The Mate of the Vancouver — page 10: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE MATE OF THE VANCOUVER. Part I. ON BOARD THE VANCOUVER. — -— I am going to write, not the history of my life, which, on the whole, has been as quiet as most men’s, but simply the story of about — a year of it, which, I think, will be almost as interesting to other folks as any yarn spun a - OE tae Penn aa et nga oN by a professional novel writer; and if I am wrong, it is because I haven’t the knowledge such have of the way to tell astory. Asa friend of mine, who is an artist, says, I know eS I can’t put in the foreground properly, but if if I tell the simple facts in my own way, it will be true, and anything that is really true always seems to me to have a value of its me per) $ abies ~ ms e Zh celle BOTT tay eure : stip “ * # i ay 4 ~ ‘ *| . : f :