[Gutenberg 63571] • Exploits and Adventures of a Soldier Ashore and Afloat

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IN introducing the following narratives, the contents of which have been gleaned through my voyage around the earth in quest of excitement and natural oddities, for which since childhood I have possessed an insatiable desire, I wish to acquaint the reader, in a brief prefatory discourse, with the nature of the work that is to follow, and thereby gratify the curiosity, so natural at the begin ning, in a reader of reminiscences.

Through the prevailing influence of some loyal friends, whom it has been my good fortune to have had as correspondents dur ing my military career, I herein attempt to depict events as they actually happened, without recourse to imagination.

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