UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA

OF

CAPTAIN

JAMES WILSON,

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS ENTERPRISES AND SUFFER.
INGS IN INDIA, HIS CONVERSION TO
CHRISTIANITY, HIS MISSIONARY VOY-
AGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS;;

- AND HIS

PEACEFUL AND TRIUMPHANT DEATH..

BY JOHN GRIFFIN.

THIRD EDITION. '

LONDON:

PRINTED BY BENJAMIN BENSLEY,

24, Nelson-square ;

FOR T. HAMILTON, 33, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

TO MRS. WILSON, THE WIDOW;

TO THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED;

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

AND TO THE MISSIONARIES IN CONNECTION WITH IT,

ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS;

THESE MEMOIRS

OF

CAPTAIN JAMES WILSON,

An early and prominent Member of a Society which has proved the Parent and Friend of numerous other noble and benevolent Institutions, both Foreign and Domestic ;

AND WHICH IN UNION,

Constitute the Religious Character of the Age, form a new era of the Church, the brightest sign of the present times, and a Day-Star to the Heathen World;

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY THEIR SINCERE FRIEND

AND BROTHER IN THE MISSIONARY CAUSE,

THE AUTHOR.

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