Excerpt from Harry Ascott Abroad Europe's a big country, a very big country, continued the stout gentleman, and then he slowly shook his head, looking at me all the while in a most sympathizing manner. When do you think we shall reach Hamburg, sir P'f I ventured to ask, hoping to stop the motion of his head, for it certainly made me feel very um comfortable, and as if I were going to a land full of wild beasts, which would devour me with great rel ish immediately on my arrival. I don' t know, I don' t know, and then he began to shake his head more gravely than before, as though he expected a storm to make shipwreck of us the very next day, so I was heartily glad when he left me to myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.