ΤΟ THE HONOURABLE SIR THOS. STAMFORD RAFFLES, KNT. LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OF FORT MARLBRO', &c. &c. &c. THESE LETTERS, DESCRIPTIVE OF SCENES EXPLORED IN HIS SOCIETY, ARE INSCRIBED BY HIS OBLIGED AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND AND COUSIN, THOMAS RAFFLES. Advertisement TO THE SECOND EDITION. Ir becomes me gratefully to acknowledge the kindness with which this volume has been received. I wrote and printed, in the first instance, merely for the eye of friendship, and if my friends are in any measure gratified, I am amply recompensed. I published in the most unassuming form; I made no pretensions to originality or novelty; and with the same diffidence, I again commit these letters to the press. In this edition I have carefully corrected those errors, chiefly typographical, which, notwithstanding all my diligence, crept into the first. Liverpool, 1st Jan. 1819. |