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Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous: Who Was a Soldier, a Pirate, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors, a Bashaw in the Service of the Great Turk, and Died at Last in His Own House in Hanover Square; A Narrative in Plain English
I, john dangerous, a faithful subject of his Majesty King George, whose bread, God bless him! I have eaten, and whose battles I have fought, in my poor way, am now in my sixty eighth year, and live in my own house in Hanover Square. By virtue of Several commissions, both English and foreign, I have a right to call myself Captain; and if any man say that I have no such right, he lies and deserves the stab. It may be that this narrative, now /composed only for my own pleasure, will, long after my death, see Fhe'light in print, and that some sham Captain or sham critic, or' pitiful creature of that kind, will question my rank, or otherwise despitefully use my memory. Let such gutter-bloods venture it at their peril. I have, alas, no heirs male; but to my daughter's hus band, and to his descendants, or, failing them, to their executors, administrators, and assigns, I solemnly commit the task Of seeking out such envious rogues, and Of kicking and cudgeling them on the basest part Of their base bodies. The stab I forego; I wish not to cheat the hangman of his due. But let the knaves discover, to the aching of their sorry Sides, that even the ghost Of John Dangerous is not to be trified with. 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.
