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Excerpt from Prisoners of War in France, From 1804 to 1814: Being the Adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams of St. Ives, Cornwall Living amongst the seafaring population of St. Ives at a time when nearly every man was a sailor or connected in some way with ships and the sea, it was natural that these two young St. Ives men, who were cousins, should be attracted to a seafaring life, and they were bound in due time as apprentices to their uncle, Josias Sincock, of St. Ives, master and part owner of the brig Friendship of London. The Friendship, a vessel of 150 tons burthen, was built at Swansea in 1801, and upon the voyage, which was to end in her capture by the French privateer, she appears to have sailed from St. Ives on the second day of January, 1804. Arriving in due course in the Thames, she was there laden with Government stores - chiefly sheet-copper, said to be valued at 80,000 - and received orders to proceed to Devonport Dockyard. The year 1804 found this country engaged in the long and bitter struggle with France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."