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Excerpt from The Sailor's Friend
MY early life was passed in an eastern seaport which, in those days, could boast of an extensive and prosperous com merce with all quarters of the world. Fleets of magnificent ships and square-rigged vessels rode proudly in the harbor or surrounded the wharves with a forest of masts. Owing to causes not necessary to specify, shipping has long since all but forsaken those waters, and wharves which were once alive with business are now deserted and gone to decay.
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