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Excerpt from A Narrative of a Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827: Together With a Journal of a Residence in Tristan D'acunha, an Island Situated Between South America and the Cape of Good Hope These re?ections have been called forth by a careful perusal of the New Zealand Journal, and they here terminate - the purpose of this Introduction being to supply the reader with a brief and suc cinct narrative of the events which led our traveller to Tristan d'acunha and New Zealand. It appears (from documents furnished by himself), that, although educated as an artist, a love of roving and' adven ture tempted him, at an early age, to sea. Accordingly, in 1815, through some interest he possessed at the Admiralty, he procured a passage on board a storeship bound to Sicily and Malta, where he had a brother stationed who was a captain in the navy. In one of the small craft attached to the British ?otilla, he visited many parts of the Mediterranean, accompanying Lord Exmouth's ?eet in his brother's gun-boat, on his Lordship's first expedition against the Barbary states. A peace being concluded with the Bey, he Visited the ruins of Carthage, and likewise the remains of the ancient city of Ptolomea or Lepida, situated in ancient Libya; the Bey providing our traveller and his companions with a tent, camels, and a strong guard of J anissaries to protect them against the Arabs. After this he returned to Malta, passed through Sicily, and ascended Mount zetna. He next proceeded to Gibraltar, taking a minute survey of that mighty rock, its batteries, caves, and Moorish ruins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
