Excerpt from Hither and Yon by Land and Sea I shall have to give only a rough and sketchy account of this voyage for many reasons. In the first place, much of it had to be hastily written without books, and in the next a so-called round trip is something like a tramp, the pauses being many but brief, and therefore superficial in the impressions they produce. But superficial impressions are often very vivid, and are etched very sharply into the memory, so I may hope to give you a few interesting pictures from the many that I collected. I have told you in previous travel-papers of the solemn dignity of Egypt, of the barbaric splendors of India, of the wonderful picturesqueness of Japan, of the tropical luxuriance of Mexico and the decaying glories of Spain. 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.