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"If you will have a young man to put his travels into a little room, and in short
time to gather much, this you must do: first, as was said, he must have some entrance
into the language before he goeth; then he must have such a servant or tutor as
knoweth the country, as was likewise said; let him carry with him also some card,
or book, describing the country where he travelleth, which will be a good key to his
inquiry; let him also keep a diary."-Bacon.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO.

1858.

203. d. 173.

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PREFACE.

With pleasant recollections of the Author's fellowvoyagers:

Whether, as some, they have since manfully fought the battle of life, and having acquired power and repute, are now moulding the destinies of future empires;— Or, as some, are laboriously toiling among the heathen, teaching the pure truths of Christianity, and living its bright exemplars;—

Or, as others, have passed away, leaving on the mind a tranquil image of their existence, as the memory of a happy dream:

In honor of the sea he loves;

To present, as in a phantasmagory, to dwellers at home, by their own firesides, pictures of the world beneath

their feet;

That youthful sea travellers may know the ways of

Ocean;

Is this small book written.

The little bark being thus launched, may the favouring gale of public approval waft it gently onward down the stream of time.

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