by Captain Rees Howell Gronow




EDITOR'S NOTE


The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional
spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the punctuation is remarkably varied.
I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word
and the following colon or semicolon have been removed. There are also
many French words and phrases, whose meaning will usually be obvious
as soon as you realise they are French. Of course I apologize for any
genuine errors in spelling and punctuation that have crept into this file.

Captain Gronow is an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences
in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life.
Gronow published several sets of memoirs. This file covers the first
half of what he published. Search the web for "Captain Gronow" to learn
more about this interesting gentleman.

The text is arranged as a series of topics, each with a title in capital
letters. Sometimes there is continuity in this arrangement, sometimes
there is not. There is no other structure to the text.

I have used the character for "pounds" (money) in this text: '£'.
If the character n single quotes does not look like a pound sign to you,
well, at least you know what is intended. The book text uses a lower case 'l'
for this purpose, but in computer fonts the 'l', looking just like a '1' when