IN THE NAVY: OR, JOURNAL OF A CRUISE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND LEVANT, ON BOARD OF THE U. S. FRIGATE CONSTELLATION, IN BY E. C. WINES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA. CAREY & LEA, CHESTNUT STREET. ........ Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by CAREY & LEA, in the Clerk's office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK TO THE HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, AND TO THE OFFICERS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM, PN THE Naval Service of the United States, 430 AS A TOKEN OF SINCERE RESPECT, BOTH. FOR THEIR PUBLIC SERVICES AND PRIVATE WORTH, THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED BY THEIR MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. Ir shall be my endeavour not to exhaust my reader's patience in the preface, however heavily I may draw upon it in the work itself. It is so much the fashion now-adays for writers of travels to apologize for their productions, by stating that they are less the result of volition, than a sort of irresisitible inspiration, breathed into their spirits by the genii loci of the spots they have visited, that I should not probably be believed, if I should say that I joined the Constellation without any intention of sporting my pen for the edification of the public. As I do not wish to make my first,-and probably my last,-appearance before the world in the character of an author, with an assertion at the outset that would occasion my veracity to be called in question, I shall make no such declaration,-albeit I might do it in good faith. My object, then,-to dash at once in medias res,—in applying for my situation, was twofold,-the acquisition of the languages of the South of Europe, and the sight of those glorious regions, where Genius wantoned in her young and vernal hour. Being somewhat fond of scribbling, I inundated my friends with letters, of which I was foolish enough to retain copies, and kept besides a copious journal of notes and observations for my own improvement and diversion. On my return to the United States, some of my friends were kind, perhaps I ought to say partial,-enough to suggest that I had the materials of an amusing volume. My self-love was flattered by the suggestion, and my selfconfidence so much confirmed, that I set myself down to A* |
