Read attentively, it enables one to live through the stirring events with which it deals in a singularly thrilling style.

We feel the crash and thunder and hustle of battle far more keenly from the detailed accumulation of occurrences here presented than any scene-painting prose could make us do.

The journal begins on September 7th, 1793, when Flinders joined the Bellerophon, and continues till August 10th, 1794, when he quitted her.

In the early part it deals principally with cruising up and down the Channel looking for the enemy's ships.

Occasionally there was a skirmish.