I felt disappointed, for we had been looking forward to the exciting moments when we should first overhaul some piratical junk.  Of course I knew that there might be some danger, but I foresaw very little: our well-armed ship, with its strong, highly-disciplined crew, would over-ride every opposition offered by the half-savage Chinamen, I felt sure; and, like most people in the service, I felt that, if any one was hurt, it would be some one else.  And now there was to be no further search for the pirates.  We were going south again, probably to Hong-Kong; and I was sick of hot Hong-Kong, and doing nothing but drill.