TORREY'S NARRATIVE:

OR, THE

LIFE AND ADVENTURES

OF

WILLIAM TORREY.

Who for the space of 25 months, within the years 1835, '36 and '37, was held a captive by the Cannibals of the Marquesas, (a group of Islands in the South Sea,) among whom he was cast from the wreck of the Brig Doll, Capt.——, of Otaheite, of which wreck himself, and one shipmate, can alone tell the sad tale. Also, for many years served in the several capacities requisite for seamen, on both English and American Merchants' ships.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Illustrated with Engravings of his own Sketching.

"'Tis mine to tell a tale of grief, Of constant peril, and of scant relief; Of days of danger, and of nights of pain."

BOSTON:

PRESS OF A. J. WRIGHT, 3 WATER STREET.

1848.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, By A. L. STEARNS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.