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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76809 ***
+
+
+
+
+
+A SAILOR’S LIFE
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MacMillan and Co. Printer’s Mark.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+    _Photographed by
+    Her Highness the Râni of Sarawak_
+
+_A Hadji._]
+
+
+
+
+ A SAILOR’S LIFE
+ UNDER
+ FOUR SOVEREIGNS
+
+ BY
+ ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
+ THE HON. SIR HENRY KEPPEL
+ G.C.B., D.C.L.
+
+ VOL. II
+
+ London
+ MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
+ NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
+
+ 1899
+
+ _All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+ CHAPTER XXXII                                               PAGE
+ _Dido_                                                         1
+
+ CHAPTER XXXIII
+ _Dido_: Second Expedition                                     10
+
+ CHAPTER XXXIV
+ _Dido_                                                        22
+
+ CHAPTER XXXV
+ England                                                       30
+
+ CHAPTER XXXVI
+ Shore Time--Study Steam                                       38
+
+ CHAPTER XXXVII
+ Shore Time                                                    50
+
+ CHAPTER XXXVIII
+ The _Mæander_                                                 65
+
+ CHAPTER XXXIX
+ _Mæander_--Cruising                                           92
+
+ CHAPTER XL
+ _Mæander_--Cruising in the Sulu Sea                          106
+
+ CHAPTER XLI
+ _Mæander_--Hong Kong                                         115
+
+ CHAPTER XLII
+ In Eastern Seas                                              124
+
+ CHAPTER XLIII
+ _Mæander_                                                    144
+
+ CHAPTER XLIV
+ _En route_ to Sydney                                         151
+
+ CHAPTER XLV
+ Sydney to Hobart Town                                        153
+
+ CHAPTER XLVI
+ Sydney                                                       164
+
+ CHAPTER XLVII
+ _Mæander_                                                    190
+
+ CHAPTER XLVIII
+ At Home                                                      201
+
+ CHAPTER XLIX
+ Shore Time                                                   205
+
+ CHAPTER L
+ _St. Jean d’ Acre_                                           208
+
+ CHAPTER LI
+ _St. Jean d’ Acre_--Cruising                                 215
+
+ CHAPTER LII
+ The Baltic Fleet                                             223
+
+ CHAPTER LIII
+ The Bombardment of Bomarsund                                 233
+
+ CHAPTER LIV
+ _St. Jean d’ Acre_                                           238
+
+ CHAPTER LV
+ The Crimea                                                   245
+
+ CHAPTER LVI
+ _St. Jean d’ Acre_                                           261
+
+ CHAPTER LVII
+ Second Expedition to Kertch                                  270
+
+ CHAPTER LVIII
+ Naval Brigade                                                276
+
+ CHAPTER LIX
+ Trenches--Before Sevastopol                                  288
+
+ CHAPTER LX
+ The Redan                                                    297
+
+ CHAPTER LXI
+ After Fall of Sevastopol                                     304
+
+ CHAPTER LXII
+ Arrival from Crimea--Thence in _Colossus_--Shore Time        312
+
+ CHAPTER LXIII
+ The _Raleigh_                                                325
+
+ CHAPTER LXIV
+ The _Raleigh_                                                330
+
+ CHAPTER LXV
+ Cape to China                                                333
+
+ INDEX
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+              SUBJECT                       ARTIST                  PAGE
+
+ A Hadji                               _Photographed by Her
+                                         Highness the Râni
+                                         of Sarawak_        Frontispiece
+
+ _Mæander_ Fitting                     _Sir Oswald Brierly_           66
+
+ _Mæander_ leaving Plymouth              ”     ”                      68
+
+ “The Bishop”                          _From a photograph_            71
+
+ _Mæander_ hove to                     _Sir Oswald Brierly_           74
+
+ Comber in Danger                        ”     ”                      75
+
+ New Harbour, Singapore                  ”     ”                      78
+
+ All Sail set                            ”     ”                      83
+
+ _Mæander_ passing astern of
+     _Hastings_                          ”     ”                      89
+
+ Map--Eastern Archipelago                                             92
+
+ Kina-Balu, N. Borneo                    ”     ”                      95
+
+ _Mæander_, Hong Kong. Manned
+     Yards on Departure of Sir
+     Francis Collier                     ”     ”                     114
+
+ A Spanish Galleon                       ”     ”                     124
+
+ _Mæander_ on Shore                      ”     ”                     126
+
+ Comba                                   ”     ”                     133
+
+ _Mæander_ off Port Essington            ”     ”                     135
+
+ An Australian Grave                     ”     ”                     136
+
+ _Mæander_ at Sydney                     ”     ”                     154
+
+ Sir Oswald Brierly                    _Nina Daly_                   156
+
+ _Mæander_ at Hobart Town              _Sir Oswald Brierly_          159
+
+ The Sham Fight                          ”     ”                     161
+
+ _Mæander_ between Sydney Heads          ”     ”                     164
+
+ The _Rattlesnake_                       ”     ”                     166
+
+ Rescue by Convicts. Norfolk Island      ”     ”                     168
+
+ A Coral Island                          ”     ”                     170
+
+ A Stockade                              ”     ”                     172
+
+ _Mæander_ in a Gale                   _Sir Oswald Brierly_          173
+
+ Point Venus, Tahiti                     ”     ”                     174
+
+ Tahiti Harbour                          ”     ”                     176
+
+ Lieutenant George Bowyear             _Nina Daly_                   177
+
+ Eimeo                                 _Sir Oswald Brierly_          178
+
+ Inland Scenery, Tahiti                  ”     ”                     179
+
+ A Coral Atoll                           ”     ”                     181
+
+ _Mæander_ at Valparaiso                 ”     ”                     183
+
+ Coquimbo                                ”     ”                     186
+
+ Sharks at Mazatlan                      ”     ”                     188
+
+ The Cemetery at Guyamas                 ”     ”                     192
+
+ In the Straits of Magellan              ”     ”                     197
+
+ Gunnery Exercise                        ”     ”                     216
+
+ The _St. Jean d’ Acre_                  ”     ”                     222
+
+ The Commander-in-Chief                _Anon._                       227
+
+ The _Gondola_ Yacht off
+     Tolbeacon Light                   _Sir Oswald Brierly_          229
+
+ Circular Fort--Bomarsund                ”     ”                     237
+
+ The Battle of the Alma                “_Illustrated London News_”   241
+
+ Map--Strait of Gibraltar                                            247
+
+ Map--The Bosporus                                                   250
+
+ _St. Jean d’ Acre_ off Balaclava      _Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,_  251
+                                           _K.C.V.O., C.B._
+
+ “All the Way Up.” The Col of
+     Balaclava                           ”     ”                     254
+
+ “How the Guards looked”               _From “Punch,” 1855_          257
+
+ Omar Pasha’s Arab                     _E. Caldwell_                 261
+
+ Headquarters                          _Simpson, I.L.N._             265
+
+ Map of Crimea                                                       269
+
+ “Jack, to Newly-Arrived               _Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,_  278
+     Subaltern ...”                        _K.C.V.O., C.B._
+
+ In Rear of the Lancaster Battery        ”     ”                     281
+
+ Plan of Sevastopol                                                  293
+
+ Inside the Naval Brigade Battery      _Simpson, I.L.N._             295
+
+ “Redan” Windham                       _Nina Daly_                   301
+
+ A Vidette of Cossacks                 _Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,_  307
+                                           _K.C.V.O., C.B._
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII
+
+_DIDO_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1844. Sarawak, Aug. 5.]
+
+This being the morning fixed for the departure of our small expedition
+against the Sekarrans, the _Phlegethon_ weighed at eight and proceeded
+down the river to await the collection of force.
+
+Among those who accompanied us was the Pangeran Budrudeen, the
+intelligent brother of the Rajah already noticed. This was an unusual
+event in the Royal Family, and the departure from the Rajah’s wharf was
+imposing. The barge of state was decked with banners and canopies. All
+the chiefs attended, with the Arab priest Mudlana at their head, and
+the barge pushed off amid the firing of cannon and a general shout to
+invoke the blessing of Mahomet.
+
+Having seen the last boat off, Brooke and I took our departure in the
+gig, when another salute was fired from the wharf. Three hours brought
+us to the steamer. Here we heard that a small boat from the pirate
+country had, under pretence of trading, been spying into our force, but
+decamped on our appearance. We now got fairly away, the smaller boats
+keeping near the shoals in-shore, while the steamer was obliged to make
+an offing some miles from the coast. From the masthead we distinctly
+made out the small boat that had left the mouth of the river before,
+pulling and sailing in the direction of Batang Lupar, up which the
+Sekarran country lies; and it being desirable that they should not
+get information of our approach, at dusk, being well in advance, our
+auxiliary force following, we despatched Brooke’s sampan and one of
+_Dido’s_ cutters in chase.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 6.]
+
+With the flood-tide arrived the well-appointed little fleet, and with
+it the cutter and sampan with two out of the three men belonging to the
+boat of which they had been in chase, the third having been speared by
+Seboo on showing a strong inclination to run amuck in his own boat.
+From these men we learned that Seriff Sahib was fully prepared for
+defence--his harem had been removed--and that he would fight to the
+last.
+
+We anchored in the afternoon at the mouth of the Linga, and sent
+a messenger to caution the chief, Seriff Jaffer, against giving
+any countenance to either Seriff. The Batang Lupar, thus far, is a
+magnificent river, from three to four miles wide, and in most parts
+from 5 to 7 fathoms deep.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 7.]
+
+Weighed at daylight. Shortly after eleven, with a tide sweeping us up,
+we came in sight of the fortifications of Patusen. There were five
+forts. Getting suddenly into 6 feet of water, we anchored. We were well
+within musket range, but not so formidable a berth as we might have
+taken up had we been aware of the increasing depth of water nearer the
+shore; but we approached so rapidly there was no time to ascertain.
+
+The _Dido_ and _Phlegethon’s_ boats were not long in forming alongside.
+They consisted of the following:--
+
+Pinnace: Lieutenant C. F. Wade; R. Beith, assistant-surgeon; 13 seamen;
+5 marines.
+
+_Jolly Bachelor_: Lieutenant E. W. Turnour; Mr. C. Johnson, midshipman;
+21 seamen; 7 marines.
+
+First cutter: Mr. E. H. H. D’Aeth, mate; 8 seamen; 8 marines.
+
+Second cutter: Mr. Robert Jenkins, acting-mate; 8 seamen; 2 marines.
+
+Second gig: Mr. R. C. Allen, Master; 6 seamen.
+
+_Phlegethon’s_ first cutter: Mr. S. Caverley, first officer; 15 men.
+
+Second cutter: Mr. Simpson, second officer; Mr. A. Barton, midshipman;
+15 seamen.
+
+Third cutter: Mr. H. Comber, acting-mate of _Dido_; 12 seamen.
+
+Fourth cutter: Mr. G. S. Darby, fourth officer; 12 seamen.
+
+In all, 13 officers; 108 seamen; 16 marines.
+
+We had no steam, and to direct a fleet of boats how to attack a
+succession of half a dozen forts was beyond me. They were off, and they
+were there! From the _Phlegethon_ we had no difficulty in setting fire
+to the thatched roofs of the forts. Reinforcements came across the
+extensive shelter of Patusen Harbour. These we might easily have sunk
+with _Phlegethon’s_ guns, but there was excitement for them on landing!
+They never once checked in their advance, but the moment they touched
+the shore the crews rushed up, entering the forts at the embrasures,
+while the pirates fled at the rear. In this sharp and short affair we
+had but one man killed, poor John Ellis, a fine young man, and captain
+of the maintop in the _Dido_. He was cut in two by a round-shot while
+in the act of ramming home a cartridge in the bow-gun of the _Jolly
+Bachelor_, of which Lieutenant Edward Turnour was in command. This,
+and two others badly wounded, were the only casualties on our side.
+
+Our native allies were not long in following our men on shore.
+The killed and wounded on the part of the pirates must have been
+considerable. Our native followers got many heads. There were no less
+than sixty-four brass guns of different sizes, besides many iron, found
+in and about the forts. The town was extensive, and after being well
+looted made a glorious blaze. Our Sarawak followers, both Malays and
+Dyaks, behaved with gallantry, and with our lads dashed in under the
+fire of the forts. In fact, like their country, anything might be made
+of them under a good Government.
+
+After our men had dined, and had a short rest during the heat of the
+day, we landed our force in two divisions to attack a town situated
+about two miles up, on the left bank of a small river called the
+Grahan, the entrance to which had been guarded by the forts, and
+immediately after their capture the tide had fallen too low for our
+boats to get up. Facing the stream, too, was a long stockade, so
+that we determined on attacking the place in the rear, which, had
+the pirates waited to receive them, would have caused an interesting
+skirmish. Brooke was away independently in the gig. They, however,
+decamped, leaving everything behind them.
+
+In this town we found Seriff Sahib’s residence, and among other things
+his curious and extensive wardrobe. It was ridiculous to see our Dyaks
+dressed out in all the finery and plunder of this noted pirate, whose
+very name a few days ago would have made them tremble.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 6, 7.]
+
+We likewise found a magazine in the rear of Sahib’s house, containing
+about 2 tons of gunpowder, which I ordered to be thrown into the river.
+
+It was evident we attacked Patusen at the right moment: the
+preparations for its defence were nearly completed, and a delay of a
+week would have resulted in considerable loss of life. It was the key
+to this extensive river, the resort of the worst of pirates, and each
+chief had contributed his share of guns and ammunition towards its
+defence.
+
+We returned to our boats and evening meal rather fatigued, but much
+pleased with our work, after ascending near seventy miles from the
+mouth of the river. The habitations of 5000 pirates had been burnt to
+the ground, five strong forts destroyed, together with several hundred
+boats, upwards of sixty brass guns captured, and about a fourth of that
+number of iron ones spiked and thrown into the river, besides vast
+quantities of other arms and ammunition, and the powerful Sahib, the
+great pirate patron for the last twenty years, ruined past recovery,
+and driven to hide his diminished head in the jungle.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 8, 9.]
+
+The 8th and 9th were spent in burning and destroying the remains of the
+staggering town and a variety of smaller boats.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 10.]
+
+As soon as the tide had risen sufficiently to take us over the shoals,
+we weighed in the steamer for the country of the Sekarran Dyaks, having
+sent the boats on before with the first of the flood.
+
+About fifteen miles above Patusen is the branch of the river called the
+Undop. Up this river I sent Lieutenant Turnour, with Mr. Comber, in the
+_Jolly Bachelor_ and a division of our native boats, while we proceeded
+to where the river again branches off to the right and left, as on the
+tongue of land so formed we understood we should find a strong fort;
+besides, it was the highest point to which we could attempt to take the
+steamer. We found the place deserted and houses empty.
+
+We now divided the force into three divisions--the one already
+mentioned, under Lieutenant Turnour, up the Undop; another, under Mr.
+D’Aeth, up the Lupar; while Lieutenant Wade, accompanied by Brooke,
+ascended the Sekarran. I had not calculated on the disturbed and
+excited state in which I found the country: two wounded men having been
+sent back from the Undop branch, brought accounts of pirates, chiefly
+Malays, collected in great numbers both before and in the rear of our
+small force.
+
+An attempt had been made to cut off the bearer of this information,
+Nakodah Bahar, who had had a narrow escape, and had no idea of being
+the bearer of an answer unless attended by a European force. I had some
+difficulty in mustering another crew from the steamer, and left my
+friend Captain Scott with only the idlers, rather critically situated.
+I deemed it advisable to re-collect our whole force, and before
+proceeding to the punishment of the Sekarrans to destroy the power and
+influence of Seriff Muller, whose town was situated about twenty miles
+up, said to contain a population of 1500 Malays, without reckoning the
+Dyak tribes.
+
+Having despatched boats with directions to Lieutenant Wade and Mr.
+D’Aeth to join us in the Undop, a tributary of the Batang Lupar,
+proceeded to the scene of action; leaving the _Phlegethon_ to maintain
+as strict a blockade of the Sekarran and Lupar branches as, with her
+reduced force, she was capable of.
+
+On my joining Lieutenant Turnour, I found him just returned from a
+very spirited attack which he had made, assisted by Mr. Comber, on a
+stockade situated on the summit of a steep hill, Mr. Allen, the Master,
+being still absent on a similar service on the opposite side of the
+river.
+
+The gallant old chief Patingi Ali was likewise absent in pursuit of the
+enemy that had been driven from the stockades, with whom he had had a
+hand-to-hand fight, the whole of which, being on the rising ground, was
+witnessed by our boats’ crews, who could not resist hailing his return
+from his gallant achievement with three hearty cheers.
+
+We had now to unite in cutting our way through a barrier across the
+river similar to that described in the attack on the Sarebas, which
+having passed we brought up for the night close to a still more serious
+obstacle in a number of huge trees felled, the branches of which,
+meeting midway in the river, formed apparently an insurmountable
+obstacle. But “patience and perseverance” overcame all obstacles. By
+night only three of the trees remained to be cleared away. On the right
+bank, about 50 yards in advance of the barrier, stood a farm building,
+which we considered it prudent to occupy for the night.
+
+Having collected fifty volunteers (Brooke and Wade had then not
+rejoined), I took Brooke’s schoolfellow Steward, Williamson, and with
+me Comber, a corporal and four marines, my gig’s crew, and, of course,
+my trusty John Eager, the sound of whose bugle meant mischief. The
+remainder composed of a medley of picked Malays and Dyaks.
+
+The house being 100 yards in advance of our party, and 80 from the
+river, it was difficult of approach, especially at night. The ground
+swampy, with logs of trees, over which I stumbled, and was up to my
+arms in mud and water. Nevertheless, there was no noise. It was a roomy
+building. In one corner I found an enclosure, forming a square of about
+8 feet; of this I took possession, and while in the place--it was pitch
+dark--I quietly divested me of my wet trousers.
+
+“Tiga” (three) was the watchword, in case of a stranger finding his way
+in. I was contemplating whether my duck trousers were sufficiently dry
+for me to get into, when every one was disturbed by a most diabolical
+war-yell. In a moment every man was on his legs--swords, spears, and
+krisses dimly glittered over our heads. It is impossible to describe
+the excitement and confusion of the succeeding ten minutes; one and all
+believed we had been surrounded by the enemy and cut off from our main
+party.
+
+I had already thrust the muzzle of my pistol close to the heads of
+several natives, whom in the confusion I had mistaken for Sekarrans;
+and as each in his turn called out “Tiga!” I withdrew my weapon to
+apply it to somebody else, until at last we found we were _all_
+“Tigas.” I had prevented Eager more than once from sounding the alarm,
+which from the first he had not ceased to press for permission to do.
+
+The Dyak yell had, however, succeeded in throwing the whole force
+afloat into a similar confusion, who, not hearing the signal, concluded
+they, and not we, were the party attacked. The real cause we afterwards
+ascertained to have arisen from the alarm of a Dyak, who dreamt, or
+imagined, he felt a spear thrust upwards through the bamboo flooring of
+our building, and immediately gave his diabolical yell. The confusion
+was ten times as much as it would have been had the enemy really been
+there. So ended the adventures of the night in the wild jungle of
+Borneo.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII
+
+_DIDO_: SECOND EXPEDITION
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1844. Aug. 11.]
+
+At daylight we were joined by Wade and Brooke, their division making a
+very acceptable increase to our force, and by eight o’clock the last
+barrier was cut through between us and Seriff Muller’s devoted town.
+
+With the exception of his own house, from which some eight or nine
+Malays were endeavouring to remove his effects, the whole place was
+deserted. They made no fight, and an hour afterwards the town had been
+plundered and burnt.
+
+The only lives lost were a few unfortunates, who happened to come
+within range of our musketry in their exertions to save some of their
+master’s property.
+
+A handsome large boat belonging to Seriff Muller was the only thing
+saved, and this I presented to Budrudeen.
+
+After a short delay in catching our usual supply of goats and poultry,
+with which the place abounded, we proceeded up the river in chase of
+the chief and his people, our progress much impeded by the immense
+trees felled across the river.
+
+We ascertained that the pirates had retreated to a Dyak village,
+situated on the summit of a hill, some twenty-five miles higher up the
+Undop, five or six miles only of which we had succeeded in ascending,
+as a most dreary and rainy night closed in, during which we were joined
+by D’Aeth and his division from the Lupar River.
+
+The following morning, at daybreak, we again commenced our toilsome
+work. We should have succeeded better with lighter boats, and I
+should have despaired of the heavier boats getting up had they not
+been assisted by an opportune and sudden rise of the tide, to the
+extent of 12 or 14 feet, though with this we had to contend against a
+considerably increased strength of current.
+
+It was on this day that my ever active and zealous First Lieutenant,
+Charles Wade, jealous of the advanced position of our light boats,
+obtained a place in my gig.
+
+That evening the _Phlegethon’s_ first and second cutters, the _Dido’s_
+two cutters, and their gigs, were fortunate enough to pass a barrier
+composed of trees recently felled, from which we concluded ourselves to
+be so near the enemy that, by pushing forward as long as we could see,
+we might prevent further impediments from being thrown in our way. This
+we did, but at 9 P.M., arriving at a broad expanse of the river, and
+being utterly unable to trace our course, we anchored our advance force
+for the night.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 14.]
+
+The first landing-place we had no trouble in discovering, from the
+number of deserted boats collected near it. Leaving these to be looted,
+we proceeded in search of the second, which we understood was situated
+more immediately under the village, and which, having advanced without
+our guides, we had much difficulty in finding. The circuit of the base
+of the hill was above five miles.
+
+During this warfare, Patingi Ali, who, with his usual zeal, had here
+come up, bringing a considerable native force of both Malays and Dyaks,
+was particularly on the alert; while we in the gig attacked Seriff
+Muller himself.
+
+Patingi nearly succeeded in capturing that chief in person. He had
+escaped from his prahu into a fast-pulling sampan, in which he was
+chased by old Ali, and afterwards only saved his life by throwing
+himself into the water and swimming to the jungle; indeed, it was with
+no small pride that the gallant old chief appropriated the boat to his
+own use.
+
+In the prahu were captured two large brass guns, two smaller ones, a
+variety of arms, ammunition, and personal property, amongst which were
+also two pairs of handsome Wedgewood jars.
+
+While my crew were employed cooking, I crept into the jungle and
+suddenly fancied I heard the suppressed hum of many voices not far
+distant. I returned to our cooking party and bade Wade take up his
+double-barrel and come with me. I had not penetrated many yards before
+I came in sight of a mass of boats concealed in a snug little inlet,
+the entrance to which had escaped our notice. These boats were filled
+with piratical Dyaks and Malays, and sentinels posted at various points
+on the shore.
+
+My first impulse was to conceal ourselves until the arrival of our
+force, but my rash though gallant friend deemed otherwise, and, without
+noticing the caution of my upheld hand, dashed in advance, discharging
+his gun, calling upon our men to follow.
+
+It is impossible to conceive the consternation and confusion this
+our sudden sally occasioned among the pirates. The confused noise
+and scrambling from their boats I can only liken to that of a
+suddenly-roused flock of wild-ducks.
+
+Our attack from the point whence it came was evidently unexpected; and
+it is my opinion that they calculated on our attacking the hill, if we
+did so at all, from the nearest landing-place, without pulling round
+the other five miles, as the whole attention of their scouts appeared
+to be directed towards that quarter.
+
+A short distance above them was a small encampment, probably erected
+for the convenience of their chiefs, as in it we found writing
+materials, two or three desks of English manufacture, on the brass
+plate of one of which, I afterwards noticed, was engraved the name of
+“Willson.”
+
+To return to the pirates: with our force, such as it was--nine in
+number--we pursued our terrified enemy, headed by Wade.
+
+They foolishly themselves had not the courage to rally in their
+judiciously selected and naturally protected encampment, but continued
+their retreat (firing on us from the jungle) towards the Dyak
+village on the summit of the hill. We collected our force, reloaded
+our firearms; and Wade, seeing from this spot the arrival at the
+landing-place of the other boats, again rushed on in pursuit.
+
+Before arriving at the foot of the steep ascent on the summit of which
+the Dyak village stood, we had to cross a small open space of about 60
+yards, exposed to the fire from the village as well as the surrounding
+jungle. It was before crossing this plain that I again cautioned Wade
+to await the arrival of his men, of whom he was far in advance.
+
+We suddenly came on to the snuggest and best-sheltered boat harbour
+I ever saw. The land was high towards the river, with a narrow and
+well-concealed entrance opening to the river, so high that an impromptu
+bridge in the shape of a large tree had been thrown across. It was
+along this that Wade was proceeding in advance, calling “Come on, my
+boys!” And I am afraid I did not disguise my gratification at seeing
+him disappear into the branches of a large tree growing beneath.
+
+By this time the cutter and other boats had landed at our point and
+were coming up. I had scarcely got across the tree-bridge, when I saw
+my friend scrambling up the opposite side, himself unhurt, his gun not
+discharged.
+
+Our men were now landing fast, and it was for very shame I could not
+allow Wade to proceed alone. Only a few minutes afterwards, while still
+trying to check him, a bullet from the hill took his thumb and twisted
+him in my direction; while a second shot struck him in the ribs and
+lodged in the spine--and he fell.
+
+By this time a strong party were up, whom I directed to pass on, while
+I ascertained that poor Wade’s heart had ceased to beat.
+
+We laid the body in a canoe, with the Union Jack for a pall, and
+descended the river. In the evening, the force assembled, committed the
+body to the deep. I read that impressive service from a Prayer-Book
+brought up by poor Wade himself--as he put it, “in case of accident.”
+
+Before we again got under way, several Malay families, no longer in
+dread of their piratical chief, Seriff Muller, gave themselves up to
+us as prisoners--the first instance of any of them having done so.
+We found sundry suspicious documents, exposing deep intrigues and
+conspiracies, and brought up for the night off the still burning ruins
+of Seriff Muller’s town.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 15.]
+
+On Tuesday we again reached the steamer. We still had something to
+settle with the Sekarrans, and, having rested for two days, started on
+the 17th on our last expedition.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 17.]
+
+The weather was unusually fine, and we squatted down to our curry and
+rice with better appetites.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 18.]
+
+Our approach was made known by fires; but we once dropped, without
+their being aware of our approach, upon a boatful of Dyaks, dressed
+for war, with feather cloaks, brass ornaments, and scarlet caps. The
+discharge of our muskets and the capsizing of the war-boat was the work
+of an instant, and those who were uninjured escaped into the jungle.
+
+We experienced some difficulty in finding a suitable place for our
+bivouac. While examining the most eligible-looking spot on the bank of
+the river, the crew of one of the _Phlegethon’s_ boats, having crept up
+the opposite bank, came suddenly on a party of Dyaks, who saluted them
+with a war-yell and a shower of spears. The _Phlegethon’s_ men took to
+the water, much to our amusement as well as the Dyaks.
+
+The place we selected for the night was a large house, about 40 yards
+from the edge of the river. Here we united our different messes and
+passed a jovial evening. The night, however, set in with a fearful
+thunderstorm. The rain continued to fall in torrents, but cleared up at
+daylight, when we proceeded.
+
+As yet the banks of the river had been a continued garden, with
+sugar-cane and bananas; the scenery now became wilder.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 19.]
+
+We were in hopes that this morning we should have reached their
+capital, Karangan, supposed to be about ten miles further on. Not
+expecting to meet with any opposition for some miles, we gave
+permission to Patingi Ali to advance cautiously with his light
+division, with orders to fall back on the first appearance of any
+natives. As the stream was running down strong, we held on to the bank,
+waiting for the arrival of the second cutter, in which were Brooke and
+Jenkins.
+
+Our pinnace and second gig having passed up, we remained about a
+quarter of an hour, when the report of a few musket-shots told us that
+the pirates had been fallen in with. We immediately pushed on, and as
+we advanced the increased firing from our boats, and the war-yells of
+some thousand Dyaks, let us know that we had met.
+
+It is difficult to describe the scene as I found it. About twenty boats
+were jammed together, forming one confused mass--some bottom up; the
+bows and sterns of others only visible, mixed up, pell-mell, with huge
+rafts--and amongst which were nearly all our advanced division.
+
+Headless trunks, as well as heads without bodies, were lying about;
+parties hand to hand spearing and krissing each other, others striving
+to swim for their lives; and entangled in the common mêlée were our
+advanced boats, while on both banks thousands of Dyaks were rushing
+down to join in the slaughter, hurling spears and stones on the boats
+below.
+
+For a moment I was at a loss what steps to take for rescuing our people
+from the position in which they were, as the whole mass, through which
+there was no passage, were floating down the stream, and the addition
+of fresh boats only increased the confusion.
+
+Fortunately, at this critical moment one of the rafts, catching the
+stump of a tree, broke this floating bridge, making a passage, through
+which my gig (propelled by paddles instead of oars)--the bugler, John
+Eager, in the bow--was enabled to pass.
+
+It occurred to Brooke and myself simultaneously, that by advancing in
+the gig we should draw the attention of the pirates towards us, so as
+to give time for the other boats to clear themselves. This had the
+desired effect. The whole force on shore turned, as if to secure what
+they rashly conceived to be their prize.
+
+We now advanced mid-channel, spears and stones assailing us from both
+banks. Brooke’s gun would not go off, so, giving him the yoke-lines, I,
+with the coxswain to load, had time to select the leaders from amongst
+the savage mass, on which I kept up a rapid fire.
+
+Allen, in the second gig, quickly coming up, opened upon them from a
+Congreve rocket-tube such a destructive fire as caused them to retire
+behind the temporary barriers where they had concealed themselves
+previous to the attack on Patingi Ali, and from whence they continued,
+for some twenty minutes, to hurl their spears and other missiles, among
+which were short lengths of bamboo loaded with stone at one end. The
+_sumpitan_ was likewise freely employed, and although several of our
+men were struck, no fatal results ensued. Mr. Beith, our assistant
+surgeon, dexterously excised the wounds, and what poison remained was
+sucked out by comrades of the wounded men.
+
+From this position, however, the Sekarrans retreated as our force
+increased, and could not again muster courage to rally. Their loss
+_must_ have been considerable. Ours might have been light had poor old
+Patingi Ali attended to orders.
+
+He was over confident. Instead of falling back, as particularly
+directed by me, on the first appearance of any of the enemy he made
+a dash, followed by his little division of boats, through the narrow
+pass. The enemy at once launched large rafts of bamboo and cut off his
+retreat. Six war-prahus bore down, three on either side, on Patingi’s
+devoted followers. One only of a crew of seventeen escaped to tell the
+tale.
+
+When last seen by our advanced boats, Mr. Steward and Patingi Ali were
+in the act (their own boats sinking) of boarding the enemy. They were
+doubtless overpowered and killed, with twenty-nine others. Our wounded
+in all amounted to fifty-six.
+
+A few miles further up was the capital of Karangan, which we carried
+without further opposition.
+
+Having achieved the object of our expedition, we dropped leisurely down
+the river; slept in our boats, with a strong guard on shore.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 20.]
+
+On the 20th we reached the steamer, where we remained all the next day
+attending to the wounded.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 22.]
+
+On the 22nd we reached Patusen, finding everything in the wretched
+state we had left it. At 8 P.M. we heard the report of a gun, which was
+repeated nearer at nine, and before a signal rocket could be fired, we
+were hailed by the boats of the _Samarang_, Captain Sir Edward Belcher,
+and the next moment he was alongside the _Phlegethon_ with the welcome
+news of having brought our May mail.
+
+It appears that, on arrival of _Samarang_ off Morotoba, Sir Edward
+heard of the loss we had sustained, and, with his usual zeal and
+activity, came to our assistance, having brought his boats no less
+than 120 miles in about thirty hours.
+
+There were two accidents just at this moment which might have been more
+serious. D’Aeth, hearing of the mail, hurried on board the _Samarang_
+in a small sampan, and was capsized. His skill in swimming saved him;
+his one paddler caught hold of a boat near. No sooner than these had
+been cared for, when Brooke, whose ears, always on the alert for native
+cries, heard voices in trouble, and, jumping into his Singapore sampan,
+pushed off with Siboo to the assistance of our Dyak followers, who had
+been capsized by the bore. He rescued three out of a crew of eleven,
+and these were half drowned when he reached them.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 23.]
