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Excerpt from Travels in Europe and the East: During the Years 1858-59 and 1863-64 Few young American women have enjoyed as extensive opportunities of travel as did the author of the following pages; and her vivid imagination, and keen appreciation of. All that is most beautiful in Nature and in Art, attest themselves in all that she has written. Her first visit to Europe was made in company with her parents, her eldest sister and her cousin, in the fall of 1858. She returned home in the autumn of the following year: and it is from her journal kept during this period that the first part of the present volume was afterwards written out by her. In August, 1863, she visited China, going by way of California, crossing the Pacific in a sailing ship-the line of steamers not being yet established - and returned home in August of the following year by what is known as the Peninsular and Oriental Overland route, via Singapore, Ceylon, Suez. And Europe - a journey of great interest, encircling the earth. Descriptive letters written at different pomts on this tour form the second part of these records of travel. In November, 1867, in company with her husband and two sisters she re-visited Europe, passing most of the winter in Rome and Naples, and returned in the following June. Her last long journey was undertaken as a great invalid. With the hope of deriving benefit from a sea voyage. In September, 1875. With her husband and their two children - Henry Trowbridge, born April i5th, 1870, and William Bradford, born June 2sth 1872 - she sailed from New York for Rio de Janeiro via St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, and Bahia. Remaining only a week in Rio the party returned to St Thomas, and crossed to Santa Cruz. Where three months were passed; and in the latter part of February they returned to New York via St. Thomas and St. John. P. R. On these last two journeys no journal was kept. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.