Stories from the Gospels Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. In the following pages it has been the author's intention to produce, as the title indicates, a history and guide to the Bahama Islands. In the performance of this task every available source of information known to him has been drawn upon, the best authorities have been consulted, such as Bruce's, McKinnen's, Edwards', and Bacot's histories, from which much valuable information have been compiled, and also from some recent works on the Bahamas, such as Powles, Ives, Drysdale's and the Nassau Almanac. The author is under special obligation to His Excellency, Sir Ambrose Shea, governor of the Bahamas, Hon. G. C. Camplejohn, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. A. E. Moseley, publisher of the Nassau Guardian and Almanac, Mr. R. W. Parsons of the Ward Line of steamers, and Mr. J. F. Coonley for the many courtesies and valuable aid extended the author in obtaining materials for his work. The illustrations in this work were obtained from several sources and produced by various methods. The photo-mechanical prints, which are in effect like a photograph, were made from negatives taken by the author. The wood cut illustrations were kindly loaned by Mr. R. W. Parsons of the Ward Steamship Co. The half tone engravings were made direct from photographs furnished by Mr. J. F. Coonley, the Nassau photographer. The ancient copper plate engravings and maps were reproduced from the originals by the Photo Electrotype Co. of Boston. In compiling this work it has been the author's earnest desire to be accurate in every particular, but even the most painstaking assiduity and the best intention are insufficient to ensure perfection in this regard. The reader who detects errors is requested to communicate with the writer, in order that the necessary changes may be made in subseq...