# The mate of the Vancouver

Author: Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68936

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+mate+of+the+Vancouver+Roberts&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I am going to write, not the history of my life, which, on the whole, has been as quiet as most men's, but simply the story of about a year of it, which, I think, will be almost as interesting to other folks as any yarn spun by a professional novel writer; and if I am wrong, it is because I haven't the knowledge such have of the way to tell a story. As a friend of mine, who is an artist, says, I know I can't put in the foreground properly, but if I tell the simple facts in my own way, it will be true, and anything that is really true always seems to me to have a value of its own, quite independent of what the papers call "style," which a sailor, who has never written much besides a log an...

## Chapters

- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mate-of-the-vancouver-68936/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mate-of-the-vancouver-68936/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mate-of-the-vancouver-68936/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mate-of-the-vancouver-68936/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mate-of-the-vancouver-68936/chapters/3/index.md)