TO 
Sir CHARLES WARRE MALET, Bart. 
I enjoy a heartfelt pleasure, and gratify a 
laudable pride, in dedicating* these volumes to a friend 
with whom I spent my juvenile years in distant climes, 
and participated in many interesting events related 
in the following pages. To you these memoirs are 
indebted for several valuable acquisitions, which 
you was peculiarly enabled to furnish, from having- 
explored countries little known to Europeans, whilst 
employed in a public character for the East India 
Company, and the representative of the British nation 
at different Asiatic courts— -situations filled with ho- 
liour to yourself, advantage to your employers, and 
lustre to the name of an Englishman. 
Tho se best acquainted with your talents lament, 
that on returning to your native country in the prime 
of life, and the vigour of a superior mind, you should 
b 
