Excerpt from Dana's Seamen's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms; And the Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; With the British Laws Relating to Shipping, the Duties of Master and Mariners, and the Mercantile Marine 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.