Excerpt from From an Island OutpostMY first breathing spell in nine years, and during these nine years I have worked steadily, like a dray - horse, in the harness of necessity. Not once in all these years has that necessity loosened so much as a check-rein, and there has been much uphill work, - to ease me mercifully till today.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.