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istical remarks to a close. It is naturally with feelings of pride and pleasure that I allude to the committee recently organized to aid me; and if I indulge in the vanity of placing their names before my readers, it is simply because every one of the following noblemen and gentlemen knew me in the Crimea, and by consenting to assist me now record publicly their opinion of my services there. And yet I may reasonably on other grounds be proud of the fact, that it has been stated publicly that my present embarrassments originated in my charities and incessant labours among the army, by Major-General Lord Rokeby, K.C.B. H.S.H. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, C.B. His Grace the Duke of Wellington. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. The Right Hon. Lord Ward. General Sir John Burgoyne, K.C.B. Major-General Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B. Rear-Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington, K.C.B. Colonel M'Murdo, C.B. Colonel Chapman, C.B. Lieutenant-Colonel Ridley, C.B. Major the Hon. F. Keane. W. H. Russell, Esq. (_Times_ Correspondent). W. T. Doyne, Esq. THE END. London: Printed by Thomas Harrild, 11, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street. Transcriber's Note Minor typographic errors have been corrected without note. Page 42--omitted 'I' added--"I must do them credit to say, that they were never loath ..." Page 94--omitted 'the' added--"... which is hired by the Government, at great cost ..." There are also a few Scots words in this text. These include 'waesome', meaning sorrowful, woeful; and 'brash', meaning attack. Some archaic spelling is also used (for example, secresy), which has been retained. The few oe ligatures have not been retained in this version. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, by Mary Seacole *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MRS. SEACOLE *** ***** This file should be named 23031.txt or 23031.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/3/23031/ Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute
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