+
+We moved down as far as the mouth of the Linga, and on the night of the
+24th were once again in Sarawak. Here the rejoicings of the previous
+year were repeated.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 28.]
+
+But having received information that Seriff Sahib had taken refuge in
+the Linga River, and, assisted by Seriff Jaffer, was again collecting
+followers, we were off again on the 28th, with the addition of the
+_Samarang’s_ boats. And, determining to crush this persevering pirate,
+in the middle of the night came to an anchor inside the Linga River.
+
+When our expedition had been watched safely outside the Batang Lupar
+on its return to Sarawak, all those unfortunate families that had
+concealed themselves in the jungle after the destruction of Patusen and
+Undop, emerged from their hiding-places, and by means of rafts, canoes,
+packerangans, or anything that would float, were in the act of crossing
+towards Bunting, a flourishing place. Their dismay can well be imagined
+when at daylight on the morning of the 29th they found themselves
+carried by the tide close alongside the terror-spreading steamer, in
+the midst of our augmented fleet. Escape to them was hopeless; nor
+did the women seem to mind. It was a choice between starvation in the
+jungle or coming under submission to the white man.
+
+I need not say that, instead of being molested, they were supplied with
+such provisions and assistance as our means would permit, and allowed
+to pass quietly on. We sent several of our native followers into the
+Batang Lupar to inform the fugitives that our business was with the
+chiefs and instigators of piracy, and not with the ryots of the country.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 29.]
+
+With the ebb-tide a number of boats came down from the town containing
+the principal chiefs, with assurances of their pacific intentions;
+welcoming us with presents of poultry, goats, fruit, etc., which we
+accepted, but paying for them, either in barter or hard dollars,
+the fair market price. We learned that Seriff Sahib had arrived at
+Pontranini, some fifty miles beyond their _kampong_.
+
+We immediately proceeded in chase of him, at the same time despatching
+two boats to look out for Macota, who was expected at the mouth of
+the river. We knew what the fate of this once powerful chief would be
+if he fell into the hands of our friendlies. He was captured alive
+in a deep muddy jungle into which he had thrown himself when our men
+arrived. Leaving Macota a prisoner on board the _Phlegethon_, with the
+flood-tide we pushed forward in pursuit of Seriff Sahib.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 30.]
+
+For two days we dragged our boats twenty miles up a small jungly
+creek; but Seriff Sahib fled across the mountains in the direction of
+the Pontiana River. So close were we on his rear that he threw away
+his sword, and left behind him a child, whom he had hitherto carried,
+in the jungle. Thus this notorious chief was driven, single and
+unattended, out of the reach of doing any further mischief.
+
+The boats returned, and took up a formidable position off Bunting,
+where Seriff Jaffer was summoned to a conference, which he attended,
+but under compulsion from his people, who feared their _kampong_ being
+destroyed.
+
+On this occasion I had the satisfaction of witnessing a splendid piece
+of oratory delivered by Brooke in Malay. The purport of it was, as I
+understood, to point out the horrors of piracy on the one hand, which
+the British Government determined to suppress, and on the other the
+blessings arising from peace and trade, which it was equally our wish
+to cultivate; and he concluded by fully explaining that the measures
+adopted by us against piracy were for the protection of the peaceful
+communities along the coast. The people listened with great attention;
+a pin could have been heard, had it dropped, during Brooke’s fine
+speech.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 4.]
+
+The force again reached Sarawak, and thus terminated a successful
+expedition against the worst class of pirates on the coast of Borneo.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV
+
+_DIDO_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1844. Sept. 5.]
+
+Steamer’s crew cutting wood, I writing distressing letters to the
+friends of Wade, as well as to the father of Dr. Simpson. Hospitably
+entertained by Belcher.
+
+Landed sundry parties after deer and hog. Oysters fine, the best things
+here.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 9.]
+
+At an early hour started on a pleasure excursion. Late at night
+anchored in the Lundu River, having tiffed by the way at one of the
+small islands on splendid oysters.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 10.]
+
+Anchored off the town; visited, and was hospitably entertained by, the
+Dyaks. In the evening had a feast and a war-dance; was in other ways
+much amused. Slept in the Dyak “scullery” house.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 11.]
+
+Collected all the dogs and beaters and proceeded to the mouth of the
+river. All sport confined to the Dyaks, we never getting a shot; very
+good fun, though--a hog was caught by dogs and speared by natives.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 12.]
+
+Landed again early; more hogs taken by the natives. Working on towards
+Santobong; capital luncheon on the finest oysters. Dined on board the
+_Samarang_.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 13.]
+
+Brooke and self returned to _Dido_ in gig, twenty-five miles’ pull.
+Found heavy sick-list, one marine just expired of dysentery.
+
+Took up quarters with Brooke at The Grove. Deputations and tenders of
+allegiance from all the surrounding chiefs satisfactory.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 14.]
+
+Preparing for moving down. Boats to finish; spars to get on board;
+captured guns to embark. Visited the Rajah and the Datu, “Father of
+Hopeful,” his women sprinkling us with yellow rice and gold-dust--one
+graceful and pretty and well dressed.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 15.]
+
+Too much to do on board. Did not go off to muster.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 16.]
+
+At daylight saw from my window _Dido_ salute Rajah and commence
+dropping down the river.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 18.]
+
+Went down after breakfast, accompanied by Brooke, and found my _Dido_
+at anchor off the junction. Moved further down on rising of tide.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+Williamson, Turnour, Partridge, Charlie Johnson, and Douglas came down
+from Sarawak to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 21.]
+
+Cruikshank and Williamson to dinner. Finished my claret.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+Reached the mouth of the river. Present of warlike weapons from
+Budrudeen. Took leave of dear Rajah Brooke, and worked the ship over
+the bar of the Maratabu.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, Oct. 1.]
+
+Arrived in Singapore. Ordered home. More anxious for passage than my
+one cabin can hold. Selected a rough diamond, but great character,
+one Michael Quin, lately Captain of _Minden_, hospital ship, also
+Lieutenant Inglefield. I had but one cabin, but could swing more than
+two cots.
+
+Pleasure of thoughts of home damped by news of the death of my sister,
+Lady Leicester.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 3.]
+
+News of _Pelican_ having sprung a leak; hope not. _Phlegethon_ off
+for Brooke and Borneo. Dined with Oxley. His nutmeg plantation worth
+seeing--cinnamon and cloves.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 5.]
+
+Lots of rain. Napier spliced this morning. Tiffin at Balestiers’ to
+meet the happy pair. Good fellow Napier, and a pair well matched.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 9.]
+
+Up very early. On board _Diana_ steamer with Governor and Mrs.
+Butterworth. Lady party; _Dido’s_ band. Returned by Rhio Straits. Dance
+on board. Pleasant day.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 10.]
+
+Called on the Blundells. Like her and her sister much. Dined with
+Stevenson.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 11.]
+
+A snug little dinner of ten good fellows prior to a dance given by Tom
+Church in honour of the _Dido’s_ Captain. Band got drunk.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 14.]
+
+My _Dido_ visited by Governor and Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. Blundell, and
+sister--the three nicest women in Singapore. A grand parting dinner
+given to me by the inhabitants of Singapore. Nervous, very, making my
+speech.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Old Balestier, American Consul, on board; salutes, etc., Governor,
+giving a grand dinner to “meet Captain Keppel”; ladies there; more
+nervous in returning thanks.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 16.]
+
+Weighed from Singapore. Fort saluting me. Invalids improving.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 19.]
+
+Passed mouth of the Moowar, of bygone memories. Came to off Malacca at
+sunset.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 20.]
+
+Called on Governor; both nice people. Visited Salmona and stopped to
+dinner; drove in with Morrison afterwards.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 22.]
+
+Young Barney Rodyk embarked; sadly pressed for room; made sail.
+_Wolverine_ in co.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 23.]
+
+Well ahead of _Wolverine_. Came to off Parcelar Hill; boarded by a
+boat from a ship full of pilgrims from Mecca, having struck on a bank
+with loss of rudder and hard up for water. Sent _Wolverine_ to her
+assistance.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 26.]
+
+No use fretting about the wind. Hardly consider myself as homeward
+bound until round Acheen Head.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 28.]
+
+Decided, against Master, on southern passage, and anchored off Penang
+at sunset. Went to Captain’s house, the most comfortable quarters in
+India. Issued invitations: “Captain Keppel and officers request the
+pleasure of everybody’s company to-morrow evening.” Dined with Sir
+William and Lady Norris. Mrs. Hall at home.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 30.]
+
+Visited various hospitals with Cantor--one of lunatics of all sorts.
+Got “Chopsticks” from school. Dined with old Lewis. Capital ball and
+supper given by “Didos.” Kept up till daylight did appear.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 31.]
+
+Weighed before turning in; very seedy, though. Fort saluted me with 13
+guns. Really off for home.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 1.]
+
+Lots of talk about the ball; everybody pleased.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 5.]
+
+One of the invalids from _Driver_ died--a young man; the effects of
+Hong Kong climate. Committed his remains to the deep. Sensible to the
+last that he was going, but did not seem to trouble himself as to the
+road; a good man, too, in his way.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+Anniversary of the birthday of Princess Royal. Run of 251 miles in last
+twenty-four hours.
+
+[Sidenote: Simon’s Bay, Dec. 4.]
+
+My cabin-meeting of the fine arts. Inglefield doing me pictures of my
+_Dido_. Ran into Simon’s Bay with a leading wind, saluting the flag of
+my kind friend Sir Jos. Percy, of Mediterranean memory, whose flag was
+now flying on board _Winchester_--Captain Charles Eden. Found George
+Woodhouse here in the _Thunderbolt_, 6, a steam vessel. In fact, I felt
+myself already at home--scarcely a stone on shore that did not convey
+some pleasant reminiscence of happy days. In every house a home. While
+refitting I had scarcely time to call on half my kind friends. Among
+those I undertook to entertain at my table, in addition to my two
+passengers, was Edward Drummond, a nephew of the Admiral, and about
+to enter the Church. [Years afterwards I was his guest at Cadland,
+Southampton, and he the head of the great Drummond Bank at Charing
+Cross.] My other guest, a quiet, retiring Swede, who had served his
+term in our service, by name Adleborg, a clever artist as well as a
+good fellow.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 16.]
+
+Luncheon with Lady Sarah Maitland--like the Lennoxes, nice family. At
+Wynberg; a very agreeable dinner and evening. Kerr Hamilton there.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 18.]
+
+Ship ready. Stopped to luncheon with Admiral at one. Went over
+_Winchester_: nice order and beautifully clean. My _Dido_ under way,
+Charles Eden putting me on board. Outside, a freshening breeze from
+the south-east, but we had to weather the Cape. Topgallant sails over
+double-reefed topsails; a strong set against us. It was not until
+close to the Anvil and Bellows that we felt the full strength of the
+current. The Master and self had taken our position on the forecastle,
+each holding on to the up-and-down part of the fore-topsail sheets,
+spray breaking over us. We now became aware of what we had undertaken.
+On looking under the foot of the fore-sail, the Cape and South Africa
+appeared to be rushing at us: it was too late either to bear up or
+attempt to tack. Held on, I am afraid, with eyes closed. The Master
+was the first to call out, “Wave weathered”; the offset from the rocky
+Cape alone saved us: we appeared to be rushing up the west side of the
+African coast. On the weather-quarter the Cape appeared close to, but
+towering far above our mast-heads. By degrees, but slowly, we drew off
+the west coast. I do not believe that any other ship could, under the
+circumstances, have been saved.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 20.]
+
+Adleborg a first-rate artist, clever at allegorical sketches of _Dido_,
+which I value; very clever and witty they are.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 27.]
+
+2 A.M.--Anchored at St. Helena. Visited old Solomon and his shop; also
+Colonel and Mrs. Trelawney. Weighed at 1.30 P.M. According to notice,
+made sail 3 P.M. Found _Larne_ and _Rapid_.
+
+[Sidenote: 1845. Jan. 13.]
+
+Sails splitting and ropes giving way; foolish economy, ships not being
+better supplied.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+Breeze freshening up; thermometer falling; bitter cold, hazy weather.
+Hauled in; made the land to the eastward of Bill of Portland; bore up
+for the Needles: arrived at Spithead. Reported myself to my old friend
+Hyde Parker, Admiral Superintendent of the Dockyard, Commander-in-Chief
+Sir Charles Rowley being on leave. It was blowing fresh from the S.E.,
+but having an experienced pilot, gave the Master leave to stay on shore
+the night, and sent my gig on board.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+Admiral Parker said I had better call in the afternoon, as he had
+telegraphed to the Admiralty. I then visited my old friend Casher, the
+wine merchant, and inquired if he knew anything of the whereabouts of
+my wife, as he had always forwarded parcels between us. He informed me
+that she had come home from Boulogne: only two days ago he had sent
+parcels to my place at Droxford, where she had joined her father, who,
+with his family, had taken possession.
+
+The days were short, and it was dark before I got back to the Admiral;
+he informed me that _Dido_ was ordered to Sheerness. I ventured to
+state that I had ordered my gig on board. He said: “I have anticipated
+that; you will find the _Fanny_ tender fast to a buoy at the harbour,
+with orders to take you off.”
+
+Now this _was_ a go; I had been more than four years absent: my wife
+within thirteen miles.
+
+I went to Casher’s and inquired if he had a man acquainted with
+Gosport, or any one who could find a Mr. Allen, Master of the _Dido_,
+and bring him to me. I waited a good while, in cocked hat, sword, and
+epaulettes, before the poor Master appeared in pea-jacket and oilskin,
+etc. I soon explained the state of affairs.
+
+He was just about my size. It ended by my saying that he must change
+clothes with me. The _Fanny_ was waiting at the buoy. He would
+personate me, find orders on board, and obey them. Allen muttered
+something about losing my commission. We went off in a wherry. On
+his getting on board he received his orders, opened and read them. I
+touched my hat, and said “Goodbye, Sir,” and told the waterman to land
+me at Gosport. Reached Droxford in time for dinner! Brother-in-law soon
+rigged me in proper costume.
+
+Following morning took wife and self off in a yellow post-chaise, but
+my danger of being found out was not over. The Captain Superintendent,
+W. H. Shireff, was an old friend of mine; fond of driving a team of
+horses, and we used to think he managed it in a seamanlike way.
+
+[Sidenote: Sheerness, Jan. 28.]
+
+When we arrived at the dockyard gates it was luckily quite dark. Drove
+to the Superintendent’s house and took him at once into my confidence.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 29.]
+
+No news of _Dido_! Shireff gave us a steamer to Sheerness. Took a fly
+to the pilot, where we had lodged while fitting out.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 31.]
+
+It was the third night before _Dido_ arrived, when, in the early
+morning, the good pilot Taylor took me off and I returned the Master
+his hat and pea-jacket. Soon after 8 A.M. reported arrival of _Dido_ to
+Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers, K.C.B.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 3.]
+
+My _Dido_ inspected for last time by Admiral Sir John White. Very cold
+and rainy weather. Men showed themselves well to the last. My brother
+Tom came down.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 4.]
+
+Getting on with the dismantling. Went on board with Tom and wife.
+Bitter cold weather. Tom stopping with us--affectionate, good fellow.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 6.]
+
+Preparations for paying progressing. Dirty and bitter cold weather
+continuing. Custom House people troublesome. Smuggling progressing.
+Paying off days much alike!
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 12.]
+
+My reign in _Dido_ finished this morning. Paid off, men receiving
+about £4000. Glad as I am to get back, I do not leave my ship without
+feelings of regret.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+ENGLAND
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1845. Feb. 12.]
+
+_Dido_ paid off. Arrived with wife in London to enjoy half-pay! My
+father living in Berkeley Square, we knew where to find a dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 18.]
+
+Summoned to Admiralty. Gracious reception by Lord Haddington.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 22.]
+
+News from Brooke. Labuan ceded to the British Government. Brooke had
+entrusted me with his private diary, and a _carte-blanche_ to use my
+discretion about publishing--a more responsible charge than I was then
+aware of. I had a friend, Jerdan, editor of the _Court Journal_. After
+consultations it was decided to publish, under the title of “Expedition
+to Borneo of H.M.S. _Dido_.”
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 23.]
+
+At my brother-in-law, Stephenson’s, in Arlington Street, always had a
+bed.
+
+[Sidenote: Woolwich, Feb. 23.]
+
+To Woolwich to see Commodore Sir Francis Collier, in charge of the
+dockyard, his broad pennant flying on the _William and Mary_ yacht.
+Visited also George Goldsmith, now married, living there.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 3.]
+
+Went to Portsmouth on a visit to my late Chief, Admiral Hyde Parker and
+his charming family. Remained a week.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 12.]
+
+Attended levee with Granville Loch. Presented by Sir William Parker on
+return from China. Her Majesty said something nice to me, which, in my
+nervousness, I was sorry not to have heard.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 13.]
+
+My Mids, D’Aeth and Jenkins, passed first and second out of the lot at
+Portsmouth. My father gave me the copy of a correspondence between Lord
+Haddington and himself about my being the only Captain not recommended
+for the C.B. Lord Haddington wrote: “Captain Keppel’s ship had not been
+under fire in action.” Father stated that _Dido_ was not the only ship.
+Lord Haddington replied: “It is evident you allude to the _Endymion_,
+Captain Grey, whose name had been mentioned to General Sir Hugh Gough
+by Brigadier-General Schoedde.” Father could not help thinking it
+was a hard case, which Lord Haddington admitted, and promised that
+my name should be down for the first vacancy. I mention this here,
+as the subject was alluded to years afterwards. Sir Grey Skipwith,
+recollecting my weakness, offered me a mount with the Warwickshire
+Hounds, and before leaving town I dined with that distinguished
+soldier, Sir William Keir Grant.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 26.]
+
+Quickly found my way to Newbold Hall. Sir Grey and his large family
+charming as ever.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 27.]
+
+Started from stables, the usual dozen red coats. Meet at Shuckborough,
+found at Cranborough. Got away with the first flight. Not recollecting
+the country, found myself with about a score charging the river Leam.
+Reached opposite bank, which was rotten. Fell back and found the
+bottom. I believe only two got out safe. My new pink came out black.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+Back to London to dine with Sir Thomas Trowbridge.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 30.]
+
+To Greenwich by rail, to dine in hospital with that grand old Admiral,
+Sir Robert Stopford, his happy lady and family looking so well.
+
+[Sidenote: April 11.]
+
+Templer and I enjoyed an excellent dinner Jerdan gave us at the Garrick
+Club.
+
+[Sidenote: April 24.]
+
+Mr. Edward Ellice kindly lent us his house, 18 Arlington Street.
+Admiral and Mrs. Sam Rowley dined with us on their way through London,
+she informing me I was left in his will, heir and executor.
+
+[Sidenote: May 2.]
+
+We attended the Queen’s Drawing-Room.
+
+[Sidenote: May 18.]
+
+Lunched with the Hawleys, who had established themselves in Halkin
+Street. He had a charming yacht, the _Mischief_, with a woman for
+figurehead, which his wife disapproved of. An image of a monkey was
+executed to replace the lady; but there was so much trouble and legal
+expense in changing a figurehead, that the monkey was transferred to a
+box seat over my coach-house door. As I had no carriage the groom was
+not jealous.
+
+[Sidenote: May 19.]
+
+Archie MacDonald dined with us prior to the Queen’s Ball. On that
+occasion, although an old Fusilier Guardsman, he hid himself behind a
+screen till the ceremony was over.
+
+[Sidenote: Droxford, May 22.]
+
+Glad to take possession of our snug little place at Droxford. A
+four-horse coach running between Gosport and London passed our door
+twice daily: a great convenience. William Garnier’s place, Rooksbury
+Park, was within two miles of us.
+
+[Sidenote: July 3.]
+
+In London met Sir Henry Pottinger: had a walk and a talk about China
+times.
+
+[Sidenote: Droxford, July 9.]
+
+Arthur Cunynghame, our China friend, came to stay with us. Also Fred
+Horton.
+
+[Sidenote: July 15.]
+
+Met George Delmé at the station. With niece to see departure of the
+fleet from Spithead. Too late to get out, so took a cruise in the
+Freemart Fair.
+
+[Sidenote: July 28.]
+
+At Cams. In Delmé’s drag to Goodwood Races. Delmé Radcliffe, Onslow,
+the two Foleys, etc. My father being of the Goodwood party, wife and I
+were invited into the Duke’s end of the grand stand. Unaccustomed to
+racing society, my wife was a trifle nervous. However, observing my
+father in deep conversation with a light weight in a blue coat with
+brass buttons, yellow, leathers and mahogany tops, she inquired of Lady
+Albemarle if that was His Lordship’s jockey. To which this amiable lady
+replied in a loud voice: “No, my dear. That is the Duke of Bedford.”
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+In Delmé’s drag. Ten outside!
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+The great Cup Day. Twenty-one horses started.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 1.]
+
+Concluded a splendid week’s racing.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 6.]
+
+We left London for Quidenham. Glad to be where I had passed my youth.
+The dear old father, no longer able to shoot, had taken to breeding
+bloodstock. The park near the river was cut into paddocks, where I saw
+some promising youngsters for the Derby. I was not sorry when Lady
+Albemarle inquired of my wife how long we were going to stay. We had
+some dear old friends in the neighbourhood: Partridges, Surtees, Eyres,
+and others. Went to Hockham on the 22nd.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 29.]
+
+A day in London on business. By rail to Chesterford, and chaise to my
+friend Alexander Cotton: the same who, as a lieutenant, was capsized
+with me at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour in October 1830, he
+having now succeeded to the Hildersham property. Cotton’s house very
+comfortable; his claret uncommon good.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 1.]
+
+Rode after breakfast to Newmarket. In my father’s stables saw
+“Emperor,” “Smuggler Bill,” “Little Dorrit,” “Sir Rupert.”
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 2.]
+
+Cotton and self to Newmarket.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 3.]
+
+Left Cotton to visit the Partridges at Hockham. Met at Harling Road by
+my old shipmate George Partridge.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 4.]
+
+Out shooting. I killed eleven partridges and one pheasant.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 6.]
+
+Champion Partridge came over. With the exception of a couple of days
+with George Birche’s Harriers had a capital week’s shooting.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 12.]
+
+Walked over to Larling Parsonage, where I found my old friend Colonel
+Eyre, 98th, with his brother Edward the clergyman.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 16.]
+
+George Wodehouse, Charles Partridge, and I rode over to Quidenham to
+see the brood-mares and young stock. Left Hockham for London. I was now
+in possession of a couple of hunters. Intending to enjoy myself, sent
+them on to Newbold, having business in London.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 26.]
+
+From London by rail, in company with Joseph Hawley, George Payne,
+Shelley, Greville, and other turf men to Chesterford. They to
+Newmarket. I to friend Cotton.
+
+[Sidenote: Hildersham, Oct. 27.]
+
+To Newmarket. Racing particularly good. Cambridgeshire stakes won by
+“Alum.” Twenty-eight started, beating “Baron,” the winner of St. Leger,
+and Cæsarwitch, etc.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 30.]
+
+This morning’s racing good. Backed my father’s colt “Radulphus” in the
+Glasgow, and lost my money.
+
+[Sidenote: Newbold, Nov. 7.]
+
+Went with Harry Skipwith to Warwickshire Hunt; meet at Stonleigh Park,
+a beautiful place. Next day to see the Athelstane; meet at the Cross.
+Some pretty fencing from cover to cover and plenty of foxes.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 10.]
+
+Sent horses to Leighton Buzzard. A hearty welcome by Delmé Radcliffe at
+Hitchin Priory. The Eliot Yorkes staying there.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 12.]
+
+Having sent horses on with Delmé Radcliffe, to Brand’s hounds, Delmé
+having been Master of Hounds was proud to mount “Heki,” and delighted
+with him, as I was with my “Tom.” The run good for this country. We
+went and returned in a yellow post-chaise.
+
+[Sidenote: Hitchin Priory, Nov. 15.]
+
+Mounted by Radcliffe. Went with the Harriers on his “Touch-and-Go”;
+supposed to be the best pack of the sort in England. Good for pastime,
+but it does not do after fox-hunting.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 17.]
+
+With Brand’s hounds: rode “Heki,” nothing particular by way of a run.
+Pleased with my horse though.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 20.]
+
+Harriers met at the Priory. Pretty and fast thing. Radcliffe hunting
+them.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 21.]
+
+With Brand’s hounds. Rode “Tom.” Found at Boxwood. Good run of 52
+minutes. Was to the front the whole time. Radcliffe got the brush for
+my wife in commemoration of “Tom’s” performances. Killed at Yardley.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+A right good run on “Heki” with the Harriers.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 25.]
+
+In afternoon rode “Tom” with the Harriers and had an excellent run of
+50 minutes, the hare running better than many foxes.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 26.]
+
+Sent “Heki” on to meet the Cambridgeshire at Shear Hutch. Sharp run
+over heavy country. I got the brush.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 27.]
+
+No meet. Rode to see the Charles Radcliffes at Halwell.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 28.]
+
+With Radcliffe to meet the Puckeridge at Bedlington: a sharp thing. Got
+a cropper, but was in time to get the brush.
+
+[Sidenote: Gilston Park, Dec. 1.]
+
+By rail to Burnt Mill, where I met Henry Seymour and Brice Pearse, who
+took us to Gilston Park, a nice old place he had hired for farming
+purposes.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 2.]
+
+Seymour and myself to meet the Puckeridge Hounds at Pelham. Rode
+“Heki”: a good gallop, leaving off fourteen miles from home.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+With Brice Pearse to a city stable. Ostler brought out an Irish
+chestnut mare just under fifteen hands. On my inquiring if she could
+jump, a six-barred gate was placed across the paved passage road
+leading to the stables, which she jumped without trouble or hesitation.
+I paid £23 for her, and named her “Ticket” because she cleared the
+gates. She could not walk, but persevered in a jog trot to the end of
+the longest day. End of season, sold her for £70 to the Pytchley Hunt
+for a whip’s horse.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 5.]
+
+An idle day; mostly passed in the stable. Rode Pearse’s pony to Harlow
+with Henry Seymour.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 6.]
+
+Henry Seymour and I posted twenty-two miles to meet of Puckeridge
+Hounds. Had sent “Heki” on; a good run well worth the distance.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 8.]
+
+By early train to London and on from Euston Square to Catton Hall. Fred
+Horton met us at the station.
+
+[Sidenote: Catton Hall, Dec. 9.]
+
+Catton, a nice old place. Pretty grounds--good stabling. Drove with
+Fred Horton in a dogcart. Granville Loch arrived.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 10.]
+
+Four guns. Bromley, Horton, Loch, and self to shoot. Pretty shooting:
+42 head returned. I bagged 2 rabbits, 5 pheasants, and 11 hares. Fred
+Horton shot, as he thought, a hare creeping in a hedge, which proved to
+be a fox. Gave one of the beaters half a sovereign to bury it!
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 11.]
+
+Stormy morning. Rode “Ticket” to meet of Meynall Ingram’s hounds at
+Gorsley Ley. Found immediately; was fortunate in getting well away.
+Pretty run for some twelve miles in an enclosed country. Long ride
+home.
+
+[Sidenote: Catton Hall, Dec. 12.]
+
+The Donnington Hounds met near Derby; rode over to Osmaston to dine and
+sleep.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 13.]
+
+Sat with Lady Wilmot. My China boy “Chopsticks” much grown and very
+spoiled.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 14.]
+
+After breakfast rode back to Catton by Twyford Ferry: best road for
+riding.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 15.]
+
+Ingram Meynall’s hounds meeting at Drakelow. Mr. and Lady Sophia De
+Veux. Rode “Ticket”: bad scenting day, and huntsmen no great things.
+Ergo no run; though a find at Drakelow.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 17.]
+
+Rode “Heki” with the Atherstone. Meet at Warton; much pleasanter having
+a companion to ride to covert with. Two good runs; though a rainy
+afternoon.
+
+[Sidenote: Catton, Dec. 18.]
+
+General A’Court to dinner with a handsome daughter.
+
+[Sidenote: Newbold, Dec. 20.]
+
+Took leave of Lady and Miss Horton. I rode “Heki”; groom on “Ticket”
+to Osmaston. Fred Horton took care of wife by rail. Lord John Russell
+unable to form a ministry.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+Christmas Day. My first in England for some time.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 27.]
+
+The Donnington Hounds met at Cork Park. A beautiful place belonging to
+Sir John Crewe. “Ticket” fell at a fence and gave me a cropper.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 31.]
+
+Wife to Newbold Vicarage. I on to London, _en route_ for Hockham.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+SHORE TIME--STUDY STEAM
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1846. Jan. 1.]
+
+At Hockham shooting.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 7.]
+
+By rail to Rugby and on to Newbold.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 10.]
+
+Mounted Grey Skipwith. Hunt with the Atherstone at Coombe Abbey. A
+goodish run. “Heki” a trifle lame.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 12.]
+
+Departure of Skipwiths in various directions, preparatory to the
+Warwickshire Hunt Ball.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 17.]
+
+Grey, Sidmouth, and I to meet the Pytchley at Crick. Certainly the
+finest run I had witnessed; George Payne giving me the brush.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 22.]
+
+Went shares in a pair of posters with Grey Skipwith to meet the
+Warwickshire at Shuckborough. “Ticket” sent on from Newbold. Found, and
+fell at a brook.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+At Admiralty. Saw Lord Haddington. By steam to Woolwich. Only time to
+look at _Terrible_ of large dimensions. Dined with Frank Collier.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Breakfast with Tufnell and Fred Horton. Attended dinner given by Naval
+Club to Lord Haddington on leaving Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 29.]
+
+Up early for Rugby, where I had “Ticket” and hunting things sent. With
+the Warwickshire Hounds. Meet at Dunchurch. Capital run. Returned to
+Newbold.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 31.]
+
+Rode “Heki” with Grey Skipwith to Leamington. Took his mare and £30 in
+exchange for “Ticket.”
+
+[Sidenote: Leamington, Feb. 2.]
+
+“Heki” falling lame, left him at Leamington and returned by rail to
+Rugby.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 3.]
+
+Took leave of Newbold. Established ourselves in lodgings at Leamington,
+for wife to be near Doctor Jephson. Horses at Stanley’s. “Heki” still
+lame.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 4.]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 7.]
+
+Grey Skipwith came to dine and sleep. Letter from Mrs. Rowley
+announcing death of grand old Admiral Sir Josias, and enclosing a copy
+of his will, in which, should he survive his wife, after legacies, he
+had left everything to me--a kindness I had no right to expect.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 10.]
+
+Leamington full of lame hunters. By train to London.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Feb. 11.]
+
+Horton appointed to command of _Cygnet_, 6 gun brig, on coast of
+Africa. Attended levee of First Lord.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 12.]
+
+Great naval dinner at Thatched House Club. Prince George of Cambridge
+there.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 13.]
+
+Eleven train to Leamington. Wife better.
+
+[Sidenote: Leamington, Feb. 18.]
+
+Rode with Grey Skipwith to see the Steeplechase at Southam. An amusing
+scene, but Leamington is not the most amusing place for a man who
+cannot keep horses.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 21.]
+
+Sold “Heki” for £15. Once refused 100 guineas!!
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 28.]
+
+Dined with First Lord of the Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+By steamboat to see Frank Collier at Woolwich. He, Nic Lockyer,
+and I went over the _Terrible_, an enormous vessel, 1847 tons, 800
+horse-power.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Mar. 4.]
+
+News from the Enlightened States. More warlike than ever. Lost no time
+in tendering services to Lord Ellenborough.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 5.]
+
+Met Sir Charles Fitzroy, with boys, Augustus and George, grown into
+men: little Mary into a tall handsome mother of three children.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 10.]
