Almirante: A Romance of Old-Time California (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Almirante: A Romance of Old-Time CaliforniaIt was the most disagreeable night I had yet experienced at sea. The waves, though not particularly high, were sufficiently so to render footing uncertain, while a cold, gray haze enveloped the ship like the folds of a shroud. Objects distant but the width of the vessel could scarcely be distinguished, and when occasionally a sailor moved silently about the deck, there was something startlingly phantom-like in the appearance of the shadowy form.I was standing by the bulwarks in the fore part of the ship, clinging to the rail, and suffering myself to rise and fall with the vessel without motion of myown, while I stared blankly out into the fog.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.