Excerpt from Mardi, Vol. 1 of 2: And a Voyage Thither
At length, dead before the equatorial breeze, we threaded our way straight along the very Line itself. Westward sailing, peering right and peering left, but seeing naught.
It was during this weary time that I experienced the first symptoms of that bitter impatience of our monotonous craft, which ultimately led to the adventures herein recounted.
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Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction might not, possibly, be received for a verity :in some degree the reverse of my previous experience. This thought was the germ of others, which have -resulted in Mardi. NEW YORK, January,
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