Excerpt from And Essays for the Forecastle: Containing Matters and Incidents, Humorous, Pathetic, Romantic, and Sentimental

Among the Tales, which are here presented to the public, illustrative of life at sea, are interwoven chapters of a different character, essays, which, prompted by a sincere wish to promote the welfare of seamen, are designed to awaken in their bosoms a sense of their moral duties. In these essays, the author has endeavored to point out the shoals and quick-sands, and rocks, both sunken and in sight, which lie in the fair-way channel of life, and has introduced some sailing directions, by which these dangers may be avoided. He has here undertaken to lay down some rules for their conduct, which, if they should be truly ob served, will, he believes, tend to elevate in the scale of society this useful class of men, whose conduct and language have been so strangely misrepresented, and whose character is so little understood.

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