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Excerpt from Trial by Fire: A Tale of the Great Lakes
Stepping into the starboard room, the porter first gazed with unconceal ed contempt into the faces of the men sprawled there in four dark bunks. Sweat glistened on their bodies; they sighed and mumbled in their sleep; slight tremors and twitchings possessed them, and their ribs rose and fell to the spasmodic action of oppressed lungs. 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.
