Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831 It may be asked, who is the person that offers us her narrative '2 In this the reader shall be gratified, for short and simple are the domestic annals of one who has not reached her twenty fourth year. My maiden name was Abby Jane Wood. I am the daughter of Capt. John Wood, of new-york, who died at new-orleans on the 14th of November, He was at that period master of the ship Indian Hunter, of new-york. He died when I was so young, that if I please myself with thinking that I remember him, I could not have been a judge of his virtues but it has been a source of happiness to me that he is spoken of by his contemporaries as a man of good sense and great integrity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.