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 CHAPTER VI.

father, as soon as he had obtained my promotion, asked for my being employed; and having had a promise from the Admiralty, that promise, unlike thousands of its predecessors and successors, was too rapidly fulfilled. I received a letter from my father, aid a bouncing one from the Admiralty, by the same post, announcing officially my appointment to the