PAGE Pirate Life. 5 Captivity among the Japanese. 37 A Sea-Fight on the Cuban Coast. 91 A Winter in the Frozen Ocean. 125 The Shipwreck. 150 Voyage to the East Indies. 165 Home-Sickness of a Siberian. 189 I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vessel Dolphin, bound from Jamaica for London, which had already doubled the southern point of the Island of Cuba, favored by the wind, when one afternoon, I suddenly observed a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing down upon us from the coast. I climbed the mast, with my spy glass, and became convinced that it was a pirate. I directed the captain, who was taking his siesta, to be awaked instantly, showed him the craft, and advised him t…
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