X PREFACE. 
entered on my mission, shall allow that I have executed tha 
duties of it to their satisfaction; and that they consider the 
Journal which I have now the honour to present to them, to be, 
what I have endeavoured to make it, an honest and faithful 
report of my proceedings and observations in tlieir service, from 
the outset of my journey to its termination. 
M. P. 
