Excerpt from A Few Months in New GuineaWith so many competitors in the field, it seems strange that, until the last few years, no one should have succeeded in journeying more than fifteen miles inland, and though this distance has now been much exceeded, a vast area still remains unexplored.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.