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Excerpt from The Queen of the Colonies, or Queensland as I Knew It: An Eight Years' Resident
The writer of the following pages having spent over eight years in the colony, during which time he has mixed up in a variety Of scenes, and mingled in almost all phases Of society, brings to the task he has marked out for himself that first essential of authorship, a thorough acquaintance with his subject. Probably few men in the period referred to have passed through more adventures or seen more of the ups and downs of colonial life. Having also at various times been connected with the press in different parts of the colony, he has had Special means of acquiring information, and looking behind the scenes. His reasons for troubling the public with another book are various. The many misapprehensions as to the colony, existing in England, call for a plain statement of facts as they exist: the evils which have arisen from ignorance as to the class of persons necessary for and suitable to the colony the great interest felt in the Polynesian question and the temptation felt by every man to keep a diary or write a book on a voyage, have all conduced to the publication of the following work. He has only to add the wish that it may please the reader in its perusal half as much as it did him in the production, in which case there will, he is certain, be a feeling Of mutual satisfaction. With this hope he launches his little craft upon the sea of literature.
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