DEDICATORY NOTE. 



The Angler to his Friend. 



DEAR AMICUS, 



Two years have gone by since I 

 addressed you last two short years yet how 

 pregnant of events of heroical feats of arms 

 in the field, of feeble doings in council, and 

 their inevitable consequence national losses, 

 and all but national disgrace. 



The even tenor of the Angler's way and 

 those pleasant journeyings we have had to- 

 gether, described in the following pages, are a 

 remarkable contrast to the scenes we might 

 have witnessed in the East, and the horrors we 

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