London: Spottiswoode and Shaw , New-street Square. F. M. DEL T . M. N. HANHART LITH. PRINTERS   CHINESE JOSS HOUSE. LONDON; LONGMAN & C O . 1848 F. M. DEL T . M. N. HANHART LITH. PRINTERS   WITH DRAWINGS OF COSTUME AND SCENERY. BY FRANK S. MARRYAT, LATE MIDSHIPMAN OF H. M. S. SAMARANG, SURVEYING VESSEL. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1848....

I wish the readers of these pages to understand that it has been with no desire to appear before the public as an author that I have published this Narrative of the Proceedings of Her Majesty's ship Samarang during her last Surveying Cruise. During the time that I was in the ship, I made a large collection of drawings, representing, I hope faithfully, the costumes of the natives and the scenery of a country so new to Europeans. They were considered, on my return, as worthy to be presented to the

UPON THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO. It is with diffidence that I take up my pen to offer a few remarks upon the prospects afforded to our commerce and manufactures by the opening of the Eastern Archipelago. Hitherto I have done little more than narrate what I have seen, and have seldom made any attempt to express what I have thought. However, as my thoughts have been generated from what I have observed, whether I am correct or not in my opinions, I shall venture to lay them before my readers. How it i