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Excerpt from My First Voyage to Southern Seas: A Book for BoysChapter V. Sail again - The Trades - Cruelty of Master and Mate - Mutterings of Mutiny - A suspicious Sail - Boarded by Pirates - How they treated us. Chapter VI.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...

Excerpt from A Popular History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Times to the PresentI have endeavoured, indeed, throughout to write what people in general care to read, and to produce a work answering fully to its title, A Popular History of the British Navy.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 historica...

Excerpt from Among the Red Skins: Or, Over the Rocky MountainsProlonged Absence of Red squirrel-archie sees Men Approaching His Camp - Flight - The Strangers prove to be Friends - Return to the Fort - Uncle Donald Opposes the Doctrine of Non-re sistance - The Guard over the Fort - The Indians Attack the Fort.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from Old Jack: A Tale for BoysHad more than once, in my rambles in the neigh bourhood of Blackheath, Greenwich, and Woolwich, met an old man walking briskly along, whose appearance struck me as unusual, but we never even exchanged salutations. One day, however.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 histo...

Excerpt from The Wanderers, or Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Up the OrinocoMy mother sighed, for she saw that my father was wrong, and that, blinded like Lot of old by his desire to obtain worldly advantages, he was ready to sacrifice the religious principles he professed. I am compelled, though with much pain, to write this.It was settled that we should start at once for Balti more, to embark on board a vessel bound from that place ...

Excerpt from In the Eastern Seas, or the Regions of the Bird of Paradise: A Tale for BoysRegion of calms - The Doldrums - The Sargasso seau-the trade-winds Flying-fish and dolphins - Leaping cuttle-fish Albatross caught by Mr.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-t...

Excerpt from Fifty-Two More Stories for BoysWhile nature keeps up the supply of boys and girls, men and women must keep pace with their requirements, and it behoves us all, whether tailors or editors, to rise to our responsibilities in providing clothing for their bodies and food for their minds.That our supplies should exceed the demand no one need fear: the modern boy has developed a prowess for the destruction of clothing, and a voracity in...

Excerpt from Adrift in a Boat: And Washed AshoreArrival OF tee arethusa - 'riie french taken l'bib'oners - david becomes A midshipman - the fight and victory - joy A'r home - the end.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 ...

Excerpt from Peter Trawl: Or the Adventures of a WhalerRother jack, a seaman's bag over his shoulders, B trudged sturdily ahead, father followed, carrying the oars, spars, sails, and other gear of the Wherry, While as I toddled alongside him I held on with one hand to the skirt of his pea-jacket, and griped the boat-hook which had been given to my charge with the other.From the front of the well-known inn, the Keppel's Head the portrait of the...

Excerpt from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'arcy, MidshipmanAll for the sake of a holiday, ' more joyously than did I when my first midsummer holiday came round.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...

Excerpt from Adventures Among the IndiansAn Indian being among his white neighbors, asked for a little tobacco to smoke, and one of them, having some loose in his pocket, gave him a handful. The day following, the Indian came back, inquiring for the donor, saying he had found a quarter of a dollar among the to bacco, being told that as it was given him he might as well keep it, he answered, pointing to his breast: I got a good man and a bad ma...

The Young Berringtons - The Boy Explorers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

Excerpt from Hurricane Hurry: Or, the Adventures of a Naval Officer, Afloat and on ShoreThe gallant writer of this journal rose to be an admiral, and was well known for his social qualities and for the humour with which he used to narrate the stirring: incidents of his naval career, several of which I had the advantage of hearing in addition to the perusal of that voluminous log which he preserved through many a shipwreck and numberless other ...

Excerpt from The Three MidshipmenIt was after the summer holidays, when I had just got back, I heard that three new boys had come. In the afternoon they all appeared in the playground. They were strangers to each other as well as to us, but their similarity of fate drew them together. One was a slightly-made, dark, and somewhat delicate looking boy, another was a sturdy little fellow, with a round, ruddy countenance, and a jovial good natured ...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Will Weatherhelm is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these bo...

Peter the Whaler is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these b...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Ron Morton or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last War is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques on...