Excerpt from A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Maeander: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B I do not say that we are all to print, whether we see anything or not but that a sailor, actively employed, can hardly escape from an increasing knowledge, on subjects new to those at home, which qualifies him for a very useful kind of authorship. My visit TO the indian archipelago has grown out of this principle. I h0pe the perusal of it may reflect on the reader some portion of that information or amusement, which I owe to it or to the days to which it takes me back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.