A
Voyage to South America,
WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF A SHIPWRECK
IN
THE RIVER LA PLATA,
IN
THE YEAR 1817.
By the Sole Surviver.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY INGRAHAM AND HEWES
1826.
PREFACE.
The haste in which the former edition of this little journal was written and sent to the press, produced several errors and omissions, which, in this, I have endeavored to correct and supply; adding, also, a short account of the situation, population and customs of those places mentioned in the narrative.
No spectacle on earth, perhaps, which the eye of man can witness, is fraught with so much interest, sublimity and terror, and no situation is so awful and appalling, as a midnight shipwreck at sea. In my youth, I read, with unsatiated avidity, the voyages and disasters of the adventurous seaman, and I believe the desire for such information is planted in every human heart.