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SIR EDW. SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE.

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

OF HIS SHIPWRECK,

AND CONSEQUENT

DISCOVERY OF CERTAIN ISLANDS IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA;

WITH A DETAIL OF MANY EXTRAORDINARY AND HIGHLY INTERESTING
EVENTS IN HIS LIFE, FROM THE YEAR 1733 TO 1749.

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LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN,

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PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.

THE manuscript papers, or rather manuscript books, constituting the Diary from which the following Narrative is taken, were put into my hands by the representative of their much respected writer, merely as a curious specimen of old-fashioned times, the perusal of which might amuse me. On reading the manuscripts I found not only amusement, which may be called the least worthy effect of any written production, but a deep and affecting interest; such as a man might feel while listening, at his own comfortable fireside, to the strange adventures and hair-breadth escapes of some dear and long-absent friend, just returned to his kinsfolk and neighbours, after a widely wandering and chequered' travel in distant lands.

Thus impressed, I ventured to recommend the publication of Sir Edward Seaward's Diary to its He smiled, and objected, saying, " He should expect the spirit of the worthy knight would

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