The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . ledon his very next voyage, when he sailed into Macao Roadswith a Chinaman hanging at each yard-arm, after having- rundown two Mandarin boats and destroyed them, probably drown-ing most of the crew. But what arms did the Chinamen use to attack you?asked I of George. Principally long knives, with which they cut right andleft ; but not the least effective of their weapons were largestones, of which their boats seemed to have an almost inex-haustible supply, and which were handed up to those whohad obtained a footing upon the bowspri
The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . ledon his very next voyage, when he sailed into Macao Roadswith a Chinaman hanging at each yard-arm, after having- rundown two Mandarin boats and destroyed them, probably drown-ing most of the crew. But what arms did the Chinamen use to attack you?asked I of George. Principally long knives, with which they cut right andleft ; but not the least effective of their weapons were largestones, of which their boats seemed to have an almost inex-haustible supply, and which were handed up to those whohad obtained a footing upon the bowsprit, and thence hurledin our midst. Several of our men received severe bruises fromthese missiles. By keeping them from close fighting bymeans of our pikes, we prevented them from doing muchexecution with (heir knives. We had no less than seven menwounded in the encounter, buf fortunately no one was danger-ously hurl. We freely awarded the credit of our victory tothe cook, whose hot water did more to discourage our assail-ants than either our firearms or / /?///<; SOUTH-EAST TRADES ONCE MORE. As soon as we discharged our cargo, we proceeded our return passage to Calcutta. It was on this trip that wewere dismasted in a typhoon, in the China Sea. Of tin- Iwill tell you some other time, for its nearly eight bells, andwell heave the log directly and turn in. We had again sailed through the pleasant south-east trad--,again rounded the Cape, encountering there the usual storm,and were well on our way to Calcutta when the aboveyarn was spun. I must say that I enjoyed this trip muchmore than the one I had previously made through these watersin a vessel of war. A seventy-four-gun ship is much too largeto be made a home of. One lives too much in public, as itwere, and there are so many hands that one never gets inti-mately acquainted with all. On board the Akbar we were bythis time all perfectly at home with one another, and wereindeed like a band of brothers. Then, the merchant
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