 Go search the land and search the sea then come you home and sing with me Let's take the poet's advice and make the trip everyone dreams about a freighter trip around the world Find our sailing point on your globe the great city of New York We thrill to the harbor sounds as we board ship bound for Plymouth, England 3046 nautical miles away There's the tugboat whistle We're on our way Before long we're sailing the mighty Atlantic following the northeast route on your globe Our ship heads for the Grand Banks off Newfoundland through one of the greatest fog areas in the world Here warm air above the Gulf Stream meets cold air rising from the icy Labrador current and thick fog hides the sea and sky Put your finger at the spot where our mileage is shown from here for about 500 miles We'll be crossing mountains that lie on the bottom of the sea 5,000 feet below our ship This underwater mountain range called the mid-atlantic is longer than any on earth's surface a few days later Seagulls come out to meet us and we know land is near We enter the choppy waters of the English Channel to land with great excitement at Plymouth and see the very dock Where our pilgrim fathers boarded the Mayflower? Soon we're on a train on the way to London big Ben greets us We spend a few days seeing the sights West Minster Abbey Buckingham Palace Piccadilly Circus, which isn't a circus at all, but a circle of busy streets We enjoy a boat ride on the River Thames to the Greenwich section of London All east and west distances in the world are measured from the imaginary line running north and south through Greenwich This main street on your globe is called the Prime Meridian There's time to visit Paris if we go by air What a view as we circle Orly Field The famed Eiffel Tower pierces the sky There's the Cathedral of Notre Dame on an island in the winding River Seine Seeing Paris on foot is the way to enjoy its excitement its tree-lined boulevards and glittering shops Dinner at a sidewalk cafe is a special thrill Now it's goodbye to Paris and on to meet our freighter in the port city of Brest Find it on your globe and follow our route south along the Bay of Biscay The wind is rising fast The captain warns us that high tides and northwesterly winds often bring sudden storms to the bay Gale winds lash our ship Tremendous waves pour over the deck and were ordered to our cabins We watch the roaring storm for hours until it dies as suddenly as it came We sail around Spain and Portugal and through the narrow Gibraltar Strait There like a mountain rising out of the sea towers the mighty rock of Gibraltar every inch of British fortress Huge guns hidden in caves stand guard on the rocky heights We're all on deck to watch our entrance into the Mediterranean Once the very heart and center of the old world The word Mediterranean means middle of the earth Some of the earliest cities in history were built on its shores and for hundreds of years ships travel only within the limits of this inland sea The weather is delightful just like our climate in southern California While our ship plows serenely along its route our global view shows us Italy shaped like a boot stretching into the sea Rome its beautiful capital once ruled the world Her splendid palaces Churches fountains and statues are the work of the greatest artists of all time The magnificent dome of st. Peter's the world's largest church was designed by Michelangelo Across the beautiful Bay of Naples lies Mount Vesuvius the dreaded volcano In the year 79 it blew its top and buried two cities under ashes and lava as Globe travelers we have a special interest in Greece The ancient Greeks were the first people to realize the world was round 1600 years before Columbus the first globe of the world was made by a Greek scholar named Cretis to the people of ancient Greece We owe much of our knowledge language and culture in the glorious city of Athens Visitors climb a broad hill called the Acropolis to see Greek temples 23 centuries old whose beauty and perfection have never been equalled Let your eyes travel across the Aegean Sea to Turkey the country that lies in two continents In the narrow Bosporus Strait that cuts Turkey in two parts Europe and Asia meet Move your finger to Turkey's eastern border There's Mount Ararat where it said Noah's Ark came to rest Along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Let's find Jerusalem a holy city to three great religions a Stone wall divides the old city from the new In the old city which belongs to Jordan. There are shrines to the Christian Jewish and Muslim faiths The new city belongs to Israel where arid deserts have been transformed into useful land At port side we begin an exciting trip through the great Suez canal that slices through the Egyptian desert for a hundred miles Before this man-made waterway was opened in 1869 Ships sailing between Europe and Asia had to go all around the southern tip of Africa No wonder Suez is called the world's most important shortcut An Egyptian pilot who speaks seven languages comes aboard to assist our captain We travel slowly with a long convoy of ships single file for 12 hours Near our entrance into the Red Sea is Mount Sinai where Moses received the 10 commandments The Sun is scorching as we cross the Tropic of Cancer shown on your globe