Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Juanita harrison is an American colored woman who undertook, at the age of thirty-six, to work her way around the world. Born in Mississippi, she had a few months of school ing before She was ten. Then began an endless round of cooking, washing and ironing in an overburdened household, - labour that might have daunted a grown person.