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teres ted, and undaunted Travellers and 

 Voyagers engaged in the discovery of 

 unknown regions, who, at the risk of health 

 and life itself, and the sacrifice of every 

 personal comfort and convenience, volun- 

 tarily and knowingly subject themselves to 

 the baleful effects of tropical heat and arctic 

 cold, of pestilence and famine — in a word, 

 to the certain endurance of every species of 

 misery that can possibly be inflicted on, or 

 borne by, the human frame. Why men like 

 these should be denied their proper station 

 in the records of that " stupendous pile," 

 in which the poet, the philosopher, the 

 historian, and the warrior, have been en- 

 rolled, it would be difficult to assign any 

 cause but that of inadvertence. If, as the 

 same poet tells us, 



" The proper study of mankind is man," 

 those who subject themselves to the perils 

 and hardships which attend the collecting 

 of materials for the pursuit of the "study," 



