title: Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence, Second Edition, Vol. 2
author: Merry E. Wiesner
description: Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979. She has published WORKING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE GERMANY (Rutgers, 1986) as well as numerous articles on women and the Reformation and urban social history. She is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008), DISCOVERING THE MEDIEVAL PAST (2003), DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT PAST (2005), DISCOVERING THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2005), and BECOMING VISIBLE: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1998). She is also the General Editor of the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series.
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  # Diary in America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Captain Frederick Marryat
  
  
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  Introduction.
  
  
  Chapter I.
  
  
  Chapter II.
  
  
  Chapter III.
  
  
  Chapter IV.
  
  
  Chapter V.
  
  
  Chapter VI.
  
  
  Chapter VIII.
  
  
  Chapter IX.
  
  
  Chapter X.
  
  
  Chapter XI.
  
  
  Chapter XII.
  
  
  Chapter XIII.
  
  
  Chapter XIV.
  
  
  Chapter XV.
  
  
  Chapter XVI.
  
  
  Chapter XVII.
  
  
  Chapter XVIII.
  
  
  Chapter XIX.
  
  
  Chapter XX.
  
  
  Chapter XXI.
  
  
  Chapter XXII.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Introduction.
  
  
  
  
  
  After many years of travel, during which I had seen men under almost
  
  
  every variety of government, religion, and climate, I looked round to
  
  
  discover if there were not still new combinations under which human
  
  
  nature was to be investigated. I had traversed the old continent until
  
  
  satisfied, if not satiated; and I had sailed many a weary thousand
  
  
  miles from west to east, and from north to south, until people,
  
  
  manners, and customs were looked upon by me w