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Excerpt from Joining the Navy, or Abroad With Uncle Sam
It is with a degree of hesitation that I have at length decided to permit the publication of impressions formed while serving as cabin-boy on America's armored vessels, [wizard and 032266. These facts and impressions, while recorded partly with a View to their usefulness in passing a leisure hour by the fireside in later years, were at the same time undertaken to form a needful diversion to the often dreary monotony oi shipboard life. 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.
