Excerpt from Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the ʻgrafton ̓and of the Escape of the Crew After Twenty Months' Suffering, From the Private Journals of Captain Thomas Musgrave, Together With Some Account of the Aucklands Regarded as simply a marvellous tale of the sea - as a practical lesson of self-reliance - the story is sufficiently interesting but it is no less an important contribution to Hydrographical Science. The limits of this small volume will not allow of the publication of a mass of barometrical and' other observations collected by Captain musgrave. These will be forwarded to the proper quarter, and will doubtless receive the credit which they deserve. 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.