Transcriber's Note:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. The Cornish dialect written by Captain Carter includes inconsistencies in spelling and capitalisation. Some changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text.
Blank spaces, representing missing words in the original MS., have been replaced by "[...]".
[Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler]
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF
A CORNISH SMUGGLER
(CAPTAIN HARRY CARTER, OF PRUSSIA COVE)
1749-1809
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
JOHN B. CORNISH