Excerpt from The New and the Old, or California and India in Romantic Aspects Among all sorts of travellers there is one who has no method. He does not set out, he gets away any how; and the first you know of his intention to be off to the antipodes is, that you miss him some day from his accustomed places. Brief leave taking is there in his case, small sewing-ou of buttons, or putting of himself to rights; for, standing not upon the order of his going, he goes at once, and the wonder of it is over while he is yet scarcely out of sight. 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.