PREFACE. 
The following narrative has been compiled from the 
various journals and notes made by some of the officers and 
other gentlemen that accompanied Lord Byron on his in¬ 
teresting voyage to the Sandwich Islands. 
It is much to be regretted that Mr. Bloxam, the Chaplain 
of his Majesty's ship, Blonde, was prevented by the sudden¬ 
ness of his departure from England, in order to fulfil his 
duty in a distant colony, from arranging his own papers 
and those of his companions. 
The Editor is conscious that some things may have been 
omitted, and some, possibly, mistaken, notwithstanding 
every endeavour to do justice to the work, owing to a want 
of that local knowledge which Mr. Bloxam, as an eye-wit¬ 
ness, must have possessed, and with which he would, no 
doubt, have extended and adorned his narrative, had he 
fortunately remained to prepare it for publication. 
