The Australian Abroad, Vol. 2: Branches From the Main Routes Round the World; Ceylon, India, and Egypt (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN some prefatory remarks to the first volume, the author stated that he had not, in any part of the travel therein detailed, had any enlightenment from books.

It has been but little otherwise with most of the travel of which the present volume tells. In Ceylon, India, and Egypt, he depended upon local information only. The experienced dragoman engaged at Alexandria for the Palestine and Syrian part of the journey rendered all references unnecessary save to the pages of a marginally-annotated Bible. The toilsome journey of six weeks through those countries was relieved only by nightly studies of that Book of books, aided by such help as the handbooks carried by fellow-travellers happened to afford. But for such occupation, varied by writing down notes of the day's impressions, such time of tent-life would have t'een far more wearisome than the same time at sea.

Books of travel in the Holy Land are plenteous enough, but it is a great advantage to the traveller to have read none of them. Such was the case with the author, who, in ignorance of the opinions of others, gained his ideas only from what he personally saw and heard.

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