CHAPTER X.

The _Banterer’s_ Deck--An ugly Sight--Sad Thoughts--Saying their Say--Jack’s Opinion of the Admiral--The Killed and Wounded--What they killed each other for--The Forts again--Battering the _Banterer_--Long Tom--Woe to the _Nimrod_--The last Shot--Spare the Dead--In we go again--Chinaman’s Triumph--Night Work--The British Flag and Sam Collinson--Snarling Forts--Burning the _Plover_--The Admiral’s Thanks and Jack’s Growl--We return to Shanghai--Sham Sympathisers 156