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As they had had notice of the owner’s intention to come down, the officers were all in their new uniforms, and after Captain Pinder had shown his guests round the ship, they sat down together to dinner in the cabin. “You have plenty of freeboard, I see,” Mr. Embleton said, as, after returning on deck, he looked over the side. “Yes, I never will load down my ships,” Mr.
"I think," said Sir James Pinder, a knight who had seen much service on many stricken fields, "it would be best to remain where we are, and to throw up fortifications behind which we can fight to better advantage, while the French cavalry would be able to do but little against us.
In the very same year two pretenders, Agnes Bridges and Rachel Pinder, were convicted in London. By vomiting pins and straws they had convinced many that they were bewitched, but the trickery was soon found out and they were compelled to do public penance at St. Paul's.
“She will in the first place take a cargo to Calcutta, reserving a portion of her hold for my goods for trading among the islands. When she has landed her freight at Calcutta she will cruise in the Archipelago for some months, as long, in fact, as Pinder finds that he can carry on a really good business with the natives.
“‘I don’t like the look of things, Mr. Pinder,’ one of them, an old hand, whispered to me. “‘No more do I, Jack,’ I said. ‘Just slip below and bring up four of those boarding-axes. Put one of them down among Mr. Pearson’s goods and make a sign to him that it is for his use, put the other three down in front of me, and then do you and Bob Hawkins take your places between me and Mr.
Captain Pinder was, as every good officer should be, most particular about his boats, and always had them built specially from his own design. They were broader than usual, and had a flat floor and a deep keel, thus they were extremely buoyant, their lines resembling those of the surf-boats on the west coasts of India and Africa, while their deep keels enabled them to sail close to the wind.
I am not able to bring upon the stage, a mayor and a group of aldermen, dressed in antique scarlet, bordered with fur, drawing a train of attendants; the meanest of which, even the pinder, is badged with silver: Nor treat my guest with a band of music, in scarlet cloaks with broad laces.
Pinder thoroughly agrees with me, and so does the boatswain, that these proas can be coming for no good purpose at this time of night, and it were madness not to be ready for them. What do you say, Mr. Pinder?’ “‘I entirely agree with you, sir,’ I replied. “‘This is rank mutiny!’ the skipper said furiously. “‘I would rather be tried for mutiny than have my throat cut here.
We got the guns over in time, but before we could load them the Malays were swarming up the side. “‘Take three men, Pinder, and load the guns,’ cried the captain; ‘we will keep these fellows off.’ “The same order was given to the boatswain with regard to the guns on the starboard side.
The Tiger began unloading yesterday, and a good many of the hands will be paid off to-morrow.” Captain Pinder and the first and third officers expressed their sincere regret that Stephen was not going to sail with them on the next voyage, and Joyce was greatly cut up about it.
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