various materials it contains.

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FIRST VOYAGE

AND

FIRST CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA 1777-1778.




MEMOIRS WRITTEN BY MYSELF,~[1]

UNTIL THE YEAR 1780.


TO MY FRIENDS.

If I were to confound, as is too often done, obstinacy with firmness,
I should blush at beginning these memoirs, after having so long
refused to do so, and at even increasing their apparent egotism by my
style, instead of sheltering myself under cover of the third person;
but I will not yield a half compliance to the request of that tender