Excerpt from The Death Ship, a Strange Story, Vol. 1 of 3: An Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected, From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner We traded to Riga, Stockholm, and Baltic ports, and Often to Rotterdam, where, having a quick ear, which has sometimes served me for playing upon the fiddle for my mates to dance or sing to, I picked up enough Of Dutch to enable me to hold my own in con versing with a Hollander, or Hans Butter box, as those people used to be called; that is to say, I had sufficient words at command to qualify me to follow what was said and to answer so as to be intelligible; the easier, since, uncouth as that language is, there is so much Of it resembling ours in sound that many words in it might easily pass for por tions of our tongue grossly and ludicrously articulated. Why I mention this will here after appear. 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.