Excerpt from Broken Bonds, Vol. 1 of 3 A curious race, these Portlanders - heredi taryfishers and smugglers - onlynow awaken ing to the march of civilization, and to the knowledge that this latter branch of industry is obsolete, vanished from the earth as a profession, like many other employments of eighty years ago. Only a generation since, and it was no uncommon thing to find a Port lander who knew no other land than his na tive rock. A thrifty, hardy breed, with loose ideas regarding flotson jetson and contraband dealing - especially this last, holding that shipwrecks generally were favours vouch safed of Providence to the people on whose shores they might occur, and drily remark ing that they took pattern by their own Race, which disgorges with much reluct ance what comes within its maw. 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.