Excerpt from Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen Whatever the faults of this book, there is in it no error, no misstatement and no omission justly chargeable to any lack of facilities on the part of the author, or to any restraint on the part of the officers and men by whom those facilities were supplied. Than that accorded me, nobody could have had a better opportunity for observing the wonderful work of our Navy along the French coast. The courtesy shown me began with the moment of my arrival at the town that serves as the head quarters-port, and has not since ceased. In addition to personal kindnesses and verbal instructions, I was given a blanket set of credentials that were headed by the following letter: U. S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters; U. S. S. Flagship. 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.