VI PREFACE. 



Troy, so I sent him to Guiana. I intended 

 to have written much more at length; 

 but days, and months, and years have 

 passed away, and nothing has been done. 

 Thinking it very probable that I shall 

 never have patience enough to sit down 

 and write a full account of all I saw and 

 examined in those remote wilds, I give 

 up the intention of doing so, and send 

 forth this account of my " Wanderings/' 

 just as it was written at the time. 



If critics are displeased with it in its 

 present form, I beg to observe, that it 

 is not totally devoid of interest, and that it 

 contains something useful. Several of the 

 unfortunate gentlemen who went out to 

 explore the Congo, were thankful for the 

 instructions they found in it; and Sir 

 Joseph Banks, on sending back the 

 journal, said in his letter, " I return your 

 journal, with abundant thanks for the 

 very instructive lesson you have favoured 

 us with this morning, which far excelled, 

 in real utility, every thing I have hitherto 

 seen/' And in another letter he says, 



