Excerpt from Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean, Vol. 2 of 3: Second Series In the course of a few years, other tidings were gained of him, through mariners who had met him or heard of him in foreign parts but their accounts were vague and indistinct, and, as Dame Fallofield informed him, he was at last entirely lost sight of, and his parents died intestate unwilling to fix, as it were, a seal upon the supposed death of their self-banished child, whose return was still within the bounds of possibility; and his relations con tested the inheritance of his property, by, throwing it into Chancery, where it was secure enough from all contests, however it might lie exposed to other dangers. 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.