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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Very good practice," said Adair, "but just let it be a little better." Jerry Bird, though watching the chase, could not help now and then taking a look at the countenance of the old chief, Mustapha Longchops, the sailors called him, but whether he wished the dhow to escape or not, it was difficult to say.
It was suspected that the old chief, Mustapha Longchops, had instigated the crime, and though he and the Arabs had been sent to their account, his people, who had so grossly insulted the British officers, were not to be allowed to escape unpunished. The corvette and brig, therefore, early the next morning, accompanied by the boats, proceeded off to the village, where they brought up.
They tried to make him understand that, as soon as they could fall in with a surgeon, his wounds would be better dressed. The Arab crew, being tired, coiled themselves away in different parts of the vessel, while Mustapha Longchops had seated himself at his ease near the skipper. Thus the management of the dhow was left entirely to her captors.
"Little doot aboot that," said Archie; "but hallo! here's our old friend Mustapha Longchops. How did he get on board?" It was very evident that the old chief must have scrambled up after the seamen boarded, and stowed himself away till the fight was over. What was his object in so doing was difficult to ascertain.
He recognised the Arab skipper and Mustapha Longchops on deck, but neither of the midshipmen nor any of the men. He was quickly on deck and shaking hands with Green, though the dreadful feeling which oppressed him prevented him for some moments from speaking. "Where are the midshipmen, Desmond and Gordon," he asked, "and the men I left on board this vessel?"
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