A sailor's life under four sovereigns . $>• /. wi v Cole. The Tweed «3 We arrived in Simons Bay, and following day the Governor, Sir Lowry Cole, with all due ^P1- 7-honours. At Simons Bay we found that Jonas Coaker had. ffcO;J/vj(t- The Device of Jonas C:aker. arrived with his schooner-rigged tank. After crossingthe Line on his way out, he had been becalmed forsome hours, when a rakish-looking schooner, thatmight have been slaver or pirate—most likely both—hove in sight, bringing a light breeze up. Now, 8+ A Sailors Life chap. 1828. Jonas, being unarmed, had no wish to communica
A sailor's life under four sovereigns . $>• /. wi v Cole. The Tweed «3 We arrived in Simons Bay, and following day the Governor, Sir Lowry Cole, with all due ^P1- 7-honours. At Simons Bay we found that Jonas Coaker had. ffcO;J/vj(t- The Device of Jonas C:aker. arrived with his schooner-rigged tank. After crossingthe Line on his way out, he had been becalmed forsome hours, when a rakish-looking schooner, thatmight have been slaver or pirate—most likely both—hove in sight, bringing a light breeze up. Now, 8+ A Sailors Life chap. 1828. Jonas, being unarmed, had no wish to assembled his crew, dressed in white frocks andtrousers, and having unshipped the cooks funnel,which was of polished brass, mounted it on animpromptu carriage, and got the muzzle pointedtowards the stranger, with the crew ranged on eachside, while he paraded the deck in cocked hat andsidearms. He had also a mid and second stranger got near enough to make out that theschooners sails were not of cotton ; she in studdingsails, and, much to Jonass relief, hauled to thewind. Jonas was full of information. On arriving inSimons Bay, he, in answer to inquiries of his youngofficers, how the Cape sheep came to have
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