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He would have had no chance, however, with the Indiamen, whose officers were in a very combative mood. Not long before a very gallant action had been performed by a squadron of them in the Eastern seas indeed, no country ever possessed a body of officers in her mercantile marine equal to those of the Honourable East India Company. I heard all about the action on board the Cuffnells.
The sea, smooth as a mirror, shone like burnished silver, its surface ever and anon broken by the fin of some monster of the deep, or by a covey of flying fish, which would dart through the air till, their wings dried by the sun, they fell helpless again into their native element. Looking round I recognised the Cuffnells not far off, and, remembering my promise, asked for a boat to go on board.
She was the well-known Cuffnells, a ship of twelve hundred tons, one of the finest of her class, and, curiously enough, was the very one which, two voyages before, had carried my brother Frederick out to India. I had never before been on board an Indiaman. Everything about her seemed grand and ponderous, and gave me the idea of strength and stability.
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