+
+At Leamington. Dined at Lady Farnham’s: grub good, but seven ladies!!
+Saunders and self only gentlemen.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 11.]
+
+To Coventry races. Racing good as far as horses being well matched.
+Rough attendance.
+
+[Sidenote: Leamington, Mar. 18.]
+
+Sported phaeton and pair of horses for the three days’ racing.
+
+Delmé Radcliffe, Gore, and two Skipwiths to dine with us.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 19.]
+
+Steeplechase Day. Leamington full of ’legs and all sorts of rogues.
+Party of six to dine. “Grand, for us!” First-rate steeplechase.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 21.]
+
+Acted as chaperon to Amelia Williams; she riding Wood’s horse.
+Warwickshire meet at Stonleigh, afterwards steeplechase at Southam.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 22.]
+
+Bury came to us from London to go to the second ball: he dancing mad.
+
+[Sidenote: Leamington, Mar. 23.]
+
+A good steeplechase at Warwick--country heavy--“Pioneer” winning--a
+splendid horse.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 24.]
+
+Mounted J. Wood to see the meet at Ladbrook.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Dining with Stephenson, Fox Maule, Lord Ebrington, Maria, and brother
+Edward.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Mar. 27.]
+
+Dined with the Duchess of Inverness; large party.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+Talk with Lord Francis Egerton about Brooke and Borneo. _Constance_
+frigate offered to Walker, who appears undecided. Dined with the
+Hawleys--family party. That beast “Chow” dying.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 29.]
+
+Went to Woolwich to look for lodgings for my studying steam. By Frank
+Collier’s advice closed with a Captain Dwyer--not much; however, the
+best.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Mar. 30.]
+
+Took leave of Fred Horton at the club, lucky that he has not more than
+a year to run in _Cygnet_ on the coast. Dined with Ralph Brandling;
+Adelphi afterwards.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 31.]
+
+By express to Portsmouth. Dined with the Hyde Parkers in Dockyard;
+Admiral in great form.
+
+[Sidenote: Leamington, April 19.]
+
+Dined with the Gores, who have been very kind to us. Fare-thee-well
+Leamington. With horses and money I should find you more agreeable.
+
+[Sidenote: April 23.]
+
+Took departure for London. Letter from Brooke, and news from Borneo not
+pleasing to Wise. Government slow in acting for him. To Droxford by 3
+P.M. train.
+
+[Sidenote: May 1.]
+
+Took our departure from our snug little Droxford. In London by 2 P.M.
+Got Mrs. Rowley her pension at Admiralty. To Woolwich by steamer. Took
+up quarters in Captain Dwyer’s house. Wife not taken with our new abode.
+
+[Sidenote: May 3.]
+
+To church in a sail-loft in the Dockyard. Went to Greenwich in the
+afternoon: looked at houses.
+
+[Sidenote: May 5.]
+
+To Greenwich. Decided on No. 17 Croom’s Hill at £150 per annum; nice
+situation, looking into the Park.
+
+[Sidenote: May 6.]
+
+Letter from Commander Dwyer refusing to let me off under three months’
+rent! Unlucky dog that I am, £36 thrown away. So much for having to
+deal with a gentleman.
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+To see the Horse Artillery exercise. Edward Coke and Sir E. Poore to
+call; they going to West Indies in June for amusement.
+
+[Sidenote: May 9.]
+
+To London. Saw my father; well in health; going to Newmarket.
+
+[Sidenote: May 12.]
+
+Receiving a letter from Sir William Symonds, asking if he might
+nominate me to command his _Spartan_, started for Somerset House, and
+found from Edge that I was wanted, as in case of _Constance_, as a
+second string to his bow.
+
+[Sidenote: May 15.]
+
+Attended the meeting of the Committee for the Foundation of a Church
+Mission-House and School in Borneo. Some large subscriptions received.
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Again over to Greenwich; hard bargain with Mrs. Kemp. Georgie Crosbie
+and early dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: May 23.]
+
+Took my first lesson in steam at Woolwich.
+
+Hearing that a foreigner was inquiring after me, avoided him; it turned
+out afterwards to be an old Spanish friend, General Mazzerado of
+Barcelona, who stopped to dinner.
+
+By Templer heard of a most diabolical massacre committed in Borneo
+Proper.
+
+[Sidenote: May 25.]
+
+Commencing steam study in earnest.
+
+A Princess born. (Princess Helena.)
+
+[Sidenote: May 26.]
+
+Breakfast at half-past eight. Start at nine to be in Dockyard by ten.
+Pleasant enough while the weather is fine. Dined at Greenwich Hospital
+with Sir Robert Stopford to celebrate Her Majesty’s birthday. Pleasant
+party.
+
+[Sidenote: May 27.]
+
+Derby Day, and I not there. Won by Mr. Gully’s “Phyrrus.”
+
+[Sidenote: May 28.]
+
+The sad news of the massacre of Rajah Muda Hassim and family, and his
+gallant brother, Budrudeen.
+
+[Sidenote: June 2.]
+
+Greenwich Fair. Joined George King and his party in a small Whitebait
+dinner at the “Crown and Sceptre.” Paraded the Fair afterwards.
+
+[Sidenote: June 11.]
+
+Dined with Sir James Gordon, Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.
+Though he lost a leg in Hostes’ _Lissa_ frigate action, Gordon
+frequently walks from London.
+
+[Sidenote: London, June 13.]
+
+Attended the wedding of Amelia Williams and Mark Wood--also to
+_déjeûner_ given by the Bulkeleys. Lovely day; pretty wedding; good
+breakfast; everything right.
+
+[Sidenote: June 14.]
+
+Early dinner with the Hawleys. Tattersalls and Park afterwards.
+
+[Sidenote: June 15.]
+
+To Woolwich Dockyard, Dined with Colonel Parker to meet kind friend,
+his brother, the Admiral.
+
+[Sidenote: June 16.]
+
+Dined with Commander and Mrs. Dalyell in the Hospital. He was for nine
+years a prisoner of war at Verdun; released when Napoleon I. went to
+Elba. Anyone interested in the record of a sailor’s life during the
+end of the last century and early part of this should read that of
+my old friend, who was now a pensioner, with apartments in Greenwich
+Hospital.[1]
+
+[1] See O’Byrne’s _Naval Biographies_, 1848.
+
+The Dalyells are kind people and have exceedingly good taste.
+
+[Sidenote: June 17.]
+
+To Woolwich by steam, meeting on board _Lord Selkirk_, Captain Ross,
+and Ranelagh. Went to Arsenal. Georgie and Jack Crosbie and Grey
+Skipwith to dine.
+
+[Sidenote: June 18.]
+
+An impertinent letter from Wise: answered him.
+
+[Sidenote: June 19.]
+
+To Woolwich by steam.
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+Called on Sir James Gordon and on Sir Watkin Pell.
+
+Sir Watkin Pell--a wooden leg, and a wonderful clever pony on which he
+used to ride on a three-plank bridge when visiting ships fitting out in
+dock.
+
+[Sidenote: June 24.]
+
+Dined at the Stopfords.
+
+[Sidenote: June 25.]
+
+Dined in London with my father; returning afterwards to Greenwich.
+
+[Sidenote: June 27.]
+
+We went to see the muster of Greenwich schoolboys. Interesting sight.
+800 of them dining in same room. Ministers about to resign.
+
+[Sidenote: June 30.]
+
+Represented Brooke at the christening of Templer’s boy, named James
+Lethbridge Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 13.]
+
+Business at Admiralty. Saw Lord Auckland about Borneo.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 16.]
+
+Concocted a letter for Lord Auckland, recommending possession of Labuan.
+
+[Sidenote: July 17.]
+
+Capital dinner with Sir Watkin Pell. To the Artillery ball at Woolwich.
+Nothing could be better done.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 21.]
+
+Dined with Sir Robert Stopford. Greenwich ball in the evening; very
+good.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 24.]
+
+To London with Jack Templer to see Lord Auckland concerning Brooke.
+
+Very mysterious. Government evidently doing something. Afraid, I think,
+of Mr. Hume.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 29.]
+
+To steam studies. Met Board of Admiralty in the Dockyard. Received
+intimation that my services would be again required in Borneo.
+
+[Sidenote: July. 30.]
+
+Skipwith and ourselves to dine with the Newdigates, who have pretty
+place at Blackheath.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 3.]
+
+After studies visited famous mulberry tree in Collier’s garden.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 5.]
+
+Students in steam met at Blackwall to examine the machinery of the _Sir
+Henry Pottinger_, a merchant steamer.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 20.]
+
+Accompanied Captain Stewart in the Trinity yacht to meet the Admiralty
+Board at Gravesend to inspect several plans for lights to be carried by
+steamers at sea to prevent collision.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 25.]
+
+Invited Roberts to dinner, to meet Edward Rice, who did not arrive
+until late.
+
+Rice to join _Amphion_ should I get her!
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 27.]
+
+At Admiralty to stop Comber being sent off to sea. Partly succeeded.
+Came back to dine with Sir Watkin Pell.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 2.]
+
+Woolwich, preparatory to being examined by Lloyd. Passed an hour in
+the Superintendent’s mulberry tree!
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 7.]
+
+By Gravesend steamer to Purfleet, where Sir Thomas Lennard sent his
+carriage to take us to Belhus for three days; brother Tom having
+married his daughter. Large party; hearty welcome. This is a nice
+old-fashioned place. Our room the one in which Queen Elizabeth slept.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 9.]
+
+After luncheon we were taken a drive with the team round the country.
+Went to Mr. Tower’s place: he has some fine old pictures.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 10.]
+
+Took leave; pony carriage taking us to Gray’s Pier. Embarked for
+Blackwall loaded with game and fruit.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 17.]
+
+I dined with the Artillery mess at Woolwich.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 23.]
+
+To London to attend Borneo Church Mission. Capture of Brunei. Saw
+Mundy’s letter to Baillie Hamilton at the Admiralty relative to the
+affairs there.
+
+On return found Edward Rice from Dane Court.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 25.]
+
+To Admiralty to deposit with Lord Auckland my father’s correspondence
+with Lord Haddington relative to my not getting the C.B.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 28.]
+
+We took the two charming Dalyell girls to the Woolwich Garrison races.
+Very good fun: heats and that sort of thing; gentlemen riders.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 1.]
+
+Visited Sir Samuel Brown of chain-cable notoriety, and saw several
+ingenious inventions.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 7.]
+
+To London. Wife on a visit to the Roes at Fulham.
+
+Among the intimate friends of the Crosbie family were Sir Frederick
+and Lady Roe. His father was a well-to-do merchant residing in the
+City. My father amused me with the following:--As Master of the House
+he had to attend State occasions. On going to the City, Sir Frederick
+Roe was so active with his mounted police as to draw the attention of
+His Majesty, who inquired who he was. Father informed the King that
+it was Sir Frederick Roe, the Head of the Police. His Majesty noticed
+another officer equally active, and very like Sir Frederick, who my
+father informed His Majesty was a younger brother, likewise in the
+Police, who helped his brother on these occasions, and they went by
+the name of “Hard” Roe and “Soft” Roe. This amused His Majesty so much
+that he wanted to know about the father. This rather puzzled my parent,
+who, having volunteered so much, did not like to plead ignorance, but
+answered “They call him, Sir, Paternoster Row!”
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 8.]
+
+Ascertained at the Admiralty they had no idea of forming a Settlement
+on the Bornean coast.
+
+Power of a “wise” confidential agent beginning to tell.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 10.]
+
+To Ranelagh House, Fulham, to join wife at Sir Frederick and Lady Roe’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Having been invited by Sir Charles and Lady Mary Fox to dinner at
+Addison Road, sent to Greenwich for clothes. Wife dining with the
+Dalyells.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Oct. 16.]
+
+Found letter at club from Symonds, stating that he had applied to Lord
+Auckland to appoint me to _Cambrian_ for trial with Thetis.
+
+Dined with Sir Robert Stopford; a large party.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 17.]
+
+To Admiralty to inquire about the _Cambrian_; find I am the favourite,
+Lord Auckland hovering between Smith and myself for the appointment.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 21.]
+
+Dined on Guard at St. James’ with Colonel Codrington.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 22.]
+
+Nothing decided about _Cambrian_, Lord Auckland waiting for Sir Charles
+Adam’s opinion. Still hope.
+
+Dined at the Newdigates.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 23.]
+
+Reports of my appointment to _Cambrian_; hope they may prove true.
+Stephenson writing to thank Lord Auckland.
+
+Dined with John Doyle and Lady Susan North.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 24.]
+
+To see Admiral Dundas. Early proposal of appointing me to _Amphion_. No
+fancy for her, while there is a chance of _Cambrian_.
+
+We dined at Colonel Parker’s. On return found letter from Dundas, a
+damper on hopes of _Cambrian_.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 27.]
+
+Baillie Hamilton in the Rangers’ House. Commander Henry Eden married to
+Miss Rivers. Wish to get Lieutenant Rivers as my First.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 29.]
+
+Dined with Lord Auckland.
+
+[Sidenote: Dane Court, Oct. 31.]
+
+At Dane Court with the Rices; like Dane Court and all its people.
+Everybody receiving me so kindly; the children too, as if they had
+known me all their lives.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 2.]
+
+A walk with Fanny and Anne in forenoon. Afternoon to Dover. Saw 43rd
+and H. Skipwith inspected on the heights.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 4.]
+
+Received twelve guineas due to members of Old Navy Club, Bond Street.
+Retirement list out, of 180 Captains.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 5.]
+
+Dined with my father. Shireff wanting me as Flag-Captain.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 6.]
+
+To Woolwich to see Sir Frank Collier for last time as a Commodore.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 8.]
+
+Dined in London with Stephenson. Meeting Hastie and Sir John Hobhouse.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 9.]
+
+Lord Mayor’s Day. Promotion in Army and Navy. Dined with Admiral
+Dundas. Large party at Lord Auckland’s in the evening.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 10.]
+
+Club full in anxious expectation of “Gazette.” The greatest boon that
+has been granted to the Navy.
+
+Dined with General Mundy and family. Disappointed about the promotions.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 16.]
+
+Dined with Sir Robert Stopford.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 17.]
+
+Farewell dinner with the Dalyells. We have been treated at Greenwich
+with the greatest kindness and hospitality.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 19.]
+
+Dined at Club. A meeting of old “Magiciennes,” Plumridge, Knox, Forbes.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Called for Stephenson at the Excise: with him to Cambridge, where,
+after having enjoyed much worth seeing, dined with Henry Coke: Augustus
+Stephenson and young Lord Durham of the party.
+
+We slept at the University Arms.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 27.]
+
+Visited my brother George at his office, Downing Street. Chance of my
+being appointed to _Amphitrite_. Returned with Pearse to Gilston.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 28.]
+
+Brice Pearse mounting me; after several hours, without finding,
+finished with a fast twenty minutes with Conyer’s hounds. In first at
+the death, and got the brush.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 30.]
+
+Party to shoot. Keeper reserved best ground until too dark--only a
+small bag.
+
+[Sidenote: Elsenham, Dec. 3.]
+
+Took leave, after luncheon, of our friends. On a visit to the Rushs at
+Elsenham: a pretty place. Much taste and considerable expense in the
+making.
+
+H. Byng, _alias_ “Buckets,” with his wife to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Newbold, Dec. 5.]
+
+By early train to London. In time to leave Euston Square for Newbold by
+eleven o’clock.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 12.]
+
+Sharp frost. Hunters more expense than profit.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+Enjoyed Christmas at Newbold, sitting down twenty all told. Sir
+Grey presiding. Eight sons, five daughters, two husbands and wives
+and ourselves. The younger son--a nervous boy, studying for Holy
+Orders--was called on to say grace; after hesitation got up and said:
+“For what we are going to receive, the Lord have mercy on us.” A more
+cheery Christmas could not be.
+
+Having business in London, and hoping for employment, left my poor
+invalid under care of the celebrated Doctor Jephson, at Leamington.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 28.]
+
+To my second home, the Stephensons in Arlington Street.
+
+Dinner off Norfolk turkey, and a hot devil by sister.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 29.]
+
+At Hockham shooting, with the Partridges, Charles, George, Paterson,
+and self. Shot with my new Westley-Richards. Much pleased with it.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII
+
+SHORE TIME
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1847. Jan. 2.]
+
+As brother Tom could not, with increasing family, come to me, I went to
+his parsonage at Creake in Norfolk, where we were joined by my other
+clergyman brother Edward. Creake only a walk from Holkham.
+
+This entailed visits to other dear friends; but as these have not much
+to do with the promised sailor’s life, must not detain readers.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 3.]
+
+_Sunday._--Both brothers preached; I suppose the elder had choice.
+Reserved opinion.
+
+Recollect some time ago, when brother Edward preached at Quidenham,
+venturing to remark that his sermon was rather lengthy. He replied: “It
+now lies at the bottom of a heap and you won’t hear it again for three
+years.”
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 5, Holkham.]
+
+Went out, fifteen guns, 1085 head.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 6.]
+
+Drove back with Napier, rector at Holkham, elder brother of Brooke’s
+Singapore friend.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 7, Holkham.]
+
+Shooting the end of the park in the direction of Warham; twelve guns,
+973 head.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 8.]
+
+Another good day’s shooting; 1073 head.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 9.]
+
+News of the safety of Edward Coke, who had been buffalo-shooting in the
+United States. Never once doubted it.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 11.]
+
+Tom and I drove to cousin Fred Keppel’s at Lexham, about eighteen
+miles. Hearty welcome. No better fellows than Fred and Edward Keppel,
+“the Cheeryble Brothers.”
+
+[Sidenote: Lexham, Jan. 12.]
+
+Went out to enjoy the best shooting Fred had left. Six guns: Fred
+Fitzroy, Derrick Hoste, Fred, Edward, Tom, and self.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 13.]
+
+Wife improving at Leamington under Jephson. Fred Keppel and brother Tom
+doing magistrates’ business at Litcham.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 14.]
+
+Party breaking up. Fred Fitzroy dropping me at friend Rev. C. D.
+Brereton’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 16.]
+
+Took leave of Brereton. Drive of eleven miles to Creake. Bitter cold.
+Henry Coke arrived from Holkham.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 18.]
+
+To Bobby Hammond’s, now a rich banker; change from a mid’s berth.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 22.]
+
+Fred Keppel drove me to brother Edward’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Quidenham Parsonage, Jan. 23.]
+
+Looked over the Quidenham Stud paddocks. Some old brood-mares and four
+yearlings. A colt, “Borneo,” promising looking.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 25.]
+
+Fred Keppel taking me back to Lexham, sent things to Anthony Hammond’s
+at Westacre.
+
+Followed in afternoon. Charming place as well as host.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 26.]
+
+Anthony, Bob Hammond, Henry Coke, and others came to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Henry Coke and I took departure from Westacre, posting to Brandon, by
+rail to Cambridge. Henry having left the Navy had lodgings there: a
+quiet dinner with him.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 29.]
+
+To London; with Stephensons in Arlington Street.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 6.]
+
+Joined wife at Leamington.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 8.]
+
+To London. Father recovering from illness.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 10.]
+
+Letter from Admiralty requesting me to sit on a Commission to report
+on Naval Uniforms--Chairman, Rear-Admiral Bowles, C.B. Committee:
+Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier, C.B.; Captains A. Fanshawe, C.B.; J.
+Shepherd; Hon. F. Pelham; A. Milne; Lord Clarence Paget; and W. F.
+Martin.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 19.]
+
+Poor Thistlewayte quite blind.
+
+[Sidenote: Droxford, Feb. 20.]
+
+Rode to Collier’s new house at Wickham. Nothing more neat, complete,
+and comfortable.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 25.]
+
+Wife and I on a visit to Southwick. George Delmé came to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+Walked from Southwick to Droxford, and afterwards to Rookesbury.
+Thistlewayte sending wife there in carriage. Good William Garnier
+insisted on our all staying at Rookesbury.
+
+[Sidenote: Rookesbury, Mar. 2.]
+
+William Garnier mounting me, we rode to the Dean’s at Winchester.
+Sister Caroline out. Called on Walter Longs on our way back. Collier
+and Campbells to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 5.]
+
+On Garnier’s hack to see Hambledon Meet. Many friends, but a bad
+scenting day.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth, Mar. 6.]
+
+In break, picking up Wickham’s Admiral, Collier, on the way. Lunched
+with the Hyde Parkers. _Sphynx_ in harbour after six weeks on rocks at
+back of Isle of Wight.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 8.]
+
+By coach to stay with Sivewrights, Symington.
+
+Years since Edward Sivewright and I met. At Symington, canvassed for
+brother George.
+
+[Sidenote: Droxford, Mar. 11.]
+
+Busy with accounts. How much I want money, and have wanted, for some
+time. Still here we are jogging on. One-half the world never knows how
+the other half lives!
+
+Visit to Cousin Delmé’s at Cams.
+
+[Sidenote: Cams, Mar. 13.]
+
+Admiral Sir William Gage came to Cams.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 15.]
+
+By rail to Winchester, leaving wife at the Deanery. George Delmé and I
+went to see sundry blood-stock at Dilly’s and Stockbridge. Expensive
+playthings! “Venison” a fine horse.
+
+[Sidenote: Cams, Mar. 16.]
+
+In Delmé’s drag to meet the Hampshire Hounds at Rockwood, Colonel
+Greenwood’s. Delmé sending a hack for me. Martin Haworth master. No
+finer day, though, to see hounds and horns.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 19.]
+
+Delmé sending me a mount with the Hambleton. Good gallop over the
+Downs. Lost near Ditcham.
+
+[Sidenote: Winchester, Mar. 24.]
+
+_Fast Day_--Appointed to be kept by the Government on account of the
+distressing famine in Ireland and Scotland. Properly and strictly
+observed (to all appearance) throughout the country.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Rode pony over to Campbell Wyndham’s at Exton. Accompanied Mrs. Wyndham
+to see Hants Steeplechase. Sport bad, company good, day fine. Good
+dinner and party at Wyndham’s; slept there.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 31.]
+
+Rev. Mr. M‘Dougal volunteered for Borneo. Good man.
+
+[Sidenote: April 2.]
+
+_Good Friday._--Salt fish and thirst!
+
+[Sidenote: April 14.]
+
+[Sidenote: May 20.]
+
+Letter from Harry Stephenson announcing birth of the finest boy
+in creation. Saw in the papers death of the Earl of Bessborough,
+Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland--a national loss.
+
+[Sidenote: May 22.]
+
+By rail to London. Friends Crawfurd Kerrs arrived from China.
+
+[Sidenote: May 25.]
+
+Sir Charles Napier going to apply for me as his Flag Captain!
+
+[Sidenote: May 26.]
+
+This day my old friend Jonas Coaker had his little boy christened
+Keppel Coaker.
+
+[Sidenote: May 27.]
+
+Hawley’s mare “Miami” won the Oaks, ridden by Sim Templeman. Dined
+with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland. Full dress, to
+commemorate Her Majesty’s birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: May 28.]
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+Mail from India. James Brooke coming home by July mail. Dinner with
+Sir William Eden, meeting Admiral Parry’s daughter and Charlie Eden.
+Admiral taken ill.
+
+[Sidenote: Blackheath, June 2.]
+
+Took up our quarters in the Blackheath house. Greenwich Park, and
+country round, looking perfection.
+
+[Sidenote: London, June 4.]
+
+Dined with Lady Wilmot Horton, meeting Bromleys, Commander Lord Byron,
+and others.
+
+[Sidenote: June 5.]
+
+Dined with Charlie Eden to meet Admiral Hyde Parker.
+
+[Sidenote: June 8.]
+
+First Lord’s levée. As far off employment as ever.
+
+[Sidenote: Blackheath, June 11.]
+
+Took the Dalyell ladies to see Review of Horse Artillery. Grand Duke
+Constantine. Duke of Wellington in Russian uniform. I dined with
+Colonel Parker to meet his brother the Admiral.
+
+[Sidenote: June 15.]
+
+Poor Sir Robert Stopford very ill; sad loss to Greenwich and service.
+
+[Sidenote: June 17.]
+
+Review in Hyde Park. Seen from Mr. Thistlewayte’s house in Connaught
+Place.
+
+Dinner to Lord Auckland at Thatched House; well attended. Lift back to
+Greenwich with Sir Watkin Pell.
+
+[Sidenote: June 20.]
+
+By steamer, and to Wimbledon by rail to see Ingestre and family. Lady
+Sarah as handsome as ever. The little Susan a woman; twelve years since
+we met. Missed train. Shake-down at Ingestre’s!
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+By rail with Ingestre to London. News from China: Bogue Forts taken,
+Canton threatened.
+
+With brother George to dine with aged Mrs. Clavering, wonderful, dear
+old lady.
+
+[Sidenote: June 24.]
+
+Called on James Brooke’s sister, Mrs. Savage--pretty, nice person;
+strong resemblance to him. Got tickets for Astley’s. It is not what it
+used to be.
+
+[Sidenote: June 25.]
+
+At two this morning that fine old Admiral and dignified old gentleman,
+Sir Robert Stopford, departed this life!
+
+[Sidenote: June 30.]
+
+Bayley having lent me his yacht _Nymph_, took the Dalyell girls and
+Augustus Stephenson a sail down the river to Gravesend and back.
+
+[Sidenote: July 1.]
+
+Dined Thatched House Club. Walpole in chair. Jolly party.
+
+[Sidenote: July 2.]
+
+Attended in full uniform the funeral of Sir Robert Stopford; the whole
+ceremony conducted in a manner worthy of so great and good a man.
+
+Dined in South Street with Sir James Kempt; met Colonel Brereton and
+others.
+
+[Sidenote: Southampton, July 8.]
+
+Visited Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, who gave me a model of _Dido_.
+He had been Captain-Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard when she was
+building.
+
+By rail to Gosport. Dined with the Hyde Parkers. Had a chat with Lord
+Saltoun at George Hotel.
+
+[Sidenote: July 14.]
+
+By steamer to Ryde, and four-horse coach to Dudley Pelham at St.
+Lawrence.
+
+[Sidenote: St. Lawrence, July 15.]
+
+Rode Pelham’s pony; re-visited Apple-de-Combe.
+
+[Sidenote: July 26.]
+
+Went to Bill Crosbie’s, Emsworth; a jolly party. Goodwood with Bill’s
+party, on Delmé’s drag.
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+Letter from brother George requesting my presence at Lymington. When I
+got to Portsmouth, found this day fixed for the election; Ergo, no use
+my going, so rejoined the party for Goodwood.
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+Party going to the ball at Chichester; returned with wife to Portsmouth
+on a visit to old friends, the Cashers at Southsea.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 4.]
+
+Bill Crosbie and two handsome Miss Leithbridges coming over. Made a
+party to bazaar at Lord Down’s, Binstead. The Leithbridges dined with
+us.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 5.]
+
+By steam to Portsmouth. _Cambrian_ given to Plumridge.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 6.]
+
+In Lord Hardwicke’s yacht to his place Sydney Lodge, on the banks of
+Southampton Water. Nice breeze. Good dinner. Lady Hardwicke singing
+delightfully.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 7.]
+
+Rainy, stormy morning; strong breeze. Returned in the _Susan_. She was
+a yawl-rigged, half-decked, 30-ton boat which his Lordship steered
+himself.
+
+[Sidenote: Ryde, Aug. 8.]
+
+Invited by Sir Augustus Clifford to meet Lord Auckland at dinner.
+Borneo affairs to be brought under immediate consideration.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 10.]
+
+A couple of days at Dudley Pelham’s lovely place at St. Lawrence. Met
+Love, brother officer, who danced hornpipe nearly as well as T. P.
+Cooke.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Aug. 14.]
+
+Met Admiral Shireff. Offer of his Flag-Captain in case of his getting
+_Pacific_; accepted same on conditions.
+
+[Sidenote: Cowes, Aug. 24.]
+
+A sail in the _Pearl_ and dined afterwards with Lord Anglesey at Cowes
+Castle.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 25.]
+
+By steamer to Southampton. Embarked in Chamberlayne’s _Arrow_, sailed
+through Needles passage for Plymouth. Mr. Weld on board--charming old
+boy.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 26.]
+
+Got into Plymouth. Regatta in full force. Hundreds of people on the
+Hoe. Weather fine. Went to the Regatta Ball.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 28.]
+
+_Arrow_ sailing for a cup, time race, which she lost by six seconds
+only, coming in first. Sailed while at dinner for Cowes.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 29.]
+
+Lucky in our fine weather. Came close round the Bill of Portland
+_within the race_. Shortened sail for dinner, yacht fashion. Arrived at
+Cowes 10 P.M.
+
+Joining wife at the Vines, Puckaster.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 31.]
+
+Steam to Portsmouth. Rail to Farnham. Fly to kind good friends at
+Rookesbury.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 1.]
+
+William Gamier, Frank Collier, and Walpole to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Rookesbury, Sept. 3.]
+
+That donkey, “the Honest Bishop” of Bond Street, not having sent my
+gun, spoiled a good day’s shooting, having only a tool with the lock of
+the right barrel broken.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 6.]
+
+Garnier kindly giving permission for me to invite one of the Cashers to
+shoot, William came. Ten brace between us. Casher to dinner and sleep.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 7.]
+
+Casher to have another day’s shooting. Bagged twenty-two brace. No
+house in England so enjoyable as this Rookesbury; no people so kind and
+generous.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 13.]
+
+Drizzly rain. Took leave of our kind friends at Rookesbury. At
+Southwick.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 14.]
+
+Plenty of birds. Lady Farnham staying here.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+Letter from Admiral Dundas requiring me to decide between
+Flag-Captaining to Sir Charles Napier and a sixth-rate to India.
+
+To Admiralty. Difficult point to decide between inclination and economy.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Sept. 23.]
+
+Breakfasted with Admiral Dundas; decided on India. Wrote letter of
+thanks to Lord Auckland.
+
+Offered appointment as First Lieutenant to Bowyear.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 1.]
+
+By rail with wife to Quidenham.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 9.]
+
+Father and Lady Albemarle off to Newmarket.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 11.]
+
+Adieu to Quidenham--for how long? Wife to Blackheath. Found Brooke at
+Mivart’s Hotel. United Service Club giving him a dinner, which was
+crowded.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 12.]
+
+Business at Admiralty. To Greenwich. Dined with Sir James Gordon to
+meet Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 13.]
+
+Met Brooke at Lord John Russell’s office, Downing Street. My old
+friend, Charles Gore, his Private Secretary.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Breakfasted with Brooke at Mivart’s. Meeting of Borneo Mission. £3000
+subscribed.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 18.]
+
+Dined with Lord Auckland to meet Brooke: Lord and Lady Grey, Lord and
+Lady Palmerston, Lord and Lady Clanricade and pretty daughter, Lords
+Lansdowne and Morpeth, and Dr. Hooker.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 20.]
+
+Accompanied Brooke to Frank Grant’s, who was painting his portrait,
+indeed a striking likeness. Grant the first artist in the country.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Oct. 21.]
+
+Anniversary of Trafalgar. Dined at Club of 1765. Some fine old “Salts”
+present.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 22.]
+
+With Brooke to Admiralty. He invited to Windsor Castle.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 24.]
+
+To Greenwich School. Inspected some nice-looking lads for _Mæander_.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 29.]
+
+Brooke received the Freedom of the City of London, and made a speech.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Oct. 30.]
+
+Admiral Dundas informed me that I should commission _Mæander_ at once.
+
+As I was anxious to be employed, I had tried hard for the _Active_, one
+of Symonds’ beautiful ships he wished me to have. However, that lovely
+frigate was never commissioned. To Portsmouth. Ordered outfit. Arranged
+rendezvous on the Hard.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 1.]
+
+My commission appointing me to the command of the _Mæander_ frigate,
+44, at Chatham, made out. Allowed to name such officers as I wished.
+
+    First Lieutenant--George Leger Bowyear.
+    Second Lieutenant--Charles B. Read.
+    Third Lieutenant--Henry W. Comber.
