Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands
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Confessions, to introduce to our readers acquaintance the gentleman whose name figures in the title-page, we subjoined a brief notice by himself, intimating the intention he entertained of one day giving to the world a further insight into his life and opinions, under the title of Loiterings of Arthur OL eary. It is more than probable that the garbled statement and incorrect expression of which we...
MoreConfessions, to introduce to our readers acquaintance the gentleman whose name figures in the title-page, we subjoined a brief notice by himself, intimating the intention he entertained of one day giving to the world a further insight into his life and opinions, under the title of Loiterings of Arthur OL eary. It is more than probable that the garbled statement and incorrect expression of which we ourselves were guilty respecting our friend had piqued him into this declaration, which, on mature consideration, he thought fit to abandon. For, from that hour to the present one nothing of the kind ever transpired, nor could we ascertain, by the strictest inquiry, that such a proposition of publication had ever been entertained in theW estE nd, or heard of in the Row. The worthy traveller had wandered away to pastures new, Heaven knows where! and, notwithstanding repeated little paragraphs in the second advertising column of the Times newspaper, assuring A. OL. that if he would inform his friends where a letter would reach, all would be forgiven, etc., the mystery of his whereabouts remained unsolved, save by the chance mention of aN orth-west-P assage traveller, who speaks of aM r. OL eary as having presided at a grand bottle-nosed whale dinner in Behring Strait some time in the autumn of 1840; and an allusion in the second volume of the Chevalier deB ertonville sD iscoveries inC entral Africa to an I rlandais Men original, who acted as sponsor to the son and heir of King Bullanullaboo, in the Chieckhow Territory.
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