Among Typhoons

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Excerpt from Among Typhoons: Pirate Craft In a former work, entitled "A Cruise in an Opium Clipper, " I promised the readers thereof that I would fill up the blank of several months that intervened between the time of my engagement as third officer on board the Eamont and our arrival at Hong Kong to refit, previous to sailing on our expedition to Formosa. Those who have read the first cruise must hark back with me to Shanghai, and take up the threads of this narrative from the time of my first appearance on duty as an officer on board the Eamont. We are lying in the river, moored with two anchors, almost abreast of the English Consulate, and close to two of her Majesty's corvettes, that were stationed here at that time, for the protection of British interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.