+    Third Lieutenant--R. Brice Oldfield.
+    Master--Francis H. May.
+    Marines--First Lieutenant--Rodney V. Allen.
+    Paymaster--George Simmonds.
+    Surgeon--John Clarke.
+    Assistant-Surgeon--William Smith.
+    Second Master--William Turton.
+
+Dined with the Lord Mayor to meet Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 2.]
+
+Business at Admiralty. Other appointments made. Every vacancy filled up.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 6.]
+
+To breakfast with Brooke. By Great Western to Chippenham, on visit to
+Lord Lansdowne at Bowood. Large party.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 7.]
+
+_Sunday._--A day for a short walk. Church in private chapel; beautiful
+organ and music.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 8.]
+
+Many of the party leaving. In afternoon Brooke and I a ride with Lords
+Lansdowne and Morley.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 9.]
+
+Back to London with Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: Sheerness, Nov. 11.]
+
+With young Spalding to Sheerness. Breakfasted with
+Captain-Superintendent. Took Spalding on Board _Ocean_ to be examined.
+Made my bow and presented Commission to Admiral.
+
+Returned to Chatham. First Lieutenant Bowyear, Read, and Spalding to
+dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 15.]
+
+Some good men joining.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 18.]
+
+Letter from brother George urging me to meet a party at dinner. Up in
+time to a family feed; very good though. Put up at Mivart’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 19.]
+
+Back to Chatham in time to muster Ship’s Company. Charlie Graham also
+down to sign papers; dined together.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 20.]
+
+Admiralty complying with most of my requests, to the astonishment of
+dockyard.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+Attended a meeting of the Borneo Mission at Hanover Square. Had to
+second resolution and make a speech. More than 1000 present; chiefly
+ladies--nervous work.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Frock-coats introduced into the service; good things and comfortable.
+
+[Sidenote: Chatham, Nov. 26.]
+
+As senior officer had to inspect men sent from Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 30.]
+
+Vice-Admiral Sir Durnford King sent steamer for me to be interviewed
+at Sheerness relative to my refusing drafts from _Ocean_. Returned in
+steamer.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 2.]
+
+Heard of Admiral Shireff’s death. Good fellow. A week ago as hale and
+healthy a man as any on the list.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+Reprimand from Admiralty for having refused the splendid men they sent!
+_Mæander_ entering better hourly.
+
+Dined with Royal Marines. Cheery mess.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 4.]
+
+Dined with Stephenson at Beef Steak Club.
+
+Kind Rajah gave wife handsome bracelets of Borneo gold.
+
+[Sidenote: Sheerness, Dec. 7.]
+
+Snug and comfortable quarters on board _Hussar_, hulk.
+
+Ship removed from dock to alongside hulk.
+
+[Sidenote: Chatham, Dec. 10.]
+
+Dined with Royal Marines’ Barracks mess with Colonel Whylock.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 16.]
+
+Met two young Egertons at Nine Elms Station. Accompanied them to
+shoot at Lord Ellesmere’s near Weybridge. Prettiest grounds and wild
+shooting. Back by return ticket.
+
+Had a capital dinner at Hastie’s--Stephenson, Brooke and others.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 18.]
+
+We left London for Woburn Abbey. Harvey and Brooke with us. A large
+house; nice and agreeable party.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 20.]
+
+Brooke and I put four horses to a stage coach, and with wife, and
+servants, posted across country to Cambridge, by rail to Dereham, coach
+to Wells, and in Leicester’s carriage to Holkham, making a tedious
+journey of fifteen hours. Late for dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Holkham, Dec. 21.]
+
+Some nice people here: Edward Digby, Archie MacDonald, Porter, 9th
+Lancers, Henry Coke, and others.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 22.]
+
+A good day’s shooting, my bag 87 head.
+
+Margaret Coke drove me over to Creake. Decided on taking Tom’s little
+fellow Leicester with me.
+
+Servants’ ball in evening. Great fun.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 23.]
+
+Shot the Wareham side: not so much game as I have seen. I killed 57
+head. Brooke not shooting, but making himself particularly agreeable.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 24.]
+
+To shoot fourteen miles off. Wet, dirty day. Leicester not well enough
+to dine downstairs; the youngsters got rather by the head and a little
+noisy.
+
+[Sidenote: Christmas Day, Dec. 25.]
+
+To Lexham, Brooke, wife and I, Fred Keppel and his brother Edward
+receiving us. Nice, quiet, and comfortable house and party.
+
+[Sidenote: Lexham to Hockham, Dec. 27.]
+
+Put posters to Fred Keppel’s carriage, sending servants and luggage by
+fly to Hockham. Found large party to meet the Rajah.
+
+[Sidenote: Hockham, Dec. 28.]
+
+Brooke returned in Fred Keppel’s carriage to Lexham. Breretons, Dover,
+C. Partridge, Reynardson, and self to shoot.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 29.]
+
+Snow. Regular winter’s day.
+
+[Sidenote: Quidenham, Dec. 30.]
+
+Partridge, sending us to Quidenham; Brooke arriving in time for dinner.
+Kindly welcomed by all.
+
+George and his son Willie, Edward and Maria, Eustace Hill, Sir Robert
+Adair, Miss Hunloke and selves, a party of twelve.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 31.]
+
+Brooke took his departure for Norwich to visit the Bishop. Family
+party to dinner. My dear father in great force. Knowing his dislike to
+saying good-bye, took advantage of his going out of the room to walk
+off to bed. I trust I may find him as well, should I live to return.
+He is in his seventy-sixth year, and I am going to India on peculiar
+service. Four years is a long time to look forward to. Our meeting
+again doubtful!
+
+The next three or four years are likely to be the most eventful of my
+life.
+
+
+_Postscript to 1847_
+
+I cannot close my diary this year without mention of the sore trouble
+in which my friend Brooke was involved. The commencement, indeed, of
+the persecution from which he emerged stainless, but at the cost of
+mental anxiety which ultimately caused his death.
+
+As early as 1843, Brooke thought he had reason to suspect the good
+faith and honour of his London agent, Mr. Henry Wise of Austin Friars.
+
+In his confidential letters to his friend, Jack Templer, he had
+referred to his growing uneasiness at Wise’s management of his affairs.
+
+Letters passed upon the subject: Wise’s replies seldom being
+satisfactory. In spite of facts, Brooke did not break off relations
+with him.
+
+Brooke had placed his “Journal” at my disposal, and Templer brought a
+mass of private letters from Brooke relating to his policy and doings
+in Sarawak.
+
+Not deeming myself competent to undertake the construction of the
+_Dido_ book, I placed these materials, as well as my diaries, in the
+hands of Mr. Jerdan, editor of the _Court Journal_, and a former
+acquaintance.
+
+We conferred continually, as the record already written has shown, and
+worked amicably enough together.
+
+Jerdan improperly allowed Wise access to these letters, as well
+as Brooke’s “Journal,” in spite of their containing references of
+a disparaging nature about Wise. In this way the seeds of future
+mischief were sown. Wise saw that Brooke suspected him, and under legal
+compulsion only did he return the letters to Templer. However, he had
+made copies and used them as he willed.
+
+Then came the formation of the Eastern Archipelago Company (without
+sanction from Brooke), which had at bottom a scheme to buy out Brooke’s
+rights in Sarawak and work the country from one point only--that of
+making money.
+
+Brooke refused to give up the trust reposed in him by the Rajah and
+people of Sarawak, came home later on, brought a lawsuit against the
+Directors of the Eastern Archipelago Company, and won it.
+
+The Directors were convicted of fraud in putting a false certificate on
+the charter as to the amount of capital subscribed. It was, in fact,
+a bogus prospectus. Mr. Wise had got £18,000 out of it, and much more
+besides.
+
+Finding a ready ear in Mr. David Hume, better known in the Navy as the
+“Revenue Cutter,” and who loved a grievance, Wise tried to turn the
+tables on Brooke once more, alleging his “dreadful treatment” of the
+Dyaks as an excuse.
+
+However, “this cock would not fight.” Brooke was the lion of the hour
+in 1847, and was appointed Governor of Labuan.
+
+I have always held that ropes were pulled by Wise’s familiars and
+himself to get Brooke, Napier, myself, and other truthful witnesses out
+of England in order to further their plans in floating this fraudulent
+company.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII
+
+THE _MÆANDER_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1848. Jan. 1.]
+
+Adieu for a while to Quidenham. Farewell, dear father.
+
+By rail to London. Business at Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 4.]
+
+Called with Brooke on Lord Ellesmere. Dined with Lord Auckland:
+agreeable company.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 5.]
+
+Early boat to Gravesend and Chatham. Ship beginning to look well.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _Fitting_.]
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 6.]
+
+Splendid boats; nearly finished. _Hydra_, friend Grey Skipwith sailing
+for Rio in command; good fellow as well as seaman.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 7.]
+
+Order from Admiral, to move to Sheerness.
+
+Private letters from Admiralty to remain where we are! Cabins building
+for passengers.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 11.]
+
+Bent sails.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 16.]
+
+At 8.30 taken in tow by the _Charon_ steamer. Master attendant no nerve
+to move ship under canvas!
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 18.]
+
+A party of friends and relations from London: a jovial party. Gave them
+the best I could, Admiral kindly lending his steam tender to take many
+of them back as far as Chatham.
+
+[Sidenote: Sheerness, Jan. 19.]
+
+Attempt to get out, but pilot not willing. Jolly party still on board.
+
+My brothers remaining; also old Rouse, of Naval College 1822, and now
+from Greenwich school, as well as other friends.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+Slipped moorings at 11.30, and with the assistance of steam got as far
+as Little Nore. Brother George obliged to leave with his boy. Saluted
+Admiral, Sir Edward Durnford King.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 21.]
+
+Stephenson and his boys, Augustus and Sussex, not able to remain longer.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 22.]
+
+Early morning, the Launch paddled alongside with her small engine
+puffing away. Admiral had ship inspected by Captain Price, as much to
+his satisfaction as to mine.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 23.]
+
+Steamer alongside and fore and aft sails set--our nervous pilot got
+under way--nice breeze; made sail over the flats and cast off steamer,
+in which old friend Rouse went.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 24.]
+
+Brothers Tom and Edward, as well as Harvey, delighted with their sail.
+Nine, anchored at Spithead; breeze too fresh for wife to land in boat.
+Admiral kindly sent his tender. Dined with Admiral, Sir Charles Ogle.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 25.]
+
+To London by express train. Business at Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 26.]
+
+Returned to Portsmouth.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+At two o’clock Board of Admiralty, consisting of Lord Auckland, Lord
+John Hay, Milne, Eden, Ward, and Berkeley, with Lady Ellesmere and two
+charming daughters, came on board.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 1.]
+
+Leave-takings over, weighed from Spithead.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 2.]
+
+Party on board--Sir James Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. W. Napier, daughter and
+baby; Mr. Hugh Low, Mr. Spencer St. John, Mr. Scott, Captain Hoskins,
+Mr. Gwynne, my guest; Captain Peyton, and Lieutenant Müller, the latter
+a Norwegian naval officer.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 3.]
+
+Breeze freshening from westward. Came to in Plymouth Sound at 10 P.M.
+with watch.
+
+[Sidenote: Plymouth, Feb. 4.]
+
+Landed with Lieutenant Oldfield. Met his father, who invited us to
+drive on the morrow. Visited George Goldsmith, now Flag Captain to Lord
+Dundonald on board _Wellesley_.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 5.]
+
+8 A.M.--Met on landing by Lieutenant Oldfield, whose mother had been
+found dead in her bed!
+
+Attended with George Goldsmith a lecture on electricity by Captain
+Sir W. Harris--lightning conductors. Dined with Lady Hillyar, a good,
+dear old lady. She entertained Captains after the battle of Trafalgar,
+Gibraltar!
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 6.]
+
+Wind veering to N.W.; weighed from Sound. Stood out by Eastern Passage.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _leaving Plymouth_.]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 7.]
+
+Wind back to W.S.W., accompanied by a smash of crockery. Appearance of
+worse weather.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 10.]
+
+Took shelter in Cork Harbour. Brooke and I dined with Admiral Mackay.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 14.]
+
+Took Mrs. and Miss Napier, and my young nephew, Leicester Keppel, to
+Cork. Sent valentines to Bijou Dalyell, Collier, and Georgie Johnson.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 15.]
+
+Wind veering round to northward; took leave of Admiral, and borrowed
+his latest newspapers. At 11 A.M. under weigh and stood out of Cork
+Harbour. Adieu to Europe.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 16.]
+
+Sea getting up; breeze freshening into a gale; ship plunging and
+rolling. Little Leicester announced that he was going to die. Smash
+among chairs and what was left of crockery.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 17.]
+
+At daylight Napier’s little boy, James Brooke, aged five months, was
+found dead in its bed. Sad blow to the parents. Supposed to have gone
+off in a fit. Poor Mrs. Napier--poor Napier! Nurse in hysterics.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 18.]
+
+Wind dead on end. Napier wretched. Leaden coffin made for the small
+thing; in evening screwed it down in a mahogany one, and covered over
+with a Union Jack, to be landed at Madeira.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 20.]
+
+Divine service performed in cabin. Gunroom table too crowded for my
+party to dine there. I had ever looked forward to the command of a
+frigate as the height of my ambition. I copy the following from Sir
+Spenser St. John’s book, he having been one of my passengers:--
+
+    There is no greater error in the world than turning vessels
+    of war into passenger ships, particularly when ladies are
+    concerned.
+
+    Every spot is occupied beforehand, so that the unfortunate
+    passengers soon discover that they are _de trop_, and the
+    comfort of the officers and discipline of the ship suffer from
+    having a miscellaneous crowd of idlers.
+
+    Though every desire was shown by captain and officers to render
+    passengers comfortable, it had but poor success! Mr. Scott,
+    Mr. Hoskins, and myself were stuffed into one small cabin with
+    only two beds; I had to resign myself to swinging in a hammock.
+
+The main-deck guns, as far forward as the mainmast, were dismounted;
+the ports fitted in as windows, and the deck divided into cabins--the
+ship having the appearance of one of Mr. Green’s fine Indiamen, without
+the accommodation.
+
+My cabin was called the “saloon,” my servants “waiters,” and when the
+ship gave an extra plunge, sundry “brandies and sodas” were called for.
+
+[Sidenote: Madeira, Feb. 23.]
+
+Anchored in Funchal Roads at daylight. Kindly received by Consul
+Stoddard, an old friend, celebrated for his hospitality. Youngsters on
+shore with different friends. Leicester staying with the Scott Surtees.
+
+Brooke and I had the honour of dining with Her Majesty the Queen
+Dowager.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 24.]
+
+Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Princes Edward and Herman, Lord Northland, Major
+de Winton, Consul Stoddard, and a party came to visit and lunch on
+board.
+
+Stoddard invited us to meet the two Princes and a party at dinner, and
+he also got up an expedition to see the _Corral_. A dance given by the
+officers was spoilt by dirty weather.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 25.]
+
+Band landed to perform at a picnic in Mr. Stoddard’s garden.
+
+Brooke and I took our farewell dinner with Her Majesty, who, very
+prettily, drank health and happiness to wife and self, it being the
+anniversary of our wedding day, and also drank success to Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 26.]
+
+12.20 A.M.--Weighed from Funchal Roads; weather cold for the latitude.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 27.]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 28.]
+
+Divine service performed in my cabin; it being still too cold for
+the quarter-deck, although getting warmer. Flying-fish and dolphins,
+as well as other indications of the tropics. Weather being fine, the
+youngsters commenced school in my fore-cabin.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+Three successive good runs, 235, 238, and 234.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 9.]
+
+In the evening the ship was hailed by Neptune, who sent his messenger
+over the bows in a blaze of light; in witnessing the function the
+passengers got wet.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 10.]
+
+Neptune came on board and performed the usual foolery, 160 men
+underwent the operation of shaving amid much merriment and fun.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 11.]
+
+Westley Richards, the well-known gun maker, had an agent, by the name
+of Bishop; a character, he had visiting cards on which he styled
+himself “The Bishop of Bond Street.” He was a dog-fancier, and restored
+many a lady’s lost dogs.
+
+[Illustration: “_The Bishop._”]
+
+When a regiment of Guards marched through Bond Street, I often saw “the
+Bishop” stand in front of his shop in his white apron, presenting arms
+with a double-barrelled gun.
+
+He presented me with a thoroughbred Scotch terrier; of course the dog
+could have no other name than _Bishop_. It is difficult to take a
+thoroughbred across the Equator. Sailors are fond of animals, dogs in
+particular.
+
+After leaving Madeira, one forenoon _Bishop_ was pronounced to be mad,
+foaming at the mouth, and snapping at everything, there was no mistake.
+
+I was in the fore-cabin, through which he rushed; the youngsters at
+school, their legs dangling; but none were bitten. On his journey
+forward he encountered the sailmaker repairing a main-split topsail.
+One blow with a huge marling spike finished the poor dog.
+
+I wondered afterwards what effect he must have had on a shark’s
+stomach. It was a mercy no one was bitten in the school cabin.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 13.]
+
+Made the island of Fernando Noronha.
+
+This night a fine young A.B., George Robinson, in a fit of delirium
+got out of his hammock and jumped through a main-deck port, saying,
+“Good-bye, shipmates,” as he went. Boats were down on the instant, but
+to no purpose!
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 16.]
+
+Preparing for painting cabin guns. Dined on deck, abaft mizen mast,
+screened in--much discomfort, but how fond people are of a change. Boat
+from an American whaler came alongside about sunset wanting _news_ only!
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 24.]
+
+Close off the Port of Rio at daylight; had to wait the sea breeze. Glad
+to land passengers for a while. Found my old friend Tennyson d’Eyncourt
+in the _Comus_.
+
+William Partridge, unfortunately invalided from _Grecian_, had gone
+home in the Packet.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Invalided Read. Poor fellow! Sorry to lose him, but no command of
+himself. With Brooke to call on our Minister, Lord Howden.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 26.]
+
+Napier tired of shore; came on board with belongings; a bore just now.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 27.]
+
+Determined, with my cargo, on not calling at Simon’s Bay. Provisioned
+accordingly. D’Eyncourt dined with me: his ship, the _Comus_, having
+committed the crime of getting on shore! it was necessary to heel her
+over in the River Plate. In doing this she lost her balance and found
+the bottom, this time in soft mud.
+
+I believe the Plate takes its name from Plata (silver), but any water
+more like pea-soup in colour I never was in. (No time to apply for
+details to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir J. E. Commerell, G.C.B., V.C.,
+A.D.C., who was midshipman on board _Firebrand_ at this time, and just
+going home for his examination as mate.)
+
+However, with a fine crew and help of Captain Hope of _Firebrand_,
+they got the _Comus_ up, minus a keel, in which state my friend
+d’Eyncourt was taking her home with a good freight on board. There was
+a suspicious-looking clipper lying off the mouth of the harbour at the
+time, but he thought “a bird in the hand,” etc.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+Got under way at daylight, and ran out with the land breeze. Breeze
+still holding, enabling us to make southing.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 30.]
+
+My passenger friend Peyton, a very good fellow.
+
+[Sidenote: April 6.]
+
+[Sidenote: April 10.]
+
+Dirty weather. Gig’s crew baling water out of fore-cabin. One of my
+cows dead, the other not much.
+
+[Sidenote: April 19.]
+
+In the forenoon made Prince Edward’s Island in 46° 23´ S. Not often
+made by ships going to India. Best and shortest route though!
+
+[Sidenote: April 20.]
+
+A slashing breeze. Twelve knots logged for eight successive hours. By
+log 274 miles, to which may be added 25--easterly set, making 299 miles.
+
+[Sidenote: April 26.]
+
+Once more within the limits of the East Indian Station (_Batta_),
+having crossed the 75° of longitude; good run of 270 miles by log.
+
+[Sidenote: April 27.]
+
+While at breakfast John Wallis, a fine young fellow, fell overboard
+from the main topsail yard-arm.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _hove to_.]
+
+In lowering boats Comber fell out of the cutter: recovered much
+exhausted, but poor Wallis had sunk to rise no more alive, the sea had
+closed over him. He was only twenty-four, and Second Captain of the
+Top: a favourite with the ship’s company, who expressed a wish to send
+his mother, whom he supported, a day’s pay.
+
+Lots of albatross and other sea-birds about; some endeavoured to flap
+Comber on the head with their powerful wings while he was in the water;
+much exhausted, but swam manfully.
+
+[Illustration: _Comber in Danger._]
+
+[Sidenote: May 2.]
+
+Occasional heavy squalls, in one of which the chain bowsprit shroud
+carried away the bowsprit badly sprung; wind driving aft, enabling us
+to repair damages without altering course.
+
+Spring in bowsprit was just outside the knight-heads and nearly
+through. Got spare boat’s masts out as supporters on each side; secure
+but not handsome, it enabled us to carry the jib with care.
+
+[Sidenote: May 5.]
+
+Miss Napier having this day attained her nineteenth year, champagne and
+a dance in the fore-cabin. Think there is something in the wind between
+her and Low!
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+On referring to my _Dido_ log, curious how near together the running of
+the two ships over a space of seven thousand miles: never having been a
+hundred ahead of one another.
+
+[Sidenote: May 12.]
+
+Made Christmas Island at 3 A.M. A few days over six years since I did
+so in _Dido_.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, May 14.]
+
+Within the Straits of Sunda: squally weather. Master and self piloting
+ship past the numerous shoals: anchored off Singapore. Mail in.
+
+[Sidenote: 1848.]
+
+Stunning news of Revolution in France; Louis Philippe an exile in
+England; a Republic proclaimed, and other extraordinary facts.
+
+Heard of Admiral Inglefield’s death at Bombay from wearing cocked
+hat in the sun. _Cambrian_ here with Plumridge, my old _Magicienne_
+Captain, flying First-Class Commodore’s broad pennant!
+
+[Sidenote: May 22.]
+
+Brooke was received with all the honours due to a Governor, and on the
+following day preparations commenced for establishing the new colony of
+Labuan.
+
+An office was opened in Singapore, and contracts received for the
+frameworks of temporary residences to be erected for the Government
+functionaries.
+
+Singapore has now become a rich and extensive town. By no act of
+his life did Sir Stamford Raffles manifest greater discernment and
+foresight than by founding this settlement; steam then not dreamed
+of. It has become the emporium of all the trading communities of the
+Eastern Archipelago, as well as of that of extensive trade carried on
+by all nations with China and India. Here twice a month now come the
+steam-vessels of the Dutch from Batavia, of Spain from Manila, and our
+own from China, to meet the European mail.
+
+Colonel Butterworth, the present Governor, has had roads opened in all
+parts of the island, and thrown substantial bridges across its streams.
+Met Captain M‘Quhae of the _Dædelus_, lunched with him.
+
+[Sidenote: May 23.]
+
+The Governor gave a ball and supper to commemorate Her Majesty’s
+birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: May 24.]
+
+Brooke, Read, Napier, and some others dined with old M‘Quhae, on board
+the _Dædelus_, before the ball. M‘Quhae got a little by the head,
+ships and forts having saluted at noon. Took possession of Navy House,
+a nice building, once poor Whitehead’s.
+
+[Sidenote: May 25.]
+
+_Dædelus_ sailed, and I assumed command of the Straits Station. Society
+much enlarged: impossible to get through the necessary calls in one
+day. Band on shore in the evenings for the amusement of our friends.
+Peyton and I dined with Tom Church, our Resident Councillor.
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+In pulling about in my gig among the numerous prettily wooded islands
+on the westward entrance to the Singapore river, was astonished to find
+deep water close to the shore, with a safe passage through for ships
+larger than the _Mæander_.
+
+Now that steam is likely to come into use, this ready-made harbour as a
+depot for coal would be invaluable.
+
+I had the position surveyed, and sent it, with my report, to the Board
+of Admiralty; as it was, the forge was landed, boats repaired, and
+artificers employed under commodious sheds, all under the eyes of the
+officers on board.
+
+[Illustration: _New Harbour, Singapore._]
+
+New Harbour has another advantage over Singapore Roads. In the latter
+a ship’s bottom becomes more foul than in any known anchorage in
+these seas; perhaps from the near proximity to the bottom. This is
+not the case in New Harbour, through which there is always a tide
+running, while a current of air passing between the islands keeps it
+comparatively cool.
+
+[Sidenote: June 9.]
+
+Despatched _Phlegethon_ with the pioneers of the new settlement at
+Labuan, also to relieve the _Auckland_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 19.]
+
+_Mariner_, 16, arrived from the Cape, having made a long voyage going
+the old track, Commander Mathieson taking up his quarters with me.
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+Officers of 21st dined “Mæanders,” inviting the Napiers to meet them.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, June 23.]
+
+A tiger brought in by some Malays was given me by the Governor. Clarke
+kindly skinned the beast. The flesh is in great demand by natives, who
+fancy that eating it makes them strong and brave.
+
+The Malays stated, when they found the monster in a hole which had been
+dug on purpose, they threw quicklime in his eyes, and the unfortunate
+beast, while suffering intense pain, drowned himself in some water at
+the bottom of the pit, though not more than a foot in depth.
+
+The annual loss of human life from tigers, chiefly among the Chinese
+settlers, is fearful--averaging one per diem. Great exertions are
+still being made for the destruction of them, which is effected by
+pitfalls--cages baited with dog, goat, monkey, or other restless
+animal, also by sundry cunning contrivances, but the strait between
+Johore and Singapore is but a short swim.
+
+One of the recent victims was the son of the head man at Passir Pâdi,
+who, having gone into the jungle behind his father’s house to cut wood,
+was attacked by a tiger. The father, hearing screams, rushed just in
+time to grasp his boy’s legs as the brute was dragging him.
+
+The father pulled and the tiger growled: it was only on other people
+arriving that he quitted his prey; but the unfortunate lad was dead.
+
+There is a procession and much parade in bringing these tigers to the
+Government offices for the reward. The tigers are made to look as
+fierce as possible--propped up in a standing position by pieces of
+bamboo, the mouth open, and tail on end.
+
+So great is the virtue of tiger flesh as a pick-me-up from fever that a
+portion of my beast found its way to the sick-room of a friend in the
+21st Madras Native Infantry.
+
+He was recovering from fever, and expressed surprise at the tough
+meat in his curry, when his native servant explained his reason for
+supplying it.
+
+Although out on various occasions, I was never fortunate enough to
+fall in with a live tiger. With wild hog we had excellent sport, and
+occasionally with deer.
+
+[Sidenote: June 24.]
+
+Comber was made a Freemason of the lodge “Zetland in the East” (to
+which I subsequently belonged). The members gave a farewell dinner to
+Read, and invited me to meet him. Brooke was also a guest, and made an
+excellent speech.
+
+[Sidenote: June 27.]
+
+_Auckland_ steamer in from Labuan; Sekarran pirates requiring a visit.
+Captain Young of _Auckland_ took up his quarters with me.
+
+Drove with the Governor. Assembly ball in evening.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, June 28.]
+
+_Mæander_ hoisted Royal Standard and saluted on anniversary of the
+Coronation.
+
+Our worthy old Purser, Simmons, departed this life while staying at
+Whampoa’s country house.
+
+Whampoa was a fine specimen of his country, and had for many years been
+contractor for fresh beef and naval stores. His generosity and honesty
+had long made him a favourite.
+
+He had a country house, and of course a garden; also a circular pond in
+which was a magnificent lotus, the _Victoriæ regia_, a present from the
+Regent of Siam, who sent it to him by W. H. Read. The huge lily grew
+splendidly, and bore leaves over eleven feet in diameter.
+
+When in blossom, Whampoa gave sumptuous entertainments to naval
+officers: although our host, he would not eat with us, but sat in a
+chair, slightly withdrawn from the table.
+
+At midnight, by the light of a full moon, we would visit this beautiful
+flower, which faced the moon and moved with it until below the horizon.
+
+Amongst other pets he had an orang-outang, who preferred a bottle of
+cognac to water. Dear old Whampoa’s eldest son was sent to England for
+education, and while there became a Presbyterian.
+
+When I was at Singapore, years after, the young man returned, and had
+the assurance to reappear before his father, fresh and well, but minus
+a tail, and consequently was banished to Canton until it regrew and he
+consented to worship the gods of his fathers. I now hear from the then
+lad that he holds his father’s place.
+
+[Sidenote: June 29.]
+
+Attended the funeral of Simmons: no kinder or better man.
+
+[Sidenote: July 1.]
+
+Dined at a farewell dinner, given by the Frasers to the Reads.
+_Albatross_, 12, arrived from Rio. Commander Farquhar, a good fellow,
+took up his quarters with me.
+
+[Sidenote: July 3.]
+
+Mail steamer from China, bringing old friend Tottenham to take
+Lieutenant Read’s vacancy.
+
+[Sidenote: July 4.]
+
+Large dinner at Government House to meet His Excellency Sir James
+Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: July 6.]
+
+Dined with Cooke and Hessey, 21st Regiment: a large party. Brooke came
+to stay with me.
+
+[Sidenote: July 10.]
+
+Took leave of the Governor and Mrs. Butterworth, who are leaving on the
+morrow to visit the various settlements.
+
+[Sidenote: July 13.]
+
+Low gave a dinner at the hotel to self and friends.
+
+[Sidenote: July 17.]
+
+On board _Mæander_; got under way to accompany Farquhar in _Albatross_,
+after dining we parted company, she proceeding to Bombay.
+
+[Sidenote: July 18.]
+
+Landed at 4 A.M. with the youngsters to draw the seine; great fun.
+
+[Sidenote: July 19.]
+
+Weighed at 10 A.M., and ran into New Harbour. Rajah Brooke far from
+well, our departure for Sarawak postponed.
+
+[Sidenote: July 23.]
+
+A snake five feet long found under one of the main-deck guns. How he
+got there, they wondered!
+
+[Sidenote: July 24.]
+
+Having a large party on board, got under way. Ran through the Eastern
+Passage, round St. John’s, and returned by Western Entrance. _Auckland_
+steamer joined us in New Harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: July 31.]
+
+At 5 P.M., on the rising of the moon, fired a salute of eight guns to
+please the Tumongong of Singapore, in celebration of the close of a
+Mahommedan Fast.
+
+Ever since meeting him in Singapore in this year, my friend, James
+Meldrum (Dato), has always kept me informed of all matters connected
+with the doings of the Tumongong and his family.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 7.]
+
+Arrived mail steamer, on board which was my old friend, Sir Francis
+Collier, as Commander-in-Chief. His birthday too!
+
+Hoisted and saluted his flag on board _Mæander_. Put him up in Read’s
+house, now empty, Admiral’s flagship _Hastings_ to follow. The pleasure
+of meeting, I flatter myself, was mutual. Drove out with him after
+early dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 10.]
+
+Attended the Admiral in returning many calls.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 12.]
+
+Assisted at Miss Napier’s cheery wedding with Hugh Low: _déjeûner_
+given by Napier.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 14.]
+
+Occupied with Admiral, returning calls. He having ventured on the
+favourite native fruit, Durian, will not forget the taste!
+
+[Sidenote: Egerton, Aug. 15.]
+
+Youngsters Karslake and Granville on shore preparatory to riding at the
+races. I won the lottery.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 19.]
+
+Last day of the races: better sport because fairer weights; good fun.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 21.]
+
+Great preparations for the instalment of James Brooke. Pity the
+Governor is not here to perform the ceremony.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 22.]
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 25.]
+
+Installation of Brooke with the order of K.C.B.: great business;
+Napier, Her Majesty’s Representative, performing ceremony. Ball in
+evening at Assembly Rooms.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 28.]
+
+Captain Young and officers of _Auckland_ gave a ball on board their
+steaming frigate to the “Mæanders.” Very well done.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 29.]
+
+Brooke returned from short visit to the country; sailed with him for
+Labuan. Left dingey in Read’s garden for Admiral’s flag. Taylor of
+Artillery with me.
+
+[Sidenote: At Sea. Aug. 30.]
