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\nNEW YORKJAMES B.MILLAR &CO.,PUBLISHERS  \nтвомк.  \nрвмтно лнр гоохннрно сомрануNEw YOAK,  \n# NARRATIVE OH\n\nA.GORDON PYM  \nEDGAR ALLAN POE  \nNEW YORK:  \nJAMES B.MILLAR &CO.,PUBLISHERS.  \n1885.  \n# PREFACE.\n\nUPON my return to the United States a few months ago,afterthe extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas andelsewhere,of which an account is given in the following pages,accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen inRichmond,Va.,who felt deep interest in all matters relatingto the regions I had visited,and who were constantly urgingit upon me,as a duty,to give my narrative to the public.Ihad several reasons,however,for declining to do so,some ofwhich were of a nature altogether private,and concern noperson but myself;others not so much so.One considera-tion which deterred me was,that,having kept no journal dur-ing a greater portion of the time in which I was absent,Ifeared I should not be able to write,from mere memory,astatement so minute and connected as to have the appearanceof that truth it would really possess,barring only the naturaland unavoidable exaggeration to which all of us are pronewhen detailing events which have had powerful influence inexciting the imaginative faculties.Another reason was,thatthe incidents to be narrated were of a nature so positively mar-vellous,that,unsupported as my assertions must necessarilybe(except by the evidence of a single individual,and he ahalf-breed Indian),I could only hope for belief among myfamily,and those of my friends who have had reason,throughlife,to put faith in my veracity—the probability being thatthe public at large would regard what I should put forth asmerely an impudent and ingenious fiction.A distrust in my  \n4  \n# PREFACE.\n\nown abilities as a writer was,nevertheless,one of the princi-pal causes which prevented me from complying with the sug-gestions of my advisers.  \nAmong those gentlemen in Virginia who expressed thegreatest interest in my statement,more particularly in regard-to that portion of it which related to the Antarctic Ocean,wasMr.Poe,lately editor of the Southern Literary Messenger,amonthly magazine,published by Mr.Thomas W.White,inthe city of Richmond.He strongly advised me,among others,to prepare at once a full account of what I had seen and un-dergone,and trust to the shrewdness and common-sense ofthe public—insisting,with great plausibility,that howeverroughly,as regards mere authorship,my book should be gotup,its very uncouthness,if there were any,would give it allthe better chance of being received as truth.  \nNotwithstanding this representation,I did not make up mymind to do as he suggested.He afterward proposed(findingthat Iwould not stir in the matter)that I should allow him todraw up,in his own words,a narrative of the earlier portionof my adventures,from facts afforded by myself,publishing itin the Southern Messenger under the garb of fiction.To this,perceiving no objection,I consented,stipulating only that myreal name should be retained.Two numbers of the pretendedfiction appeared,consequently,in the Messenger for Januaryand February(1837),and,in order that it might certainly beregarded as fiction,the name of Mr.Poe was affixed to thearticles in the table of contents of the magazine.  \nThe manner in which this ruse was received has inducedme at length to undertalke a regular compilation and publica-tion of the adventures in question;for I found that,in spiteof the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrownaround that portion of my statement which appeared in theMessenger(without altering or distorting a single fact),thepublic were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable,andseveral letters were sent to Mr.P.'s address.distinctly ex-","cbCaiuLO133ADutF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuLO133ADutF","pdf",39005713,726,"English","# PREFACE","[{\"question\":\"Why does the narrator hesitate to publish his adventures?\",\"answer\":\"He fears that without keeping a journal he cannot 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