Acknowledgments

My thanks are due to Mrs. Staples Brown, Mr. H. T. B. Drew, Mr. Hector Bolitho, and Mr. Bertram Carter for help and advice in connection with the preparation of this book for the press. They are also due to the High Commissioner for New Zealand for ten of the page illustrations used, and to the New Zealand Shipping Company for permission to use the Outline map. The remaining illustrations are from the original German edition, published by Messrs. Brockhaus of Leipzig.

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