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PREFACE.
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The extremely violent nature of the volcanic1 eruption2 in Krakatoa in 1883, the peculiar3 beauty of those parts of the eastern seas where the event occurred, the wide-spread influences of the accompanying phenomena4, and the tremendous devastation5 which resulted, have all inspired me with a desire to bring the matter, in the garb6 of a tale, before that portion of the juvenile7 world which accords me a hearing.
For most of the facts connected with the eruption which have been imported into my story, I have to acknowledge myself indebted to the recently published important and exhaustive "Report" of the Krakatoa Committee, appointed by the Royal Society to make a thorough investigation8 of the whole matter in all its phases.
I have also to acknowledge having obtained much interesting and useful information from the following among other works:—The Malay Archipelago, by A.R. Wallace; A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, by H.O. Forbes; and Darwin's Journal of Researches round the world in H.M.S. "Beagle."
R.M. BALLANTYNE.
HARROW-ON-THE HILL, 1889.
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