IT is sixteen years Since you introduced me, a school boy, to the pleasures of cammng, and I first slept in a tent Within a few yards of the Atlantic. In those days I was deeply concerned about such matters as por ridge, beef, railway trains, weather conditions, un familiar places, and even philosophy; and your cithem, P.'s songs, and s.'s Hamlet held a high place in the scheme of creation. I am now more than twice as old, but am still concerned about the same things. You, I know, have gone from the lesser to the greater, and of your feats of seamanship on perilous coasts I have heard reports which I should regard as fabulous were they not well attested. This book is concerned with experiences diminutive in comparison. But at any rate, for what it is worth, here it is.

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