The pilot: a tale of the sea - pdf novel
From preface:
Each year brings some new and melancholy chasm in what is now the brief list of my naval friends and former associates. War, disease, and the casualties of a hazardous profession have made, fearful inroads in the limited number; while the places of the dead are supplied by names that to me are those of strangers.
With the consequences of these sad changes before me, I cherish the recollection of those with whom I once lived in close familiarity with peculiar interests and feel a triumph in their growing reputations, that is but little short of their own honest pride. But neither time nor separation has shaken our intimacy; and I know that in dedicating to you this volume, I tell you nothing new when I add, that it is a tribute paid to an enduring friendship,
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