Excerpt from Jack's Courtship, Vol. 3 of 3: A Sailor's Yarn of Love and Shipwreck White vapour as ever rolled down and obscured the sea. Forward the vessel was clean out of sight in it: what there was of her in that way was just a shadow like a darkish reflection upon a cloud of steam; and this shadow came oozing out of the smother as it might be, until, abreast of the mainmast it broke into the reality of the Ship, with the black shrouds vanishing in it a few yards above the shear-poles, and the mainmast shooting into it and' looking to be broken Short Off on a line where the rigging vanished, whilst the mainyard was a dim black streak from which the great sail came down grey out of the faintness till the clews of it were clear things along with the foot stretched transversely from sheet to tack above the bulwarks. 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.