Excerpt from Christian Work in Australasia: With Notes on the Settlement and Progress of the Colonies After labouring for many years as a Christian Missionary in distant lands, in 1876 the Author revisited his native country; when, in the course of his travels and intercourse with different classes of people, he was forcibly struck with the amount of ignorance which prevailed in reference to the Australasian colonies, where the best part of his life had been spent. He endeavoured to remedy this in some measure by giving as much information as possible in his lectures and speeches at public meetings; but it was suggested to him that he might do this still more effectually by publishing a portable volume on the subject. He has accordingly spent all his available leisure time in acting upon this suggestion, the result of which appears in the following pages. 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.