. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE XVII. THE SAME, AND A FEW INCIDENTS WHICH HAPPENED IN THE LAST CHINA WAB. My friends the pirates were not always very polite. I knew, of course, they would have relished getting hold of me. Occasionally they managed to convey messages such as,"We'U skin him;" "We'll hlow him out of the water," and so on. The latter considerate inclina- tion came so decidedly in April 1866 that I thought they really might mean something,'and the Adm
. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE XVII. THE SAME, AND A FEW INCIDENTS WHICH HAPPENED IN THE LAST CHINA WAB. My friends the pirates were not always very polite. I knew, of course, they would have relished getting hold of me. Occasionally they managed to convey messages such as,"We'U skin him;" "We'll hlow him out of the water," and so on. The latter considerate inclina- tion came so decidedly in April 1866 that I thought they really might mean something,'and the Admiral, who happened to be in port, rather reluctantly gave me per- mission to go out. He was at first anxious I should take two gun-boats, but I knew my only chance of teaching them a lesson was to go alone. Puckshui, which I had previously burnt to the ground, was the spot these bits. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original St. John, Henry Craven, 1837-1909. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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