+
+Again on the way to Sarawak. My friend Brooke under different
+circumstances than when he went in _Dido_, 1843.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 31.]
+
+Rounded Tanjong Datu: entered within the limits of Brooke’s territory.
+
+[Illustration: _All Sail set._]
+
+[Sidenote: Sarawak, Sept. 2.]
+
+Being off the Santabong entrance sent second gig to Sarawak, with
+letters from Rajah Brooke. Sunset, anchored in the Marotobas entrance
+off Tanjong Po: some 12 miles from Kuching.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 4.]
+
+The whole Sarawak population appeared to be afloat; all their largest
+and finest boats had been put in requisition, and came with tom-toms
+beating, streamers and colours flying to greet their Rajah.
+
+The first boat alongside contained the Bornean Princes: survivors of
+the Brunei Massacre, relatives of poor Muda Hassim and the gallant
+Budrudeen.
+
+Among them I recognised Pangeran Oman Alli, with a desperate wound in
+the face and a frightful gash across the breast.
+
+While preparing for my guests in proper form, their Highnesses found
+their way into my cabin, thereby evading all ceremony--where I will
+leave them a few minutes while I insert here a short extract from Rajah
+Brooke’s letter, dated on board _Phlegethon_, August 27, 1846.
+
+    “Here I am with a few of the unhappy survivors of Muda Hassim’s
+    family.
+
+    “I cannot pretend to detail all that has occurred, even in a
+    long letter, for events now, as when you were with me, progress
+    far faster than the decisions of ministers.
+
+    “You will have heard of the brutal massacre of Muda Hassim, the
+    noble Budrudeen and the other brothers, except two.
+
+    “They were taken by surprise, their houses fired, and during the
+    fire attacked by about fifty men.
+
+    “Budrudeen, with two men, fought until wounded in the wrist and
+    cut over the head; he then blew himself and family up.
+
+    “Muda Hassim escaped with several of his brothers to the
+    opposite side of the river, having lost his guns, powder, and
+    property, and then shot himself.”
+
+The pleasure on both sides at meeting was unfeigned, and
+indeed--setting aside those social ties which must bind us all, more or
+less, to the land of our birth--no one, witnessing the real pleasure
+which the return of Sir James Brooke afforded these simple people,
+could wonder at his preferring a country where such a reception
+awaited him to colder if more civilised England.
+
+With the first of the flood, our Rajah embarked in the _Mæander’s_
+barge, and, quitting the ship under a salute and manned yards, attended
+by his picturesque fleet he proceeded up the river, the war prahus
+keeping up a firing of guns.
+
+After Brooke’s departure we stood out to sea, in search of the _Jolly
+Bachelor_. When off Tanjong Datu we hoisted out our boom-boats, sending
+them in all directions, standing ourselves towards St. Pierre.
+
+We afterwards met the tender off the entrance of the Sarawak River.
+Marryat having mistaken his orders, went in by the Santobong entrance.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 8.]
+
+Ran into the river. The largest ship that has ever been or likely to
+come up as far as the Quop. Took up my quarters in Brooke’s house;
+found him surrounded by a happy and contented people.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 11.]
+
+Preparing boats to accompany a small force to be sent by Rajah to the
+Sadong: twenty-five boats in all.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 13.]
+
+This afternoon tide brought the _Auckland_ steamer, with the July mail.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 14.]
+
+Went up during a stormy night with young Brooke to join his uncle;
+returned with the ebb. _Auckland_ having brought up our new steam
+tender, built at Singapore and christened _Ranee_, took a small trip in
+her. The engines, however, not of sufficient power. The steam launch
+was the astonishment of the natives.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 17.]
+
+Boats returned from their expedition to Sadong, which was most
+successful, but a sad accident had occurred.
+
+Two seamen and a marine were going on shore in a sampan, when the
+seamen began rocking the canoe by way of lark, and upset the small
+vessel, drowning the marine and one sailor.
+
+While the First Lieutenant was reporting to me the sad accident, a lad
+fell overboard from the _Ranee_, and sank at once, probably seized by
+an alligator not visible in muddy water. Very sad the number of deaths
+in this ship: manned by as fine a crew as ever left England.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+Attended a grand feast given by the Datu Patinggi to the Rajah. Great
+preparations had been made; flags and streamers flying, gongs sounding,
+and salutes fired _ad libitum_ from the Datos Lelahs.
+
+We were received by the still pretty and graceful Inda, mother of
+Fatima, the youthful heiress to Datu Gapoor’s property. Her beauty has
+attained a celebrity throughout the Malayan Archipelago.
+
+The fair Fatima sprinkled us with coloured rice and gold dust, to which
+was added a gentle shower of rose water.
+
+Verses from the Koran were chanted, the book being handed from one to
+another, without regard to precedence or sanctity, the man with the
+strongest lungs taking the longest pull at it. Then came feasting, with
+undeniably good curries.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 21.]
+
+Brooke held a Bichara. All the leading Chiefs, Datus, and Pangerans
+attended. Every part of the audience-chamber was crowded: light and
+air being almost excluded by the multitude of eager faces that filled
+the openings which served for windows. We were in uniform and found it
+oppressively hot.
+
+A new flag, which Brooke had brought from England, was unfurled--a
+black and red cross on yellow ground--henceforth the national flag of
+Sarawak.
+
+It was hoisted and saluted in due form; the _Mæander’s_ band, playing
+lively airs, contributed to effect.
+
+The function over, pipes and cigars were introduced. We then threw
+off our jackets, appearing in full Sarawak uniform, viz. shirts and
+trousers only, and discussed with less ceremony and more comfort
+the past, the present, and the future, finishing by dining with the
+generous Hunting, who has become a landed proprietor.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+Up early and down to the ship at the Quop and on to Tanjong Po.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 25.]
+
+The Rajah having embarked with friends Treacher and Macdougal we sailed
+for Labuan, and in four days landed him, although far from well.
+
+[Sidenote: Labuan.]
+
+But where was the Governor’s house? Where the Lieutenant-Governor?
+Where was any one in authority to answer for the miserable huts we
+found raised on the most unhealthy-looking spots on the island?
+
+The flat selected for the settlement is below the level and out of
+sight of the sea, from which it is protected by a silted-up bank. It
+cost the lives of many marines, and, later, some of my best able seamen.
+
+Landed Brooke under a salute. He and Napier were sworn in, and so
+commenced the Government of Labuan.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 6.]
+
+We again received on board the Governor and his staff, His Excellency
+purposing to pay a visit of ceremony to the Sultan of Brunei.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 7.]
+
+Hoisted out the launch. Got caught in a squall, with her and steam
+tender in tow. Before the sail could be got off the launch capsized,
+with a brass gun for ballast; the steam tender did not take in so much
+as a spoonful of water.
+
+However, we picked up the two boat-keepers, and the greater part of
+the gear; came to and hoisted in the launch. While thus employed the
+_Royalist_ hove in sight, having been dismantled in same squall.
+
+The bob-stays had given way, the bowsprit came in-board, and the three
+masts, with royal yards across, lay amidships.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 14.]
+
+Leaving her at Labuan to refit, and a volunteer party of marines for
+duty on shore, we re-landed His Excellency and sailed for Singapore.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 17.]
+
+A marine, William Southcote, another victim, departed this life.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 19.]
+
+Another this evening in Corporal Chalmers, also a steady, good man.
+Have my fears for those poor fellows left at Labuan.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 31.]
+
+At daylight arrived at Singapore. My wife had previously arrived from
+England, and was kindly received by the Governor and Mrs. Butterworth.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 2.]
+
+Admiral hoisted flag on board. I took Whampoa’s house in the country.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 11.]
+
+_Hastings_, 72--Captain, Francis Austen; Commander, Edward
+Rice--arrived in the night. Shifted flag to her and saluted. Glad she
+has arrived. She had been towed up by _Fury_, 6, from Java Head.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 16.]
+
+_Auckland_, arriving from Labuan with _Royalist_ in tow: decided that
+_Mæander_ takes part of 21st Regiment on board for Labuan station.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 17.]
+
+Inquiry, with Captain Morgan, on board _Royalist_, as to steps taken by
+Gordon when she was dismasted. Approval of steps taken.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+Company of Sepoy troops embarked on board _Mæander_. Weighed
+immediately.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _passing astern of_ Hastings.]
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Lucky in our breeze. Fell in with and passed close under the stern of
+the _Hastings_ in tow of _Fury_, she having left thirty hours before
+us. She would have done better under canvas.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 28.]
+
+Arrived at Labuan.
+
+We found nearly the whole colony down with fever. More marines had
+died; many seriously ill, and of the survivors the poor Governor in the
+worst condition. He had been delirious, and lay apparently with but
+little hope of recovery. Doctor Treacher, his medical attendant, was
+nearly as bad.
+
+I saw that some steps should be immediately taken, and, making my way
+to the sick bedside, I begged Sir James to prepare for removal, giving
+him choice of _Auckland_ or _Mæander_. Brooke selected the latter.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 29.]
+
+Feeling better in the morning, he undertook to sign a few papers, but
+fainted twice during the day.
+
+When I called just before sunset with the barge’s crew to convey him
+on board, he was so exhausted that our surgeon declared it would be
+dangerous to move him.
+
+With great reluctance on my part, he was left to imbibe for another
+night the fœtid air of Labuan.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 1.]
+
+Poor Hannan, our Chaplain, showing strong symptoms of delirium;
+imagines the Queen to be coming to Labuan to put things to rights.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 2.]
+
+Found Brooke not improving. I decided on saving his life if possible.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+In spite of remonstrances of the faculty, as well as those of some of
+his staff, my gig’s crew gently shouldered the cot on which he lay, and
+so conveyed His Excellency to the barge. The sea was smooth; those on
+board were prepared: he was hoisted up; once in my cabin no one could
+approach him except through me, and I was proud and hopeful of my
+charge.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIX
+
+_MÆANDER_--CRUISING
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1848. Labuan, Dec. 3.]
+
+Sir James Brooke had duties to perform as Her Majesty’s Commissioner to
+the Sultan of Borneo, and the Chiefs of the Malayan Archipelago; but he
+was only able to indicate to me the direction he wished to go.
+
+Our chief object being the restoration of his health, we managed, by
+keeping the ship under easy sail during the day, and anchoring in the
+evening, to give him the advantage of undisturbed rest at night.
+
+Among the invalids were the A.D.C., Captain Brooke, poor Dr.
+Treacher, a mere shadow of what he was, young Charles Grant, and the
+good-tempered Spenser St. John, whose kindness to the sick had been
+unabated.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 4.]
+
+Weighed at daylight, and with fair wind, smooth water, and fine
+weather, coasted along in the direction of Pulo Tiga, the scenery
+increasing in beauty as we got to the northward.
+
+Running between Pulo Tiga and Tanjong Klias, we shaped a course for the
+Kimanis River, up which there was a fine old Orang Kaya (chief man),
+Istur by name, a friend of our Rajah. It was dark when we came to. This
+was formerly a great haunt of the Illanuns and other pirates.
+
+ [Illustration: Map--Eastern Archipelago.]
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 5.]
+
+Having obtained the necessary information from native fishing boats,
+sent the second gig up the river to inform the Orang Kaya of the
+Rajah’s arrival, as well as to solicit a pilot for the River Mengatal.
+
+I had intended to go up in the cool of the evening, but in the
+afternoon the unusual appearance, in these waters, of a boat with a
+European sail was reported, coming along shore. She proved to belong to
+the _Minerva_ schooner, bringing the master and mate of that vessel,
+which they had left on a coral bank near Balambangan.
+
+In the master, Lonsdale, I recognised an old acquaintance, who formerly
+commanded the _Maria_, one of the transports under convoy of the _Dido_
+during the Chinese war. He stated that, having run on the reef, and
+finding that his vessel could not be got off without being lightened,
+he was throwing her cargo of teak overboard when he observed several
+prahus coming out from under a point of land. Having no arms he had
+taken to his long-boat, with the few valuables he could hastily
+collect, manned by his Lascar crew, making eighteen in all.
+
+Ten of the Lascars afterwards left him on his landing at a part of the
+island for fuel and water. He then went on, intending to coast down as
+far as Labuan.
+
+While at morning quarters, off Kimanis, a swarm of bees, attracted
+perhaps by the sound of the band, came round the ship, and finally
+settled on the under quarter of the cross-jack-yard, presenting an
+extraordinary appearance. By clinging to one another, they formed
+themselves into a bag 12 or 14 inches deep, the mouth of which,
+attached to the cross-jack-yard, occupied a space of about 2 feet in
+length by 1 wide, which was shaken and moved by the wind.
+
+Fearing that the men might get stung on going aloft, I tried to
+dislodge the bees, first by discharging a musket with a double charge
+of coarse powder at them from the mizzen-rigging, within 4 yards.
+
+This having no effect, it was fired at the same distance with a charge
+of sand, by which a few fell. The vacancies were immediately filled up,
+and the bag seemed to stick closer than ever.
+
+They remained two days, during which time we were twice under way,
+making and shortening sail, in each of which operations the chain
+topsail sheet ran through the centre of the bag and disturbed large
+portions of them in its passage; but the bees returned and repaired the
+damage as soon as the sheet or clew line had been belayed.
+
+The disaster of the _Minerva_ induced me to defer our visit to the
+village, in order that we might repair to the scene of the wreck and
+render assistance.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 8.]
+
+Early the following morning, having hoisted the boat on board, we
+weighed with a fresh southerly wind, along the coast, a couple of miles
+off-shore, with the noble mountain of Kina-Balu in the background
+raising its magnificent head above the clouds.
+
+[Illustration: _Kina-Balu._]
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 9.]
+
+Nothing could be finer than the scene before us; our poor invalids were
+much too ill to enjoy it, but this was the first day in which I had
+been able to discover the slightest improvement in Brooke’s condition.
+
+As might be supposed, when we found the wreck, not only had she been
+completely gutted, but burned to the water’s edge, for the sake of the
+copper and iron bolts. We saw, in fact, native boats in the distance
+making off with the plunder.
+
+The appearance of Balambangan is far from inviting, and the approaches
+to it are shoal and intricate.
+
+Weighed, and stood into Malludu Bay. On our way we fell in with a
+native prahu, belonging to Seriff Hussein, a son of the unfortunate
+Seriff Osman, who made such a gallant resistance in August 1845 up the
+Malludu River, when attacked by the boats of the _Vestal_, Captain
+Talbot.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 10.]
+
+Seriff Hussein was reticent on his first interview with Rajah Brooke,
+but opened out more fully on his second visit. He and the chiefs with
+him complained of the unprotected state and want of government under
+which they lived. Each petty chief quarrelled with and attacked his
+weaker neighbours, while they in turn lived in constant dread of an
+attack from the more formidable Bajow or Sulu pirates.
+
+These people were particularly obliging and civil, and sent their men
+to show us the best shooting-ground, rather appearing to like our
+visit, though we were not long enough together to establish implicit
+confidence.
+
+Having pulled and poled over a bar, and up a shallow salt-water creek,
+on the east side of the bay, a little to the northward of where we
+were anchored, we landed a small shooting party, and were shown some
+particularly likely-looking ground, covered with long grass and
+intersected in all directions by the fresh tracks of wild cattle. A hog
+was the result of our sport; but three large deer made their appearance
+on the edge of the jungle, just as the guns had been discharged at our
+less-dignified game.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 11.]
+
+With our tender, _Jolly Bachelor_, in company, we weighed and stood
+towards the Island of Mallewali and soon entered among the dangers of
+the Sulu Seas.
+
+As far as the eye could reach from the masthead, patches of sand and
+coral banks were visible, but the weather was fine, the water smooth
+and clear; time our own, and with our tender sounding ahead, we
+proceeded, nothing daunted by appearances. We could always pick our way
+by daylight and anchor at sunset.
+
+Mallewali is surrounded by coral reefs and sandbanks. There appears to
+be a fine harbour to the eastward, but certainly no safe entrance for a
+ship the size of _Mæander_.
+
+Exploring parties landed and the island was well traversed, but no
+traces of inhabitants were seen, and only rumours of tracks of game.
+
+[Sidenote: Mallewali, Dec. 13.]
+
+At 10 A.M. expired, in the prime of life, one of our finest young
+men, John Jago, another victim to Labuan fever; he had several times
+rallied, but two days previous to his death he sent to take leave of
+me, and I was some time endeavouring to cheer him up.
+
+The sick were suspended in cots on both sides of the main-deck; and
+when a death occurred it was difficult to hide from the others what had
+taken place.
+
+Jago was the last of the barge’s crew who was taken ill, and had
+attended most of his shipmates through their attacks of fever. There
+was a happy expression of countenance and a generosity about this
+poor fellow that had endeared him to officers and men. He left me the
+address of his mother, and of a young girl to whom he was betrothed.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 15.]
+
+[Sidenote: Sulu, Dec. 18.]
+
+We weighed as soon as the sun was high enough to show us the dangers,
+standing under easy sail to the eastward, with _Jolly Bachelor_
+sounding ahead. After some little difficulty in winding the ship
+between the shoals, and an occasional scrape on some projecting point
+of coral that had outgrown the bed to which it belonged, we made
+Cagayan Sulu on the 18th, but before coming to an anchor on the eastern
+side, we buried George Martin, a young marine.
+
+Dollars not being a current medium of exchange among most of these
+islands, glass beads, looking-glasses, coloured cottons, etc., had been
+brought by us for purposes of barter.
+
+We were very anxious to obtain a supply of bullocks, to keep our
+people as much on fresh meat as possible. The purser and interpreter,
+with a party of officers, went in a boat to communicate with a house
+which struck us in passing--from its size and plantations round it--as
+probably belonging to some chief, by whose assistance we hoped to get a
+supply of cattle.
+
+Having, with difficulty, got inside the shoals, and effected a landing,
+our party was received in the politest manner by a fine-looking old
+Malay, who came down with his family to meet them.
+
+They made him understand our wants; and he sent immediately to the
+chief of the district, and acquainted him with our wishes, appointing
+the next morning at nine as the time to receive the chief’s answer.
+
+Our people left the shore much pleased with their friend, who, as I
+have before remarked of the well-bred Malays, was a gentleman, polite,
+easy, and dignified.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 19.]
+
+The next morning the same party landed with the necessary articles for
+barter, expecting to meet the chief or his deputy, and make a bargain
+for the cattle. Their friend of the previous evening received them in
+the same kind manner.
+
+They waited some time in expectation of the cattle arriving, instead
+of which, parties of natives kept thronging in, well armed with kris,
+spear, and shield--their tom-toms beating outside.
+
+After a while came the chief with a numerous train--himself a
+humpbacked, ferocious-looking savage--with all his men in padded
+jackets, and regular fighting costume. He made no reply to the
+questions of our party about bullocks, but kept his hand on his kris,
+and appeared undecided how to act.
+
+We were only eight in number, and destitute of arms, with the
+exception of my double-barrel, the kind behaviour of their friend the
+night before having completely removed all suspicion of any sinister
+behaviour.
+
+Surrounded now by about sixty well-armed, rascally-looking thieves,
+of hostile demeanour, we thought it best to put on as bold a front as
+possible, and at the same time quietly to retire. Nor did we underrate
+our good fortune in regaining the boat without further molestation,
+the ship being some miles distant, and shut from view by projecting
+headlands.
+
+This was a lesson not to venture, in future, out of sight of the ship
+among the natives of these islands without an apparent superiority
+of force. Their white flags were hung out as much for the purpose of
+entrapping the weak as of bartering with the strong. Finding our wishes
+not likely to be attained, and not liking our berth, which was exposed
+to the eastward, we weighed, and ran round to the opposite side of
+Cagayan Sulu. This island, from its size and population, is next in
+importance to Sulu itself.
+
+The scenery, at this stage of our wanderings, was the perfection of
+tropical beauty, with just sufficient cultivation to redeem it from the
+appearance of wildness.
+
+As we ran past the bungalows and small villages on the southern shore,
+the inhabitants showed great alacrity in displaying pieces of white
+cloth; we ourselves keeping a white flag constantly flying, to show our
+peaceable intention and desire to communicate with them.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 20.]
+
+Having stood out for the melancholy purpose of committing to the deep
+the body of a marine, named Allan Cameron, another victim to Labuan
+fever, we came to an anchor on the south-west side, off the principal
+village of Cagayan Sulu.
+
+We here encountered none of the menacing style of rogues on the
+eastern side; the people were willing to exchange cattle, poultry, and
+vegetables for our articles of barter. Red and white cotton were the
+most attractive, while empty bottles and midshipmen’s anchor buttons
+fetched their full value.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 22.]
+
+Weighed and stood towards Mambahennan, a small island to the southward,
+intending to come to for the night; but finding no anchorage, and the
+sea being now comparatively clear of shoals, we stood to the eastward,
+came to under the lee of an island, a sandy point.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 23.]
+
+About noon made some islands. Chart too incorrect to make out what they
+are. Found anchorage under the lee of one of them.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 24.]
+
+Invalids improving but slowly. Our clergyman, Hannan, very far from
+well; symptoms of breakdown of brain. Also the return of his delusion
+that the Queen was coming to Labuan to put things to rights.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+Not the merriest Christmas I ever passed. Ship’s company landed in
+evening to amuse themselves in the jungle with their muskets. No
+accidents occurred. Passengers dined with me. Poor Rajah still ill,
+also his nephew, Brooke Brooke, the A.D.C.
+
+[Sidenote: Sulu, Dec. 27.]
+
+It was late when we came to an anchor. A good sprinkling on the sea of
+fishing and trading boats, of picturesque build and rig, gave to this
+place a pleasing appearance of life and animation, such as we had not
+before witnessed.
+
+The ship had been seen from the high land long before, and we were not
+surprised by the appearance of some bustle taking place in the town:
+lights were moving about all night. We imagined, and afterwards found
+it to be the case, that they were removing their valuables, with their
+women and children, to the mountains, as a precaution in case our visit
+was hostile.
+
+We had looked forward with much interest to our visit to Sulu, and were
+not, on the whole, disappointed--though perhaps it may be considered
+rather curious than interesting.
+
+The English ensign was flying over a house, which we knew at once must
+be that of Mr. Windham. An officer was sent to communicate and obtain
+information.
+
+The town is built, like most Malay places, partly on land and partly
+in the sea; the former part was strongly stockaded and flanked with
+batteries mounting heavy guns. The Sultan, under the influence and
+counsel of the Rajah of Sarawak, had become opposed to piracy and
+anxious for its suppression.
+
+That portion of the town which is not within the stockades is built in
+regular Malay fashion, on piles. The houses run in rows or streets;
+and outside them is a platform about six feet wide. These rows of
+birdcage-looking buildings extend into the sea for half a mile, over a
+shoal which is nearly dry at low water. The population are principally
+fishermen and Chinese traders.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 28.]
+
+Mr. Windham’s house was built on one of these rickety platforms, and at
+low water it was necessary for us, who wore shoes and stockings, to be
+carried from the boat and deposited on his accommodation-ladder, where
+a kind welcome awaited us.
+
+We found him dressed in Malay costume, and from long residence among
+them he had assumed much of the appearance and manner of a native. He
+willingly undertook the task of communicating with the Sultan, and
+arranging an audience for Sir James Brooke.
+
+The usual salutes were exchanged. Mr. Windham informed us that a short
+time previously, when he was absent attending the pearl-fishing at the
+Ceroo Islands, two Dutch men-of-war had arrived at Sulu, who, after
+visiting and exchanging the usual salutes, suddenly attacked the town;
+this accounted for the panic on the night of our arrival.
+
+The Dutchmen, having fired on the town for some time, landed and burnt
+a few houses, paying Mr. Windham the compliment of making particular
+inquiries for his, which they destroyed, together with much valuable
+property. He took us a short walk, I fancy about as far as he dared
+himself venture, into the interior.
+
+What we saw of the country was highly cultivated, consisting, with
+intervals of jungle, of pasture-grounds and gardens, and an abundance
+of cattle.
+
+Our appearance excited much curiosity with the natives, and many
+questions were asked, but the presence and explanation of Mr. Windham
+satisfied them.
+
+Before commencing our watering, it was necessary to make certain
+arrangements, as a French squadron under Admiral Cecille had been
+much molested during that operation a short time previously, and an
+attempt had been made to poison the springs; all necessary precautions,
+therefore, were taken on our part.
+
+The _Jolly Bachelor_ was first placed a few yards from the
+watering-place, which her howitzers completely covered.
+
+Our people were charged to avoid offending the natives in any way
+during their casual intercourse. Under these auspices our watering
+progressed quickly and well.
+
+It was not considered prudent to venture into the interior on shooting
+excursions, but we heard that there were partridges and quail, wild
+ducks, snipe, and teal. Monkeys, doves, and pigeons we saw. The beef we
+found particularly good.
+
+We went to see what they call their races, which were held in an
+open space not far from the town, and observed groups of savage, but
+picturesque-looking men, mounted on spirited, strong-built small
+horses, of the Manila or Spanish breed; they were generally well armed,
+bearing each a spear or lance.
+
+Presently a man would dash out from the rest as a challenge; then one
+from another group, or perhaps from the same, would ride up alongside;
+then both would start off in lines of their own choosing, in a brisk
+trot; at which pace the races were generally contested.
+
+On several occasions I noticed a ruffian, apparently mounted no better
+than his neighbours, start out from the crowd; but no one seemed to
+accept the challenge.
+
+These men were a sort of bravos, whom nobody cared to quarrel with, and
+such an offence as beating them at a race would be sure to end in a
+brawl.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 30.]
+
+This was the day appointed for Sir James Brooke’s interview with the
+Sultan of Sulu. We landed in full dress at ten o’clock. Having walked
+over the sea suburbs, and arrived at the beach, we found a guard
+of honour and attendants waiting to conduct Brooke to the Sultan’s
+presence; they were a motley group, but made themselves useful in
+clearing the way.
+
+Passing within the outer stockade, we arrived, after a few minutes’
+walk, at the royal residence.
+
+It was walled in and fortified. A large space was enclosed by double
+rows of heavy piles driven into the earth, about 5 feet apart, and the
+space filled up with large stones and earth, making a solid wall 15
+feet high, with embrasures, or rather portholes, in convenient places
+for cannon, out of which we noticed some rusty muzzles. Passing through
+a massive gateway, well flanked with guns and loopholes, we entered a
+large court, in which some two thousand persons were assembled, armed,
+and in their best apparel, but observing no sort of order. It was a
+wild and novel sight.
+
+Malays are always armed. The kris to them is what the sword was to
+an English gentleman in the Middle Ages. Every person who, by virtue
+of his rank, or on any other pretext, could gain admittance, was
+in attendance on this occasion; for our Rajah had become a justly
+celebrated man in the great Eastern Archipelago, and was an object of
+curiosity. The audience-chamber was not large. A table covered with
+green cloth ran across the centre of it. Above the table, and round the
+upper end of the room, sat a brilliant semicircle of personages, the
+Sultan occupying a raised seat in the centre.
+
+His Highness gave us a gracious reception, shaking hands with each
+officer as he was presented. This ceremony over, chairs were placed for
+Sir James and his suite. The scene was striking and gay.
+
+The Sultan is a young-looking man, but with a dull and vacant
+expression, produced by too frequent a use of opium. His lips were red
+with the mixture of betel-nut and siri leaf which he chewed. He was
+dressed in rich silks, red and green the predominant colours. A large
+jewel sparkled in his turban, and he carried a magnificent kris.
+
+The entire court was dressed in rich coloured brocades and silks, and
+many of the guard wore ancient chain armour, covering the arms, and
+reaching from throat to knee, their heads protected by skull-caps to
+match.
+
+Those armed with sword, spear, and kris did not look amiss, but
+two sentries, placed to guard the entrance to this ancient hall of
+audience, each shouldering a shabby-looking old Tower musket, of which
+they seemed very proud, had an absurd effect.
+
+Although no actual treaty was concluded, Sir James Brooke paved the way
+for opening up commerce, and for cultivating a better understanding
+with the natives.
+
+Mr. Windham had been trying to persuade the Sulus to hoist the St.
+George’s Cross in their trading prahus, as a badge of peaceful
+mercantile occupation, by which they might be known to our cruisers,
+but this suggestion had not yet been adopted.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL
+
+_MÆANDER_--CRUISING IN THE SULU SEA
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1849. Jan. 3.]
+
+We quitted Sulu with regret. I liked Windham--a comical mixture of
+English honesty and native cunning.
+
+Standing along the coast to the eastward, at 8 P.M. came to in a
+beautiful and secure anchorage, protected by the Island of Toolyan,
+said to belong to the English. Natives frightened. The scenery,
+although no Kina-Balu, was more beautiful than any we had yet seen.
+
+Our late arrival caused the same consternation as at Sulu. The same
+noise and flitting about of lights; until one fine fellow, determined
+to risk his life for the community, paddled alongside. When our pacific
+intentions were made known confidence was quickly established.
+
+This island is separated from Sulu by a narrow strait. It appeared well
+cultivated; there were gardeners on shore and fishermen afloat, the
+people more peaceably inclined than their neighbours; but we did not
+trouble them, and proceeded for Samboangan.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 4.]
+
+Our invalids improved, with the exception of the chaplain, whose health
+caused anxiety.
+
+The excitement and interest of our cruise rather increased as we
+proceeded. On the 5th we anchored off the Bolod Islands, and landed to
+search for the eggs of a bird which, from the description given us, we
+supposed to be the Megapodius.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 8.]
+
+Anchored off the west coast of the island of Basilair, the largest of
+the Sulu Archipelago, on which the Spaniards have established a small
+settlement, not without trouble, the inhabitants being hostile and
+warlike, keeping their garrison on the alert. The French squadron,
+under Admiral Cecille, sustained some loss in an attack by boats here.
+The next day we worked our way between numerous small but beautiful
+islands, only regretting we had not time to explore them.
+
+[Sidenote: The Philippines.]
+
+At 9 P.M. we came to off the fort of Samboangan. On the following
+morning saluted the Spanish flag.
+
+The settlement is on the south part of the Philippine group, and its
+population reinforced by convicts from Manila.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 9.]
+
+The inhabitants are fierce, and celebrated for their piratical
+propensities. We much enjoyed a few days in this comparatively
+civilised place.
+
+Owing to the clever management of the Governor, Don Cayetano de
+Figueroa, Colonel of Engineers, a very sociable system of society
+prevailed, uniting all classes--the proud Spanish dames not refusing to
+meet in the same ballroom the pretty half-caste women who during the
+mornings were engaged in washing clothes or retailing eggs and poultry
+in the market.
+
+The hospitality of the Governor provided for us at his residence early
+every morning a cup of excellent chocolate. After _chôta hazari_,
+horses being in readiness, he would accompany us, pointing out
+everything worth seeing.
+
+The settlement of Samboangan lies within narrow boundaries; but in the
+immediate vicinity of the town the land was highly cultivated.
+
+In our rides we were attended by boys carrying our guns, the jungle
+abounding in varieties of doves and pigeons, also a bantam fowl.
+
+We had dances and dinners on shore and on board; indeed it was with no
+small regret we took leave of our kind and hospitable friends.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 14.]
+
+There is much in these regions to interest the conchologist and to
+reward his researches among the rocks and seaweeds: finding I was a
+collector, the officers of the Spanish marine supplied me from their
+private collections with some beautiful specimens of the spondylus and
+chama.
+
+We left Samboangan in company with a fleet of gunboats that would have
+done credit to any nation.
+
+It must be confessed that in _systematic_ protection to the commerce of
+their respective seas both Spain and Holland surpass us. The Spaniards,
+alive to the truth that commerce and piracy cannot co-exist, have long
+since maintained such a naval force as has not only driven away, but
+_keeps_ at a distance from the Philippine Islands, those hordes who
+used to inflict on their marine traffic such sacrifice of life and
+property.
+
+The Dutch, true to the same policy, and perhaps even more happy in
+its exercise, have by a system of vigilance along the whole coast of
+Java, so eradicated piracy from the Celebes, that murderers have been
+converted into merchants.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 16.]
