The Congo Rovers
A Story of the Slave Squadron
By Harry Collingwood
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This book by Collingwood is a good story, but as your reviewer has said
elsewhere, told in a rather long-winded manner, and in the notably
Kingston style and format that Collingwood often adopts. Why not?
Kingston was dead before Collingwood started to write, and the style
had been proved to be what young readers of the era liked.
The format specifically is that the book starts with a young boy who is
suddenly offered a posting as a midshipman in a naval vessel about to
sail in a few days' time. The boy accepts, and the story goes on from
there.
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THE CONGO ROVERS
A STORY OF THE SLAVE SQUADRON