... this story’s actually true. If any person doubt it, I appeal To history, tradition, and to facts, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel.
Byron
NEW YORK
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON
Cambridge: the Riverside Press
1873
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
George Lunt,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Archaic, variable, and misspelled words and punctuation inconsistancies have been preserved as printed in all of the quoted material with one exception. This includes all poetry, quotations, letters, and documents.
The one exception is in the poem Childe Harold, a section of which is quoted in the Appendix, Section IX. The word scimeter was changed to scimitar because it is spelled correctly in the original poem by Lord Byron located at PG, EText-No. 5131. See Canto IV, Stanza XVI.
All corrections are indicated by a dotted line under the correction. Hover the mouse over the word and the original text will appear. A list of these corrections can be found here.
The following word was found in both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms in the original text: road-side (roadside).The hyphenation has been retained.
Footnotes have been numbered consecutively and have been placed at the end of each chapter.
INTRODUCTION.
The Editor of this little volume does notdeem it incumbent upon him to explainin what way the author’s manuscript cameinto his possession. He hopes it may beenough for him to say, that the writer believedhimself to be the only person whosememory retained most of the incidents andanecdotes herein recorded; and a longand familiar acquaintance with his characterenables the Editor to state, that entirecredence is due to his narrative of facts,written