+
+Observing a sandbank to the north-west not mentioned in our charts,
+we hauled up, intending to anchor near it and ascertain its correct
+position.
+
+With reduced sail we neared the island; and with the leads going,
+look-out men at the masthead, and occasional cast of the deep-sea lead,
+we approached the lee side and got within cables’ length of the beach
+without obtaining bottom at 120 fathoms.
+
+A line of breakers with overfalls extended off the north-west end,
+having the appearance of a shelf of rocks, but these proved to be
+nothing but a tide ripple as we stood near. The island was small, and
+had the same appearance all round. On landing we found a patch of
+glaring white sand, without a vestige of vegetation, surrounded by a
+belt of coral about a mile and a half in circumference, and so steep
+that I believe we might have rubbed the sides of the _Mæander_ against
+it without obtaining bottom.
+
+We found on this lonely coral island the solitary grave of a Mussulman.
+Here was, indeed, a resting-place likely to be undisturbed.
+
+[Sidenote: Cagayan Sulu, Jan. 19.]
+
+Came to in ten fathoms, about a mile off the south side of Cagayan,
+and commenced our examination of the curious circular lake before
+mentioned. The entrance is by a gap. This, however, is crossed by a
+bank of coral, which at low water is nearly dry, so to exclude any boat
+larger than a canoe. Just outside the middle of the bar was a small
+island of rock and sandstone, with a sufficient shelter to make an
+excellent shaded spot for our picnic.
+
+On passing the bar we found ourselves inside a magnificent circular
+lake of deep blue water, with a circumference of about three miles, and
+completely encircled by sandstone cliffs, upwards of 200 feet in height
+and nearly perpendicular, covered with shrubs.
+
+In the natural barriers of this remarkable enclosure only two small
+breaks occurred--one was the gap by which we entered, the other was on
+the E.N.E. side.
+
+Nothing could be more luxuriant than the growth of trees and shrubs,
+their trunks and branches covered with a variety of beautiful orchids
+in brilliant blossom hanging in festoons to the water’s edge.
+
+Over our heads, disturbed by such unusual visitors, numbers of
+pigeons flew to and fro, while many varieties of the parrot uttered
+remonstrances.
+
+Formed ourselves into small parties--some to haul the seine, others
+in search of shells, while a third explored the gap on the north-east
+side, clambering up without any anticipation of a further treat.
+
+At a height of about eighty feet another beautiful but smaller lake
+burst in sight, circular in form, and as nearly as possible similar to
+that which they had left.
+
+The two lakes were separated by a natural wall; and the spectator
+standing on its narrow edge could, by a turn of head, look at the depth
+of thirty feet on the inner lake, or on the outer one, eighty feet
+beneath him.
+
+Men and axes were procured from the ship, the trees were cut down and a
+path made up the gap, and so over to the fresh-water lake. A raft was
+constructed, and with a small boat belonging to the tender launched
+upon the water.
+
+Our operations drew some natives to the spot, who expostulated and
+informed us that the water of the upper lake was sacred, and had never
+yet been desecrated by the presence of a canoe; that the Spirit of
+the Lake (by description, a fiery dragon of the worst order) would be
+annoyed at the innovation: nothing would induce them to venture on it.
+These scruples were, however, got over by a glass of grog.
+
+The inner lake was the finer of the two; it might at one time, by some
+volcanic convulsion, have risen and burst through its barriers at this
+spot into the lower basin, which in turn may have formed the gap in the
+outer side.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+We now took up our old berth in the south-west bay of Cagayan Sulu,
+and commenced an active barter for stock; this, however, was brought
+to a sudden close on the 22nd, the natives taking fright at our shell
+practice. We were exercising at general quarters, and a few of them
+had remained to see the shot strike the target; but the double report
+produced by these missiles was too much for Sulu nerves.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 23.]
+
+Sailed, making for the northward of Banguey, anchoring occasionally.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Came to in Victoria Bay, Labuan, and soon after landed Rajah Brooke,
+restored to comparative health.
+
+Found orders for our being in China by the end of March. Labuan is much
+improved, residences having been shifted to where they ought to have
+been at the beginning. Hugh Low better.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 30.]
+
+Breakfasted with, and took leave of, the Rajah, who shortly after went
+to Sarawak. Weighed for Singapore.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 31.]
+
+Young Dalyell dined with me to keep his pretty sister Bijou’s birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 1.]
+
+Anchored in Singapore Roads. Further orders for China, the
+Commander-in-Chief thinking it advisable to have a force ready in case
+the Government should have to enforce the treaty made by Sir John Davis
+with the Chinese Government in 1847, by which the gates of the city of
+Canton were to be opened to foreigners.
+
+This treaty was likely to be disregarded by the Chinese, according
+to opportunity, when the immediate danger should be removed: it was
+made at the bayonet point, while our troops were in possession of the
+environs of the Celestial City.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 2.]
+
+Among memos the Chief left was one directing any ship on her way to
+Hong Kong to bring three heavy spars that were waiting passage to the
+Government House for mast, topmast, and yard.
+
+One was ninety-six feet long, a beautiful straight stick, but heavy as
+lead, which no other ship on the station could or would carry. How to
+get it on board was a difficulty.
+
+Luckily we had a brig-of-war at anchor: I removed the cabin stern
+windows on the starboard side, and the bulkheads of the fore and after
+cabins. Secured the main-deck guns in-board fore and aft. The war-brig
+undertook to lift one end of the spar to the level of our main-deck.
+
+On board we had power enough to draw it to a snug berth, which gave us
+a list. The topmast and yard we secured to the main and mizzen chains
+on the port side.
+
+We were going to Hong Kong, but were not afraid of the war junks even
+in our disabled state.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 17.]
+
+Sailed for China, shaping our course so as to communicate with Sarawak
+and Labuan.
+
+_Auckland_ sailed before us with our marines, and poor Hannan, our
+chaplain, invalided. I shall miss him much. Eleven of this fine corps
+of marines had become victims to Labuan fever.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 25.]
+
+Left the ship, which came to off Santobong, in gig, up the river to
+Sarawak.
+
+Kindly received by Brooke, who had returned. The place flourishing, but
+too many useless hangers-on about him! Took up the mail; no time to
+spare.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 26.]
+
+Up early. Succeeded in getting on board in one tide. Weighed at once.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 22.]
+
+Caught a shark this afternoon--the first, by the bye, in this ship.
+Measured about 5 feet, but amazingly powerful. He was cut up and eaten
+within twenty minutes of his coming on board.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 30.]
+
+Arrived early in Hong Kong Harbour. Found the Admiral recovering from
+the effects of a paralytic stroke--poor, dear old boy!--very game
+though. When I reported having the spars on board, he said, “More fool
+you; if I could not bring them in a line-of-battle ship, how were you
+to do it in a frigate?”
+
+A most effective squadron met together, commanded by an unusually nice
+set of fellows:--
+
+[Sidenote: Hong Kong, Mar. 31.]
+
+_Hastings_ (Flag), _Albatros_, 12, Commander, Arthur Farquhar;
+_Scout_, 14, Commander, Frederick Johnstone; _Pilot_, 12, Edmund M.
+Lyons; _Columbine_, 16, John C. D. Hay; _Arab_, 12, William Morris;
+_Inflexible_, 6, steam sloop, John C. Hoseason; and the _Fury_, 6,
+steam sloop, James Wilcox; the two latter at Whampoa. Tiffin with
+Farquhar.
+
+[Sidenote: April 2.]
+
+Dined with General Staveley, C.B.; he an old friend at the Mauritius in
+1829.
+
+[Sidenote: April 4.]
+
+Chinese reply, refusing to comply with the Treaty of Sir John Davis,
+and we about to pocket the insult.
+
+[Sidenote: April 10.]
+
+Finding there was no intention on the part of our Government to enforce
+the Davis Treaty, the Chief left in _Inflexible_ to visit the northern
+ports; he ordered _Hastings_ to Singapore, dispersed the sloops,
+_Albatros_ to Borneo, and the others to their respective stations at
+the ports in China, opened to trade by the Pottinger Treaty. _Mæander_
+was left to take care of Hong Kong.
+
+How little our Government knew about China.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander, _Hong Kong. Manned Yards on Departure of Sir
+Francis Collier._]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI
+
+_MÆANDER_--HONG KONG
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1849. Hong Kong, April to May.]
+
+Nothing unusual took place during our stay here. Various acts of
+piracy, attended by cruel murders, occurred between Hong Kong and the
+entrance to the Canton River; but this could not be called unusual.
+
+Some of the rogues were taken by the _Inflexible_, and six of them
+hanged at West Point; but so little effect had this example that a
+fresh act of piracy was committed within sight of the suspended sinners
+and the sentry’s musket.
+
+The Admiral returned in the _Fury_ on the 20th May, much benefited by
+his trip to the northern ports.
+
+He sailed again on the 26th, leaving us to await the arrival of the
+_Amazon_, 26, from England. She came in the following day, and we
+prepared to return to our old station in the Eastern Archipelago; but
+before our departure an event occurred which gave an unanticipated
+notoriety to our short sojourn.
+
+Were I to pass it unnoticed, my motive might be mistaken; but as the
+narrative must unavoidably be egotistical, those of my readers who have
+no inclination to discuss a point of international law, nor to see how
+it was decided, on this occasion at least, by a British boat’s crew
+and a party of marines, may pass to the next chapter.
+
+Just before the arrival of the _Amazon_, I received an invitation,
+through my young friend, Mr. Robert Ellice (Honorary Secretary on the
+occasion), to act as joint umpire with Commodore Geisinger, United
+States Navy, at a regatta which had been got up, chiefly by Mr. Bush,
+the American Consul at Hong Kong--he kindly giving a cup to be sailed
+for.
+
+[Sidenote: June.]
+
+The event was to come off, weather permitting, on the 8th June. To this
+proposal I cheerfully acceded.
+
+As the _Medea_, Commander Lockyer, was cruising outside for the
+suppression of piracy, and the _Columbine_, Commander John Dalrymple
+Hay, was coming down from Whampoa about that time for provisions, I
+wrote to each of these officers, inviting them to meet me; and as I
+had to give up the charge of the station to Captain Troubridge of the
+_Amazon_ (which could be done as well at Macao), we agreed to meet
+there on the 7th.
+
+[Sidenote: Macao, June 7.]
+
+The American squadron, consisting of the _Plymouth_, the _Peebles_, and
+the _Dolphin_, added to our own, made a gay show in the roads; the Hong
+Kong steamers were also called into requisition, and brought nearly all
+those who had not found their way in the men-of-war.
+
+Having fired the usual salute on arrival, I proceeded with Captain
+Troubridge on the following morning to pay our respects to the
+Governor, Don Joao Maria Farriera do Amaral.
+
+I may here mention he was a captain in the Portuguese Navy--a gallant
+and distinguished officer.
+
+He lost his right arm by a cannon shot, when eighteen years of age,
+leading a storming party at Itaparica in Brazil.
+
+He had served also in the fleet of Don Pedro under Sir Charles Napier,
+and spoke and understood English as well as we did.
+
+Don Joao received us most cordially, and in the course of conversation
+said he had broken through a rule, by accepting an invitation to
+dine with Mr. Forbes (an American gentleman to whom we were likewise
+engaged), as he would not forego the pleasure of meeting his brother
+officers.
+
+Taking our leave, we proceeded to the room in which we were to arrange
+the starting of the vessels for the cup.
+
+At the door I was met by Captain Staveley, Military Secretary to his
+father, General Staveley, C.B., commanding at Hong Kong, who requested
+my assistance in getting a gentleman released, who had been imprisoned
+the previous evening, he believed, for not saluting the “Host,” during
+a procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi.
+
+I immediately expressed my willingness to apply to the Governor,
+remarking that he was a very good fellow, and I was sure would not
+hesitate to comply with my request.
+
+Accordingly, Troubridge and myself, accompanied by Captain Staveley,
+returned to the Government House.
+
+Without waiting to be announced, we proceeded at once to the apartment
+in which we had just before left Señor Amaral, and we found him seated
+with the French Chargé d’Affaires, M. le Baron de Forth Rouen.
+
+I apologised for the intrusion; His Excellency, rising, accompanied me
+to one of the windows.
+
+I then stated that I was come to ask a favour--that he would be so kind
+as to give an order for the release of a Mr. Summers, who, it appeared,
+had been confined in the common prison all night for not saluting the
+“Host.”
+
+I concluded by remarking that, in all probability, His Excellency had
+heard nothing of the business.
+
+To this he sharply replied, that not only did he know all about it, but
+that the person in question had been confined by his order.
+
+I then remarked to His Excellency that the punishment (Mr. Summers had
+been confined in the common jail, without food, since five o’clock the
+previous afternoon) had surely been equal to the offence; and I again
+expressed a hope that the Governor would order his release.
+
+On this he stated that Mr. Summers was sent to prison, not for any
+disrespect to the “Host,” “for which he (the Governor) cared, perhaps,
+as little as I did,” but for disobeying his order.
+
+I inquired, “What order?”
+
+He replied, “The order I gave him to take his hat off.”
+
+I then said, “Do I understand your Excellency rightly, that you could
+order any person you chose to take off his hat in the open streets?”
+
+To this he replied, “Exactly so.”
+
+I then said that this altered the case, and that I must now request the
+immediate liberation of Mr. Summers, as I could not consider that the
+alleged offence for which he was imprisoned was any crime at all.
+
+I further added that I could hardly believe that I had heard now, in
+the nineteenth century, the Governor of a Portuguese settlement assert
+that he had imprisoned a British subject for refusing to take his hat
+off in the open streets, when ordered by him, through a soldier, to do
+so.
+
+The Governor replied that I was not acquainted with Portuguese law.
+
+I said, “Very likely not, but I know what common justice is”; and,
+having bowed, retired.
+
+When I had got halfway down the steps, the Governor, calling me by
+name, asked if I came to demand Mr. Summers’s liberation as a right, or
+to ask it as a favour.
+
+I replied, that while I believed Mr. Summers had neglected to take
+off his hat, as was customary, on the passing of one of the religious
+ceremonies of the country, I had asked it as a personal favour; but
+since His Excellency had explained that Mr. Summers was confined for
+what I conceived to be no crime at all, I really could not, in the
+position I then occupied, ask for his liberation as a favour.
+
+After this unexpected termination to our interview, we retired to the
+residence of my friend, Mr. Patrick Stewart, situated within a few
+doors of Government House, to consider with Captain Troubridge what
+steps should next be taken.
+
+I felt it my duty to demand in writing the immediate release of Mr.
+Summers; considering, however, the warm temperament of Señor do Amaral,
+and the bearing towards me which he had already assumed, I could
+scarcely augur for the more formal application that success which had
+been denied to my friendly intercession.
+
+[Sidenote: June 8.]
+
+I thought it advisable, therefore, to make the necessary arrangements
+in anticipation of denial.
+
+Owing to the shoalness of the water, no ship of any size could anchor
+within three miles of the landing place. The boats of the squadron
+were preparing to pull at the regatta.
+
+I sent a gig off to the First Lieutenant of the _Mæander_, with an
+order to him to make the signal, “Prepare to land boats for service.”
+
+Captain Staveley, in the meantime, undertook to make himself
+acquainted, without exciting suspicion, with the position and state of
+the prison, the route to it, and how it was guarded, etc.
+
+To effect this he assumed a white jacket, the usual costume of
+mercantile gentlemen; and, taking with him a basket of fruit, he walked
+up and obtained an interview with the prisoner, returning with the
+information we required.
+
+I wrote and sent off by Captain Troubridge an official letter to the
+Governor, demanding, as senior naval officer, the immediate release of
+Summers.
+
+To which he replied, saying he considered himself within his right in
+ordering the man to take his hat off, and waiving the religious aspect
+of the offence.
+
+To dance attendance beyond this point on Portuguese justice at Macao
+seemed to me unworthy of my position and hopeless as to the object.
+
+I was referred to the Judge, who, in his turn, would have referred me
+back to the Governor, whose tool he was, and with whom alone I could
+properly hold official intercourse; in the meantime Mr. Summers must
+lie in prison awaiting the “course of law,” which had before now left
+British subjects to die incarcerated in this very prison.
+
+I decided on liberating him at once.
+
+To do so with the least possible risk of a disastrous incident was now
+the great object.
+
+A second boat being despatched to the _Mæander_, with directions that
+the signal should be made “Boats to land immediately,” I went on board
+the _Canton_ steamer, which was moored off the town, and took my place
+as umpire at the regatta, which was about to commence.
+
+We started the sailing-boats, and, shortly afterwards observing some of
+the boats on their way to the shore in obedience to signal, I excused
+myself for a few minutes and again landed.
+
+The first boat to arrive was the _Mæander’s_ barge, commanded by Mr.
+Burnaby, with a crew of twelve blue-jackets and six marines. I asked
+Staveley whether he thought he could, by a _coup-de-main_, release Mr.
+Summers with that one boat’s crew?
+
+To this he gallantly replied that he had no objection to try,
+stipulating only, like a good general, that I should secure his retreat.
+
+Upon this I requested Burnaby, who had charge of the barge’s crew, to
+attend to his wishes.
+
+Passing quickly through a house which had a back entrance to the Senate
+Square, and so to the street in which the prison stood, Staveley and
+his party immediately proceeded.
+
+The cutter from the _Mæander_ arriving next, I directed its crew to
+take charge of the house through which Captain Staveley had passed,
+placing sentries at each door.
+
+The third boat had just arrived, when my attention was attracted
+towards Senate Square by the report of musketry.
+
+Leaving orders with the officer in charge of the landing-place to pay
+_every attention_ to His Excellency should he land before my return
+(which was not improbable, since he must have seen all that was going
+on from on board the _Plymouth_), I was hastening to the scene of
+action, when I met Captain Staveley walking down, arm-in-arm, with Mr.
+Summers, the rear brought up by the barge’s crew.
+
+I immediately sent to stop the disembarkation of any more men.
+
+The whole business from the landing of the barge’s crew until their
+return to the boat with Mr. Summers did not occupy a quarter of an hour.
+
+The arms from the launch and barge were transferred to the pinnace,
+and the boats, with the exception of those which were to pull for the
+prizes, were ordered back to their respective ships.
+
+I returned to the _Canton_, and had the pleasure of seeing the two best
+prizes won by the launch and barge of the _Mæander_.
+
+I learned from Staveley that his party had to cross the Square to get
+to the street in which the prison was situated. On the left side of the
+Square was the entrance to the arsenal, near which was a battery of
+four field-pieces with a guard.
+
+When abreast of this battery, Staveley directed Burnaby, with the
+blue-jackets, to possess themselves of the guns and remain there until
+his return, he proceeding with the marines to the prison.
+
+The sentry at the prison presented his musket at Staveley, upon which
+the corporal of marines wounded him in the arm, causing him to drop his
+musket. This proved to be superfluous, as the musket was found to be
+unloaded.
+
+The jailer dropping his bunch of keys, and the guard having vanished,
+the liberation of Mr. Summers was the work of a few seconds.
+
+I am sorry, however, to add that this object was not effected without
+one serious casualty: a Portuguese soldier was killed by a musket-shot,
+whether from the weapon of his countrymen we could not determine; the
+victim was said to have been unarmed.
+
+Captain Staveley in his official report stated that some shots were
+exchanged between our men and the Portuguese, the latter firing into
+the Square from the windows of the barracks, in which way they probably
+killed their own comrade; but the point is not worth discussing, as it
+could neither lessen nor increase my responsibility.
+
+For this I was reprimanded by the Admiralty, and thanked by Lord
+Palmerston.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A Spanish Galleon_]
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+IN EASTERN SEAS
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1849. Macao, June 9.]
+
+We left the scene of this “untoward event” on the morning of June 9. On
+the 21st anchored in Manila Bay.
+
+Respecting either the Bay or the City, it would be difficult to write
+anything new, having so recently described the visit of the _Dido_ to
+this hospitable place.
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+We were interested in the remains of an old Spanish galleon, at anchor
+off Cavite Point; the same class so greedily sought by our cruisers in
+days gone by.
+
+[Sidenote: July 2.]
+
+Sailed from Manila, July 2.
+
+[Sidenote: Balabec, July 16.]
+
+In these intricate seas it took most of the day for the master and
+myself to study the charts and sailing directions, as supplied by the
+Admiralty.
+
+We so arranged that the master should keep the middle, while I took
+charge of the morning watch.
+
+[Sidenote: July 17.]
+
+It was on the 17th that I relieved the master; he assuring me that
+we were now past, as far as the Admiralty charts and directions were
+concerned, all dangers, and that I might wash decks or make sail as I
+liked.
+
+Decided on making sail, standing to the westward in open sea; nothing
+in sight.
+
+This done, we were in the act of coiling up ropes for washing decks,
+while on the starboard-hammock netting I felt that unpleasant sensation
+of the ship scraping the bottom, just as the headsman sang out, “nine
+fathoms.”
+
+She would not answer her helm, but stuck fast.
+
+As the sails came down and hands turned up, boatswain piped “Out
+boats,” the other watch rushed to their stations, as good men will,
+without inquiring the cause.
+
+We had taken the ground at the top of high-water; boats went away to
+sound. Booms and spars over the side to support her, as the tide left;
+guns slung, buoyed, and cast overboard.
+
+Pinnace, Lieutenant Comber, sent to Labuan for assistance. The launch
+laid out best bower-anchor in the direction in which we came.
+
+[Sidenote: July 18.]
+
+The next morning at half-past seven the ship lifted.
+
+The heaviest part was the weighing and replacing guns. The launch
+lifted the guns and brought them alongside; the main-yard tackle,
+properly secured, had to weigh them, the fall was passed round the
+quarter-deck capstan.
+
+Boys manned the bars and ran round; but when the gun reached the
+surface it required men at the capstan to hoist it over the hammock
+netting.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _on Shore_.]
+
+I mention this to show what every engineer knows, the extraordinary
+power and buoyancy of salt water.
+
+[Sidenote: July 19.]
+
+By breakfast-time we were steering, with all sail set, for Balambangan;
+and, if the rusty appearance of the muzzles of the guns had not told
+tales, no one who met us could have seen that anything had happened.
+
+[Sidenote: July 20.]
+
+Met in Kimanis Bay the H.E.T.C. steam-frigate _Semiramis_, Commander
+Daniell, with our pinnace in tow. They manned the rigging and gave us
+three hearty cheers.
+
+Comber told me that, after the tide fell, the ship had the appearance
+of lying on the top of a hill.
+
+[Sidenote: July 22.]
+
+Came to off Coal Point, Labuan. Coal had become so scarce at Singapore
+that the Commander-in-Chief had sent to borrow some from the Dutch
+Government at Batavia.
+
+All the surface coal had been picked off by the then contractors,
+before the Charter was granted to the Eastern Archipelago Company to
+supply our steamers, and that part of the seam at which they were now
+working was some 200 yards from the water’s edge.
+
+By working in the cool of the morning and evening, we put on board in a
+few days 150 tons, filling the after-hold.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 13.]
+
+We had just completed our dirty job, when the news reached us that the
+Sekarran and Serebas pirates had put to sea, and that the _Albatros_,
+Captain Farquhar, accompanied by Sir James Brooke and his native force,
+was out in search of them: by the time we got to the Bornean coast
+the fleet of pirates had been destroyed. Conceive my ill-luck! Lucky
+Farquhar!
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 20.]
+
+Arrived at Singapore. Ran with our cargo into New Harbour by the
+western entrance.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 24.]
+
+_Hastings_, with flag flying, arrived in the roads in tow of _Fury_
+from Trincomalee.
+
+Having reported to the Admiralty the natural advantages of the Inner
+Harbour of Singapore as a coaling-station over twelve months ago,
+and no notice having been taken of my letter, I now sent a similar
+statement, with survey, to the Secretary of the P. and O. Company.
+
+Found the _Australia_ schooner at Singapore, sent to us by the
+Admiral from Trincomalee, to man and take to Sydney for the Colonial
+Government. Sent Lieutenant Comber and eight men in charge of her.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 13.]
+
+_Hastings_ left for China in tow of _Fury_; a farewell salute for Sir
+Francis Collier.
+
+[To my sorrow we never met again. He died in China shortly after we
+left the station.]
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 24.]
+
+We took leave of our many kind friends, and proceeded on a more
+interesting voyage than usually falls to the lot of a man-of-war.
+
+Our orders were, after having removed the garrison and stores from Port
+Essington, to visit Sydney and Auckland, and call at the Friendly and
+Society Islands on our way to Valparaiso.
+
+With these instructions came a private letter from Rear-Admiral J. W.
+Deans Dundas, Second Sea Lord, from which I quote the following:--
+
+    I need not recommend Lead and Look Out to ye, but the Straits
+    are difficult and so are Society Islands.
+
+    Keep _Mæander_ off the ground, and when there is a doubt, put
+    her head round. God speed ye.--Yours faithfully,
+
+    J. W. D. DUNDAS.
+
+The _Australia_ was sent in advance, with directions to wait for us in
+the Straits of Sunda. We ran between the Islands of Banca and Billiton
+on the 29th, and anchored in Anjer roads on October 1.
+
+Anjer is nothing in itself: a small Dutch town and fort, clean, as
+Dutch places are, with a large, comparatively dirty-looking Malay
+village attached, inhabited partly by Chinese.
+
+The tree of Anjer is a striking object, a Banyan of great size, growing
+close to the landing-place. From its summit rises a flagstaff, from
+which floats the tricoloured flag of the Netherlands Government.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 1.]
+
+Anjer is the resort of vessels passing through the Straits, and may
+be considered the key of the Eastern Archipelago. Letters left here,
+properly addressed, find their way to any part of the world.
+
+The boats which come alongside are laden with a variety of fruits,
+vegetables, live-stock, monkeys, parrots, etc., to suit the tastes and
+wants of the outward or homeward bound traders.
+
+Having despatched the schooner to Sydney by the western coast of
+Australia, we weighed on the afternoon of October 3.
+
+Our route to the eastward for the next 3000 miles lay between the 6th
+and 10th degrees of latitude, during which we should pass a succession
+of beautiful islands, with the sea in all probability so smooth that a
+canoe might live in it: the finest weather and the prevailing winds in
+our favour.
+
+[Sidenote: Java, Oct. 6.]
+
+A short run carried us into Batavia Roads. On nearing this spacious
+anchorage, in which the flags of all nations may be seen, from the
+prahus of the Spice Islands to the fine traders of the United States,
+you are at once impressed with the idea that you are approaching a
+large and opulent city.
+
+We passed inside the fortified island of Onrust, on which stands the
+great Naval Arsenal.
+
+Saluted the Dutch Admiral, while running in, with 13 guns, and the
+Netherlands flag with 21.
+
+A United States ship near us had a cargo of Wenham Lake ice, the master
+of which sent to inform our officers that they were welcome to as much
+ice as they liked.
+
+I have always found much generosity and frankness among the officers of
+the American marine.
+
+They “calculate” and they “guess,” and have a fair notion of the value
+of a dollar, and are smart fellows at a bargain; they occasionally deal
+a little in the marvellous sea-serpent line, but they are amusing, with
+one exception, which will appear hereafter.
+
+Batavia deserves a great deal more notice than we had time to bestow
+upon it, being the capital of all the Dutch possessions in the Far
+East, with a mixed population, chiefly Javanese, of about 120,000.
+
+Like Manila, the city is approached from seaward by a long straight
+canal, running between two massive walls; and, as there is a strong
+current generally setting out, the easiest way to stem it is to land
+the crew and track the boat.
+
+The houses near the sea, although large and handsome buildings, are
+used for business purposes only. The situation is on a swampy flat, and
+at certain times unhealthy.
+
+The appearance of a British man-of-war is so uncommon, that the
+_Mæander_ excited considerable speculation; but when we had stated our
+destination, and that our chief object was to pay our respects to His
+Serene Highness, Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, the explanation seemed to
+be satisfactory.
+
+I had met His Serene Highness last year at Madeira.
+
+We were entertained at a grand dinner given by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar,
+General and Commander-in-Chief, whose example was followed by several
+of the heads of departments. Dinners and balls followed in rapid
+succession.
+
+The Batavia races took place while we were there, most of the prizes
+being carried off by horses of English breed. The enterprising members
+of this Turf Club gave a ball and supper, and made their appearance in
+scarlet coats.
+
+Even during this short stay in the roads, some of those whose hammocks
+were in the fore-part of the ship, and got the first of the land
+breeze, did not escape the fatal effects of malaria.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 16.]
+
+Sailed 16th. Kept along the Java Coast.
+
+The fishing-boats, or “flying canoes of Java,” as they are not inaptly
+styled, were objects of surprise and admiration. They are long, with
+just beam enough to enable a man to sit between the gunwales.
+
+Passing Maduira and Java, we came abreast of the Island of Bali,
+the only island in the Archipelago where the two great forms in the
+Hindoo religion, the Brahminical (the original) and the Bhuddist (the
+reformed), exist together, undisturbed.
+
+Bali has a remarkably high peak; and looks like a mountain sloping out
+into extensive fertile and rich plains, producing two crops a year;
+and as we passed along we saw abundance of cattle, fruit-trees, and
+vegetables.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 5.]
+
+It would be superfluous for me to attempt to describe all the beautiful
+islands we passed.
+
+Beyond the influence of Dutch protection, no more fishing canoes
+enlivened the scene; no smoke rose from the numerous inlets along the
+coasts to indicate the abodes of human beings. In the dense green
+vegetation of the jungle, death-like stillness reigned supreme.
+
+In the course of our run, we passed numerous volcanic mountains; and
+when in the 123rd degree of longitude, two islands attracted special
+attention.
+
+One, Comba, of a conical shape, had all day been shooting up vast
+volumes of smoke. After dark, when at the distance of a couple of
+miles, we opened out the eastern side and observed the crater boiling
+over in immense masses, rolling down the side of the mountain, losing
+none of its brightness until it reached the sea, boiling the water.
+
+[Illustration: _Comba._]
+
+After passing Timor, and shaping a course more to the south-east,
+between the two small islands of Babi and Kambing (Pig and Goat),
+leaving Welta on our port side, we steered for Port Essington. A strong
+current set us to the westward.
+
+When working up the Australian coast, we were boarded by a canoe, with
+a crew of six of the veriest-looking savages we had yet beheld.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 11.]
+
+One pair of trousers, the only article of apparel between them. The
+then wearer announced himself, in tolerable English, as one of the
+tribe attached to the settlement of Port Essington.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 12.]
+
+We came to on the evening of November 12, in the outer anchorage, and
+communicated to Captain M‘Arthur, then in command of the Royal Marines,
+the agreeable and unexpected intelligence that we were come to remove
+them.
+
+While the garrison rejoiced, the natives, especially the women, showed
+their grief by cutting their heads and faces with sharp flints, and
+otherwise disfiguring their already unprepossessing persons.
+
+Port Essington is situated on Coburg Peninsula, at the most northern
+part of Australia. It was discovered by Captain Philip King, in his
+survey between the years of 1818 and 1821; and formed, after the
+settlements of Melville Island and Raffles Bay had been abandoned, a
+harbour of refuge for vessels bound through Torres Straits, as well as
+a convenient place for holding commercial intercourse with the Eastern
+Archipelago.
+
+The settlement was established by Captain Sir J. Gordon Bremer in the
+_Alligator_, assisted by Commander Owen Stanley in the _Britomart_ in
+October 1838.
+
+They named the town Victoria: it consisted of a few wooden houses and
+small huts, sufficient for the accommodation of the garrison, built
+near the head of the harbour, some sixteen miles from the entrance. A
+better site might have been selected nearer the sea, which would have
+been cooler, and better supplied with water.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _off Port Essington_.]
+
+A deeper anchorage, too, might have been considered; although, for
+convenience, we took the _Mæander_ up off the settlement, we were much
+too near the bottom had it been the stormy season.
+
+The country about Port Essington is undulating; there are ranges of
+hills 10 or 15 miles from the settlement, rising to about 450 feet,
+visible from the harbour.
