Hurricane Hurry
                                            
                            By William Henry Giles Kingston
                            
                                24 Apr, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        [...]prize-money, we were perfectly content with the arrangement. After spending a few months in channel cruising-the Torbay being ordered to lay as guard-ship at Plymouth-such a life not suiting my fancy, I quitted her and joined his Majesty's sloop
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                                                [...]prize-money, we were perfectly content with the arrangement. After spending a few months in channel cruising-the Torbay being ordered to lay as guard-ship at Plymouth-such a life not suiting my fancy, I quitted her and joined his Majesty's sloop of war Falcon, captain Cuthbert Baines, fitting out for the West India station. As in those days I kept no regular journal, I have only a few scattered notes written in an old log-book to guide me in my account of the events of that period of my career. A few are still vivid in my memory as when they first occurred, but many have[...].  Less