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Jules Verne's Round the World in 80 Days, fiction in 1873 -fact in 1936, the wonderlands of childhood, we set out, and a mistake enables us to visit Rome; March 29 - Rome by night, the Duce ubiquitous, the freedom of the fountains, a foundering city; March 30 - Brindisi; March 31 - Athens, the Acropolis, the living marble of the Parthenon; April 1 - Rhodes, a melting-pot of races, streets of mystery and old-world ramparts; April 2 -Alexandria, the ritual of the bazaar, Baksheesh, the Kombakir, a novel restaurant; April 3 - Cleopatra and the carpets - an explanation; April 4 - a city of death, Mena house, the desert in a bedroom; the sphinx; the sphinx's smile; the termites; the delta, talons webbed with gardens, Cleopatra again, Anubis and his dust-bin; the barren flowers; Tutankhamen, the mystery theatre, a mummy floats up to the surface of the ages, the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings; April 7 - Port Said; April 8; April 12 - Aden, the Valley of Lepers, the macabre dandies, a leaden sun, Aden - a dagger planted on our path; April 15, 16 - trouble with time, the Great Bear turns a somersault, the viceroys; April 17; Bombay -towers of silence, woman, the beast of burden, three memories -Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the Theban plague, the monkey-boy; hell on wheels; April 19 - Calcutta, sleeping porters, sleeping cattle, the Hooghli Ghats, the dominance of time; April 20; Rangoon, pagoda merchants, a forest of gods; April 22 - Chinatown, the sleeping sikhs, the last resort of dreams, slow intensity, beauty, an old aquaintance; April 26 - Penang, a tribute to the cafes of our second empire, night-magic at Penang, how Chinese alchemists turn dung to gold, a low opium-den, mystery in a bar-room; big city; Malacca; hidden meanings; April 29; Singapore, a jungle tamed, a policy of sport, the rightness of spectacular plays; death-traps; the new world, theatres and cook-shops; the animal market; May 1 - our attitude to consuls, methods of work and travel, a last visit to the new world; May 5 - how a ship changes the aspect of the sea, the perils of Singapore, discrepancy of humans and natural justice, the Englishman's safeguard; May 6; May 9; Hongkong, the dragon, a city of banners, wonders of the entr'acte; pink comfits; Honkong by day; May 11 -Charlie Chaplin, fate contrives our meeting, a new language, the street-artist, a cloistered art, Passepartout's luck, Chaplin at work; May 12; May 15; May 16 - Japan, a little girls and a chalk circle, the sea-born isle, happy spring, a high-priest of the theatre, a wrestling-match, the brothels, on board the President Coolidge; the Kuroyaki; microbus; May 26 - microbus sings; May 27 - two Tuesdays in a week; postscript to Japan; the powers behind the scenes; May 29 - Honolulu; May 31; 'Frisco by night; 'Frisco by day; a glimpse of Hollywood; June 7 - starscapes, the Grand Canyon, Wichita; night flight, New York, radio city, dusk over Broadway, the New York dunghill, Harlem; the lindy hop, theatres for