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Title: Under the Chilian Flag
A Tale of War between Chili and Peru

Author: Harry Collingwood

Illustrator: W. Rainey

Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21061]

Language: English

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Under the Chilian Flag
A Tale of War between Chili and Peru

By Harry Collingwood
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There was a state of war between Chili and Peru in the 1870s. It was
all to do with a desert area that lay between Chili, Peru and Bolivia.
At first this desert was not particularly claimed by any of these
countries, but when it was discovered that it held rich reserves of
nitrates, the three of them fell out.

Two young Englishmen, with sea-going experience, were aboard a British
vessel trading in nitrates and other ores. The captain was a very
disagreeable character, and they determined to leave him, and sign up
with the Chilian authorities for employment in the Chilian Navy, which
was short of officers. They were taken on, and the rest of the book
details some of the adventures they had, and the trials and tribulations
they endured.

This is a very exciting and enjoyable book. There are a few Spanish
words, and of course the ships have Spanish names, but you soon get used
to that. I fully recommend it, especially if you can make it into an
audiobook. NH.
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UNDER THE CHILIAN FLAG
A TALE OF WAR BETWEEN CHILI AND PERU

BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD

CHAPTER ONE.

WHAT HAPPENED ON THE PERICLES.

"You, Thompson, go down and send the second mate up to me. Tell him to
leave whatever he is doing and to come up here at once. I want to speak
to him," growled Captain Fisher of the steamer _Pericles_, turning, with
a menacing expression, to the grizzled old quartermaster who stood
beside him on the bridge.

Thompson, as though only too glad of an excuse to leave the
neighbourhood of his skipper, grunted out an assen