<p>I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down.With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded amusement from its pages.<br>One word more.If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, l...