MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLS
OR RECOLLECTIONS OF
A BURNT JOURNAL

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE.

Nothing that I can say here will blind the reader to the deficiency ofthese pages; they are in truth, as their title expresses, therecollections of a “Journal burnt,” and I present here but an outline ofwhat I have seen or heard during three years of my life; and if I amwanting in figures and statistics and anything of weight as regards thecountry written of, it is certainly because I recalled this Journalunexpectedly, and far from the scenes it once depicted.

I may have remembered too little, but that is preferable to rememberingtoo much.

I have tried to confine myself to what is most pleasant, and it may bethat a rambling truthful story is the best, if to make the workelaborate one must have recourse to fiction.

It is right that a man should submit anything he{iv} does modestly, yet forall that a preface need not be an apology; for I look on a tale writtenas a tale told, with this advantage to the reader, that if the talewritten please him not, he can close the book and have done with it. Iam no button-holder, and would rather, sir, that you would desert me atmy second chapter, than that you should wade wearily through thisvolume, and then, because we do not suit each other, say that I havebored you.

In these days, when new discoveries of Nature’s gifts, and increasedfacilities of communication with them invite man to roam, any record oftravel should possess some interest for the adventurous.

I have proved to myself, what these pages may not show, that a man withhealth may plant himself in any country in the world, and by theexercise of those reasonable faculties that are denied to few, may therelive well and happily.

It is nothing, perhaps, to state this for a fact, but I would have eachemigrant hug it to his breast as a warm hope that will uphold him in thehours of adversity and trial that will meet him in the path he pio

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