A collection featuring two nautical adventure stories: "The Penang Pirate," describes how the Captain of the "Hankow Lin," suspecting that there might be a piratical attack on his vessel on her return voyage from Canton to Australia, lays plans to spoil the pirates' plans. "The Lost Pinnace." HMS London is cruising the East Coast of Africa in search of any slaver dhows. One of these is met with and destroyed, then a midshipman with knowledge of the local language overhears that there is a second slaver not far away, so the London warship sets off in search of further conquest. John Conroy Hutcheson (1840- 1897) was a British author of novels and short stories about life aboard ships at sea. Hutcheson was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1840, and died in Portsea Island, in late 1896 or early 1897.