Dedication
TO
GEORGE W. CABLE
WITH WARM ADMIRATION AND FILIAL AFFECTION
Epigraph
From curious old books, many of them forgotten save by students of archaic days at sea, I have taken words and phrases and incidents. The words and phrases I have put into the talk of the men of the Rose of Devon; the incidents I have shaped and fitted anew to serve my purpose.
C. B. H.