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In respect of the next seven weeks, all that is necessary to say is, first, that old Nelson (or Nielsen) failed in paying his politic call. The Neptun gunboat of H.M. the King of the Netherlands, c
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In respect of the next seven weeks, all that is necessary to say is, first, that old Nelson (or Nielsen) failed in paying his politic call. The Neptun gunboat of H.M. the King of the Netherlands, c
The affair of the brig Bonito was bound to cause a sensation in Makassar, the prettiest, and perhaps the cleanest-loo…
I suppose praiseworthy motives are a sufficient justification almost for anything. What could be more commendable in …
A few weeks later, coming early one morning into Singapore, from a journey to the southward, I saw the brig lying at a…
For , pray, who was Heemskirk? You shall see at once how unreasonable this dread of Heemskirk. . . . Certainly, his na…
One day—and that day was many years ago now—I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow-wande…
The skipper of the Sephora had a thin red whisker all round his face, and the sort of complexion that goes with hair …
On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, in…
Either would have been perfectly consistent with my feelings. I gazed at the door, hesitating, but in the end I did n…
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