Excerpt from A Landlubber's Log of a Voyage Around the Horn, 1879: Being a Journal Kept During a Voyage From Philadelphia to San Francisco Via Cape Horn in the American Ship Pactolus, Captain Colcord In launching this little volume upon the current of Christmas-tide literature, the author wishes to explain that it was not written originally with an eye to publication, but simply as a long letter for home consumption only. In that form a small edition was printed for private circulation, but without the proof-sheets having been overhauled and sundry errors corrected. The present edition, if it has no other virtue, is at least shipshape and correct. The only hope the author has of the book floating after it is launched is derived from the fact that "logs," as a rule, do float, especially when they are of light material, and that this log is certainly the reverse of heavy. 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.