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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
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and this was
which had been so arbitrarily cut down
almost immediately supplied by the publishers.
;
The Abbe, the Local Government, and Mr. Campbell,
may
be remarked, were
all in
it
hopes that a second revised
would be published containing the corrections and
additions that had subsequently been made
but for some
reason or another this has never hitherto been done.
The view which the Abbe took of the edition, as it ap-
peared, is expressed in a letter in English (of which he had
a good knowledge) addressed to the Madras Government,
dated Seringapatam, February 20, 1818, with which letter
he submitted still further revisions. The Abbe remarked
edition
;
therein
:
Since I wrote my last additions and corrections, a gentle-
in the place having favoured me for my perusal with
a copy of the English translation of the work, I was sorry
to observe that, owing perhaps to some oversight on the
part of the copyists of my original MS., or other accidents,
many interesting, authentic, and quite unexceptionable
paragraphs, and in some instances whole pages, had been
passed over, which circumstance occasions chasms in the
narrative and otherwise renders the descriptions very im-
These dif-
perfect, and in a few instances contradictory.
ferences are pointed out and corrected in the accompanying
and the other inaccuracies to be found in the
sheets
original MS. and the translation were fully corrected and
the work considerably enlarged in the additions sent before
I therefore request that the accompanying
to Government.
accounts may be sent without delay to the Hon'ble the
Court of Directors to be added to the former ones, in order
that if the work goes through a second edition it may be
made as interesting and curious as it lies in my power to do.'
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man
;
Nor were these the last corrections made in the text of
work by the good Abbe, for three years later, and a short
time before he left India for good and all, he sent a fair copy
of his 'finally corrected' work to the Madras Government.
his