Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Death Ship
I will pass by all the explanations concern ing the reasons Of my going to sea, as I do not desire to forfeit' your kind patience by letting this story stand. Enough if I say that after I had been fairly well grounded in English, arithmetic and the like, which plain education I have never wearied Of improving by reading everything good that came in my way, I was bound apprentice to a respect able man named Joshua Cox, Of Whitby, and served my time in his vessel, the Laughing Susan - a brave, nimble brigantine.
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