Excerpt from Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Vol. 1 On board the Apollo, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1810. My dear Father, My Journal begins on the fourth day from the time of coming on board, so I must go back a little, that 1. May begin from the beginning; beg ging you by anticipation to excuse all the bad writ ing and worse composition which may be expected from an invalid, recounting his little adventures amidst noise, and inconvenience, and novelty. 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.