[Harriott, John, Lieut.]:

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STRUGGLES THROUGH LIFE, EXEMPLIFIED IN THE VARIOUS TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA, OF LIEUT. JOHN HARRIOTT...NOW RESIDENT-MAGISTRATE OF THE ... Second edition, after the first of the previous year. Harriott enlisted in the British Navy at an early age and served in the West Indies and the Levant, at the taking of Havana in 1762, and the recapture of Newfoundland. Later he made a number of voyages in the American and West Indian trade, and spent several months among Native Americans in 1766. In 1768 he received a military appointment in the East Indies. After being wounded, he tried his hand at a number of trades, including surveying and farming, and even achieved success in the invention of some notable farming and naval implements for which he received patents. He emigrated to the United States again in 1793, but found himself treated quite poorly by the Americans. He writes that "from all that I was able to learn, see, and judge, concerning any or all of the Indian tribes...I would rather trust myself and property among them than the foremost white American back wood-men settlers, who are for more savage of the two," and shortly returned home after facing suspicion due to his English nationality. In 1797 Harriott established the first cutter patrols of the port of London in an effort to reduce the crime rate there, serving as magistrate of the newly formed Thames police-court until his death in 1816. The present work includes chapters on a numbe

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