Eye-Witness Account
Eye-witness accounts may be found in autobiographies, memoirs, letters, travel sketches, diaries and journals, and some true relations. (See bibliography of these types.)
Tale of Actual Adventure
J. Burroughs's Camping and Tramping with President Roosevelt (Houghton); H. W. G. Hyrst's Adventures in the Great Deserts; Hakluyt's Voyagers' Tales (C. N. L., No. 23); Library of Universal Adventure by Sea and Land, including the original narratives and authentic stories of personal prowess and peril in all waters and regions of the globe from the year 79 A. D. to the year 1888 A. D., compiled and edited by William Dean Howells and Thomas Sergeant Perry (Harper, 1893).
The Traveler's Sketch
Mandeville's Voyages and Travels (C. N. L.); Marco Polo's Voyages and Travels (Bohn); Captain Cook's Voyages of Discovery (E. L.); Travels of Mungo Park (E. L.); Hakluyt's Voyages, 8 vols. (E. L.); Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle (E. L.); Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (W. C.); Smollett's Travels through France and Italy (W. C.); Borrow's Bible in Spain (E. L.) and Wild Wales (E. L.); Bayard Taylor: Library of Travel, 6 vols.; W. D. Howells's Italian Journeys and London Films; Henry James's Little Tour in France; F. Hopkinson Smith's White Umbrella in Mexico; H. M. Stanley's In Darkest Africa and How I Found Livingstone; Lafcadio Hearn's Gleanings in Buddha-fields and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; W. E. Curtis's Between the Andes and the Ocean and Egypt, Burma, and British Malaysia. For Western travel and adventure in America between 1748 and 1846, see Early Western Travels, 32 vols. (A. H. Clark & Co. Cleveland, 1904). A tour through the island of Luzon in 1800 is charmingly recorded by Joaquin Martinez y Zuñiga in his Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, ed. by W. E. Retana (Madrid). An English translation under the title An Historical View of the Philippine Islands was issued at London in 2 vols. 1814 (printed for J. Asperne). A breezy artist-sketch, written with the purpose only to please and to satirize, is Heine's Die Harzreise (American Book Co.).
CHAPTER VIII
Journal and Diary
John Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence (E. L., Bohn); Amiel's Journal Intime, translated by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 2 vols. (Macmillan); Mme. D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, edited by her niece, with preface and notes by Austin Dobson, 6 vols. Samuel Pepys's Diary and Correspondence (Globe edition); Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (W. C.); Hesdin's Journal of a Spy in Paris during January-July, 1794 (Harpers, 1896); Swift's Journal to Stella (N. U. L., Bohn); Journal of the Reigns of George III and William IV, by Charles C. F. Greville. 3 vols. (Longmans). Gideon Welles' Diary (Atlantic Monthly, 1909-1910); John W. Audubon's Western Journals 1849-1850 (A H. Clark, Cleveland).