📘 Excerpt from Quadros Navaes, Ou Collecção Dos Folhetins Maritimos do Patriota, Seguidos de Huma Epopeia Naval Portugueza, Vol. 2: Parte II, Epopeia, Segunda ImpressãoA empreza que tomei foi arrojada; pode em mim o desejo mais do que as forças, e posto não consiga o fim, honro-me de a ter encetado, e creio até que as pessoas imparciaes me rele verao a ousadia, pela ideia que tive de servir a patria.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.