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PREFACE

It has long been my intention to write for my children and their children an account of my life, in order that they may know something of the interesting work on which I have had the good fortune to be engaged, of the friends who have made so much of the happiness of my life, and of the places where it has been spent.

Being now in my 70th year it does not seem wise to defer much longer the execution of my project, - as failing memory of little things warns me that I should not delay putting on record many details that now live in my mind, but may ere long be forgotten.

Lt. Gen. Sir John Stokes
1894

Note: The numerous errors, in the following pages, of the letter "o" appearing where an "r" is required, are owing to a fault in the type-writing machine.