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I had been for six months fourth lieutenant of H.M.S. Gazelle, on board of which Sir Oliver Oakplank had his broad pennant* hoisted, as the commander-in-chief on the African station. The last time we touched at Cape Coast we took in with us a Spanish felucca, that we had previously cut out of the Bonny river, with part of her cargo of slaves on board. - The Cruise of the Midge (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Dazzled by the glories of Trafalgar, I, Thomas Cringle, one fine morning in May, 1806, when I was thirteen years old, asked an old uncle to intercede with his former comrade-in-arms, Sir Anthony Hollowell, vice-admiral of the Red Squadron, a Lord of the Admiralty, to find me a berth on one of his Majesty's ships of war without delay. - Tom Cringle's Log (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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