PREFACE.

Inlaying the history of my life and travels before thepublic, I deem it right to state that I am past themiddle age; this I feel compelled to mention, because it ismy opinion that no man should write a history of himselfuntil he has set foot upon the border land where the pastand the future begin to blend. When the past has recededso far that he can behold it as in a picture, and hisshare in it as the history of a soldier who has fought for hisQueen and country, and had many narrow escapes ofdeath. But, thank God, I have been spared thus far toconfess my faults, and my good deeds look miserably poorin my own eyes; indeed, I would no more claim a rewardfor them than expect a captain's commission.

The countries and incidents described in this workwill be found I trust, interesting to all classes of persons.The history of a soldier's life and travels is alwaysan entertaining and instructive one. Many books onthe lives of officers have been written by learned mencontaining much information, and highly useful to thescholar, but they do not interest the mass of commonreaders. Others, again, pass so rapidly from place toplace, and are so general in their description, the readergets but very imperfect ideas from reading them. Theseextremes the writer has endeavoured to avoid. It hasbeen my object to select the most important eventsof my life, and to describe them in a plain and familiarstyle. I have not indulged in learned dissertations,my common, old-fashioned Irish school education beingtoo limited to give that classical finish to the workwhich a learned writer would have done. Indeed, ithas not been my intention to write a book for thelearned or critical, but to give to t

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