Excerpt from A History of the British Colonies The object has been to produce something more than a filling in of the outlines of the expansion of race as narrated in the ordinary text-book of English History; indeed the arrangement is not chronological, and is in tended to suggest that the subject is one deserving study independently of the narrative of home affairs. The authors hope that this record of what has been achieved by the initiative and enterprise which have been characteristic of the nation will commend itself not only for school use, but also to those senior readers who, for one purpose or another, are in need of a short account of the history and present government of the British Commonwealth of Nations, including the territories added by recent treaties. 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.