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pubOne.info present you this new edition. I beg leave to dedicate this Volume to your Lordship, as a tribute justly due to the great Statesman who has ever had at heart the amelioration of the African race; and as a token of admiration of the beneficial effects of that policy which he has so long laboured to establish on the West Coast of Africa;...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was in the year 1822 or 1823 that Galt, aged then about forty-three, and having already seen much of life in various countries and capacities, settled at Esk Grove, Musselburgh, to apply himself to writing historical fiction. He was for the moment elated -...

In writing this book my desire has been to draw an exact copy of the   picture which is indelibly stamped on my own memory. I have carefully   avoided exaggeration in everything of importance. All the chief, and   most of the minor incidents are facts. In regard to unimportant   matters, I have taken the liberty of a novelist-not to colour too  ...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I For myself, (1) I hold to the opinion that not alone are the serious transactions of "e;good and noble men"e; (2) most memorable, but that words and deeds distinctive of their lighter moods may claim some record. (3) In proof of which contention, I will here describe a set of incidents within the...