Excerpt from Travel and Talk, Vol. 1 of 2: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through America, Australia, Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, and the Paradises of the Pacific These volumes speak for themselves: those who are interested in me and my travels and observations will read them, and the others can leave them alone. Writers are sometimes vain enough to imagine that what amuses them must necessarily amuse other people I am under no such delusion, and am there fore quite prepared to receive with resignation and meekness the neglect of the public and the strictures of the Press, or vice vend. I have yielded, perhaps rashly, to the representa tions of my publishers, and admitted two portraits. For the first I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Frederick A. Atkins, editor of 'the Young Man, ' and for the second to the eminent photographers, Messrs. Russell Sons of Baker Street. These volumes only include my travels outside Europe from 1885 to 1895. 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.