8 Introduction. 



fill volumes ; but enough will be found in the few scenes 

 which I have selected from whole hecatombs of slaughter 

 to satisfy and perhaps fatigue the most patient reader. 



One fact I wish to impress upon all — that the coloring of 

 every description is diminished and not exaggerated, the real 

 scene being in all cases a picture, of which the narration is 

 but a feeble copy. 



