Chapter 4

OFF USHANT.

Join the Channel fleet off Ushant—Capture the French frigate _Gentille_, also a twenty-four-gun ship five days later—Fleet returns to Portsmouth—Prize-money—To sea again in charge of a convoy—Transport with two hundred Hessian troops on board founders off Cape Finisterre—Suddenly ordered to West Indies—Fight between a negro and a shark at Port Royal, Jamaica—Dignity balls—Collision with H.M.S. _Sampson_—Outbreak of yellow fever—Ordered to sea—Capture two French ships and two privateers.

_pp. 46-56_