t escapes into Brest--Return to Plymouth to
refit for foreign service--Transhipped to H.M.S. _Hannibal_--Description of
the ship's officers--Tricks played on the Irish chaplain.

_pp. 30-45_

CHAPTER IV.

OFF USHANT.

Join the Channel fleet off Ushant--Capture the French frigate _Gentille_,
also a twenty-four-gun ship five days later--Fleet returns to
Portsmouth--Prize-money--To sea again in charge of a convoy--Transport with
two hundred Hessian troops on board founders off Cape Finisterre--Suddenly
ordered to West Indies--Fight between a negro and a shark at Port Royal,
Jamaica--Dignity balls--Collision with H.M.S. _Sampson_--Outbreak of yellow
fever--Ordered to sea--Capture two French ships and two privateers.

_pp. 46-56_

CHAPTER V.

WEST INDIES AGAIN.

Owing to ravages of yellow fever go to Jamaica to obtain more
seamen--Difficulties and humours of impressment--Author attacked by yellow
fever--Proceed to Cape St. Nicholas mole--Great mortality among the
officers.

_pp. 57-68_

CHAPTER VI.

TOUGH YARNS.

Tough yarns--The sea-serpent--The fair-wind sellers of Bremen--Mermen and
mermaidens--Capture of Spanish schooner with mulatto laundresses on
board--Boat attack on, and capture of the French privateer
_Salamandre_--Outbreak of malignant scurvy--Novel method of treatment--French
women dressed as men--A voyage of discovery.

_pp. 69-85_

CHAPTER VII.

CRUISING OFF PORTO RICO.

A ball on board--Fishing with a seine--Ordered to cruise off Porto Rico--News
of the Battle of Camperdown--The boasts of Napoleon--Views on matrimony--A
sailor's courtship--Futile boat attack on a Spanish war vessel at St.
Domingo--Author loses the hearing of his left ear from effect of a wound.

_pp. 86-99_

CHAPTER VIII.

MUTINY ON H.M.S. _HERMIONE_.

Tea with the boatswain's wife--News of the mutiny at the Nore causes
troubl