Lieutenant
Hopkins was now the Serpent's first lieutenant, and Morrison was
second. Harry Parkhurst was third lieutenant, Dick Balderson, to the
regret of both, having left the ship on his promotion, and having
been transferred as third lieutenant to Captain Ferguson's craft.
Both have since kept up a correspondence with Bahi, who has married
a neighboring chief, and who tells them that the river is prospering
greatly, and that, although he assumes no authority, her father is
everywhere regarded as the paramount chief of the district. From
time to time each receives chests filled with spices, silks, and
other Malay products, and sends back in return European articles
of utility to the rajah, for such is the rank that Hassan has now
acquired on the river.
BEARS AND DACOITS A TALE OF THE GHAUTS
CHAPTER I
A merry party were sitting in the veranda of one of the largest and
handsomest bungalows of Poonah. It belonged to Colonel Hastings,
colonel of a native regiment stationed there, and at present, in
virtue of seniority, commanding a brigade. Tiffin was on, and three
or four officers and four ladies had taken their seats in the
comfortable cane lounging chairs which form the invariable furniture
of the veranda of a well ordered bungalow.
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