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Title: The Penang Pirate
and, The Lost Pinnace

Author: John Conroy Hutcheson

Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21086]

Language: English

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The Penang Pirate, by John Conroy Hutcheson
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This is a fairly short book, consisting of two short stories.

The first of these, "The Penang Pirate", describes how the Captain
of the "Hankow Lin", suspecting that there might be a piratical
attack on his vessel on her return voyage from Canton to
Australia, lays plans to spoil the pirates' fun. As a result of
this the attacking pirate vessel is soundly beaten, but there
were some interesting events and confrontations before they
actually met the pirate schooner.

The second story is "The Lost Pinnace". HMS London is cruising
the East Coast of Africa in search of any slaver dhows. One of
these is met with and deleted, so the London, a midshipman with
knowledge of the local language having overheard that there is a
second slaver not far away, sets off in search of a further
conquest.

It was the custom at that time for a ship's pinnace to be left
behind under the command of a junior officer whenever the
warship left the station on a chase. No junior officer being
available the pinnace is left with the bosun in command.

All is well for a time, but there is a severe storm, and the
pinnace is lost, several miles from the Madagascar shore.
Some of the crew are lost, but the remainder, including the
bosun, who is telling the tale years later to a friend back
in England, reach the shore. Their journey to the capital of
Madagascar is very difficult and dangerous, but most of them get
there in the end.
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THE PENANG PIRATE and THE LOST PINNACE

BY JOHN CONROY HUTCHESON

VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER ONE.

IN THE PEARL RIVER.

"Bill!"

"Aye, aye, bo!"

"Guess this'll be a rum v'yage, mate."

"Why, old shell