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My name is Bob Slingsby, and in the autumn of last year I was senior apprentice, or midshipman (for we wore a smart uniform), on board the good ship _Bon Accord_ of Aberdeen, freighted from London to Hong Kong, and a few who may survive to read these lines will recall the story I am about to tell -- the plain unvarnished one of a sailor boy (I was then only sixteen) in the Indian seas.
We had left Swatow on the 24th of September, after getting on board a pilot, who was the cause of all the mischief that followed.