PREFACE. 



IT is hoped that the circumstances under which this 

 volume appears may he considered such as to excuse its 

 imperfections. It is with some omissions and com- 

 pletions of sentences hut with hardly a verbal alteration 

 the copy of a journal, not written with a view to 

 publication but simply as a private record, kept up from 

 time to time as opportunity offered in the midst of the 

 scenes which it describes. The hand that wrote it is now 

 in the grave. And it is solely in compliance with the 

 wishes of many relatives and friends who were anxious, 

 to obtain such a memorial of one whom they loved, that 

 it is now committed to the press by a brother. 



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