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Middy and Ensign

Middy and Ensign

Fenn, George Manville

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1717279511
ISBN13: 9781717279514
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The close of a hot day on board Her Majesty's ship Startler, whose engines kept up a regular pulsation as the screw-propeller churned the water astern into golden and orange foam. The dappled sky and the rippled sea were a blaze of colour; crimson, scarlet, burnished copper, orange chrome, dead, and flashing gold, -all were there, on cloud edge and wave slope, mingled with purples, and greens, and blues, as the sun slowly descended to his rest. There had been a general disposition all day long to lie under awnings, and pant like tired dogs, so Bob Roberts the midshipman said; but now officers and men, in the lightest of garments, were eagerly looking for the cool evening breeze, and leaning over the bulwarks, gazing at the wondrous sunset sky and gorgeous sea. The deck of the clean, smart-looking vessel had a very picturesque aspect, dotted as it was with groups of officers and men; for in addition to the crew, the Startler carried four companies of Her Majesty's somethingth foot, the escort of the British Resident and his suite, bound for Campong Allee, the chief town of Rajah Hamet, on the Parang River, west coast of the Malay peninsula.

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