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Excerpt from In Eastern Seas: Or the Commission of Iron Iron Duke, Flag-Ship in China, 1878-83
T 0 write something which shall please one's own friends is one thing; to undertake the task of pleasing anybody else is another; and, I take it, a far more difficult one. The writer of the following pages never sought to sail beyond the peaceful and well-marked area of the first, until induced-at the suggestions of his Shipmates, though against his better judgment - to venture on the dark and tempest-swept ocean of the second.
The only originality claimed for the narrative is that of introducing such a manifestly inferior production to your notice.
Shipmates, my little bark is frail; deal gently with her, and - let me ask it as a special favor - do not blow too fiercely on her untried sails.
Much depends on the title of a book. Does it convey an adequate idea of the subject-matter? I would claim for mine at least that merit for is not every sea over which we have voyaged to the eastward of England?
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