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Excerpt from Captain Wheeler's Narrative of His Wanderings in Brazil, South America
On becoming acquainted with the men I found them to be hail fellows, well met, and, having a penchant for the sea and her beautiful islands since the day I mastered my first book, Robinson Crusoe, I said to myself here is my chance to realize the dream of my boyhood life, perhaps the best Opportunity that will ever occur to me. I reasoned the matter over and over. I found I had no ties at home to keep me there except my mother, and she was willing that I should make the voyage and see the sights of the world. She being quite well to do, spent a considerable sum of money in fitting me out with articles to trade with among the natives of the South Sea Islands. We set sail on the first day of December 1841. In about four days after leaving port we were overtaken by the most terrible storm I ever experienced in any of my voyages. I was not sea sick, never was, the seas seemed to me to be fifty feet high, and very steep, which they are, when the wind is blowing directly against the force of the Gulf Stream; at such times there is no rougher place to be found on the ocean. 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.