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CHAPTER XVI 



Cm Annie Her Captain I Ship in her Our Crew A Clip- 

 per's Forecastle Sleeping Das-accommodations Steering 

 " Humbugging " Planning a Mutiny Counter Planning 

 The African Coast Algoa Bay The Anchorage Surf-boats 

 Cape Boors A South Easter A Double Wreck Lloyd's 

 Agent. 



UPON my return from Tamatave I left the vessel 

 I had sailed thither in. She was going to Calcutta, 

 and thence to London. I desired to go nowhere 

 just then, without having at least a fair prospect 

 of being able to return to the Isle of France. 1 

 was so fortunate as to obtain in a few days, a berth 

 in a little Scotch brig, bound to Algoa Bay, on 

 tne African Coast. 



The Annie that was the brig's name was a 

 beautiful little craft of about two hundred tons 

 burthen. I had often heard old sea dogs teil :/ 

 ve&.ols that they loved almost better than them- 

 selves This was such a one. Her long, :ow, 

 gracefully curving hull, her sharp, keen bow, and 

 clean cut run, her taunt, tapering masts, and vast 

 yards, almost heavy enough for a vessel of twice 

 her size, thr jaunty, reckless, yet neat air of every- 



