GEOFFREY GAMBADO
TO THE READER.
I flatter myself the following compilation will not prove unwelcome to the Public; it blends information with amusement, and confirms how general is the thirst for knowledge in the present times, which is not to be idly checked by the loss of a limb or a life. The adventurers of this age are divided into two classes—per mare, per terras—of which latter description are my correspondents. Those of the former, fancy they discover much, by being at sea for months together without sight of land—by the wanting wine and water, and get-ting
