A sailor's life under four sovereigns . oard at the early June of 3 , and started first of the flood for theship. Got on board at nine, and weighed forSingapore. At sea. No spare time to look for pirates. Good June , though ! Left our marks on someof them, poor devils ! Did some good for trade, andproportionate harm to pirates. Improving breeze. All good wine done. Time June get into Singapore again. My stay in Sarawak was of short duration, because,before I had time to carry out the arrangementsmade to put down this horrid piracy, the Dido was,owing to cha
A sailor's life under four sovereigns . oard at the early June of 3 , and started first of the flood for theship. Got on board at nine, and weighed forSingapore. At sea. No spare time to look for pirates. Good June , though ! Left our marks on someof them, poor devils ! Did some good for trade, andproportionate harm to pirates. Improving breeze. All good wine done. Time June get into Singapore again. My stay in Sarawak was of short duration, because,before I had time to carry out the arrangementsmade to put down this horrid piracy, the Dido was,owing to changes in the distribution of the fleet, 320 A Sailors Life CHAI\ 1843. recalled to China. Not expecting to revisit Borneoduring the period the ship had to run before com-pleting her usual time of commission, it is gratifyingto read the following in my friend Brookes journal,alluding to that time : I came myself in the Dido, and I may say thather appearance was the consummation of my enter-prise. The natives saw directly that there was a. A River Scene. force to protect and to punish, and most of the chiefs,conscious of their evil ways, trembled. MudaHassim was gratified, and felt that this power wouldexalt his authority, both in Borneo and along thecoast, and he was not slow in magnifying the forceof the Dido. The state in which Captain Keppeland his officers visited the Rajah all heightened theeffect; the marines and the band excited the admira-tion as well as the fears of the natives. I felt the xxix Dido—Ordered to China 321 Rajahs hand tremble at the first interview, and not the well-known command of countenance couldconceal his emotion. Gentle reader, excuse my vanity if I continue alittle further with my friends journal, although itgets rather personal : I believe the first emotion was anything butpleasurable ; but Captain Keppels conciliatory andkind manner soon removed any feeling of fear, andall along was of the greatest use to me in our subse-quent doings. v
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