other chap? I left four fellows hanging there; now I can only see
three. Mind there is another there to-morrow.' And sure enough
there was another Greek dangling the next day. 'Captain Hamilton,
of the CAMBRIAN, kept the Greeks in order afloat,' writes my
author, 'and King Tom ashore.'

From 1823 onward, the chief scene of Charles Jenkin's activities
was in the West Indies, where he was engaged off and on till 1844,
now as a subaltern, now in a vessel of his own, hunting out
pirates, 'then very notorious' in the Leeward Islands, cruising
after slavers, or carrying dollars and provisions for the
Government. While yet a midshipman, he accompanied Mr. Cockburn to
Caraccas and had a sight of Bolivar. In the brigantine GRIFFON,
which he commanded in his last years in the West Indies, he carried
aid to Guadeloupe after the earthquake, and twice earned the thanks
of Government: once for an expedition to Nicaragua to extort,
under threat of a blockade, proper apologies and a sum of money due
to certain British merchants; and once during an insurrection in
San Domingo, for the rescue of certain others from a perilous
imprisonment and the recovery of a 'chest of money' of which they
had been robbed. Once, on the other hand, he earned his share of
public censure. This was in 1837, when he commanded the ROMNEY
lying in the inner harbour of Havannah. The ROMNEY was in no
proper sense a man-of-war; she was a slave-hulk, the bonded
warehouse of the Mixed Slave Commission; where negroes, captured
out of slavers under Spanish colours, were detained provisionally,
till the Commission should decide upon their case and either set
them free or bind them to apprenticeship. To this ship, already an
eye-sore to the authorities, a Cuban slave made his escape. The
position was invidious; on one side were the tradition of the