Chapter 1. In Search Of The "Barbara"
_ CHAPTER ONE. IN SEARCH OF THE "BARBARA"
"What‘s the name of the craft you want to get aboard, sir?" asked old Bob, the one-legged boatman, whose wherry I had hired to carry me out to Spithead.
"The _Barbara_," I answered, trying to look more at my ease than I felt； for the old fellow, besides having but one leg, had a black patch over the place where his right eye should have been, while his left arm was partially crippled； and his crew consisted of a mite of a boy whose activity and intelligence could scarcely make up for his want of size and strength. The ebb tide, too, was making strong out of Portsmouth Harbour, and a fresh breeze was blowing in, creating a tumbling, bubbling sea at the mouth； and vessels and boats of all sizes and rigs were dashing here and there, madly and without purpose it seemed to me, but at all events very likely to run down the low narrow craft in which I had ventured to embark. Now and then a man-of-war‘s

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