Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii IslandsThe Glide, owned by the late Joseph Peabody, Esq., and commanded by Captain Henry Archer, sailed from Salem for the South Pacific, on the twenty-second day of May, 1829. Her crew were mostly young men, some of whom were entering, for the first time, on a sailor's life, exchanging the comforts of home for the rough berth and coarse fare of the forecastle, and the courtesies of friends for submission to the authority of the quarter-deck.As we sailed slowly out of the harbor, little did our joyous crew think, that the Glide was taking her final departure from that port, where she had so often arrived, laden with the treasures of other climes for her wealthy proprietor, and that, as we passed the lighthouse, some of our number would never be cheered by seeing it again.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.