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Papa’s Globe. 63
city; for they could not stay, because they were
compelled to be at home on the top of the book-
case before to-morrow dawned over the northern
climes. Here it was broad daylight, because when
there is midnight in Sweden the sun has not yet
ceased to shine over the land of America.
“Away!” cried Axel, and away they darted on
their wings across the prairies, where the wild
buffaloes are hunted by the Indians, and the Indians
in their turn are hunted by the white men. Im-
penetrable black forests—with trees a thousand years
old—and ranges of stupendous mountains, with gold
and silver in their hidden stagnant veins, appeared
and disappeared in the grand panorama, and at
last they beheld the fertile plains and flowery hills
of ‘ California, and then they left the new world
behind them. 7
The Pacific Ocean glittered in the light of the
setting sun, and spread out its broad majestic sur-
face, a sea of flaming fire. Its splendour was so
dazzling that it nearly blinded the beholder.
“T feel quite giddy!” said Axel.
“Shall we alight on one of the islands, and rest
for a few minutes?” suggested Anna.
“No, thank you, I don’t care to fall in with
cannibals, and be broiled for their dinner. Let us
rather fly all the faster.”
“Tt must be tea-time,” Anna said, as she perceived
a nice odour of tea in the air.
“T should think it is. We are in China. Let us
call upon ‘the brother of the sun, and the cousin
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