+
+It is an unhealthy climate; the most frequent afflictions are
+intermittent fevers and impairment of the digestive organs, caused by
+the moist heat of the land-locked harbour, the swamps, and mangrove
+marshes.
+
+There are tribes of natives on Coburg Peninsula, differing but little
+in physical appearance, manners, and customs, but speaking a different
+dialect. They meet occasionally to make corroboree, a kind of dramatic
+dance, more famous for its noise than anything else.
+
+A dread of invasion from the cannibal tribes in the interior made them
+unite, and was another cause of regret at the removal of the marines.
+
+[Illustration: _An Australian Grave._]
+
+When a native dies, he is wrapped in the bark of a tree, and bound
+round with cord.
+
+A stage is made, by placing two forked branches, eight or ten feet in
+height, upright in the ground, the forks uppermost, distant from each
+other about five or six feet and facing the tree.
+
+A piece of wood is placed transversely, resting on the upright
+branches. Upon this inclined stage the body, wrapped in its coffin of
+bark, is laid, and there it remains.
+
+These places of deposit are avoided by the natives. Evil spirits
+haunt them; when they are obliged to pass, they carry a fire-stick
+to propitiate the spirit of darkness. Curiously enough, this mode of
+disposing of their dead is common all over Australia, and, to their
+credit, the blacks have never disturbed or defaced the graves of the
+Europeans buried at Port Essington.
+
+We only remained long enough to be amused and interested with
+everything we saw, enjoying excursions into the country; and the fact
+of my having control over a quantity of damaged bread made the natives
+very obliging.
+
+We had corroborees so often, that the kangaroo dance was as well
+performed on the main-deck of the _Mæander_, thousands of miles from
+where it originated, as we had seen it on the spot.
+
+During our stay, shooting-parties were got up. The best of the lagoons
+are situated on the eastern side of the harbour; where there is a
+succession of them. The jungle, through which we rode, was open below
+but shaded overhead.
+
+We were attended by marines who had been longest on the station, more
+intelligent in the jungle than the natives, who joined us for the sake
+of what they were likely to get to eat, were cheerful and obliging, and
+useful in carrying our ammunition, provender, and tents.
+
+Among the marines there were a few who, having a taste for that sort of
+life, had for years supplied the settlement with game, and eventually
+became experienced hunters, and excelled the natives in sagacity in all
+that appertains to the mysteries of the jungle.
+
+These men alone were enough to make a bush-party agreeable.
+
+Highest in military rank was Sergeant Copp, a steady, untiring, keen
+sportsman. Corporals Rowe, Chalford, and Jeffries were all good shots,
+good-tempered, hard-working fellows, for whom the natives would do
+anything.
+
+It was wonderful to see the dexterity with which they would light a
+fire and erect a bush-hut.
+
+They were all cooks; Private Crayton, super-excellent. He had been a
+London butcher, and was sharp and intelligent.
+
+Among them was Hutchings, a huge fellow. He used to prefer going
+alone, and never returned empty-handed; more generally hung round
+with game,--fifteen or twenty geese, a whole flock of ducks, a native
+companion or two as long as himself, two or three kangaroos, and a
+handkerchief full of small birds (specimens of natural history), the
+only part of him visible being his great red face, besmeared with
+perspiration and blood.
+
+At the time of our visit these extensive swamps were, with the
+exception of occasional patches and a few holes, quite dry, and covered
+over with a crust of land clay sufficiently strong to bear our weight,
+but not that of our horses; the latter were nearly bogged on more than
+one occasion.
+
+It was late the first day when we arrived on our ground, and we had
+only time to light fires and pitch our tents on the banks of a stream
+when the sun went down.
+
+While we were preparing for supper, an iguana about two feet long
+ran past me, and at the same pace mounted a tree. I pointed out the
+disgusting animal to one of our natives. In less time than it takes me
+to write, he was caught by the tail, split up the back, spread out
+with skewers, roasted, and eaten.
+
+Long before the break of day we heard that peculiar noise occasioned by
+the wings of wild-fowl: then came the low, distant cackle of geese, and
+the strange noise of the whistling-duck passing overhead.
+
+I believe we were all alike in a state of excitement. Daylight came at
+last, but with it an excitement of another kind.
+
+No one experiencing what we did, could ever forget the myriads of
+flies. Everything was black with them--the ground, the air, our food.
+They clung to our clothes, they stuck to our faces. To rid ourselves of
+them, we stripped and rushed into the water, diving to get clear--but
+no! they would hover about and swarm on any part of our bodies that
+appeared above the surface.
+
+We were not entirely free for one moment, until we left them and our
+sport together. Never before had I fully understood the curse of that
+particular plague of Egypt.
+
+However, by spreading a silk handkerchief over the head, and keeping
+it in its place with a light straw hat, we succeeded in protecting
+our necks and faces from the thickest of them; and as there was just
+sufficient wind to keep the corners of the head-dress flapping about,
+we thus partially disappointed our tormentors.
+
+With the exception of this one drawback, better sport we could not have
+had. There was room for any number of guns.
+
+The geese have one peculiarity--they perch upon trees, so that an
+unskilful sportsman may have, in his way, as much amusement as the man
+who brings down his geese right and left from a considerable height.
+
+In spite of the flies we remained several days in nearly the same
+locality. Those who disliked them and preferred more violent exercise
+found it in the pursuit of kangaroo, only obtained with some pains and
+labour, but the tail afforded excellent soup.
+
+The geese and ducks also we found delicious eating.
+
+The lagoons, too, were excellent places for sport: they are between 200
+and 300 acres in extent, surrounded by forest trees, and with numerous
+little retiring coves about them, in which we might conceal ourselves
+and watch for the game; but, except as retreats from the sun, which was
+oppressively hot, these hiding-places were not necessary, as the geese
+were such geese that they did not understand the use of powder and
+shot, and at the same time it seemed they imagined that on the top of
+a tree they were safe. If, after a while, one particular set got more
+knowing, there were often lagoons with fresh geese at no distance.
+
+The natives will kill almost every kind of bird with their spears or
+throwing-sticks. With water-fowl they are so expert that by stealing
+close to them, or lying motionless for a while in one of the patches of
+water when the lagoons are dry, they catch their legs with their hands.
+
+On observing, while shooting, a spot that looked as if it had only just
+been quitted by some wild beast, and not feeling quite comfortable, I
+questioned a native as to what it meant; he immediately imbedded his
+body into the muddy hole, and had I not seen him go in I should have
+trodden on him. One of their ways of taking a dirty advantage of the
+game!
+
+On one occasion, while near the entrance to the harbour, a whole tribe
+of natives,--men, women, children, and dogs,--without the slightest
+hesitation entered the river to swim across, the small children holding
+on to the long hair of the mothers.
+
+Within a few yards I observed a huge alligator asleep in the sun.
+
+When the dusky tribe were safe across, I awoke my sleepy friend with
+the contents of both barrels. He lifted his head and sloped into the
+water, being only tickled with my No. 4.
+
+We destroyed, according to orders, what still remained of the
+settlement. The buildings could have been of no use to the natives, and
+would probably have been the cause of bloodshed.
+
+I said one day to “Bob,” an intelligent savage, “Do you intend to take
+possession of the Governor’s house after we are gone?”
+
+He replied with an air of indifference, “I suppose I must.”
+
+We heard afterwards that Bob had grown so conceited that they were
+under the necessity of putting a spear through his body.
+
+We had another reason for not leaving the houses in anything like a
+habitable state: had they looked too comfortable there would have been
+an inducement to other parties to try their hands at a settlement on
+the same spot--an object that was not considered desirable by the
+Government.
+
+There is no doubt that there should be some port or refuge for disabled
+ships or wrecked crews on this coast; and as soon as the corrected
+charts of the surveys of that zealous and indefatigable officer, the
+late Captain Owen Stanley, shall have been published, the channel by
+Torres Straits will be oftener frequented.
+
+From what I could learn no better place could be found than Cape York
+or Port Albany, which have all the advantages Port Essington lacks, and
+are not more than a mile out of the way of vessels going from Sydney to
+India.
+
+There were two schooners of forty or fifty tons that I amused myself
+in destroying with five-inch shells and a fuse which burns under
+water--passing a line under the bow and bringing the ends as far aft as
+the main-mast.
+
+It was easy to attach a fuse and draw the shell close up to the keel.
+There was plenty of time to take up a position in my gig, half cable
+length astern, before the burning fuse reached the shell, when the
+explosion was beautiful. Some of the spars went into the air, while the
+bow and stern shook hands as they went below.
+
+Besides what had been used for domestic purposes, there was a small
+mountain of empty casks which made a glorious attempt at fireworks
+before we left.
+
+We left behind at Port Essington a number of cattle; there were already
+many quite wild in the bush that had escaped from the settlement at an
+earlier period and increased in numbers.
+
+Several horses were also left. In our excursions I frequently noticed
+the footprints, not only of those that had been running wild for years,
+but of young foals.
+
+The garrison, marching down to embark, with the band at their head, did
+not excite sufficient interest to draw the blackfellows, except a few
+of the softer sex, from their search for what they could find among the
+ruins of the buildings.
+
+During our stay we lost our surgeon, Mr. John Clarke--a man who, by his
+kind and gentle manner and his amiable disposition, endeared himself
+to us all. He contracted a disease at Hong Kong, from which he never
+perfectly recovered.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+_MÆANDER_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1849. Nov. 30.]
+
+Completed embarkation of the party composing the late settlement,
+consisting of the Commandant, Captain M‘Arthur, Captain Lambrick,
+Lieutenant Dunbar, three sergeants, three corporals, twenty-seven
+privates, four women, and one kid; also Mr. M‘Arthur, a commissioned
+agent, and son to the Commandant.
+
+We also brought away, besides stores, stock of all kinds--bullocks,
+sheep, and goats--guns left by _Pelorus_.
+
+Starting with only fifty tons of not the best water, we decided on
+going to Sydney by the route north of New Guinea, and watering at
+either Banda or Amboyna.
+
+Proceeding to the northward and again crossing the chain of islands
+between the Serwatty and Tenimber groups, we were carried by a few
+days’ pleasant sailing to the Banda Islands.
+
+[Sidenote: Banda, Dec.]
+
+The principal of the group are three in number: Banda-Neura--on which
+the town is built--and Gunong Api, a volcanic island close to, and in a
+line with it; they have a narrow but deep channel between them.
+
+Opposite, and to the southward of these two, in a semicircular form,
+is the larger island of Banda, having a rather narrow passage at either
+end. The space thus enclosed forms the very charming harbour of Banda.
+
+We were becalmed in the western entrance, and while the current swept
+us up mid-channel to the anchorage, we furled sails and hoisted our
+boom-boats out; and when we came to, close off the capital, we were in
+proper harbour costume.
+
+The view of the islands from the ship would form a beautiful panorama.
+
+The picturesque town, which is built on a flat, ought, from the
+appearance of Fort Belgica, above and in the rear of it, to be well
+protected.
+
+Gunong Api, a striking feature in the scene, is high and conical in
+shape. Smoke issued from the top, but an eruption had not taken place
+in the memory of residents.
+
+From the crater downwards, one-third of the distance, it appeared a
+mass of cinders; from that point vegetation commences, increasing
+towards its base, where stand many cottages and fishing huts.
+
+The opposite and more mountainous island surpasses the other two in
+beauty of appearance.
+
+Little rivulets of cool, delicious water run from the high land to
+the harbour, from which we watered the ship. The jungle abounds in a
+variety of beautiful birds, especially of the pigeon sort. Deer are to
+be obtained with a little trouble. Some of the merchants and most of
+the proprietors of the hunting plantation have houses on this side.
+
+We were most hospitably received by the Dutch authorities; nothing that
+the island produced, which could be considered a novelty to us, that we
+were not presented with.
+
+It would be difficult to describe the endless variety as well as
+beauty of the parrots and lowries that were sent on board; also the
+magnificent crown pigeon of Papua, nearly as large as a turkey. We
+had as many as eighteen at one time, three pairs of which were twenty
+months on board, and some of them are now in the gardens of the
+Zoological Society.
+
+One very pretty compliment was paid to us, which I must not omit to
+record.
+
+A ball was given by the Governor in honour of our visit; and in the
+course of the evening, shortly before midnight, the dance suddenly
+stopped, glasses were put into our hands, champagne flowed into them,
+and the health of Queen Victoria was proposed by His Excellency in an
+appropriate speech.
+
+We swallowed our wine as the clock struck twelve, the band playing our
+National Anthem, while a royal salute was firing over our heads from
+the fort, during which we were expected to be continually refilling
+glasses.
+
+The following evening we were invited to a dance given on the opposite
+shore.
+
+Our boats were in requisition, and as they passed under the stern of
+the frigate at eight o’clock, we took advantage of the opportunity
+to return the compliment by saluting the Netherlands flag, which we
+hoisted at the yard-arms, giving His Excellency and family three
+British cheers.
+
+A fine bull, named “John,” from Port Essington was much admired. I
+presented him to His Excellency, and hope he has not taken possession
+of the island.
+
+Leaving Banda, _en route_ to Pitt’s Straits, we touched at the Ceram
+Islands, and under the pilotage of Mr. James M‘Arthur came to, in
+certainly not the most secure-looking anchorage.
+
+[Sidenote: Ceram, Dec. 17.]
+
+The island of Ceram is the second in size of the Moluccas, having an
+estimated area of about 10,000 square miles, but owing to the jealousy
+of my friends, the Dutch, it is but imperfectly known. Their object,
+until of late years, has been the extirpation of the clove and nutmeg
+trees, so as to confine the monopoly to the islands on which they have
+established governments.
+
+The mountains are from six to eight thousand feet in height, sending
+down innumerable streams to the sea. The vegetation is luxuriant; the
+trees gigantic.
+
+I have now in my possession a circular slab of wood from the island,
+three and a half inches thick, eight and a half feet in diameter.
+
+The sago palm in particular is more abundant and productive than on any
+of the adjoining islands. Cloves and nutmegs grow wild.
+
+The Malays are cunning and enterprising traffickers, and carry on a
+great trade with the Chinese in Bêche-de-Mer. They hoist the Dutch
+flag, and while one end of the island claims the protection of Banda,
+the other has that of Amboyna.
+
+Our conchologists added considerably to their collection here.
+
+We did not remain long at Ceram, and sailed December 18.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 18.]
+
+There is always more excitement in navigating imperfectly-known seas
+than in passing over the more frequented tracks; and on the present
+occasion our charts were of little use.
+
+By anchoring in the evenings, and by keeping a good look-out from
+aloft, and leads constantly over the side, we were enabled to thread
+our way through strange places. Occasionally canoes came off, as the
+tide swept us along.
+
+The jungle was too dense for us to make out habitations, but their
+locality was indicated by the appearance of the cocoanut. I obtained
+two fine specimens of the black Bird of Paradise in exchange for an old
+musket.
+
+The rest of their cargoes were composed of fruits, bows and arrows,
+parrots, shells, spears and tortoise-shell.
+
+The natives are well-proportioned, but ugly-looking savages, with a
+profusion of hair, frizzed out in an extraordinary manner, which I have
+no doubt they thought handsome, but which impressed us with the idea of
+a harbour for filth and vermin.
+
+As there is no anchorage, it is desirable that a ship should get
+through Pitt’s Straits in one tide, which feat we just succeeded in
+accomplishing by sunset.
+
+On emerging from the Straits we found the wind still blowing fresh from
+the westward with a following swell, and a strong easterly set; and
+as our course now lay in that direction, before the following morning
+we were many miles on our voyage, and thereby missed seeing a large
+portion of the northern coast of New Guinea, a country about which
+there appears to be more interesting mystery than any we had visited.
+
+[Sidenote: New Guinea.]
+
+The interior of this beautiful island, 900 miles in length, is little
+known, and it is supposed not only to abound in minerals, but to
+possess fertility of soil. No country is richer in beautiful rare birds
+and beasts.
+
+The little we saw of the natives confirmed what we had heard: that they
+are a finer race than any of the islanders. On the southern side,
+which is protected by a coral reef, the people appear to live as much
+on the water as in their jungle.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 30.]
+
+Observed a succession of islands; and steered for one that appeared the
+easternmost of the Admiralty group.
+
+On nearing the land just after midnight, and obtaining no soundings
+with the deep-sea lead, we sent boats ahead to sound.
+
+This being observed by the natives, whom we supposed to be fishing,
+they started yelling.
+
+Wind having died away, the tide carried us into about fifty fathoms’
+depth of water, where we held on with the kedge-anchor until daylight.
+
+If our boats had created a sensation among the savages, great indeed
+was their surprise at the appearance of the ship.
+
+The noise produced by blowing into a shell of the Triton species
+was everywhere heard; and having, I doubt not, buried or otherwise
+concealed a vast quantity of rubbish, they disappeared themselves; so
+that shortly after daylight there was not the vestige of a habitation
+nor a human being to be seen.
+
+It was curious to watch, when they found we took no steps to draw
+them out, how carefully and cautiously the savages came from their
+hiding-places.
+
+One emerged from the bush, naked as he was born; we thought at first
+that this was his way of proving to us how little we might expect to
+get from him, but they were all in the same undress.
+
+Then another would come forth, spear in hand; soon after, the snout of
+a small canoe was seen to protrude from under the bush.
+
+It would be tedious to enumerate the cunning and cautious “dodges,”
+the number of times they retreated and again hid themselves, on
+the slightest movement on our parts, before any of them ventured to
+approach; before ten o’clock, however, the water, for a cable’s length
+round the ship, was covered with grotesque canoes, and still more
+odd-looking people.
+
+A general barter soon commenced, accompanied by a noise and screeching
+that was deafening; and reciprocal confidence was soon established.
+
+These natives are fine-looking men of a dark olive colour, with long
+black hair, which they confine in a lump at the back of their head by a
+small hoop or band.
+
+There was one old lady with gray hair, seated under a canopy in her
+canoe, who was paddled round the ship several times, and appeared much
+interested in what was going on; but she did not venture very near.
+Several dialects were attempted between us, but none succeeded.
+
+Their canoes were of various sizes; a few must have measured seventy or
+eighty feet in length, carrying about twenty men each.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+_EN ROUTE_ TO SYDNEY
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1850. Jan. 4.]
+
+On the morning of January 4 we passed to the northward of Sandwich
+Island, and found it thirty-five miles E.S.E. of the position it has on
+the chart.
+
+We were visited along the coast by a succession of canoes. Natives very
+similar to those of the Fiji Islands.
+
+We were puzzled at one time to make out the use of a curiously-formed
+piece of wood, about four feet long, shaped like a whale-boat, but
+solid.
+
+From a hole in the centre descended a strong cord of twisted _rôtan_,
+forming a running noose, like a hangman’s knot. As I was leaning out
+of the cabin window, when there was just sufficient wind to give the
+ship steerageway, I observed a shark swimming leisurely along, some ten
+fathoms below the surface.
+
+The natives, from their canoes, observing the monster dropped several
+of these oddly-shaped buoys into the water.
+
+Some of our men fancy they saw them sprinkle a powder in a sort of
+magic circle round the buoys, but certain it is that a shark rose,
+and was fool enough to shove his head into the noose, when he was
+as completely hanged in his own element as ever rogue was from the
+gallows. The buoyancy of the float prevented his diving with it.
+
+Having flourished his tail for a few minutes he was drawn up by his
+head on a level with the water and belaboured with the heavy ends of
+their paddles, then tumbled bodily into the canoe and hurried on shore
+amidst the yelling of the flotilla.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 8.]
+
+Stood over to the New Ireland coast, and then to the southward, between
+that and New Britain.
+
+We now looked out for a harbour near the southern end of New
+Ireland--discovered by and named after a Captain Carteret, where fresh
+water was to be obtained.
+
+It is a place occasionally visited by English and American whalers, as
+was proved by a salutation which reached our ears while we were nearing
+the shore.
+
+“What ship that?”--then an oath. “Rum got?” “Give rope.” While
+delivering himself of these lessons in English and American, without
+waiting for an invitation the native sprang into the main-chains and
+thence on to the quarter-deck.
+
+The manners of these savages were not at all improved by their
+intercourse with civilised nations.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 5.]
+
+Made the Australian coast, and on the 7th arrived at Port Jackson,
+Sydney.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+SYDNEY TO HOBART TOWN
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1850. Sydney, Feb. 7.]
+
+We ran up the beautiful harbour of Port Jackson with the first of the
+sea-breeze and came to in Farm Cove, close to the hill on which stands
+Government House.
+
+I can well understand how it was that Captain Cook in the first
+instance overlooked the entrance and stood on to the exposed shallow
+harbour of Botany Bay: now crowded with sharks, affording sport for gun
+or spear.
+
+There is a fine dock forming on Cockatoo Island, the advantage of which
+will be incalculable.
+
+We found the _Rattlesnake_, Captain Owen Stanley.
+
+Here I was in the midst of friends--Sir Charles Fitzroy, the Governor,
+with Lady Mary--his daughter, “little Mary,” now grown into the tall
+and handsome Hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart, mother of a charming family;
+also Captain Augustus Fitzroy, A.D.C., and George, Private Secretary;
+another brother, Arthur, was at sea.
+
+To the long and kind nursing of this family I owe my life, but from the
+way I was received it would appear that the debt of gratitude was due
+from them!
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _at Sydney._]
+
+Of that family there are none alive; the father and sons died in
+distant parts of the world, far from one another, as will hereafter
+appear. I was near each one of them at the end.
+
+While at luncheon some one remarked on the extraordinary noise caused
+by the ringing of a bell, near, or on board the _Mæander_.
+
+I exclaimed, I hoped not, as that meant fire.
+
+Looking from the window we saw dense masses of smoke issuing from the
+position of the after magazine. A youngster was running to inform me.
+
+The _Rattlesnake_ had slipped her cables to be out of the way.
+
+On board I found a scuttle cut through the gun-room deck into the
+bread-room to pour water, just big enough for me. I was nearly
+suffocated.
+
+We really had a narrow escape. The fire was subdued. The powder had
+been smartly removed, but the wood framing had, as in the case of the
+_Magicienne_, been burnt down to the copper-lining.
+
+[Sidenote: March.]
+
+During our refit we discovered the head of our mizen-mast to be rotten,
+and as there was a spar of same dimension in the _Anson_, convict ship
+at Hobart Town, which was originally made for the _Southampton_, I sent
+my trusty “First” to apply to the Governor of Van Dieman’s Land for
+permission to appropriate it.
+
+Sir Charles Fitzroy, who was going to make a short tour into the
+interior, not only kindly took me with him, but mounted me from his
+first-rate stable.
+
+As His Excellency rode some six stone more than I could boast of, I
+never knew what it was to ride a tired horse.
+
+While we rode, a light van conveyed our commissariat and luggage:
+certainly the most agreeable mode of seeing any country.
+
+While we were absent on this tour, a little more than a fortnight after
+our first arrival, the Naval Service sustained a sad loss by the sudden
+death of Captain Owen Stanley; it was necessary to despatch a messenger
+for my recall, as his papers could not be opened nor his body buried in
+the absence of the senior officer.
+
+We had for many years been acquainted, and I cannot help expressing
+here deep regret and sympathy with the many to whom he was so justly
+dear.
+
+Previous to the death of my friend Owen Stanley, I had made the
+acquaintance of the distinguished artist who had been cruising with
+him, Mr. Oswald Brierly, who had arrived in Australia in 1842, in the
+yacht _Wanderer_, the property of Mr. Benjamin Boyd, a man of means,
+and of an adventurous turn.
+
+[Illustration: _Brierly._]
+
+Brierly was already a student of naval architecture, with a love of the
+sea--in fact he began by studying for the service itself.
+
+Mr. Boyd’s schemes were many, one of them a whaling establishment at
+Twofold Bay, which he placed under Brierly’s control. Boyd then betook
+himself to the Eastern Archipelago, to collect pearls and pearl-shells,
+diamonds, etc., and while exhibiting these on board his yacht to a
+respectable-looking pirate his head fell between his legs, and the
+yacht disappeared from the scene.
+
+Brierly had made friends in Sydney and might have done well, but his
+heart was on the sea, and he could not resist the offer of a cabin in
+the _Rattlesnake_.
+
+On Owen Stanley’s death he accepted a similar offer from me, until I
+could land him in England.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 20.]
+
+Sailed from Port Jackson on March 20.
+
+It being the time of the recess, a very agreeable party were enabled to
+accompany us to Tasmania.
+
+Among my guests were Captain Fitzroy, A.D.C., with his brother George,
+Private Secretary, master of a scratch pack of hounds, also Mr. Deas
+Thompson, whom my friend Colonel Mundy describes as the “Prince of
+Colonial Secretaries,” and, judging from the directions I received from
+the Governor as to the care and attention to be shown him, he was not
+less appreciated at headquarters.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Pleased as we were with the appearance of everything about Sydney, we
+were still more so with that of Hobart Town, where we arrived March 25.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _at Hobart Town_.]
+
+As we entered the harbour it was difficult to imagine ourselves in the
+Antipodes. English fruits and vegetables exposed for sale. Grapes,
+peaches, and nectarines, in the open air, were breaking the trees down.
+
+As soon as we anchored Bowyear came on board to report. Owing to deaths
+and invalids we had many vacancies.
+
+“What chance of men?” I asked. Pointing to a ship lying near, he said,
+“The whole crew have volunteered.”
+
+It was a female convict ship.
+
+The doctor who had come out in her told me the most moral were the
+Irish, the Scotch the least so.
+
+In the streets the public carriages, as well as horses, reminded one
+of the good old coaching days; indeed the road from Hobart Town to
+Launceston is little inferior to that from London to Birmingham.
+
+[Sidenote: Tasmania, March.]
+
+The country we passed through, the quickset hedges, turnpikes,
+farmhouses, stacks of corn and hay; the roadside inns, at which the
+coach changed horses or stopped a few minutes to dine; the good roast
+leg of mutton, potatoes _and_ onions, hot and ready; the “coming”
+waiter, with bad brandy and worse cigars, all reminded us of home. The
+arrival of the _Mæander_ was scarcely known in the country.
+
+It was the hunting season. The Governor, Sir William Denison, who was
+a lover of the sport, kindly mounted me, he himself an invalid and
+confined to his bed. My first meet was at Oatlands.
+
+I was carefully got up in leathers and boots, my pink rather stained
+below the pockets.
+
+Quickset hedges had not reached far into the interior; their
+substitutes were the upper branches of large trees, with bark off,
+supposed to be impossible for cattle, but not for kangaroo.
+
+When I arrived, the hounds had gone; horns were blowing. On nearing the
+hunters, my inexperienced eye saw an opening which I considered big
+enough.
+
+The tip of a stiff snag caught the Governor’s mare on the shoulder; we
+came a stunning fall into the next field, where we lay for, I suppose,
+a minute. I was first up, patted, and spoke kindly to the mare; she
+then got up. I told her, seeing nothing else, we must go back the same
+way we came. She understood. We walked a few yards back for room,
+and then turned. She landed safely among the hunting men. Never was
+a more sincere and hearty cheer raised. Striking the pipeclay out of
+his leathers with his fist, the master, whose name was Long, roared
+out, “By Jove! That fellow ought to be King of England.” I soon made
+acquaintance with as nice a set as I ever met.
+
+Rode quietly to the Governor’s stables, mounted my hack, and from
+my room wrote the kind Governor the sad news that I had lamed his
+favourite mare!
+
+Besides hounds, there were in the neighbourhood a first-rate pack of
+beagles.
+
+Just before we sailed from Hobart Town, I received a letter which I
+much prized--from Mr. William Allison, one of the young men with whom I
+had crossed the country.
+
+His father was a squatter, who had been an officer in the Navy, and had
+served his country throughout the eventful period of the late war--one
+of the finest specimens I ever saw of an old mariner.
+
+His son had the management of 40,000 acres, with a flock of 20,000
+sheep, and was deeply interested in the welfare of the colony.
+
+Speaking of sport, in which he knew I should be interested, he says:
+“We had the most glorious run on Saturday I ever saw, or perhaps shall
+ever see, with my brother’s beagles. After a run of 12 miles, the
+kangaroo, a forester, jumped dead, 10 yards in front of the hounds. We
+had no check, and during the last 4 miles we frequently viewed him.
+There were only Nat, myself, a younger brother, and a Mr. Difrose in
+at the death. Had you been with us, as we have often wished, you would
+have been there too. Mrs. Lord sent you the kangaroo, which we hope
+reached safely.”
+
+The Hobart Town races came off during our stay, and afforded good
+sport. There was a Governor’s cup to be run for.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 18.]
+
+The 99th Regiment, whose acquaintance I made in Mauritius days,--the
+“Neuf Neufs,” as the French called them,--and ourselves amused the
+inhabitants of Hobart Town by a sham fight.
+
+The soldiers were to occupy some Government ground called “The
+Paddocks,” and oppose an invasion.
+
+As soon as the 99th had taken up their position in a wood to the
+rear, the invading force effected a landing, and were driving in the
+enemy’s pickets, when they were suddenly outnumbered, and obliged to
+retire on their boats, making a gallant stand at the end to cover the
+re-embarkation of their artillery.
+
+Much ammunition was expended, and we were told so large a concourse of
+people had never before been seen in Hobart Town.
+
+[Illustration: _The Sham Fight._]
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 20.]
+
+Before taking our departure, I had the gratification of receiving Sir
+William Denison on board. Saluted him, and made sail down the river as
+far as the “Iron Pot,” Derwent River, and then worked back again. Hove
+to off the anchorage, and landed His Excellency; and having collected
+our Sydney contingent, sailed for that port.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _between Sydney Heads_.]
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+SYDNEY
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1850. April 26.]
+
+Made at noon the south head of Botany Bay.
+
+3 P.M.--Between the heads entering Port Jackson. While running up,
+exchanged numbers with the _Havannah_, 20, Captain J. E. Erskine, and
+the _Rattlesnake_.
+
+Came to in Farm Cove; making a running moor. I now heard of the death
+of my dear father.
+
+My old friend Erskine was in charge of the Australian station, and
+naturally felt jealous of the intrusion of a captain who was his senior.
+
+It was far from me to interfere, but the death of poor Owen Stanley
+obliged me to open the directions of the Hydrographical Office before
+he could be buried. In fact, I was recalled from a tour I was enjoying
+with Sir Charles Fitzroy.
+
+The Hydrographical instructions were simple enough, stating, in
+case of the death of the captain, or any other, the officer who was
+to succeed. Acting upon them, I gave Lieutenant Yule orders to take
+command of the _Rattlesnake_. This offended Erskine; who informed me
+that, on my departure for the Pacific, he would supersede my acting
+order.
+
+[Sidenote: May 2.]
+
+The _Rattlesnake’s_ time was up, so I gave her the order to return to
+England, and remained in harbour long enough to give her twenty-four
+hours’ start. She sailed May 2.
+
+[Illustration: _The_ Rattlesnake]
+
+[Sidenote: May 3.]
+
+We left Port Jackson in continuation of our route for Port Nicholson
+and Auckland; but, the wind heading, we stood for Norfolk Island, which
+we made on the evening of May 7; and hove to.
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+Next morning some of the officers started in a whale-boat that had
+been sent by the Governor. There being an awkward sea running, they
+capsized off the end of the rickety pier. Owing to precautions taken
+and the activity of convicts, no lives lost. Unaware of this accident,
+I followed with young Leicester in the gig, and, waiting for an
+auspicious moment, we landed safely.
+
+From outside, Norfolk Island has the appearance of a lonely rock, but
+is very different on shore.
+
+Mr. Price, the Governor, kindly took us a charming ride to Mount Pitt,
+and showed us the military barracks, which are capable of holding a
+regiment.
+
+The convict houses are three storeys high, fitted for all sorts and
+conditions of men; some it was necessary to confine in huge iron cages.
