PREFACE. 



The habits of my life have been so 

 little of a literary nature, that I should 

 have ventured to obtrude any work 

 upon the public with extreme diffi- 

 dence; but I feel still more sensibly 

 how much I stand in need of indul- 

 gence, when I offer the present volume 

 to notice, collected as its facts have 

 been during the toils of travelling, 

 where few conveniences were to be 

 found, and entirely the fruit of a jour- 

 nal kept under every disadvantage of 



