Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Introduction (1920)
“ As an old campaigner, meeting all sorts and conditions of people, and mingling with them as one of the eternal human comedy, I have had unusual opportunities of finding out what the average mind responds to. ”
Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Introduction (1920)
“ At all events, my book will serve the purpose if, even in a small measure, it contributes to the growing interest now apparent in the Pacific and its islands. I have often wondered why more people do not take the trip to the Antipodes and the Orient. Steamship rates are reasonable enough, and the service is high-class. Rich in folklore, in quaint peoples, in the beauty of reef and palm, the islands of the Pacific are certain to charm and enthrall the visitor. ”
Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Introduction (1920)
“ Let them lay it to the habit of mind engendered in the old traveler by his familiarity and indifference to thousands of miles. An old campaigner like myself thinks nothing of an eight-thousand-mile jump. ”
