The Adventures Of Robin Day Volume I PDF Download

Excerpt from The Adventures of Robin Day, Vol. 1 of 2 My introduction into the world was of itself suf ficient to establish my claim to pre-eminence in mis fortune; for, from all I was ever able to learn, instead of making my appearance in the usual way, I came ashore, one stormy night in September, in the year 1796, Upon the coast of New Jersey, washed up by the sea, like a king-crab; with this advantage, how ever, that I had for my shell, or cradle, the battered hull of a Yankee schooner, which, if it did not keep me as dry and sang as was desirable, preserved me, at least, from being swallowed up by the raging bil lows. In other words, 1 was cast ashore in a wreck name unknown, as the gazettes say, from which I was taken, a puny little bantling of some twelve or fifteen months old, half famished and half drowned, the only living creature, save two ducks that were seeking in a coop, and a broken-backed eat in the forecastle, that escaped. 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.