Excerpt from The Autobiography, Vol. 2 of 2 I was not allowed to take with me any clerk, far less a person in whom I could confide; I had not even a letter of introduction but the official vouchers, although there were in the directory, gentlemen who had resided in Canada many years, and had numerous friends in all parts of the coun try. I had, no doubt, my own friends, but I had very little personal knowledge of them. In a word, I was left destitute of those resources of ad vice and information, which the nature of my mis sion so greatly required. Perhaps it may be said that a person of more pru dence would have hesitated to undertake so im portant a charge under such circumstances, but as my first class of objects were of the nature of inquiries, I did not regard these omissions as I ought; but I did attach importance to them, and they did weigh so heavily on my mind, that for the greatest part of the passage out to New York, they actually seemed to me as of a sinister character, in spite of reason and the honour able reputation of those I had to deal with. In fact I could not entirely repel a strange presenti ment with which Iwas haunted, that there was something of method in the proceedings that defied discernment, at least it baffled mine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.