Excerpt from Ocean Adventures: Or, Cabin and Forecastle Yarns of Thrilling IncidentsWith regard to the literary merit of this volume I have noth ing to say, excepting that it has no pretension to excellence of that description. It consists of tales of ocean life, told in a plain, off-hand manner, by one who for years had his home in the forecastle, of sketches, sometimes drawn from the imagination, but generally founded on fact sometimes grave, sometimes humorous, and sometimes descriptive, and all illustrating, in a greater or less degree, the amusements, superstitions, perils, vices and virtues of the sailor, and sprinkled with tempests, ship wrecks, hair-breadth-scapes, piracies and battles with occasional glimpses of scenes of another sort, life in the rural districts of New England.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.