting for Upper Egypt. Find out what you can about his
expedition, and as you go up describe as well as possible
whatever is interesting for tourists; and then write up a guide--
a practical one--for Lower Egypt; tell us about whatever is worth
seeing and how to see it.

"Then you might as well go to Jerusalem; I hear Captain Warren is
making some interesting discoveries there. Then visit
Constantinople, and find out about that trouble between the Khedive
and the Sultan.

"Then--let me see--you might as well visit the Crimea and those
old battle-grounds, Then go across the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea;
I hear there is a Russian expedition bound for Khiva. From thence
you may get through Persia to India; you could write an interesting
letter from Persepolis.

"Bagdad will be close on your way to India; suppose you go
there, and write up something about the Euphrates Valley Railway.