Charley Laurel: A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land : 9781514773758

A good many years ago, before, indeed, I can remember, His Majesty's Ship Laurel, a corvette of eighteen guns and a hundred and thirty men, commanded by Captain Blunt, formed one of the West India squadron. She, with another corvette, and a brig in company, came one fine morning off a beautiful island, then in possession of the French, although, as Dick Driver, from whom I got the particulars, said, properly belonged to England, at least, it once had. Of course, therefore, it was their business to get it back again. Dick could not recollect its name, nor the exact date of the occurrences I am describing, for, being no scholar, he was a very bad hand at recollecting dates; and as he could not write his own name, of course it was not to be expected that he would keep a journal, or remember very accurately all the places he had visited.

Author: William Henry Giles Kingston

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 30, 2015

Number of Pages: 102 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1514773759

ISBN-13: 9781514773758