THE ATTACK ON QUALLAH BATTOO, WITH NOTICES OF SCENES, OF THE PACIFIC. Embellished with Engravings. BY FRANCIS WARRINER, A. M. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT, LORD & CO. 182 Broadway. BOSTON CROCKER & BREWSTER, 1 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by FRANCIS WARRINER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. West & Trow, Prs. Sep. 21-27-4.0. PREFACE. A MULTITUDE of interesting objects will of necessity have presented themselves to a voyager in a three years' cruise; especially in a government ship, circumnavigating the globe. Yet when all the materials I had collected were placed before me with a view to their publication, I was not a little surprised at the amount: and indeed, it was no small task to compress within a moderate compass all the things which seemed necessary to be mentioned. Particular passages in this volume have already appeared in the journals of this country, under the form of letters and extracts. These, however, constitute but an inconsiderable portion of the work; and they have also, on a careful revision, received some important amendments. The design of the author has been to give simple and correct representations of facts and scenes, with out distortion or embellishment. He has the satisfaction of believing that, whatever imperfections may chance to be discovered in the execution of the work, no important errors can have crept into his statements; as he has not ventured upon the description of any scene in detail, without having had recourse to materials, which had been previously collected by him upon the spot. NEW-YORK, January, 1835, |