as a broken line running east and west We're in the tropics now the only places on earth where the Sun ever shines straight down To our left is the great desert country of Saudi Arabia where oil is more plentiful than water We see ships of all kinds even the billowing sails of graceful Arab dows Carrying cargoes of dates dried fish and pearls Our freighter stops to refuel at Aden and we go ashore to stretch our sea legs This British colony which guards the southern entrance to the Red Sea lies sweltering in a bowl of volcanic rock From the Gulf of Aden we sail across the wide Indian Ocean bound for Melbourne, Australia Now find that famous imaginary line the equator running east and west around the middle of the earth It's the other main street on your globe the one from which all distances north or south are measured It's an old seafaring tradition to initiate people crossing the equator for the first time King Neptune wearing a silver crown and rope like beard a member of our crew in disguise Charges us with a long list of imaginary crimes We're sentenced to have our faces dobbled with soap socks and shaved with a big cardboard razor When the fun's over King Neptune gives us each a certificate proving that we are now trusted shell backs In the ancient order of the deep Days are calm and clear nights brilliant with stars Now and then the school of dolphins swims beside us in pursuit of flying fish leaping from the waves Our ship seems like the only island in this empty ocean and you wonder how the captain can tell where we are Just before noon one day you find out when the first mate looks up at the sky through an instrument called a sextant He's shooting the sun waiting for the exact second it reaches its highest point in the sky Using the nautical almanac he can tell from the sun's angle exactly how far south we are To find how far east we've traveled he reads the chronometer an accurate clock which keeps Greenwich time We reach the end of the tropics where our route crosses another broken line the tropic of Capricorn We're approaching the island continent of australia and here's something surprising It looks like the united states upside down and it's almost the same size There's Perth near the southwestern tip the city which gave astronaut john glenn a friendly lighted welcome land ahead We crowd the rail to watch our entrance into melbourne sunlit harbor A high spot of our visit is a trip to the immense stadium where the olympic games were held in 1956 Something else is upside down in this country that northern people call down under When we have summer they have winter although it's milder than ours because they're closer to the equator Australia is a land of contrasts with vast deserts broad grasslands and tropic jungles We even see snow cap mountains as we fly to sydney Let's go to sydney's famous zoo and see fascinating animals found only in australia There's the tall kangaroo covering 20 feet in one jump And here's the odd-looking platypus Half bird half animal The cuddly koala bear looks like a live teddy bear listen That's the lyre bird he can imitate the call of any bird in the country bark like a dog Or toot like a motor horn But here's the funniest bird of all the kukabura His laugh is like a donkey's bray and his chuckles are almost human From sydney's magnificent harbor. We start our voyage across the world's biggest ocean Have you ever dreamed of living on a south sea isle? You'd have many to choose from Thousands of them dot the pacific small coral ones Some too tiny to be mapped and large ones like the hawaiian chain Which are the peaks of volcanic mountains rising up out of the sea Our course takes us near the fiji islands a chain of steep-sided mountains green jungles and coral reefs The fijis are an important trading center, but many old island traditions remain One of the strangest is the fire walking ceremony in which men walk barefoot over red hot stones and come out unharmed Now look at your globe. We're crossing that blue and red line called the international dateline And a startling thing has happened. We've gained a whole day Long ago all countries decided to make this the place where a new day begins Crossing the line going west you lose a day But going east the direction we're traveling you gain a day Here and there the dateline jogs so some places can have the same date Once we've crossed the equator We feel we're really homeward bound as we sail toward our nation's new estate the enchanting islands of hawaii On the dock at Honolulu. We're greeted with a friendly hawaiian welcome a garland of fragrant flowers First thing on our tour is a swim at the famous beach of Waikake What excitement as we paddle out half a mile against pounding surf in a big outrigger canoe Then let a huge wave zip us back on a mountain of rolling water In the shadow of diamond head Honolulu's famous mountain We enjoy a real hawaiian feast called aloo wow Soon it's aloha and we're sailing toward san francisco on the last leg of our trip It's a joyous moment when we catch sight of golden gate bridge and the shores of our own land Mr. World is a big place Mr. World is wonderful We've journeyed far but there are still so many wonders left to explore As globe travelers the whole wide world is ours to enjoy in a never-ending adventure