Up and Down: Or, Fifty Years' Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific, Bein

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Excerpt from Up and Down: Or, Fifty Years' Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific, Being the Life History of Capt. W. J. BarryAt the suggestion of a friend and the sub sequent solicitation of others, I sat down to writ e the history of my pilgrimage through this world, and the accompanying volume is a faithful record of my chequered career. There are now but few people who have passed through fifty years of colonial history, and possibly fewer still who can recall the experiences of half a century. I have done so entirely from memory, which, I am vain enough to think, has served me faithfully in this matter. Some author - Dr. Johnson, I believe - has remarked that the life of any man, if written truly, would be in teresting. I think so too, every man has a story of his own, and something has happened to him that never happened to anybody else. This being so, and my record true, it may be interesting to people one hundred years hence to see what sort of folks we were at this date, how we lived, how we em ployed ourselves, and so on. On perusing the pages of my work, you may compare me to Charles Dickens's Micawber but I have always looked upon myself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.