Reminiscences of a Stowaway

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Stowaway: A Career of Adventure To write another person's life-history, or narrative of his adventures and experiences, in the first person, and yet give to it the verisimilitude of a genuine autobiography would, under ordinary circumstances, be a difficult, if not impossible, undertaking. Nevertheless there arc occasions when, under certain, though exceptional conditions, this may in a measure be successfully accomplished - as, for instance, when the writer has been intimately, and continuously, acquainted with the individual in question for a period, sufficiently prolonged, to admit of his acquiring a thorough knowledge, not only of the various incidents in his life, but also of his character, disposition, etc. Such an intimate relationship it has been the Author's good fortune to have enjoyed - for nearly forty years - in the person of a friend and brother officer, who died some years ago, and of whose varied and interesting career - from 1852 to 1910 - he has been equally fortunate in possessing - and being lent - sufficient data to have enabled him to write a narrative of adventures by sea and land, which, though a true and faithful record is, in parts at least, as strange, if not "stranger than fiction!' This narrative has been completed, partly from memory, and from notes, but mainly from the more striking incidents in his life as described by himself in some short stories, written by him and contributed to one of the local papers of the town he lived in, and copies of which were kindly placed at the Author's disposal by the widow of his late friend. 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.