Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years Yachting in Australia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years Yachting in Australia: An Essay on Manly Sports, a CruiseShanghai when the Chinese Influx Prevention Bill was being passed in America. It will be seen that the difficulty that has since arisen in Australia is foreshadowed. These notes were originally published for private circulation only, but it is hoped they may not be out of place in this volume. As comparatively few South Australians have had the Opportunity of visiting these distant places, they will tell them how we fared and what we saw, and how easily such a voyage can now be accomplished.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.