The Life of a Sailor, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of a Sailor, Vol. 1 of 2In offering the following pages to the public, I cannot be actuated by overgrown vanity, nor instigated by an thor-like ambition some portion of my work has, in another form, already been published, and now appears with some of the scenes of a Sailor's Life enlarged, and rendered, I hope, more interesting. Every scene is a scene of real life, not exaggerated but the events which are here recorded actually occurred, and I may say truly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.