![]() Goln House AT NIGsT, (Fu PAaB,) FAOB PAGE. ', 86 PASANTS B MOOEIIT, iFULL PaBG,) FO PAG.1.3 V. STEAMSHIP WBIGHT IN A STORK, o(FL PAGE) PACE PAGE. To acknowledge their kindness to a wandering American.Ĩ. i ,ever read these lines, I should consider myself ungrateful did I fail V me, and though conscious that few of those dozens and hundreds will ,/. Wherever I traveled the most uniform courtesy was shown Hey guys thanks for stopping by.Having searched Eastern and Western Europe for a missing heir, Kate Walker finally completed her long and arduous journey, ob. Nd conditions in life, who have placed me under numberless obligatioms. ' and hundreds of individuals in Siberia and elsewhere, of all grades Low of Sacramento, Alfred Whymper, Esq., of London, and the many gen' tlemen connected with the Telegraph Expedition. , Frederick Macrellish, Esq., of San Francisco, Hon. :' Among those not mentioned in the volume, thanks are due to ![]() On the same broad principle I will not quarrel with those who insist upon retaining an extra : letter in Bering and Ohotsk and two superfluous letters in Kam. The author t1hs' itil not be difficult to convince his countrymen that the,- oerefotrm of spelling is the best, especially when it represent the pronunciation more accurately than.does the old method.Ī i'ntie justice once remarked, when a lawyer ridiculed his way of writing ordinary words, that, a man was not properly educated who could spel a wor4 in,only one way. L Whymper, Esq., artist of the Telegraph Expedition, and '!ī :t- August offman, (Photographer,) of Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, ^ tihe author *isspecially indebted The fhogrph y of geographical names is after the Russian model. e* i wa iįavor ast t heincrag e heir ction wherev' oey<. Portions of this book have appeared in Harper's, Putnam's, Th-e Atlantic, The Galaxy, and the Overland Monthlies, and in Firak ' Leslies llustrated Newspaper have. In the service of the Rus-'' :il American Telegraph Company, it may not be improper to state that the author's official duties were so few, and his pleasures so' numer, -" ous, as to leave the kindest recollections of the many persons con-,:: ' nected with the enterprise. :,' by way of Asia and Bering's Straits. the company that attenpted to carry out the plans of Major Collins to make an electric connection between Europe and the United States*. The journey herein recorded was undertaken partly as a pleasuretrip, partly as a journalistic enterprise, and partly in the interest of'. In view of this faet,the 'author of "Overland Through As~a" Indulges the hope that his book will not be considered a superfuous addition to the literature of his country. Down the Amoor." With the exception of that volume no other work on this little known region has appeared from the pen of an American writer. ![]() Collins traversed North- tĮr Asia, and wrote an account of his journey, entitled "A Voyage. He proper steps have been taken to secure a copyright in Great Britain, and In the offie of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Entered according to act af Congress, in the year 1870, by TRABVELg A ADVENlTUBS 3J KAMCHATKA, SRIA CHINA, MONGOIBA, ONĬHINEBB TARTAItt, AND EUROPEAN RBtSSIA, WITH r ULL AC* COUNTS OF THB SIBERIAN EXILES, THEIR TBEATMENT,ĪEJTEHOE O' "OAMP 3ri' A.D COTTONW I
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