Excerpt from The Navy at Home, Vol. 1 of 3<br><br>The cargo was tolerably common-place, and so far calculated for the market; but he had, by way of preserving it fora few years, sprinkled it over with a little salt, and a certain strong, sweet, distilled liquor, to infuse vigour and freshness through it, only known to our fore fathers, but inadmissible in the said ware houses, and totally out of the line of the said dealers, who indeed considered it contraband.<br><br>That, ignorant of this fatal clause, or fact, they were turning in through the narrows.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.