16 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



was generally right. On one occasion, as the ship 

 was going into Corfu, Sir Thomas came up the 

 hatchway and cast his eyes towards the gallows. 

 ' Bangham ' — Charles Jenkin heard him say to his 

 aide-de-camp. Lord Bangham — 'where the devil 

 is that other chap ? I left four fellows hanging 

 there; now I can only see three. Mind there is 

 another there to-morrow.' And sure enough there 

 was another Greek danghng the next day. ' Captain 

 Hamilton, of the Cambrian, kept the Greeks in order 

 afloat,' writes my author, ' and King Tom ashore.' 

 Services in From 1823 onward, the chief scene of Charles 



the West 



Indies. Jenkin's activities was in the West Indies, where he 

 was engaged off and on till 1844, now as a subaltern, 

 now in a vessel of his own, hunting out pirates 

 ' then very notorious ' in the Leeward Islands, 

 cruising after slavers, or carrying dollars and 

 provisions for the Government. While yet a mid- 

 shipman, he accompanied Mr. Cockburn to Caraccas 

 and had a sight of Bolivar. In the brigantine 

 Griffon, which he commanded in his last years 

 in the West Indies, he carried aid to Guadeloupe 

 after the earthquake, and twice earned the thanks 

 of Government : once for an expedition to Nicar- 

 agua to extort, under threat of a blockade, proper 

 apologies and a sum of money due to certain British 

 merchants ; and once during an insurrection in 

 San Domingo, for the rescue of certain others from 

 a perilous imprisonment and the recovery of a 



