Excerpt from Stories of the South Seas Frankly, then, this is a book Of adventure stories, and whoever scorns such things. Must lay it down. But if the scrupulous reader 'will forbear, he will find in the examples given something of interest beyond the adventurous episodes themselves. 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.