A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild Tribes of Khondistan for the Suppression of Human Sacrifice

Excerpt from Naval History of Great Britain, Including the History and Lives of the British Admirals, Vol. 1 of 8 "The general utility and great importance of Naval History to the inhabitants of Britain," says Dr. Campbell, "are obvious from our being seated in an island; whence it is evident, that, to navigation, we owe our very being as a people. Next to this, is the consideration, that we are a commercial nation, from whence we equally derive internal and external advantages, have enlarged our correspondence to the utmost limits of the globe, whither we have carried our own commodities and manufactures, and have brought from them whatever was esteemed either valuable op singular. The great figure we make in the world, and the wide extent of our power and influence, are due to our naval strength, to which we stand indebted for our flourishing plantations, the spreading the British fame, and, which is of far greater consequence, British freedom, through every quarter of the universe.