The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

When I had made the pensioner as comfortable as I could at my little place--attending carefully to the wants of his inner man before appearing to have any curiosity regarding th...

"When day broke next morning," Ben went on to say, "there I found myself under the shade of the two cocoa-nut palms, as I discovered my beacon trees to be, lying on the warm san...

"You won't think I'm exaggerating, sir, or that we were unmanly; but I assure you that one and all of us broke down under this disappointment, and cried as if we were a parcel o...

"Have I ever been to Madagascar?" he repeated, with a look of amazement and wonder quaintly combined on his good-natured, ruddy-brown, weather- beaten face. "Is that what you wa...

"Ah! yes, I remember now, sir. Well, then, when the _Dolphin_ had got well away from us, leaving us poor chaps to our own resources, we in the pinnace, now well under her canvas...

"The only things left floating in the water after the pinnace sank down under us," resumed Ben after a lengthened pause, during which he puffed vigorously at his pipe as if to m...

There, right facing them, in front of the saloon doors, stood the whilom quiet, delicate-looking passenger "Mr Meredith," dressed in the smart uniform of a lieutenant in the Roy...

"Don't you fret yourself about that, Jem Backstay. The skipper knows what he's a-doing, and has got a heap o' 'sponsibility on them shoulders o' his'n--a fine ship and a valuabl...

Towards six bells in the morning watch the intense violet sky of the east began to pale into those shades of green and grey which note the departure of night, the bright twinkli...

The ship sailed on serenely, making from two hundred to two hundred and fifty knots in each twenty-four hours run--on some exceptional occasions clearing indeed as much as three...

At this moment, the conversation between the two was again interrupted by Bill the boatswain starting up from the hawser on which he was sitting alongside of Jem Backstay on the...

"The savages," continued Ben, "in their rapid onslaught on us, fortunately, missed their aim, only one of us getting a spear-wound through the body, the rest of their weapons ex...

To make a long story short, I may state briefly that in the second part of the action--the second act of a tragedy, it was for the Malays--both the bluejackets and the men of th...