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. |