eans
The Hospital--Direful visitation of the
Yellow Fever--Disposal of the Dead, 226

CHAP. XXVII.--Schooner Horizon
Peak of Teneriffe--Queer Carpenter, 236

CHAP. XXVIII.--The Sloop First Consul
Sinking of the Sloop--and return home penniless, 240

AUTHOR'S APOLOGY.

_In presenting the following Voyages to the public, I must inform my
readers that I have had but a common school education, and am
unaccustomed to composition. I can only tell my story in a plain
straight forward way, not being able to ornament it with flowery
language._

_My Voyages were all written by myself. I employed competent persons to
copy the work from my manuscript, and they corrected the small
inaccuracies that had escaped my observation._

_I thought, that although my book might contain many defects, if
composed by myself, that it would still gain more than it lost, by being
the production of the very person who had seen and taken part in the
scenes he related, and could vouch for the truth of all he had
witnessed. It is not given to the public as a specimen of the beautiful
in style, but as the story of an old sea captain who had lived in one of
the most eventful periods of our country's history; and one who had
nearly arrived at his last anchorage._

_With this brief outline of my life, and this short explanation, I
commit my little book, with confidence, to an indulgent public._

_Jacob Dunham._

RECOMMENDATIONS.

Captain Jacob Dunham, having applied to the Congress of the United
States, for relief, on account of losses sustained by him by piratical
robbery, We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with the said Jacob Dunham, have known him for many years
past, that he is a man of truth and veracity, and that his statements
are entitled to full faith and credit:

Thomas O'Hara Croswell,
Post-Master, Catskill.
Abel Bruce, M. D.
Robert Dorlon, Esq.
Orrin Day,
President of Tanner's Bank, Catskill.
Hon. Malebone Watson,
Judge of Supreme Court, New-York.
Hon. John Adams.
Caleb Day, Esq.
J. D. Beers,
President of Bank of North America, New-York.
Jacob Haight,
Treasurer of State of New-York.
Hon. Zadock Pratt.
T. K. Cooke,
Member of New-York Assembly.
James Powers,
State Senator.
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