PREFACE. 
Since my narrative explains itself, I liave little 
to say here beyond accounting for a certain 
resemblance in these pages to the latter part 
of the work issued by my husband last year. 
After I joined him, we shared for the most part 
the same experiences ; but we looked upon 
them from an entirely different standpoint. 
Many of my own sex who might turn from 
c A Naturalist’s Wanderings' because of the 
admixture of scientific matter, may find some 
interest in reading my simpler account. 
I have told my life as I lived it, with its 
interests and pleasures, its drawbacks and dis- 
comforts, neither romancing nor withholding. 
1 O O 
I may confess that I did not write these letters 
en route . For this I had neither time nor 
strength, as I was never one single fortnight 
free of fever after entering the tropics. The 
