Excerpt from Going to Jericho, or Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East The two years' holiday spent in my travels abroad had been fairly earned by the daily toil of many years in the Read-mill of my profession, and in the active pursuit of business in California, where, it is truly said, with our excitement and extravagant haste we burn the taper at both ends and are ever fanning it to a blaze. Then I had a right to travel. 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.