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"What I saw" in China, India, Arabia, Egypt, S}Tia, and
other heathen countries, is
expressive of this volume's distinctive
characteristics. It abounds in precisely such facts about the
South-Sea Islanders, Chinese, Hindoos, Arabs, Syrians, and
other Asiatics, with the peculiarities of their social and religious
as all Americans ought to know.
Among other reasons, the author visited Polynesia, Asia, and
life,
Africa, to personally inform himself touching the difference
between life in America, and life in the Orient ; and also to more
fully understand the real condition of the heathen. He has
endeavored to describe what came under his observations with
fairness, and a true moral independence. It is quite time that
the "heathen" members of a common humanity, and heirs to a
conscious immortality, should be described by travelers as thej""
are, giving them the benefit of that " charity which thinketh
no evil."
A portion of the contents of this book appeared in ' ' The
Banner of Light," under the heading ^^ Letters of Travel."
These
have been revised, and a large amount of such original matter
added as relates to the laws, customs, phenomenal manifestations,
and ancient religions, born and cradled under the sunny skies of
Asia.
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