Excerpt from The Salvage of a Sailor Indeed, there was a need for hurry. She, a four-masted sailing ship, the Megalon, laden down to her Plimsoll with salt from Liverpool for Calcutta, had been caught aback in one of the worst places in the world, off the pitch of the Cape of Good Hope, and the watch on deck, Heaven help them, had about as much value in this emergency as a mar trying to push a wagon up a hill. So it was 0 wonder that the mate tore his lungs in a yell of All hands! And beat frantically upon the forecastle door with a belaying pin as a man might locked within a room in a burning house. 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.