A Green Hand´s First Cruise, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from A Green Hand´s First Cruise, Vol. 1 of 2: Roughed Out From the Log-Book of Memory, of Twenty-Five Years Standing: Of Five Months in Dartmoor Narratives, like campaigns, should be recorded, as the narrator saw the events which produced them, not altogether from the reports he gathers after those events have transpired. To illustrate my meaning more fully, we will suppose a subaltern of the Grande Armie promises, as an eye-witness, to give a succinct account of the battle of Austerlitz, he being hotly engaged throughout the whole of that far-famed achievement.´ The extension of the troops employed in that battle was such, that it would have taken the subaltern to walk from one extreme to the other, nearly as long as the conflict was raging, without allowing him time either to participate in the same, or to take notes of the proceedings. This shows how little an ´eye-witness´ knows or sees of what is passing, except immediately around him. Did he note truly what he absolutely saw, however humble the source from which the occurrences might arise, it would be the more interesting to the - writer, if to none else. Vessels put to sea in time of war, are taken by an enemy, and their crews sent to prison, events as commonplace as they prove unromantic; yet circumstances are constantly occurring, which to an actor of those scenes, are extremely interesting; more especially, as he sits in after life, conning over in his mind the buffetings he has encountered, and the causes that produced them. It is these musings which have prompted the writer to a revision of the time-worn material before him, and a transfer of the almost worn-out log, to legible readings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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