And THE LOST PINNACE. By JOHN C. HUTCHESON. With 3 full-page
Illustrations in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 2_s._
The first story in this volume deals not with a fictional creation of
the past, but with the real pirates of the present who infest the
Malayan Archipelago and the great water-high ways of the East. In it
the reader will discover how a party of Malayan freebooters were
caught in their own toils and "hoist with their own petard," and how
the gallant ship _Hankow Lin_ voyaged from the Canton river through
the straits of Sunda.
In the second tale the adventures of a party of blue-jackets
belonging to one of the pinnaces of the East African squadron are
narrated. Both stories are founded on fact, and abound in sensational
episode and stirring incident.