Excerpt from In the Land of Pearl and Gold: A Pioneer's Wanderings in the Backblocks and Pearling Grounds of Australia and New Guinea

I think the latter feeling is common to all wanderers, and as a result their writings - when they do write may be tinged more or less, and somewhat story-like because they deal more with people than with geo graphical facts.

But a book of travel should be accurate, and I have always endeavoured to give my impression of things as at the time when the adventures actually occurred. Indeed most of the papers were written during my travels, and some of them are of very recent date. As a matter of fact, one or two of the adventures - the reader, with some trouble, may guess which - have not yet reached the conclusions which perhaps the last lines suggest. But hope ever leads.

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