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Excerpt from Adventures in Borneo: A Tale of Shipwreck IT has been often said that no human life is so uneventful but that, if fairly and simply recorded, the story would afford profit to the reader. I will not pretend, however, that I am commencing my autobiography by way of lesson to mankind. It is rather for the pur pose of relieving my own breast, long the solitary prison-house of painful reminiscences, that I am about to confide to the world what. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.