Identifier: threemidshipmen00king (find matches)
Title: The three midshipmen
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880
Subjects: Slave trade Africa -- Fiction
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e glad if we can catch her on the water, or earth, or sky,answered Terence. These slavers are slippery fellows, and it is no easy matter to get hold of them. The night wore on. When the morning at length broke, the mast-heads were crowded with visitors. They rubbed their eyes and their telescopes, and then looked through the latter, and rubbed and rubbed again; and then they pulled very long faces at each other, for the ship could nowhere be seen. Many of them remained aloft, still looking for her, but at last they came down and looked at each other, and voted themselves sold. However, they went to breakfast, and as they walked the deck after it they hoped that they might have better luck next time. The mens dinner was just over, when once more every body was put on the alert by hearing Sail ho! sung out from the mast-head. Where away? asked Captain Lascelles, who was walking the deck at the time. Eight ahead, sir, was the answer. The captain himself went aloft. When he came down again he told
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'With loud cheers the expedition shoved off from the frigate's side THE THREE MIDSHIPMEN. 107 Mr. Holt that he believed she was the identical ship they had chased the previous day. The frigate rapidly got up with her. How jolly to think that we shall catch her after- all, exclaimed Jack,is they got near enough, to the chase to see half way down her courses11 But what is the matter with her ? She seems to have altered hei course. She is becalmed, to be sure, answered Lieutenant Hemming, who heard the question. Daddy Neptune has brought her up all standing,to place her as a punishment in our power. I only hope he will not make a mistake and becalm us till we get up to her. In another hour or less the stranger was seen floating in the middle of a shining sheet of water of silvery hue. Still the frigate carried on the breeze. It was a question whether the stranger would get it, and perhaps make a fresh start, leaving her pursuer in the lurch. The excitement on boa

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