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`` You would not say so , my dear fellow , '' said he , `` if you knew all . I am as unlucky a dog as ever ; and you may have reason yet , before we part , to wish we had not met again . '' `` Nonsense , '' said I ; `` let us enjoy the present , at all events , whatever the future may have in store for us . Come , order your palanquin , and let us be off ; the boat was to be waiting for us at Champaul Ghaut at ten o'clock , and it only wants a few minutes of the hour . '' Our ship , the Dolphin , was a beautiful little chartered free-trader , of about 600 tons , remarkably fast for a merchantman -- a regular clipper , as her captain called her -- and manned by an active and effective crew . She mounted twelve small carronades on her upper deck , and a neat brass swivel which traversed on the head of the capstan . On the 28th August , 18 -- , we sailed from Sangor with several other merchantmen , under convoy of H.M.S. Albatross .