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 IN noting down these reminiscences, the writer is solely influenced by a desire to collect some Of the scattered leaves from memory's log, and to rescue a part of their contents from that Oblivion to which they are fast hasten ing. The remembrance of these by-gone events is the more cherished by the writer, from the lapse of time which has intervened since the occurrences took place, and the seeming unreality and dreamy Obscurity, through which they are viewed in after life. 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.