Excerpt from The King's Own Dundonald. Marryat had run away three times from school before he attained his ambition, and was allowed to go to sea. His father, Joseph Marryat, a prosperous man, who was m.p. For Sandwich and chairman of the committee of Lloyds, does not seem to have been a very sympathetic parent, and the youth's schooldays, so far as we can judge from the allusions to school life in the novels, were anything but happy. It was in September 1806 that he gained his proud position on the quarter-deck of the frigate Imperieuse, and he was then fourteen years old. 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."