History of the British Colonies e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The object has been to produce something more than a filling in of the outlines of the expansion of race as narrated in the ordinary text-book of English History; indeed the arrangement is not chronological, and is in tended to suggest that the subject is one deserving study independently of the narrative of home affairs. The authors hope that this record of what has been achieved by the initiative and enterprise which have been characteristic of the nation will commend itself not only for school use, but also to those senior readers who, for one purpose or another, are in need of a short account of the history and present government of the British Commonwealth of Nations, including the territories added by recent treaties.