From Ship's-Boy to Skipper

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Excerpt from From Ship's-Boy to Skipper: With Variations Five years ago I retired from active service after half a century of strenuous work, in constant action, on sea and land. The sport of Fortune in my earlier years, and with a nomadic strain in the blood, few can have experienced a greater variety of life and incident or endured greater hardships and changes. The transition from such a life to the easy leisure of retirement was not altogether plain sailing. It was here my good friend and late colleague, Mr. Spencer E. Colchester, of London, came to my aid with the suggestion that I should write my memoirs. Knowing somewhat of my eventful career, he wisely thought that in fighting my battles over again - on paper - I would gradually get into the stride of my new life. To me the suggested task seemed perhaps the hardest of a hard life. The hand that has grasped the capstan bar and the wheel, the stock-whip and the gold-digger's spade, the harpoon and the gm, may well falter when it takes up at last the mightiest instrument of all. But I was "ever one who never turned his back, but marched straight forward, " and so to the last task I set myself. 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.