tailieunhanh - A Footnote to History

The story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense. And yet, for all its actuality and the part played in it by mails and telegraphs and iron war- ships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family worship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, or the Tract Society; but in most other points they are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who. | A Footnote to History 1 A Footnote to History The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson 25 in our series by Robert Louis Stevenson Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title A Footnote to History Author Robert Louis Stevenson Release Date May 1996 EBook 536 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on March 20 1996 Most recently updated August 27 2o02 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY Transcribed from the 1912 Swanston edition by David Price email ccx074@ A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY PREFACE An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters considered it is hoped that in spite of its outlandish subject the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. Truth in the midst of conflicting rumours and in the .