Excerpt from Charles Vernon a Transatlantic Tale, Vol. 1 The greater part of this Narrative was written thirty years ago, while the Author was serving in Jamaica. The unfinished manuscript was then thrown aside and forgotten until last winter, when he found amusement and occupation in reading it over and completing the story. Many of the descriptions of West Indian habits and manners are consequently no longer accurate portraits, for the social condition of these colonies has since very much improved, and negro slavery, in the English settlements, has happily become a matter of history. 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.