The work contained a detailed account
of everything which took place daring the whole of the three days, and
formed a quarto volume. The plates were numerous and highly
interesting, There was a line engraving of Alligator Mountain and a
mezzotint of Seaweed Island; a view of the canoe N.E.; a view of the
canoe N.W.; a view of the canoe S.E.; a view of the canoe S.W. There
were highly-finished coloured drawings of the dried fish and the
breadfruit, and an exquisitely tinted representation of the latter in a
mouldy state. But the chef-d'oeuvre was the portrait of the Author
himself. He was represented trampling on the body of a boa constrictor
of the first quality, in the skin of which he was dressed; at his back
were his bow and arrows; his right hand rested on an uprooted pine-tree;
he stood in a desert between two volcanoes; at his feet was a lake of
magnitude; the distance lowered with an approaching tornado; but a lucky
flash of lightning revealed the range of the Andes and both oceans.
Altogether he looked the most dandified of savages, and the most savage
of dandies.
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