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Title: Adventures in the Philippine Islands
Author: Paul P. de La Gironiere
Release Date: October 27, 2009 [EBook #30347]
Language: English
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Adventures
in the
Philippine Islands.
Translated from the French of
Paul P. de la Gironiere,
Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honour.
Revised and extended by the author,
Expressly for this edition.
London: Charles H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row.
PREFACE.
On hearing a recital of some adventures which had occurred to me
during my long voyages, many of my friends have frequently begged of
me to publish a narrative of them, which might perhaps be interesting.
"Nothing can be more easy for you," they said, "as you have always
kept a journal since your departure from France."
I hesitated, however, to follow their advice, or to yield to their
wishes, when I was one day surprised to see my name in one of the
feuilletons in the "Constitutionnel."
M. Alexandre Dumas was publishing, under the title of "The
Thousand-and-One Phantoms," a romance, one of the principal personages
of which, in a voyage to the Philippine Islands, must have known me
when I was residing at Jala-Jala, in the colony that I founded there.
It must be evident that the lively romancist has ranked me in the
category of his Thousand-and-One Phantoms; but, to prove to the public
that I am really in existence, I have resolved to take up the pen,
under an impression, that facts of the most scrupulous veracity,
and which can be attested by some hundreds of persons, might
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