THE CRUISE OF THE 'FROLIC.'

THE

CRUISE OF THE 'FROLIC';

OR,

YACHTING EXPERIENCES

OF

BARNABY BRINE, ESQ., R.N.

BY

WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON,

AUTHOR OF "THE PIRATE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN," A PLEASURE TOUR
IN CANADA," "BLUE JACKETS," "PETER THE WHALER,' "SALT

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.

1860.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

203. b.206.

LONDON PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

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PREFACE.

SOME of the first pages of the following work appeared a few years ago in the "New Monthly Magazine," when my friend, the Editor, expressed himself highly pleased with them. They met also a warm reception from the readers of that longestablished periodical, as likewise, in more senses than one, from my yachting acquaintance generally; one or two insisting that I had caricatured them, and talking of demanding satisfaction at the point of a sword, or at the muzzle of a pistol. I assured them then, as I do now, that, on the word of an officer and a gentleman, I had not the slightest intention of wounding the feelings of any human being; and I entreated their pardon, if in shooting at a venture I had hit an object at which I had taken no aim. Indeed, from the pleasure I was assured the commencement of my yachting adventures gave, I was induced to continue my narrative of those which