Excerpt from Travels Abroad: Embracing Holland, England, Belgium, France, Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, Australia, C With Some Reflections on the Pacific Coast The accompanying letters were written in the haste inci dent to travel, and were suggested by the dear ones at home, and by such friends as few men may claim; and for their own sakes, and as a tribute to them, this modest volume is submitted. There has rarely been an occasion in which a newspaper cor respondent should be impelled to utter his thoughts in book form. This is not done in this instance with a view of immortality as a book-maker, but to gratify the dear ones in the home circle and the personal friends heretofore alluded to. 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.