E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, V. L. Simpson,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)
LONDON:
PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE, 85, FLEET STREET,
AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
1890.
It was a Midsummer Night, and Mr. Punch in his sanctum dreamed a Dream! To adapt the Laureate's lay:—
He read, before his eyelids dropt their shade, The Lusiads of Camoens, long ago Sung by the Lusitanian bard, who made Great Gama's glories glow.
It was the wondrous tale of Stanley which had turned the Sage's attention to the pages of the great Epic of Commerce.
He had read:—