Excerpt from The Isles of Summer, or Nassau and the BahamasHe seems to himself not so much an actor as a spectator having little inter est in the result. The freedom of his will has in this matter, to a large de gree, been dominated and controlled by circumstances. The movements of the pen which recorded his thoughts seem like yesterday's heartbeats - they left so little impression upon mind and memory.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.