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Updated: May 9, 2025
He was by far the best and most disinterested of my Japanese family. When all my commissions are finished, he puts up his little vehicle under a tree, and, much touched by my departure, insists upon escorting me on board the 'Triomphante', to watch over my final purchases in the sampan which conveys me to the ship, and to see them himself safely into my cabin.
It is very nice of him to wish to help me in my packing; but I think he counts also upon saying farewell to his little Japanese friends up there, and I really can not find fault with that. He finishes his work, and does in fact obtain leave, without help from me, to go on shore at five o'clock, after drill and manoeuvres. As for myself I start at once, in a hired sampan.
Under the direction of the captain the steamer was run up to the shore; and the bank in this place was high enough to enable the party to land without using the sampan. All hands, including the seamen, rushed in the direction of the spot where the pig had been seen. The game was readily found. The animal was something like a Kentucky hog, often called a "racer," because he is so tall and lank.
We found other friends on board, who had come to see us off. A few minutes before nine o'clock the bell rang as a signal for our friends' departure, and we steamed ahead, among such a crowd of sampans and junks that it was more like moving through a town than along a river. No accident, however, occurred, though one junk and one sampan had the very narrowest escape.
The Aline was luckily lying close in-shore, and we stood on her deck, after a short pull in the sampan, wringing wet. A pleasant welcome from her captain, however, dry clothes, and a glass of grog in her cheerful and well-lit cabin, soon set things right, and we turned in and slept soundly, undisturbed by the bustle and noise that always attends the departure of a ship.
"Nothing could have been more sensible, you see, cap'en; and Ching Wang's got his head screwed on straight." "And where is this boat ye're going in?" "Sampan, go long now," returned Ching Wang, motioning with his hand to the water below the stern. "Go long chop chop, soon lilly pijjin come down topside."
Bidding adieu to our Malayan host, we once more entered the palanquins, and in a little while were set down on the coast, where lay our sampán with flag hoisted and pennons gayly flaunting in the breeze.
We must be near the stockade!" exclaimed Bob. "If we go on till the river becomes a ditch, we shall find no stockade here, Roberts!" cried the lieutenant. "Why should there be one? There is neither campong nor sampan upon the river, and it is evident that there is no trade. No, Roberts, we have been tricked cheated, and we must get back at full speed as soon as day begins to break.
Let those who stay prepare at once for sea. "I found Wilbur beside me. 'What's this madness, Nichols? he demanded for the third and last time. "'I know no more about it than you do, I answered shortly. 'He has told his crew to prepare for sea. If he goes, we all go. "A moment later we stood on the quarter-deck of the cruising sampan. Lee Fu took his station at the great tiller.
There is also a bathroom and lavatory, a kitchen with good cooking range, quarters forrard for the crew which consists of the lowdah and four sailors, together with cook, boy and dog-coolie while on deck are the water-tanks, kennels, and a small sampan by way of a jolly.
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