Fore and Aft

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Excerpt from Fore and Aft: A Story of Actual Sea LifeHaving passed many pleasant hours in narrating remi niscences of fourteen months of ship life, I have pre pared this story because my friends thought that what they had enjoyed hearing, others might find interest in reading, and because so few true accounts have been given by persons who have themselves been sailors, and who write from actual experience. With the notable exception of Richard H. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, there has been hardly a book giving a correct statement of the sailor's life, with its many hardships and perils, and its few pleasures and enjoyments. I send my story out into the world, hoping that it may be found to be what I have tried to make it a truthful represou tation of the average experiences of the American sailor, fore and aft.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.