Excerpt from Waif-O-the-Sea a Romance of the Great Deep

This story lies between two truths. As I look at that statement, whose form and substance are alike unpremeditated I do assure you, it appears to me that I am jesting with my readers and myself. To the obvious double entendre I will not plead guilty, since I did not intend it.

What I mean is that the account of the mutiny on the Sharon with which the story begins is literally true. Strange as it may seem, difficult as it may be to believe, it all really happened, only it was another ship.

Equally true is the account of the amazing adventure of the admiral in cutting out the Esmeralda, the very identical name of that ship by the way, with which the novel ends. Now you see what I really meant.

Also characterized by the same scrupulous adherence, to fact are old Broadrib"s reminiscences of his famous commander. In life the veteran harpooner would certainly have embellished his yarns a bit. I have re strained him, even at the risk of failing to draw a real sailor, to the truth.

As for the rest of the romance it is not difficult to parallel it in the actual experiences of the time. And I hope the reader may be willing to endorse that Italian proverb which runs,

Si none vere ben trovato.

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