Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Record of an Adventurous Life
I have been pressed by friends for many years to write a brief account of my life, and to put on record my remembrance of some of the interesting people I have met. As, except when I was roam ing about the South Sea Islands, I never kept a diary, it was desirable I should do this as soon as possible, if I did it at all. But that was no easy matter for a very busy man. At last I have.
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