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Hurricane Hurry

By William Henry Giles Kingston

2020-04-24 17:42:23

[...]prize-money, we were perfectly content with the arrangement. After spending a few months in channel cruising-the Torbay being ordered to lay as guard-ship at Plymouth-such a life not suiting my fancy, I quitted her and joined his Majesty's sloop ... Read more
[...]prize-money, we were perfectly content with the arrangement. After spending a few months in channel cruising-the Torbay being ordered to lay as guard-ship at Plymouth-such a life not suiting my fancy, I quitted her and joined his Majesty's sloop of war Falcon, captain Cuthbert Baines, fitting out for the West India station. As in those days I kept no regular journal, I have only a few scattered notes written in an old log-book to guide me in my account of the events of that period of my career. A few are still vivid in my memory as when they first occurred, but many have[...].  Less

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File size468.693 KB
Print pages484
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2017-05-24
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1434686442
William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 – 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. William Henry Giles Kingston was born in Harley...

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