IS DEDICATED, IN RECOGNITION OF THE UNOSTENTATIOUS, UNPROMISED, AND UNRESERVED LIBERALITY WHICH RENDERED IT POSSIBLE FOR THE AUTHOR TO REMAIN IN CRETE DURING THE INSURRECTION. In committing to print the subjoined record of the Cretan revolt of 1866-7-8, I am fulfilling a duty in regard to a series of events _quæque ipse vidi et quorum pars magna fui_, and which, if not in themselves of importance, are so as a revelation of the manner in which political influences work in the East, and perhaps still more as a curious exemplification of the weight which personal accidents, private intrigue and pique, and the capacity or incapacity of obscure officials, may have in determining the affairs of g…
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