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ADVANCE AUSTRALASIA

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ADVANCE AUSTRALASIA

A DAY-TO-DAY RECORD OF A
RECENT VISIT TO AUSTRALASIA

BY

FRANK T. BULLEN, F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF "THE CRUISE OF THE 'CACHALOT',"
"WITH CHRIST AT SEA," ETC.

SECOND EDITION

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON MCMVII

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PREFACE

Upon revising the last sheet of this small book for press I could nothelp feeling that some little explanation was needed of its appearanceat all. For assuredly, when I accepted the commission of the Editor ofthe London Standard to write for him a series of articles giving myimpressions of Australasia during my forthcoming lecturing tour, I hadno idea or intention of subsequently publishing those articles in thisform. The onerous nature of my lecture engagements and the rapidityof my passing from place to place precluded any idea of giving suchcareful attention to form, sequence, and detail that I believe a bookdemands.

But to my surprise and gratification, while the articles wereappearing, always in a more or less abbreviated form according to theexigencies of space, the Editor wrote and informed me that there wasa strong demand[Pg vi] that the articles should be published in book form.I demurred on several grounds, but principally because they were theslightest journalistic impressions, that they necessarily containedmany repetitions as the same features struck me obtaining in variousplaces, &c. These objections, and others which I would rather notquote, were overruled, however, and so the book is here. And I sendit out without any misgivings, because even if the critics do feel ittheir duty to go for me, they have in all my seventeen previous booksbeen so uniformly kind, fair, and generous that a reversal of thetreatment may perhaps have a bracing effect, though, like the nigger,"I dreads de process."

F. T. BULLEN.

Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.
 1907.

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