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The White Terrace, Hot Lakes, New Zealand.

Frontispiece. Page 119.

FORTY THOUSAND MILES
OVER
LAND AND WATER

THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR THROUGH THE
BRITISH EMPIRE AND AMERICA

BY

MRS. HOWARD VINCENT

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

THIRD AND CHEAPER EDITION.

London:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1886.

[All rights reserved.]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

TO

OUR FRIENDS,

THE CHILDREN OF THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANAGE,

This Journal is Dedicated

BY

THEIR CONSTANT WELL-WISHERS.

PREFACE.

My husband, during his six years' tenure of the office ofDirector of Criminal Investigations, took the greatestinterest in the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage.

In taking leave of his young friends he promised to keepfor their benefit a record of our travels through the BritishEmpire and America.

I have endeavoured to the best of my power to relievehim of this task.

It is but a simple Journal of what we saw and did.

But if the Police will accept it, as a further proof of ouradmiration and respect for them as a body, then I feel surethat others who may be kind enough to read it will belenient towards the shortcomings of a first publication.

ETHEL GWENDOLINE VINCENT.

1, Grosvenor Square, London.

CONTENTS.