OR THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, OF BURROUGH, IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON IN THE REIGN OF HER MOST GLORIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH RENDERED INTO MODERN ENGLISH BY CHARLES KINGSLEY London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1887 The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. HARVARD 044*219 First printed (3 Vols. Crown Svo.) 1855; Reprinted 1857 Reprinted 1861, 1865, 1869, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, February and November 1876, March and December 1877, 1878, Feb uary and November 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887. ΤΟ THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B. AND GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D. BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND This Book is Dedicated BY ONE WHO (UNKNOWN TO THEM) HAS NO OTHER METHOD OF EXPRESSING HIS ADMIRATION AND REVERENCE FOR THEIR CHARACTERS. THAT TYPE OF ENGLISH VIRTUE, AT ONCE MANFUL AND GODLY, PRACTICAL AND ENTHUSIASTIC, PRUDENT AND SELF-SACRIFICING, WHICH HE HAS TRIED TO DEPICT IN THESE PAGES, THEY HAVE EXHIBITED IN A FORM EVEN PURER AND MORE HEROIC THAN THAT IN WHICH HE HAS DREST IT, AND THAN THAT IN WHICH IT WAS EXHIBITED BY THE WORTHIES WHOM ELIZABETH, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RANK OR AGE, GATHERED ROUND HER IN THE EVER GLORIOUS WARS OF HER GREAT REIGN. February 1855. C. K. |