Rudyard Kipling
lieu of notice. He decided to use this money to make his way to London, the centre of the literary
universe in the British Empire. On 9 March 1889, Kipling left India, travelling first to San Francisco via
Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. He then travelled through the United States writing articles
for The Pioneer that too were collected in From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel.
Starting his American travels in San Francisco, Kipling journeyed north to Portland, Oregon; on to
Seattle, Washington; up into Canada, to Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia; back into the U.S. to
Yellowstone National Park; down to Salt Lake City; then east to Omaha, Nebraska and on to Chicago,
Illinois; then to Beaver, Pennsylvania on the Ohio River to visit the Hill family; from there he went to
Chautauqua with Professor Hill, and later to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Washington, D.C., New York and
Boston
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