Excerpt from The Life of a Sailor, Vol. 1 of 3 I have endeavoured to make myself as amphi bions as possible. Lord Erskine says, A sailor's log would sell for very little in Bond Street. I shall Speak out like a sailor; but I shall disguise our barbarous dialect. It will be seen that I have not travelled blindfolded, like poor Holman, or wilfully prejudiced, like a certain doctor in Russia: I set my face against all cant and hum bug, and only endeavour to amuse the elder, and instruct the more juvenile. I neither intend to stand on the sum it of the 'ural mountains, (which separate Europe from Asia, ) with one foot in each quarter, like a certain pedestrian tourist. 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.