Excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast: Or a Voice From the Forecastle, An Authentic Narrative of Sailors Life at SeaAfter twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has te verted to me. In presenting the first author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the Old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with no tices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.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.