Excerpt from Personal Recollections and Travels at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 A tour to and among the tropics - a return crossing of the continent from California, taking in the interesting spanish-american States of the far Southwest - a short sojourn in the nearby county of Lancaster - mainly furnish the material for this volume, the fifth of my dropping into book authorship and the second of my Personal Recollections and Travels. The first recounts my youthful adventures in a journey across the plains and mountains of the Far West to the Pacific; much of my last literary venture concerns a voyage towards the Southern Cross, companionless, and in my seventy-eighth year. 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.