The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lieutenant and Commander, by Basil Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels Author: Basil Hall Release Date: November 8, 2005 [EBook #17032] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIEUTENANT AND COMMANDER *** Produced by Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE LIEUTENANT AND COMMANDER BEING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HIS OWN CAREER FROM FRAGMENTS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, R.N., F.R.S. LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET, AND SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO. 47, LUDGATE HILL. 1862. PREFACE. The present volume is rather a condensation than an abridgment of the later volumes of Captain Hall's "Fragments of Voyages and Travels," inasmuch as it comprises all the chapters of the second and third series, only slightly abbreviated, in which the author describes the various duties of the naval lieutenant and commander, the personal narrative being the framework, and his own experience in both capacities providing the details.