consul of Southeast Asia, who was his uncle by marriage, though Balestier refers to Revere as "my friend" in the foreword. The book includes illustrations and lithographs by Revere as well as his original submission for the Great Seal of California. Revere dedicated the book to John Y. Mason, secretary of the Navy 1844–1849, stating "[his] able and upright discharge of his public duties has won for him the respect and applause of his countrymen." The memoir was advertised in the Boston Evening Transcript, the Charleston Courier, the Baltimore Sun, The Living Age, The United States Democratic Review, and the Richmond Enquirer. The Boston Evening Transcript heralded the novel for vividly describing California as "the new land of promise." While living on the Rancho in California, Revere befriended Irish immigrant Timothy "Old Tim" Murphy. Revere states, "I have often hunted [deer] with Don Timoleo Murphy and his pack of [grey]hounds, and a more gallant sport cannot be found in the wide world." Although he lived alongside Californios and Native tribes of California, Revere scorned their customs, referring to them as "the most wretched of mankind" and often using the term "savage." After attending a Pui Day (Feast Day), Revere states,Like most savages, [the Indians of California] reason with a rude but true philosophy, that the loss of a life so hard and precarious as theirs is little to be regretted...To give them civil rights, on an equality with the whites, would be more absurd than to grant such rights to children under ten years of age...When it is remembered, that small-pox is not the only desolating disease which follows in the wake of the white man, and that his rum has proved among our Indians as fatal as his natural disorders, it is very clear, that unless measures be promptly taken to protect and preserve the inoffensive natives of California, the present generation will live to read the epitaph of the whole race.In A Tour of Duty, Revere also demonstrates his support of Manifest destiny: he states that the "Anglo-Saxon race...seems destined to possess the whole of the North American Continent." This possibly displays Revere's notions of white supremacy. Revere did not support African slavery in California, though this was not due to abolitionist reasons; it was due to a preference to enslave people of other races, including Pacific Islanders and Native Californians. He states:The great expense and risk of