Ship and Shore, in Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean and Sea and Sailor (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ship and Shore, in Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean and Sea and Sailor In defiance of a profound maxim of my distant relative - I say distant, because he was so far removed fr tn me on the genealogical tree that even a Yankee peddler in the remote part of the South would not, upon the force of such a relationship, put up his horse and himself for more than six weeks, and that must place him on a very extreme twig, perhaps even its shadow. - By the way - it is a little singular that these fellows of the wooden nutmeg should always know where to find a market for their nuts and notions. - But as I was saying - in defiance of a profound maxim of my distant relative - what a world of tender thoughts and emotions spring up in that one word relative! - what beings step from the magic of its circle: uncles not a few, aunts without number, and cousins a whole ship-load - all taking a warm interest in you if rich, a pride in you if learned or politically great, and never deserting you unless you become poor blessings on their sweet hearts! - Without them what would a man be, or rather, what would the world be to him? - A garden without a flower, a grove without a bird, an evening sky without one lovely star. 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.