Excerpt from Marooned, Vol. 1 of 3 He wrote to the following effect: first Of all, he said, he had heard of me and Obtained my address from a friend of mine who had sailed a few months before for Lima, but whose ship had been obliged to put into Rio to. Repair some damage she had sustained in a heavy gale Off Cape Agostino. He had a long story to relate about his misfortunes in India, how he had been villainously deceived in the character Of his associate and almost ruined by him, and how. 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.