Chapter 1. Last Day At Home...
_ CHAPTER ONE. LAST DAY AT HOME--JOIN THE "HEROINE" AS A MIDSHIPMAN--BOUND FOR THE PACIFIC--ORDERED TO TOUCH AT CAPE COAST CASTLE--ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR A PIRATE--CHASE HER UP A RIVER--OUR BOAT ATTACKED--DICKY POPO BRINGS US INFORMATION--FIGHT WITH THE PIRATES--A CAPTURE--A SCHOONER BLOWS UP-- DELIVER UP OUR PRIZE TO THE COMMODORE--PROCEED ON OUR VOYAGE.
The last day of my home-life came to an end. Pierce and I went to our room and turned in to our beds, but not to sleep. We had still many things to say to each other, though we had probably said them over and over again before. I promised to write a journal, to show to him when I came back from my first voyage； and he agreed to keep one, from which he might make extracts when he wrote to me, so that I might know everything that took place in our family circle.
Our father, Mr Rayner, was a half-pay lieutenant； but at the end of the war, having no expectation of promotion, he had left the service

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