Excerpt from From the Golden Gate to the Golden Horn: A Narrative of Travel and AdventureBut he further intended to combine the recreation and pleasure to be derived from Visiting strange climes with the more prosaic part of his mission abroad, and to this end he would often diverge from the beaten route of travel.Seeing that George and Arthur Elroy will be our fellow-voyagers for many months, they 'deserve a formal introduction.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.