A Colored Man Round the World

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by DAVID F. DORR, in the Clerk's office of the District Court, for the Northern District of Ohio.

TO MY SLAVE MOTHER.

Mother! wherever thou art, whether in Heaven or a lesser world; or whether around the freedom Base of a Bunker Hill, or only at the lowest savannah of American Slavery, thou art the same to me, and I dedicate this token of my knowledge to thee mother, Oh, my own mother!

YOUR DAVID.

INDEX.

PAGE.

DEBUT IN A FOREIGN LAND, 13

LONDON, 19

THE QUEEN IN HYDE PARK, 22

I AM GOING TO PARIS, 25

FIRST DAY IN PARIS, 29

FIRST NIGHT IN PARIS, 33

I MUST ROVE AWAY FROM PARIS, 43

SPICY TOWNS OF GERMANY, 49

DOWN AMONG THE DUTCH, 57

COL. FELLOWES LEARNING DUTCH, 61

ON! ON! TO WATERLOO, 71

THE BIAS OF MY TOUR, 77

COUP D'ETAT OF NAPOLEON III, 81

THE SECRETS OF A PARIS LIFE AND WHO KNOWS THEM, 87

ROME AND ST. PETER'S CHURCH, 97

NAPLES AND ITS CRAFT, 102

ST. JANUARIUS AND HIS BLOOD, 108

CONSTANTINOPLE, 114

THE DOGS PROVOKE ME, AND THE WOMEN ARE VEILED, 121

A COLORED MAN FROM TENNESSEE SHAKING HANDS WITH THE SULTAN, AND MEN PUTTING WOMEN IN THE BATH AND TAKING THEM OUT, 125

GOING TO ATHENS WITH A PRIMA DONNA, 130

ATHENS A SEPULCHRE, 134

BEAUTIFUL VENICE, 143

VERONA AND BOLOGNA, 149

FRIENZA DE BELLA CITA, 153

BACK TO PARIS, 159

EGYPT AND THE NILE, 163

EGYPTIAN KINGS OF OLDEN TIME, 167

TRAVELING ON THE NILE 800 MILES, 171

THEBES AND BACK TO CAIRO, 175

CAMELS--THROUGH THE DESERT, 179

JERUSALEM, JERICHO AND DAMASCUS, 183

CONCLUSION, 189

PREFACE.

The Author of this book, though a quadroon, is pleased to announce himself the "Colored man around the world." Not because he may look at a colored man's position as an honorable one at this age of the world, he is too smart for that, but because he has the satisfaction of looking with his own eyes and reason at the ruins of the ancestors of which he is the posterity. If the ruins of the Author's ancestors were not a living language of their scientific majesty, this book could receive no such appellation with pride. Luxor, Carnack, the Memnonian and the Pyramids make us exclaim, "What monuments of pride can surpass these? what genius must have reflected on their foundations! what an ambition these people must have given to the rest of the world when found the glory of the world in their hieroglyphic stronghold of learning," whose stronghold, to-day, is not to be battered down, because we cannot reach their hidden alphabet. Who is as one, we might suppose, "learned in all the learning of the Egyptians." Have we as learned a man as Moses, and if yes, who can prove it? How did he come to do what no man can do now? You answer, God aided him; that is not the question! No, all you know about it is he was "learned in all the learning of the Egyptians," that is the answer; and thereby knew how to facilitate a glorious cause at heart, because had he been less learned, who could conceive how he could have proved to us to be a man full of successful logic. Well, who were the Egyptians? Ask Homer if their lips were not thick, their hair curly, their feet flat and their skin black.