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Excerpt from People and Places Here and There, Vol. 1 If you and I were really traveling by rail and by steam, we should need, unless we were millionaires, to be a little more direct in our routes. But as it is, it doesn't much matter; and so we may as well zig-zag down to that great island of Australia, thence to the Fijis, thence to the Sandwich Isles, taking in on our way a ying visit to New Zealand. 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.