Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and Java (Classic Reprint)

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If you are looking for an historical or a political work, these notes of a journey to the Islands of the Southern Seas will in no way please you; but, if you will come with me for a short sojourn amid the beauties and sadness of Hawaii and then on to the southward as the spirit moves us, taking life as God gives it, perhaps you may not be disappointed.

We shall pause a moment at the grave of Stevenson, and then go onward to that beautiful and most interesting, though but little known, land of New Zealand. Passing from end to end, we shall compare its hot lakes and geysers with those in our Yellowstone, its snow-capped mountains and Fjords with Switzerland, Norway, and the Trans-Alai. We shall dwell awhile amidst the bustling life of the cities and shake hands with the Maoris, and then sail onward into the silence of far off seas, with none save the albatross to bear us company, until we reach that Eden, Tasmania, which rests like a jewel amid the league-long rollers of the Southern Ocean.

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