[190] "Morai" is a grave.
[191] Botany Bay.
THE MISSIONARY.
Amor patriæ ratione potentior omni.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.[192]
It is not necessary to relate the causes which induced me to publish this poem without a name.
The favour with which it has been received may make me less diffident in avowing it; and, as a second edition has been generally called for, I have endeavoured to make it, in every respect, less unworthy of the public eye.
I have availed myself of every sensible objection, the most material of which was the circumstance, that the Indian maid, described in the first book, had not a part assigned to her of sufficient interest in the subsequent events of the poem, and that the character of the Missionary was not sufficiently professional.