The Isles of the Sea

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Excerpt from The Isles of the Sea: Being an Entertaining Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of the Islands of Polynesia, Micronesia, and MelanesiaWho ever heard of a navigator who undertook a voyage of discovery that did not afterwards publish a full and authentic account of his perilous venture, with a circumstantial state ment of all his discoveries Such a seaman, I opine, never sailed - never Will sail. And while the oceans have fairly swarmed with the ships and ¿eets of discoverers, and the shelves of the book-stores have groaned with their productions, still these voyagers have only been able to tell us a partial story, and even that has not always been reliable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.