The Adventures of Captain Blake, Or My Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Adventures of Captain Blake, or My Life

I run been delicate from infancy - and the enervating effects of an unhealthy climate obliged me to retire Upon half-pay, and quit Ceylon for England, to try if native air would restore a shattered constitution. I came to London for medical advice; and while my physician was anxious that I should continue immediately under his eye, he recommended me, for amusement and exercise, to make frequent excursions around the British capital.

N o advice could have been more congenial to a truant disposition. I, who had been buffeted about the world from my boyhood, willingly became a roamer after health; and in the vicinity of the metropolis there were few spots unvisited in the course of my valetudinary wanderings.

Every suburban retirement - every scene of holiday dissipation every signboard which a Cockney treasures in the tablet of his memory, is familiar to me. I have spent weeks upon the river and the road, became resident in steam-boats and stages, witnessed many an adventure, consorted with strange companions, and became extensively acquainted with the whole family of man.

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