127 VOYAGE ΤΟ CONTAINING REFLECTIONS ON A VOYAGE TO MADRAS AND BENGAL, IN 1821, IN THE SHIP LONACH; INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND HINTS TO SURGEONS AND OWNERS OF PRIVATE TRADING-SHIPS. BY JAMES WALLACE, The dullest writer, if he holds up virtue and liberty, and benevolence and esteem; if he fills his story with good and wholesome advice; and dresses up his little magazine of knowledge or entertainment, at least with a good intention; he may make himself useful. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND G. UNDERWOOD, 32, FLEET STREET; AND CHALMERS AND COLLINS, GLASGOW. MDCCCXXIV. 747 DEDICATION. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN PEARSON, Esq. Commander of the Lonach ; AND TO THE OFFICERS, PASSENGERS, AND CREW OF THAT SHIP. A CONSIDERABLE time before these "Reflections" were given to the press, he under whose auspices they were written, and who would have patronised them, had he been living, was numbered with the dead. I can now, therefore, only dedicate them to his memory; and well indeed does it deserve the tribute at my hand. This is not the place to speak of his goodness of the ties that were between us; to tell how much he did for me-and how much I owe him; yet may be allowed to state, that it is for the kindnesses he heaped upon me, from the first moment I came I |