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THE

WORKS

OF

MRS. SHERWOOD.

BEING

THE ONLY UNIFORM EDITION EVER PUB-

LISHED IN THE UNITED STATES.

VOL. IV.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,

NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET,

AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ASTOR LENOX AND TILD N FOUNDATIONS.

R 1914. L

ADVERTISEMENT

TO

"THE INDIAN PILGRIM."

It will readily appear, to the most cursory reader of the following pages, that they were primarily intended for publication in a very remote land. In the year 1810, during the author's residence in that far country, a plan was formed by certain pious persons in Calcutta for translating Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress into Hindoostanee, for the use of such of the natives as were beginning to show an interest in religious subjects. But upon making the attempt, the style of that celebrated work, and the manners therein displayed, were found so entirely repugnant to the oriental taste as to render the prosecution of such design no longer desirable. A proposal was then made to the author to write an Indian Pilgrim's Progress, adapted to the taste, the manners, and the peculiar prejudices of Hindoostan,in consequence of which, this little work was immediately composed, with a sincere desire to assist in preparing the way of the Lord among a people who have contributed, in no ordinary degree, to the extension of our national affluence and renown. Certain circumstances, however, occurring to prevent the printing of this volume abroad, the writer has been prevailed upon to lead forth her Indian Pilgrim upon English ground; where, she trusts, if he make an unusual, it may not be altogether an uninteresting spectacle. And though this humble traveller to Zion presents himself in the garb of a stranger among his fellow-subjects in this

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