How everything is embellished by the feelings of youth, and how beautiful appeared, to my ardent eyes, the bark in which I was to navigate the Mediterranean, when I stepped on board as a sailor for the first time!
Garibaldi reflects on the vivid and embellished perceptions of youth as he recalls his first voyage as a sailor.
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