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An 1872 account of travels in South and Central America, including observations on the cultivation of the rubber tree.

Excerpt from Rough Notes of a Traveller: Being an Account of a Trip Round the World, Via Ceylon, Arabia, Egypt, Italy, France, England, America, Sandwich Islands, Fiji, &C IT may be necessary at the commencement of this work to explain that it is the result of a pressing request on the part of the Editors of the Methodist Journal, who, on hearing of my intended trip round the World, asked me to make notes as I went along, and post them on to Adelaide for publication in the Journal. Never having attempted anything of the kind before, I naturally shrank from the task, but after a considerable amount of persuasion I promised to hazard the attempt: hence these rough notes. The reader will see that I have not attempted to write formal or elaborate articles on the various things and places that I have seen in my travels, but have rather tried to write them in an easy conversational style. Since my return scores of friends have pressed me to re-publish them in the book or pamphlet form, at the same time promising support as that was an idea that had not previously occurred to me, I hesitated for a month or two, but as many entirely disinterested parties continued to speak kindly of these my maiden efforts, and advised their re-publishing, I at last decided to do so. 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.