Excerpt from To Gibraltar and Back: In an Eighteen-Tonner After a long illness, he had been ordered by his doctors to take a two months' holiday, and he had asked Mac, Mr. Underhill, and myself to join him in a cruise along the coasts of Spain and Portugal, as it was much too early in the season to think of going anywhere else. Though this involved crossing the dreaded Bay at a bad time of the year and in a small boat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.