In the relation of the following adventures I do not mean to illustrate the principle maintained by some writers, that by an inevitable course of events in life, _that_ becomes fate, which at first was merely _choice_; but rather to show how, by a remarkable combination of circumstances (to a great extent beyond my own control), I was involved in a series of perils and perigrinations, such as rarely fall to the lot even of those who have the most restless of dispositions. That my temperament was, and is still, something of this nature, I must confess; and the reading of my leisure hours--books of wild adventure by field and flood (I have devoured them all from the volumes of dear old Daniel…
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