Westward Ho! (Kingsley)
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WESTWARD HO!
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
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New York: 46 East Fourteenth Street
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
TO
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.
C. K.
February, 1855.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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