PREFACE 



board which ship the present !Sir Hugh Palliser, 

 who was theu Governor of that ishuid, had his 

 Broad-pendant. Having- no partienhtr engage- 

 ment, and hearing that l)ears and deer were plen- 

 tiful there, I felt so strong an inclination to be 

 among them, that I accompanied my brother on 

 that voyage. 



On our arrival at St. John's, the command of 

 a small schooner was conferred on my l)rother, 

 and he was sent on some service to one of the 

 Northern harbours, where I accompanied him; 

 and it was then that I obtained m}^ first knowledge 

 of the Red, or Wild Indians. 



On the return of the shij) to Portsmouth, I 

 found, that my good friend the Marquis, who had 

 been appointed Commander in Chief of the Army 

 during my al)scnce, had o])tained for me a Com- 

 pany in the Thirty-seventh Regiment of foot, ui)ou 

 a vacancy made by the death of Captain Slack, 

 who died in consequence of a wound in his shoid- 

 der, which he received from one of the last shots 

 that were fired by the French aniiy in Germany. 



The regiment was at that time at ^linorca, and 

 r Joined it there the following Summer. T \ovy 

 soon raught ihc inveterate endemic ague of tlial 

 island, and in six nionlhs was so greatly reduced, 

 that I must shortly have died, had not Tjieutenant 

 Ciovernoi' Johnstone been so kind, as to pei'nu't 

 mr fo jT'lni'ii to I'Jiglaud. 7 had a tedious passage 

 honic, hut was perfectly fi'ce fi-om my complaint 

 while at sen, altlionuli it constaiilly i-ctni'iicd the 

 instant the ship entei'cd a liarhour. II was ihe 



