Preface
_ I had more than once, in my rambles in the neighbourhood of Blackheath, Greenwich and Woolwich, met an old man walking briskly along, whose appearance struck me as unusual； but we never even exchanged salutations. One day, however, when I was in company with my friend Captain N--- of the Navy, seeing the stranger, he stopped and addressed a few words to him, from which I gleaned that he had been a sailor. My friend told me, as we moved on, that he often had conversations on religious subjects with the old man, who had for long been in a South Sea whaler, and had seen many parts of the world. My interest was much excited. I took an early opportunity of making the acquaintance of Old Jack--for such, he told me, was the name by which he was best known； and without reluctance he gave me his history. This I now present to the public with certain emendations, with which I do not think my younger readers will find fault.
W.H.G.K. _



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