Excerpt from The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal, 1845-1846: Volume 17 and 18 Thus has the work of gathering the harvest of the seas auspiciously begun. We hope our Master will permit us to labor in his service another year and record his works and wonders in the deep. And we pray that the friends of Seamen may not be weary in well doing so that when they and we enter our final rest, many Seamen may be there, and many more come after, to join us in singing the newest and sweetest song of hea ven, won'rhv rs the lamb. 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.