Excerpt from Deep Sea Warriors: With Four Illustrations by the AuthorFirst Of all let me remark that this shipping before the mast is not as easy as outsiders think.I had been a week in Calcutta, spent my last pice, and done a forty-eight hours' fast before I had the luck to bump up against Zack Slaughter.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 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.