Chapter 1. Two Middies And A Monkey
_ CHAPTER ONE. TWO MIDDIES AND A MONKEY
"We‘ve done wrong, Van. There‘ll be a jolly row about it."
"Get out! What‘s the good of talking now? You were as ready to have him as I was. Lie still, will you? or I‘ll pitch you overboard."
Two middies talking in the stern-sheets of the cutter belonging to Her Majesty‘s fast little cruiser _Nautilus_, stationed on the west coast of Africa "blackberrying," so the men called their duty, Tom Fillot, one of their jokers, giving as the reason that the job was "black and berry nasty." The sun shone as it can shine in the neighbourhood of the equator, and the sea looked like so much glistening oil, as it slowly heaved up and sank with the long ground swell, the light flashing from the surface attacking the eyes with blinding power, bronzing the faces of some, peeling the noses of others.
Setting aside the smart crew of the cutter in their white duck shirts and trousers and straw hats, with faces,

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