? more vivid description, especially in the dlalog?ea? ?arts, this has been found unavoidable; and he trusts that this reason may be taken as a sufficient ?polagy for the frequent appearance of the word The first and second voyages call hardly for any remark in tl?s place. As to the third, about which a good deal more might be said here, the author can only g?ve a renewed expression of regret that it has not been crowned with the desired success--a result which at the time would likely have gaine? him the approval eveh of those who have tried, by accounts amusing as well as ludicrous by the utter ignorance they displayed on the affair, to disparage the pro- teedlugs. He has no patience w?th that ?lass of pecple who, like Mrs. Jcllyby, only think of provid- ing woolien stockings for Niggera and Hottentots, while they have no heart for their own poor at home; whose fine moral sense is hurt at the idca of wound- ing the feelings of a bloodthirsty tyrant, even if a great end is thereby to be gained, while they do not think it necessary to g?ve a thought to the sufferings of the many thousands murdered by his orders. He is no advocate of that kid-glove policy, nowhere mo? out of place than in the treatment of Aslat?cs, and which, in China for instance, has been most detri- mental to foreign interests. This system of fawning to officials and of Manda?n worship will always and invariably lead to one result only--to an overbearing manner on the part of those who ?nistake kindness
