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Volumes already Published.

1. Borrow's Bible in Spain.

2-3. Heber's Journals in India. 2 vols.

4. Irby and Mangles' Travels-Siege of Gibraltar.
5. Hay's Morocco-Letters from the Baltic.
6. The Amber Witch-Cromwell and Bunyan.
7. New South Wales-Barrow's Life of Drake.
8. Father Ripa's Memoirs-Lewis's West Indies.
9. Malcolm's Sketches of Persia.

10. French in Algiers-Fall of the Jesuits.
11. Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall.
12. Darwin's Voyage of a Naturalist.
13. Lord Mahon's Life of Condé,

14. Borrow's Gypsies of Spain.

15. Melville's Typee, or the Marquesas.

16. Livonian Tales-The Missionary in Canada.

17. Sale's Brigade-Letters from Madras.

18. St. John's Wild Sports of the Highlands.

19. Head's Pampas-Sieges of Vienna by the Turks.
20. Ford's Gatherings from Spain.

21. Sketches and Scenes of German Life.
22. Melville's Omoo; or, The South Seas.
23. Gleig's Story of the Battle of Waterloo.
24. The River Amazon-The Wayside Cross.
25. Acland's India-Washington and New Orleans.
26. New Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.
27. Lord Carnarvon's Portugal and Galicia.
28. Gleig's Life of Lord Clive.

29. Bush Life in Australia-Adventures of Steffens.
30. Tales of a Traveller. By Washington Irving.

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS:

OR,

A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE.

OR, A

NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE

AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF

THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS ;

OR, A

PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE,

BY HERMAN MELVILLE.

22 2676

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1847.