Dust and Foam; or, Three Oceans and Two Continents; Being Ten Years' Wanderings in Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands, the East and West Indies, China, Philippines, Australia and Polynesia

397 pp. "The following pages are a compilation from desultory notes made ashore and afloat, generally under disadvantageous circumstances. Few lands have I left unvisited, few waters have I left not ploughed, and consequently I think myself entitled to the traveller's privilege of telling my own story in my own way, leaving my readers to take it for what it is worth."--preface