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 Melanesia Since the days of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, there have been many books written about the Isles of the Sea, indeed, were all the works on the subject, including accounts of voyages of discovery, collected, they would of themselves make quite a library. But while, for the information they contain, many of these works are worthy of all commendation, still, none of them go quite far enough, in truth, they do not even give us a glimpse of the whole subject, and those which come nearest to doing so are either so antiquated as to be very rare, or, if obtainable, practically of little value. Missionaries are much given to publishing accounts of their missions, and from those who have labored, and those who are now laboring on the isles of the Pacific, we have obtained some most valuable information. But these good men are too apt to confine themselves to their personal affairs, and the immediate fields of their labors. Who 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 statement 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 fleets 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 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.