Excerpt from Travels at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1: The First Trip to Jamaica; The San Francisco Fire Trip; The Mexican Trip The accounts of travel that are contained in these volumes were written with no thought of their publication. Therefore the author occasionally may have made use of some thought suggested by a railroad folder or by a guide book, and it is even possible that the text of more than one passage has followed quite closely one of these sources of informa tion. The earlier chapters were written a good many years ago, and the folders and guide books that are used have long since gone out of existence. It is now impossible to give credit where credit may be due. But the au thor wishes to disclaim any wilful plagiarism of word or of thought. E. Q. S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.