In the Brave Days of Old

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Excerpt from In the Brave Days of Old: A Story of Adventure in the Time of King James the First I have chosen, for the period in which these scenes are laid, the ten years between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the first settlement at Manhattan. It is a time seldom approached in fiction, and yet rich in notable personages and ro mantic adventures. It portrays the condition, at that date, of Europe and of America, and thus betrays the reasons which induced emi grants to leave their homes to begin life again in a new country. More than all, it shows the relations of the earliest colonies that dotted the shores of what are now the United States, and the conditions which governed them. That decade saw the true beginnings of a nation. 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.