and without any mixture of the author's vanity or of pecuniary interest,
would be a well-founded title to their indulgence. Whether I have done
well or ill in yielding to these suggestions, which I am bound to regard
as those of friendship, or of good-will, it belongs to the impartial and
disinterested reader, to decide.

MONTREAL, 1819.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

Departure from Montreal.--Arrival in New York.--Description of
that City.--Names of the Persons engaged in the Expedition.


CHAPTER II.

Departure from New York.--Reflections of the Author.--Navigation,
falling in with other Ships, and various Incidents, till the Vessel
comes in Sight of the Falkland Isles.


CHAPTER III.

Arrival at the Falkland Isles.--Landing.--Perilous Situation of the