e to describe one-tenth part of the events in young
Harry's career.

After serving in the _Nymph_ some time longer, I was transferred to the
_Juno_ frigate; and Captain Leslie succeeded in getting the two
youngsters appointed to her. I had belonged to her when she was first
in commission in the West Indies, commanded by Captain Hood. A braver
man never stepped. I remember an incident which will show his
character. We were lying at Saint Anne's Harbour, Jamaica, a heavy gale
of wind blowing, when the look-out from the masthead discovered far out
at sea a raft; tossing about on the foaming waves, which threatened
every moment to wash off three men who were seen clinging to it. The
captain at once ordered a boat to put off to their assistance, but the
sea was so heavy that the boat's crew held back, thinking that they
should lose their own lives if they made the attempt.

"I never order men to undertake what I dare not do myself," exclaimed
Captain Hood, springing into the boat.

Away he pulled amid the foam-crested, tumbling seas. Every moment we
thought that the boat and all on board would be lost; but he at last
succeeded in reaching the raft, and taking the three poor men off it
just as they were exhausted, and would have in another minute been
washed away.

Such a man I was heartily glad to serve under again. We sailed
immediately for the Mediterranean, where we joined Lord Hood's fleet
lying in the harbour of Toulon. The French Royalists had given up the
city to the English and Spaniards, who were at that time our allies, and
their troops assisted to man the fortifications. A Republican army,
however, invested the place, and a good deal of fighting had been going
on. The English had, however, not quite two thousand men on shore, and,
though they could trust the French Royalists, the Spaniards,
Neapolitans, and other troops could not be relied on. Serving in the
Republican army was Napoleon Buonaparte, then an officer of artillery;
not that I knew of it at the time, but I afterwards heard that he had
been there when he became Emperor of the French.

The French had one night surprised a detachment of Spanish troops posted
on an important height above Toulon, and thereby got possession of it.
No time was to be lost in driving them out, and the marines and a party
of bluejackets from the ships close at hand were ordered on shore to
assist the Spaniards in storming the heights and turning out the
Republic