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A BRUSH WITH THE CHINESE AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
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It was early in December that H.M.S. Perseus was cruising off the mouth of the Canton River. War had been declared with China in consequence of her continued evasions2 of the treaty she had made with us, and it was expected that a strong naval3 force would soon gather to bring her to reason. In the meantime the ships on the station had a busy time of it, chasing the enemy's junks when they ventured to show themselves beyond the reach of the guns of their forts, and occasionally having a brush with the piratical boats which took advantage of the general confusion to plunder4 friend as well as foe5.
The Perseus had that afternoon chased two Government junks up a creek6. The sun had already set when they took refuge there, and the captain did not care to send his boats after them in the dark, as many of the creeks7 ran up for miles[Pg 216] into the flat country; and as they not unfrequently had many arms or branches, the boats might, in the dark, miss the junks altogether. Orders were issued that four boats should be ready for starting at daybreak the next morning. The Perseus anchored off the mouth of the creek, and two boats were ordered to row backwards8 and forwards off its mouth all night to insure that the enemy did not slip out in the darkness.
Jack9 Fothergill, the senior midshipman, was commanding the gig, and two of the other midshipmen were going in the pinnace and launch, commanded respectively by the first lieutenant11 and the master. The three other midshipmen of the Perseus were loud in their lamentations that they were not to share in the fun.
"You can't all go, you know," Fothergill said, "and it's no use making a row about it; the captain has been very good to let three of us go."
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descend
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wigging
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concealed
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grove
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vengeance
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sufficiently
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