. Around the world in the yacht 'Sunbeam,' our home on the ocean for eleven months . huh HIHHHHHlk ■HBUffiffi UBHInflflfii ■IHHHIIEShH ■HSBI1H H ■ MBKl HI liiiiiBIH W MH j. PREFACE. This volume needs no elaborate preface. A generalsketch of the voyage which it describes was published inthe Times immediately after our return to letter is reprinted here as a convenient summary ofthe Sunbeams performances. But these prefatory lineswould indeed be incomplete if they did not contain awell-deserved tribute to the industry and accuracy of theauthor. The voyage would not have been underta
. Around the world in the yacht 'Sunbeam,' our home on the ocean for eleven months . huh HIHHHHHlk ■HBUffiffi UBHInflflfii ■IHHHIIEShH ■HSBI1H H ■ MBKl HI liiiiiBIH W MH j. PREFACE. This volume needs no elaborate preface. A generalsketch of the voyage which it describes was published inthe Times immediately after our return to letter is reprinted here as a convenient summary ofthe Sunbeams performances. But these prefatory lineswould indeed be incomplete if they did not contain awell-deserved tribute to the industry and accuracy of theauthor. The voyage would not have been undertaken,and assuredly it would never have been completed, with-out the impulse derived from her perseverance and deter-mination. Still less would any sufficient record of thescenes and experiences of the long voyage have been pre-served had it not been for her painstaking desire not onlyto see everything thoroughly, but to record her impres-sions faithfully and accurately. The practiced skill of aprofessional writer cannot reasonably be expected in these viii PREFACE. simple pages, but their object will have been attained ifthey are the means of enabling more home-keepi
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