BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOYT,
NO. 9 CORNHILL.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
HENRY HOYT,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
[Illustration:
_To my youngest son_,
Robert Chamblet Adams,
_formerly
Captain
of Ship
Golden
Fleece,
by whose
skilful
navigation
and
filial love
this voyage
was
a source
of benefit
and will
be the occasion
of
continual
gratitude
to
God_,
_This volume is inscribed as a Memorial, with his Father’s love_.
]
Preface to the First Edition.
A narrative of this voyage was prepared for the ‘Congregationalist’ at
the request of the editors, and appeared in successive numbers of that
paper. On application of the present publisher for leave to issue it in
a volume, it has assumed the form in which it now appears, revised and
enlarged. The manner in which it originated explains its miscellaneous
and somewhat desultory character.
Preface to the Second Edition.
So much interest in this narrative has been expressed that the author
has been led to insert in a new edition things which it would have
contained in the first, had the design been to give more than a brief
sketch of the voyage.