2 Preface 



histories. Here I have great hopes that some 

 measure of success has attended my sincere efforts 

 to depict Hfe in and upon the ocean as it has been 

 personally known to me. 



Another reason for writing this short Preface is 

 that it enables me to call attention to the artistic 

 and sympathetic work of Mr. Theo. Carreras, my 

 artist coadjutor. The liberality of the Religious 

 Tract Society has enabled us to give no less than 

 forty of these really beautiful illustrations, and I 

 cannot feel too grateful to them for having thus 

 assisted me. For the making of those drawings has 

 been a labour of love, Mr. Carreras having brought 

 all his artistic knowledge to back up and reproduce 

 my recollections of the attitudes of the various 

 creatures, and the result is to me most gratifying. 

 I feel confident that it will not be less so to my 

 readers. 



And so I leave my book in your hands, friendly 

 reader, with pleasant remembrances of your kind- 

 ness to me to buttress my hopes that this latest 

 effort will meet with the same appreciation. 



FRANK T. BULLEN. 



