TO 



CAPTAIN F. P. BLACKWOOD, R.N. 



My dear Sih, 



When you so kindly waived in my favour 

 your privilege of publishing the narrative of our 

 late voyage, I fear you expected from me a much 

 better and more complete account than the one I 

 now offer you. Such as it is, however, I beg you to 

 accept it ; and with it, my hearty thanks for the un- 

 interrupted friendship with which you have honoured 

 me from the commencement of our acquaintance to 

 the present time. Whatever interest, or value, the 

 following pages may possess, is in great measure 

 owing to the facilities for exploration you were always 

 so ready to afford me, whenever the nature of the 

 service permitted it. In many of those little explo- 

 rations, I had the pleasure of your society, and the 

 advantage of your remarks ; while I thank you for 

 the one, the reader will often have reason to be 

 grateful for the other. 



More I forbear to add, except that I hope all your 

 future voyages may be as agreeable and successful 

 as the last, and that among your sincere well-wishers 

 you will always number, 



Your attached friend and shipmate, 



J. BEETE JUKES. 



London, June, 1847. 



