xii Preface. 



compelled, as will be found recorded in the pages of this Jour- 

 nal, to quit the country suddenly in the ship Herefordshire in 

 the early part of the month of November. 



His friends and brothers are now anxiously expecting to 

 receive from the Cape of Good Hope, the first accounts of the 

 effect of the sea-voyage upon his health. In the midst of their 

 anxiety, they may be excused for the apparent egotism, of 

 placing so much of eulogy, and of personal memoir, in the 

 Preface to the last volume of his series of the Journal. 



Calcutta, "1 

 February, 1839. J 



