A Voyage Round the World: Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, 7 июл. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 574 Excerpt from A Voyage Round the World: Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837 Let me caution the reader against. Expecting much in the way of light description and graceful anecdote; No vamos a bodas sino a rodear cl mundo, said Sancho, when he bade Mari Fernandez to prepare every thing for setting out in search of adventures. I will say with simple Sancho, We are not bound on a party of pleasure, but around the world, and though we may not expect in these days to encounter giants and dragons, we may happen upon many pleasant adventures. Therefore, Reader, be gentle and generous, and bear in mind Sancho's remark; and when you encounter a dry statistical chapter, think it is one of the hardships of voyaging with us, and sustain yourself to the toil of reading it through, cheered with a hope of something pleasant thereafter, and the reflection, it will be for your good; and I will venture to assert, you will rise from the perusal improved in your knowledge, and, what is more important to me, without a disposition to blame the author for the little he has contributed to your amusement. That the volume contains no plea sant stories to divert, nor strange tales of strange endurance to move, is not his fault; for had events transpired during the cruise. 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. |