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by Frederick Marryat

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My Birth, Parentage, and Family Pretensions-Unfortunately I prove to be a Detrimental orYounger Son, which is remedied by a trifling accident-I hardly receive the first elements ofscience from my Father, when the elements conspire against me, and I a... Read more
My Birth, Parentage, and Family Pretensions-Unfortunately I prove to be a Detrimental orYounger Son, which is remedied by a trifling accident-I hardly receive the first elements ofscience from my Father, when the elements conspire against me, and I am left an Orphan.Gentle reader, I was born upon the water-not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the freshand rapid-flowing river. It was in a floating sort of box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames,at low water, when I first smelt the mud. This lighter was manned (an expression amounting tobullism, if not construed kind-ly) by my father, my mother, and your humble servant. My father hadthe sole charge-he was monarch of the deck: my mother, of course, was queen, and I was the heirapparent. Less

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File size8.50(w)x11.00(h)x0.31(d)
Print pages144
PublisherCreateSpace Publishing
Publication date July 31, 2015
ISBN9781515312925
Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, ...

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