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Preface -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

Some leaves from the 1og
Of an o1d sea dog

Are what they are called, and were written by
my father forty years since, but put carefully away and almost forgotten; but in moving they were once more brought to the light, and reading it over to a friend he thought it was just the story that was wanted-fact as strange as fiction, bringing all my early life back with a vividness as though I sat by the galley fire listening to the old salts' yarns or sea songs, or walking the deck. The

 
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original log-book terminates at the end of Chapter II; the rest of the story was compiled from looser memoranda, which it was necessary to add to bring the story to a finish. Some stories for the young are added of a nautical turn, such as they like, with illustrations from land and sea, ancient and modern, with their lessons.


G. E. A. S.
HAMPSTEAD ROAD,
September, 1889.
Printed by Hazel, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

© Peter Smith 2008