Excerpt from Notes on South America With Variations!: From San Francisco to New York on Board the Cyprus, From March 11th to June 1st, 1916 The first sight Of land since leaving San Pedro caused a mild stir Of excitement, but I rather hated it; there was a suggestion in my mind that we'd land and that then I should wake up and find myself at home and begin to ponder over the fertility of imagination in dreams! 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.