[Gutenberg 31908] • With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 1

These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and uh familiar localities, as displayed ih the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the won ders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of dis coverers.