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"I calls it a bastly custom, yer honor, and I wonder it is allowed.
One got athwart the cable this morning, and it frightened me nigh out
of my sinses, when I happened to look over the bow, and saw the thing
bobbing up and down in the water.
"This is tedious work, yer honor, and I'll be glad when we're at the
end of the voyage."
"I shall be glad, too, Tim. We have been a fortnight in the river
already. But I think there is a breeze getting up, and there is the
captain on deck, giving orders."
In a few minutes, the ship was under way again, and the same night
dropped her anchor in the stream, abreast of Calcutta. Charlie shortly
after landed, and, proceeding to the Company's offices, reported his
arrival, and that of the four Sepoy officers. Hossein, who was not in
the Company's service, was with him merely in the character of a
servant.
As the news of the share Charlie had had in the capture of Suwarndrug
had reached Calcutta, he was well received; and one of the leading
merchants of the town, Mr. Haines, who happened to be present when
Charlie called upon the governor, at once invited him warmly to take
up his residence with him, during his stay. Hospitality in India was
profuse, and general.
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