SHANGHAIED.
t Ci tlitY S Ii V COM PI'LS I ON. Sbanguaied: Many stirring ,sU>iibb ol tnc , : ca jiave been written round m-u t worn, one of 11 iv* most ten i t Viing jn tiiy oKt iSiUiior’.S' vocabulary. My own experience oi 'Siiaughaiou ’ uy a ciiuii) came about in tins way (wriLc;; Juunund Lathery, t.li.Jh., General ■Vcoreta rv, 1894-11)20, ol the National t'liKin o) Seamen. in “Tit Hits.’’) i nan .nii|/|itM in ;t small steamer cany.ng cargo between Havre. and Antweip. ,\l v w ere one guinea ;i wcv-.v, ami i had to find my own feed. I se;iwed in tbits vessel for a few weeks and eft her in Havre, a place overridden with crimps. I was ’‘green” then, and I went to put up with one of them. I had lieen in this so-called boardinghouse lor about four days. I can remember going in one evening to get .my tea.
it must have been drugged, for j can recollect nothing more of what happened, AH I know is that next morning I found myself well out in the English Channeh '.vhig in a bunk in a large, full-rigged ship, with a bottle of French brandy tor a ni.:!o\v. 1 know then that 1 had been shanghaied.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 10
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