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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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unknown which has grown up within me. The great pleasure
in writing is to feel that it is possible, by this means, to reach
such men ; to feel that I can speak to them just as they, by
their books and by their works, have spoken to me, and that
I may, in some slight degree, be passing on to others about
to start on careers of adventure, the same keen love of travel
and of Nature which I have received from those who have
gone before.
There are others, too, whom I hope my book may reach—
some few among those thousands and thousands who stay at
home in England. Amongst these there are numbers who
have that longing to go out and see the world which is the
characteristic of Englishmen. It is not natural to an English-
man to sit at an office desk, or spend his whole existence
amid such tame excitement as life in London, and shooting
partridges and pheasants afford. Many consider themselves
tied down to home ; but they often tie themselves down. And
if a man has indeed the spirit of travel in him, nothing should
be allowed to stand in the way of his doing as he wishes.
And one of the hopes I have as I write this book is, that it
may tempt some few among the stay-at-homes to go out and
breathe a little of the pure fresh air of Nature, and inhale
into their beings some of the revivifying force and heightened
power of enjoyment of all that is on this earth which it can
give.
My book cannot claim to be scientific, nor to be written
in any correct literary style, but I have endeavoured to
speak out, as clearly and impressively as I can, what I saw,
what I did, and what I felt in the little-known, and some-
times unknown, regions which I have visited, and to give the
impressions which formed themselves in my mind of the
various peoples whom I met. Some portion of this will, I hope,
prove of value to others besides the general reader ; but it has
been a ceaseless cause of regret to me that I had never
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