<p>This daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory.<br><br>Then want of leisure tempted me to send the journal home to friends in place of letters, and the two or three for whom I originally intended it widened the circle by handing it on to many others, until it has, in a way, become public property. Several of those who have read it ...