Cruise of the Midge (Vol. I-II)

Excerpt: "I had no small difficulty in carrying this point, as the extreme insalubrity of the climate, the chance of being plundered by the semi-piratical foreign slavers, to say nothing of the danger of a treacherous attack on the part of the natives themselves, weighed heavily against my going in my worthy uncle''s mind; but I had set my heart on it, and where there''s a will, there''s a way. I ...