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Title: The Two Supercargoes
Adventures in Savage Africa

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Illustrator: E.F. Skinner

Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21490]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

The Two Supercargoes; Adventures in Savage Africa, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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This is rather a standard Kingston book, with adventures this time
shore-based in Africa, which, at the time of the story, the early
nineteenth century, was largely unknown. The two young men sail as
supercargoes, a post which at that time existed, but which later was to
be known a ship's clerk. The job of a supercargo was to be in charge of
where in the vessel each item of cargo was stored, so that on arrival at
its destination it could be quickly and easily found. Of course in
those days, as fifty years ago, items of cargo were individual small
objects, sometimes stowed on pallets, but mostly in casks. A pallet or
a cask would be an individual item.

It wasn't very easy to read this text due to a slightly heavy typeface,
so there may be a few errors, but not, we hope, over the 99.95% odds.

Probably best for that reason as an audiobook.

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THE TWO SUPERCARGOES, ADVENTURES IN SAVAGE AFRICA, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

Adventures in Savage Africa.

CHAPTER ONE.

THE OFFICE OF FRANK, TRUNNION & SWAB--HARRY BRACEWELL REPORTS THE
ARRIVAL OF THE "ARROW"--HISTORY OF NICHOLAS SWAB--THE SLAVE TRADE--OUR
FIRM GIVES UP ALL CONNECTION WITH IT--CAPTAIN RODERICK TRUNNION--
SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF AND FRIENDS--INTERVIEW BETWEEN MR. TRUNNION AND
GODFREY MAGOR, MATE OF THE "ARROW"--AN UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL--A STRANGE
ACCUSATION--SUSPICIONS OF CAPTAIN TRUNNION--MRS. BRACEWELL AND HER
DAUGHTER MARY.

"The `Arrow' has come in, sir, from the Coast of Africa, under charge of
Mr Godfrey Magor, the second mate," I heard Harry Bracewell, one of our
shipping cler