+Their language, addressed to us strangers, was uncommon strong! There
+were 115 of these ruffians separately confined. I saw three chapels,
+Protestant and Catholic. Every trade was encouraged: shoes, boots,
+coats, and trousers that would have caused envy in the bosoms of Hoby
+and Stultz. I was glad when the Governor took us to higher land and
+change of scene.
+
+We were soon passing through orange and lemon groves and wooded scenery.
+
+The fir peculiar to the island was conspicuous. The india-rubber tree
+was in full force. Some of the officers from the ship had joined us.
+The youngsters soon found out that, by striking the drooping plant with
+a stick, the juice ran out like cream, which no marine servant could
+extract from a uniform cloth jacket. To spoil this fun the Governor
+thought it advisable, unless we liked to remain the night, that we
+should be getting down to the boats. The same whaler took them off. I
+preferred the gig in which we had landed.
+
+Every precaution was taken by the Governor and his officers in case of
+a capsize. In addition to convicts in cork-jackets, there were others
+with large round corks netted over with long cords attached, that could
+be thrown a great distance.
+
+In the gig, in addition to young Leicester Keppel, I had some
+fir-plants of the island, and other odds and ends. Our boat bow was
+scarcely abreast of the pier head, when a roller lifted the bow into
+the air and turned over on us.
+
+The only precaution I had taken was to get rid of my uniform jacket. I
+believe a capsize is always great fun for the convicts. On my asking to
+whom I was indebted for my life, a convict informed me that his name
+was Emerson, and that he had been in the service of my father.
+
+[Illustration: _Rescue by Convicts. Norfolk Island._]
+
+I found later that Emerson had been employed at Newmarket, and having
+“done his horses down,” was taking a stroll in the evening when he
+came across an old gentleman who did not seem to know his way, and
+“borrowed his watch.” I had three sovereigns in my pocket, and offered
+them to him, but he said they were no more use to him than the same
+number of buttons! I mentioned his case to the Governor, who would see
+to it.
+
+Norfolk Island was, in 1787, colonized by Captain Philip King, R.N., by
+free settlers and prisoners from New South Wales. In 1809 a combined,
+but unsuccessful attempt was made by the settlers, the military, and
+the prisoners, to take possession of the island.
+
+Our second attempt to reach the ship was successful. At sunset filled,
+and made sail.
+
+[Sidenote: May 11.]
+
+If my readers are sick of the sea, or sea-sick, I advise them to skip
+the journal until the 19th of June.
+
+Since leaving Norfolk Island, the wind, with a strong lee set,
+prevented our reaching Auckland by the northern route.
+
+[Sidenote: May 19.]
+
+We entered Cook’s Straits, and in the evening came to off Port
+Nicholson.
+
+[Sidenote: May 20.]
+
+10 A.M.--Weighed and attempted to work up under double-reefed topsails,
+with topgallant sails over, but were obliged to come to again with
+both bower-anchors between Barrett reef and the eastern shore in the
+afternoon.
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Wind lulled, weighed, ran up, and came to in Lampton Harbour. Found our
+fore-yard sprung.
+
+[Sidenote: May 24.]
+
+At noon fired a royal salute in commemoration of Her Majesty’s Birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: May 25.]
+
+Weighed and made sail, running down the harbour. Before, however, we
+could get clear of Pencarrow Head, we were met by a strong southerly
+breeze; reefed topsails, and worked out by sunset.
+
+The breeze outside freshened to a gale, against which we worked all
+night!
+
+[Sidenote: New Zealand, May 26.]
+
+At daylight found ourselves off Cape Porirua; bore up. At 10.30 A.M.
+came to with both bower-anchors in 23 fathoms, off Kapiti Island. The
+anchorage none of the best, but any port in such a storm as that we had
+just taken shelter from.
+
+[Sidenote: May 28.]
+
+Weighed at 5 A.M. to a light N.E. wind, and ran along the land.
+
+[Sidenote: June 2.]
+
+Came to in 7 fathoms in Waitemata Harbour.
+
+Port Nicholson and Auckland are both splendid harbours.
+
+Much to be done, which British capital and enterprise will achieve. At
+present there is neither watering nor landing-place. As a proof of the
+latter, the port captain at Auckland visited the ship in a pair of long
+jack boots--his usual costume! These colonies are rapidly rising into
+importance.
+
+[Sidenote: June 8.]
+
+Weighed and stood out of the harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: June 9.]
+
+Worked into the Bay of Islands. Came to in Kororareka Bay. Did not find
+the facility we hoped for in obtaining spars.
+
+The town contains but few inhabitants, and was reduced to half its
+former size, by shot-holes in the church and other buildings, made
+during the war with the brave Heki. The bay, however, deserves all the
+praise that has been bestowed upon it.
+
+[Sidenote: June 10.]
+
+Weighed at 8 P.M., made sail, and ran out of the bay.
+
+[Sidenote: June 13.]
+
+Breeze freshened into a northerly gale, which, veering round to N.E.,
+blew hard and reduced us to a close-reefed main topsail.
+
+[Sidenote: June 14.]
+
+First cutter washed away. More moderate towards afternoon.
+
+[Sidenote: June 19.]
+
+Made the land at daylight; not an inviting coast for a stranger.
+
+Fired a signal gun and got a native pilot.
+
+[Illustration: _A Coral Island._]
+
+Noon.--Came to in 13 fathoms off the capital of Tonga Tabu, Malanga.
+The coast is bound by a coral reef about 200 yards in width, inside
+which boats will float at low water, when landing is disagreeable.
+
+[Illustration: _A Stockade._]
+
+The island is well managed by an English missionary, who had King
+George well under control.
+
+In the afternoon His Majesty came on board, and was received and
+entertained with due honours.
+
+He is a Christian and intelligent, but rather too prejudiced against
+the French for his own interests. The King once got into a scrape.
+Drifting about in his canoe on a Sunday, he observed a huge turtle
+floating in the warmth of the sun.
+
+His Majesty could not resist the temptation, but quitting his canoe,
+swam carefully up and grasped the hind-fins of the turtle; which,
+with so much stern weight, could not dive, but was able to make rapid
+headway with his fore-fins, and towed His Majesty a good mile before he
+let go. The King got severely reprimanded for his desecration of the
+Sabbath.
+
+I visited the two schools, crowded with promising children of both
+sexes. Tonga Tabu is a fertile island with an industrious population.
+
+[Sidenote: June 22.]
+
+Weighed. It was curious navigation between the coral reefs. Suddenly,
+while weighing, a flaw of wind veered and caused our stern to touch the
+edge of a coral bank, with 80 fathoms under our chains. She was easily
+backed off.
+
+[Sidenote: June 25.]
+
+We started with a fair wind, which turned into a gale.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _in a Gale_.]
+
+We had not many pets, but the purser had a gray parrot, the right
+African sort, who would not talk or be taught, and was voted a
+nuisance.
+
+[Sidenote: June 26.]
+
+During one of our frequent squalls, in a lee lurch, everything was
+capsized and sent to the scuppers, some of us sent off our legs,
+decanters, tumblers, lamps, the parrot’s cage, etc. In the midst of
+broken crockery and glass, a voice was calling out “Abaft there!” “A
+glass of grog!” It was this much-abused parrot!
+
+Ship under close-reefed topsails, main trysail, and fore-staysail.
+Weather soon moderated.
+
+[Sidenote: June 29.]
+
+We were now drawing towards Tahiti, carrying a mail from Sydney.
+
+[Illustration: _Point Venus, Tahiti._]
+
+[Sidenote: July 8.]
+
+Late in the afternoon a sail was reported, which we made out, from the
+round sort of baskets at the fore- and main-topmast-heads, to be a
+whaler; she had boats in the water. We hove to. She hoisted American
+colours: her captain came on board--a respectable-looking old salt,
+with gray hair.
+
+Invited him to my cabin, where, with accompaniments of Manila cheroots
+and Jamaica rum, we had an agreeable chat.
+
+On his leaving, I presented him with a box of cheroots, saying we had
+been six months without European news.
+
+On which he “guessed” that I must be aware of the war between France
+and England.
+
+He evidently noticed my astonishment, and added that the French Admiral
+was at sea looking for the English fleet.
+
+We shook hands and so parted. It was then too dark to see the name of
+his ship. We made sail.
+
+I invited the First Lieutenant to consult on the news we had received.
+It was decided that we would load every gun with round shot, grape, and
+canister.
+
+[Illustration: _Tahiti Harbour._]
+
+[Sidenote: July 9.]
+
+Soon after daylight we were off the harbour, and at about seven the
+English pilot we had heard of, but accompanied by a French officer,
+undertook the steerage.
+
+I was so interested at the navigation between coral banks, the beauty
+of the harbour, the merchant ships, two fine frigates, with sundry
+small craft, that I quite forgot about the guns.
+
+[Illustration: _Bowyear._]
+
+Had my gig manned, and directed Bowyear first to salute the Admiral’s
+flag, and when he saw me leaving to salute the Governor and French flag.
+
+He replied: “You forget, sir, that we have round shot, grape, and
+canister in every gun. I have nothing but this scoop to draw them, nor
+can we get outside against the sea-breeze to empty them. I could not
+fire a pistol here without hitting some one.”
+
+I had, however, to call on the Governor. On getting alongside the
+flagship, an officer informed me that I should find him at the
+Government House,
+
+On landing I was received by His Excellency in full dress, a guard of
+honour with band playing our National Air, and all officers attending.
+I never felt so guilty or so small.
+
+The Governor, M. Bonard, Capitaine de Vaisseau and Commodore, who
+included in his person that of Governor and Naval Commander-in-Chief,
+kindly put his arm in mine and led me away into his house, where he
+said luncheon would be getting cold.
+
+[Illustration: _Eimeo._]
+
+They all spoke or understood English as well as myself. The luncheon
+was excellent, wine to match, and I was hungry.
+
+After a while the Governor drew his chair near to mine, and, without
+alluding to my not having fired the usual salutes, stated that they
+were six months without news from Europe; and that if ever so small a
+yacht or strange fishing-vessel hove in sight, it caused excitement.
+Telescopes were brought to bear, and he said, “You may imagine the
+appearance of a British frigate----”
+
+[Illustration: _Inland Scenery._]
+
+Before I could commence my explanation he added, “Every five minutes
+I am receiving reports of the withdrawal of round shot, grape, and
+canister from every gun in your frigate.”
+
+I then explained my interview with the master of the American whaler.
+
+Every one of the gallant French captains rose without a moment’s
+hesitation, shook me by the hand, expressing a hope that under similar
+circumstances their officers would have done the same!
+
+In due time the salutes were fired and returned, and we mixed as one
+family. I have ever found French naval officers perfect gentlemen.
+
+Monsieur Gizholme, Lieutenant commanding the _Cocyte_ steamer, managed
+everything: balls, dinners, dances, picnics in a lovely and interesting
+country. Brierly meanwhile happy with his sketch-book.
+
+[Sidenote: Tahiti.]
+
+Among guests I had the honour of entertaining Queen Pomare. She had
+been, and appeared very happy, and was treated with every kindness and
+attention.
+
+Monsieur D. P. Nicolai, commanding the troops, added considerably to my
+collection of shells.
+
+I had the pleasure of renewing acquaintance in the Baltic with
+Commodore Bonard, with Gizholme, and other officers.
+
+[Sidenote: July 18.]
+
+Having come from the west, owing to our difference in longitude, found
+I had a day to spare, which was a good excuse for lingering in Tahiti,
+therefore we gave ourselves a second “Thursday, July 18.”
+
+[Sidenote: July 21.]
+
+Pilot on board, weighed. Having saluted the French flag and that of
+Commodore Bonard, stood over for the island of Guimo. Came to in 19
+fathoms in Opuum Harbour, where we have a depot of coals wasting for
+want of covering. This is likewise a beautiful and well-sheltered
+harbour with good fresh water easily obtained.
+
+[Sidenote: July 23.]
+
+Weighed at daylight; ran out of harbour. Worked over to Papeete to land
+our pilot and pick up their mail. 10 P.M.--Boat returned filled, and
+made sail to the northward of the island.
+
+[Sidenote: Valparaiso, Aug. 23.]
+
+After a month’s light and variable winds, saluted the flag of
+Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, flying on board _Inconstant_, 36, Captain
+John Shepherd.
+
+We were towed into the anchorage by the boats of French and English
+men-of-war.
+
+There were besides _Driver_, steam sloop, 6, Commander C. Johnson;
+_Champion_, 14, Commander John Hayes.
+
+[Illustration: _A Coral Atoll._]
+
+On my reporting myself to the Commander-in-Chief, he informed me he had
+two reprimands from the Admiralty--one for the affair at Macao, and the
+other for interfering with the senior officer on the Australian Station.
+
+I applied, in proper form, through my Admiral, to the Board of
+Admiralty for two courts-martial.
+
+The Admiral informed me that the _Inconstant_ had a freight on board
+and was homeward bound, but that I being senior, and _Mæander_ longer
+in commission, might take freight out of _Inconstant_ and so go home,
+or remain on the station for another year and take the chance of
+picking up a freight myself.
+
+It took me but a few minutes to decide, knowing, too, that such
+arrangement would exactly suit Captain Shepherd, officers, and men of
+both ships as well as friend Brierly.
+
+The Admiral’s was a charming establishment. Besides Mrs. Phipps Hornby,
+and her sister Mrs. Parker, there were three daughters. Their son,
+Geoffrey, was Flag-Lieutenant.
+
+They were in the house lately vacated by the Admiral’s predecessor, Sir
+George Seymour, where they were sure to find good stabling if nothing
+else.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 24.]
+
+This morning our Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. William Pitt Adams, arrived
+from Lima, bringing me a letter of thanks from Lord Palmerston for the
+prompt way in which I had acted at Macao.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 26.]
+
+Joined royal salute in commemoration of the Prince Consort’s birth.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 2.]
+
+At sunset hoisted Admiral’s flag, _Inconstant_ having sailed for
+England.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 3.]
+
+Matthew Ash, captain of mizen-top, while on leave was murdered by one
+of the crew of a Chilian frigate, who was subsequently apprehended.
+
+Ship caulking inside and out, not before it was needed.
+
+Watered ship from the luxury of a tank.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 13.]
+
+_Asia_, 84, Captain Robert F. Stopford, arrived, to whom was
+transferred the Admiral’s flag.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 18.]
+
+Fired royal salute in commemoration of Chilian Independence.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 19.]
+
+Kindly invited to join Admiral’s party to witness a rancho: which means
+to drive wild cattle over a space of eighty to a hundred square miles
+into a strong enclosure.
+
+Our preparations were amusing, especially to our pretty lady
+companions, who looked as if they had never been out of the saddle.
+
+[Illustration: Mæander _at Valparaiso_.]
+
+We started after luncheon for our 10-mile ride to Pitama.
+
+The accommodation afforded by our ranchero host was a long low
+building, having a floor, but no ceiling, mere wooden truckle-beds to
+sleep on.
+
+The Admiral and family took possession of one end, we, the other:
+within hail, but outside talking distance.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+We were up early, but the wild cattle were already in a disturbed
+state: bulls and pigs, horses and cows rushing across each other. The
+rancheros or drivers had been out a week. The ground was rough and
+varied, but nothing stopped our fair riders.
+
+It was dusk before half the cattle within the outer ranchero could be
+secured. Torches added to the wildness of the scene.
+
+The unbroken horses that had been captured by the young rancheros, and
+ridden when their own knocked up, began to lie down.
+
+The ladies of our party, who had ridden the whole day, appeared as
+fresh as their brother; but the Admiral, who was as hard as nails,
+himself made the signal to return home.
+
+I always regarded him with admiration and respect. He had commanded the
+_Volage_ in our Norfolk hero’s, Sir William Hoste’s, frigate action off
+Lissa.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 24.]
+
+Weighed from Valparaiso Roads on our northern cruise.
+
+Later I saw _Driver_ standing out. She was a full-rigged ship and what
+our American friends called a “side wheeler.” Her captain was under the
+delusion he could beat us sailing, but our three topsails only were
+sufficient to convince him of his mistake.
+
+[Sidenote: Coquimbo, Sept. 27.]
+
+Came to in Coquimbo Bay.
+
+[Illustration: _Coquimbo._]
+
+While cruising in my gig I observed an ancient-looking church, and
+landed to inspect it.
+
+Like other Catholic churches it had the usual images; but I noticed
+over a side door a white marble slab, on which was engraved: “En el
+año 1578 esta iglesia ha sido profanado par el pirata ingles Francisco
+Draki.”
+
+Sailed 28th.
+
+[Sidenote: Callao, Oct. 5.]
+
+Arrived in Callao Roads. Found United States _Vandalia_, also _Naiad_
+with stores and topgallant-yards across.
+
+Saluted Peruvian flag with twenty-one guns.
+
+Much to the distress of Commander William Browne I had directions to
+convert the once beautiful frigate _Naiad_ into a store-ship.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 10.]
+
+Weighed and made sail. Observed French Commodore Fourichon standing for
+Callao.
+
+A fresh south-easter carried us across the Equator in 113° west, after
+which we had a long and tedious voyage.
+
+[Sidenote: San Blaas, Nov. 12.]
+
+At daylight made Piedra Blanca de Tierre: a remarkable white rock, some
+twelve miles from the coast, appearing in the distance like a large
+ship. At noon came to in San Blaas Roads. Purchased cedar planks for
+making treasure boxes.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 17.]
+
+Came to in Mazatlan Harbour. Saluted the Mexican flag with twenty-one
+guns.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Saluted Mr. Charles Bankhead, English Minister, on his visiting the
+ship.
+
+[Sidenote: Mazatlan.]
+
+An English brig, the _Gazelle_, arrived at Mazatlan with a number of
+passengers from San Francisco, several of whom died on the passage from
+dysentery and other diseases contracted before embarking. The brig
+touched at Cape St. Lucas, where many of them landed and refused to
+return on board. The _Gazelle_ sailed; they came round in a boat a
+few days afterwards.
+
+At the instigation of well-known characters calling themselves
+“lawyers,” and forming part of the Civil Courts of Justice, the
+passengers lodged a complaint against the Master of the _Gazelle_ for
+ill-treatment, and his having thereby been the cause of deaths on board.
+
+At the request of the Captain of the Port I detained the _Gazelle_ and
+communicated with our Consul, who, on investigation, decided there were
+no grounds for complaint; but, on the contrary, they had received such
+treatment as I should have expected, knowing the high character of Mr.
+Wood, the master, whom I had met in India.
+
+At a later date I received information to the effect that these
+“gentlemen lawyers,” Gaxiola and Cainow, had made an offer to the
+supercargo of the _Gazelle_, whom they met on shore, that they would
+cancel the proceedings against his ship for six hundred dollars.
+
+I also heard that a like sum had been offered by them to the Captain
+of the _Gulnare_, an American brig under almost similar circumstances,
+but the Master not having the money, the brig now lies rotting in the
+harbour. I allowed the _Gazelle_ to proceed to sea, offering myself to
+answer any charges preferred against the Captain.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 26, Mazatlan.]
+
+The Governor of Mazatlan visited the ship and was saluted.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 27.]
+
+Foreign Consuls and party were entertained on board. Saluted them on
+leaving.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 9.]
+
+Sent launch in charge of Lieutenant Oldfield to communicate with
+merchants at Guyamas. The pinnace in charge of C. H. Johnstone, mid,
+left for San Blaas. At Mazatlan we moored head and stern on account of
+tides, with no room to swing. Ciervo Island, close by, is a convenient
+place, on which we repaired our boats and landed the blacksmith’s
+forge, the men working under the eye of the officers on board. The
+centre of the island was tall bush, so that the opposite side could not
+be seen except from the masthead.
+
+[Illustration: _Sharks at Mazatlan._]
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 22.]
+
+Departed this life George Fuller, A.B. He had been long lingering, and
+had an extraordinary twist in his backbone. He was buried at the back
+of the island with due honours. I was kindly entertained and had a room
+on shore, but by day was much away in the gig.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 24.]
+
+In the morning the First Lieutenant found the boatswain missing, and,
+later, the doctor. He began to smell a rat, but thought it advisable to
+say nothing. The dingey too was missing. On my coming on board Bowyear
+told me the surgeon, John Crawford, on hearing from his assistant of
+the death and burial of the poor fellow, whose backbone he coveted,
+was so excited that Bowyear stated that the ship’s company would not
+like to have the body disturbed; but the doctor was pertinacious,
+promising that he could manage it without anybody knowing. At midnight
+he and the boatswain landed in the dingey and hauled the small boat up
+on the beach.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+When I got on board, at muster, nothing had been seen of either the
+dingey or the boatswain.
+
+At noon an American schooner, sailing near us with a cargo of sheep,
+hailed. Stating he “guessed” he had picked up one of our boats at
+sea, and casting off the painter, we received our dingey. Doctor and
+boatswain hid till midnight and got on board unseen.
+
+The lagoons which succeed one another for several miles in a line with
+the coast to the northward were full of wild game. It is difficult to
+imagine prettier shooting. The water is not above three or four feet
+deep, and sufficiently wide to enable a gun on each side to drive
+the game. Care should be taken to drop your birds on the land, as
+alligators are in possession of the water.
+
+One of the midshipmen and myself bagged fifty-two couple of ducks of
+various sorts in an afternoon.
+
+Snipe are also plentiful. To get at the river there is an extensive bar
+to cross, which troubled our boats till they got used to it.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+_MÆANDER_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1851. Mazatlan, Jan. 1.]
+
+Weighed and made sail, running to the southward to meet the pinnace,
+expected from San Blaas with treasure.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 2.]
+
+Came to at the entrance to the Chamatla River. A nasty bar, impassable
+at low water; heavy surf breaks along the coast. Two of our boats were
+swamped in attempting to land. Saved them with loss of anchors only.
+Good wild shooting is to be had by ascending the river in canoes. On
+the banks, near the entrance, were hundreds of alligators. Deer in
+plenty were seen on the opposite side of a narrow lagoon which runs
+parallel with the beach.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 5.]
+
+Pinnace returned. Weighed following day. Came to in Mazatlan Harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 6.]
+
+Having made arrangements for leaving pinnace and barge in charge of Mr.
+May, master, took pilot on board. Weighed at 5 P.M.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 17.]
+
+Came to in Guyamas Harbour. A convenient port for target practice.
+Distance from the shore from eight hundred to a thousand yards;
+the shot easily recovered. The weather is generally fine. We were
+enabled to send boats to distant points to assist the merchants; the
+men enjoyed the change. Bowyear, the First, was equally contented
+to remain, and, by drill and various exercises, keep the remaining
+crew happy and contented. Among the youngsters, a universal favourite
+was a son of Lord Ellesmere, now about sixteen years of age. In a
+letter before leaving England his father wrote: “It is wrong to have a
+favourite in a family, but you take with you the Benjamin of my flock.”
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+In the evening, returning on board, I noticed the sad looks of officers
+as well as men. Bowyear informed me I should find young Egerton laid
+in my cabin badly wounded. The poor boy breathed, but knew me not. I
+remained until the end, which came only too soon.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Among our friends at Guyamas was the liberal Catholic Priest, who
+appeared to rule supreme. He had a portion of the churchyard, half a
+mile from the landing-place, selected for the grave of our poor young
+shipmate, who was there buried with full military honours--a firing
+party of marines, band playing that impressive Dead March in “Saul,”
+which brought tears from many lookers-on. The remains were followed
+by the merchants and authorities of the place. Ships in port lowered
+colours.
+
+[Illustration: _The Cemetery at Guyamas._]
+
+I was before this too sad to clearly state cause of accident. I
+mentioned that the First Lieutenant was well pleased with the position
+of our anchorage, as the open spaces, as well as position of land
+and rocks, afforded good opportunities for target practice, as well
+as for musket drill in boats. On the present sad occasion a mark had
+been whitewashed on the face of a huge rock; the boats passing dropped
+alternate oars and took shots. We were short of officers: the boatswain
+was in the stern-sheets, with the young mid in charge. In unnecessary
+haste, the musket of one of the crew went off, with the sad result.
+
+Guyamas is worse off than Mazatlan for water; all the drinking water
+comes in skins and small casks on the backs of mules and donkeys from
+wells dug a couple of miles out of the town in the Hermosilla Road.
+A sufficient supply was so brought down to the end of the pier at a
+charge of $150 per ton. The country abounds with large hares, difficult
+to shoot, except on horseback, within eighty yards, so they are seldom
+killed except with ball--a pretty amusement for good rifle shots. Deer
+and wild-fowl are plentiful, but in different directions.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 4.]
+
+We landed our whole force with field-pieces for a sham fight. The
+spot selected was adapted for the purpose, having a sufficient level,
+besides low brushwood and elevated rocky ground for manœuvring. We had
+erected stones to represent a circular fort on an eminence, in which
+four brass boat guns were mounted, and a piratical flag hoisted to
+represent the enemy.
+
+The field battery having been placed in position, the force advanced
+to the assault, but, being repulsed, they divided, and by circuitous
+marches on each side gained some high ground in rear of, and commanding
+the fort, when the field battery, a little in advance of its original
+position, again opened fire. The fort was carried, the Mexican flag
+hoisted; the band played their National Air, and the army, as well as
+spectators, cheered, consisting of the whole population of Guyamas.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 15]
+
+Being spring tides, weighed and ran out into deeper water. Came to
+in five fathoms off the islands of Paxaros. During our stay here we
+received about $400,000, none of which paid Custom dues.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 17.]
+
+1 P.M.--The Governor of Guyamas having come on board, weighed.
+Shortened sail on passing the cave on Vincente Point, where a number of
+our Guyamas friends, particularly ladies, had assembled to wave last
+adieus. Mutual regrets at parting. Saluted the Governor on his quitting
+the ship. Cheered from the rigging and made sail.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 23.]
+
+Came to off San Blaas for water, which is obtained by rolling casks
+about 400 yards from the beach to a river, in which the inhabitants of
+San Blaas (both sexes) wash themselves and clothes. The water, however,
+is better than that at Mazatlan or Guyamas.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 28.]
+
+_Champion_, 14, Commander John M. Hayes, arrived from Mazatlan.
+Supplied her with stores and provisions.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+Weighed, standing for Piedra de Mer, off which we were to pick up our
+boats.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 2.]
+
+At noon the pinnace and cutter came alongside with treasure. Sailed,
+having on board $868,927; with the exception of the _Inconstant’s_, the
+smallest shipment that had been made from this coast. More than three
+months had elapsed since the boats and officers had all been on board
+together. The long sea cruise before us comes in well to recover from
+the naturally demoralising effects of the frequently prolonged absence
+of boats from ship.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 10.]
+
+Twenty minutes before midnight exercised at general quarters; fired the
+first gun in two minutes and forty-five seconds from the beating of the
+drum.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 12.]
+
+After evening quarters exercised shifting topsails. Fresh northerly
+breezes carried us across the equator, giving us fair prospects of a
+good passage to Valparaiso.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 24.]
+
+Midnight.--Beat to quarters; first gun fired in three minutes and a
+half.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+After evening quarters shifted topsail-yards.
+
+[Sidenote: April 1.]
+
+Commenced the new scale of provisions according to Admiralty circular,
+a step towards improving the condition and discipline of the seamen.
+
+[Sidenote: April 8.]
+
+Observed a stranger we had seen two days previously was still gaining.
+Tacked to try rate of sailing. Trimmed ship; re-set sails and
+communicated by signal with her, the _Balmoral_ of Aberdeen, from San
+Francisco, bound to Valparaiso. Passed to leeward, tacked in her wake
+and left her in an extraordinary manner, proving how much might be
+gained in a long voyage by trimming, and a little attention to the set
+of sails. By sunset she was hull down.
+
+[Sidenote: April 21.]
+
+Noon.--Came to in Valparaiso Bay. Found here the United States
+frigate _Raritan_, and Russian corvette _Oambylea_. Rear-Admiral
+Fairfax-Morseby relieves Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, who had sailed on
+a cruise.
+
+[Sidenote: April 22.]
+
+Sent boats to tow the Russian corvette to sea. Taking in water and
+provisions preparatory to sailing for England.
+
+[Sidenote: May 3.]
+
+4 A.M.--Weighed and made sail. Dark morning, lee shore. Vessels at
+anchor; both sides in thirty-six fathoms, a long heave up and down. Got
+the first of a northerly wind. Got up stump topgallant masts. Carried
+our breeze as far as 43° south.
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+Exchanged numbers with the _Amphitrite_, 24, Captain Charles Frederick
+from England. Frederick strongly advised us not to attempt Straits of
+Magellan. Uneasy motion of the ship made havoc among our live stock;
+obliged to throw several bullocks overboard.
+
+[Sidenote: May 10.]
+
+After a calm got a light northerly wind. Shaped a course for Cape
+Pillar, intending to run through the Straits. As the breeze freshened
+the weather came on thick and dirty.
+
+[Sidenote: Straits of Magellan, May 13.]
+
+Running for the land; fresh breeze, hazy weather. 10.40 A.M.--Observed
+rocks N.N.E. 11.10.--Another break in the mist showed us land ahead.
+Reefed topsails. 1 P.M.--Passed Cape Pillar. 2.30.--Came to in Mercy
+Harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: May 14.]
+
+2.15 P.M.--Entered Long Reach. Passed Half Port Bay. 4.50.--Came to in
+seven and a half fathoms, Playa Parda Harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: May 15.]
+
+Weighed and made sail. 2 P.M.--Came to in Fortescue Bay. Found an
+American brig, and an English barque _Caspar_ and brig _Isabella
+Thompson_ dismasted in Port Gallant. A snug and beautiful harbour.
+Supplied the brig with one jib-boom for a main-mast, and the barque
+with our stream chain.
+
+[Sidenote: May 16.]
+
+4.20 A.M.--Weighed. 8.45.--Rounded Cape Froward. On passing San Nicolas
+Bay observed a Chilian man-of-war brig, and American and Chilian ships
+at anchor. Came to at 1 P.M. in Port Famine.
+
+[Sidenote: Port Famine, May 17.]
+
+4 A.M.--Weighed. 11.15.--Came to in seventeen fathoms off the
+settlement to the southward of Sandy Point. Saluted the Chilian flag.
+This penal settlement, under its present Governor, Meños, a captain
+in the Chilian Navy, is situated between the prairie, on which cattle
+thrive, and the wooded country, containing the necessary material for
+building, is likely to become a large and useful colony. It has rich
+soil, an agreeable, bracing climate, and a coal-mine within a few
+miles, inland, from which a stream of good water runs into the sea
+close to the settlement.
+
+[Sidenote: May 18.]
+
+Weighed, and worked to windward. Came to at 11.10 in Loreda Bay.
+
+[Sidenote: 1851. May 19.]
+
+Weighed to run between Elizabeth and Magdalene Islands; got through,
+but before we could get into Royal Roads to anchor the flood-tide set
+us back. 12.30.--Brought up in eight fathoms off N.E. end of Elizabeth
+Island.
+
+[Sidenote: May 20.]
+
+Weighed, and worked up against N.E. wind to the entrance of the second
+narrows. Wind heading, worked into Gregory Bay. Came to at 11.45.
+
+[Illustration: _In the Straits of Magellan._]
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Landed parties to try for guanacoes and ostriches, stated in the chart
+to abound here. A few birds were seen in the distance, as well as
+animals.
+
+[Sidenote: May 22.]
+
+Weighed 5 A.M., and ran towards the entrance of the first narrows,
+passing to the northward of the Triton Bank. Succeeded, with the
+assistance of a strong tide, in getting through, making two tacks only
+towards the eastermost end. 10.30.--Trimmed and set studding-sails.
+3.40.--Rounded Dungeness Point.
+
+4.30.--Taken aback. Came to in fourteen fathoms off Dungeness Point.
+
+[Sidenote: May 23.]
+
+7.15--Weighed and made sail on port tack. 9.--Cape Virgin, W by S. ½ S.
+10.--Stowed anchors.
+
+[Sidenote: May 24.]
+
+Heavy swell from N.E.
+
+[Sidenote: May 25.]
+
+Light northerly winds; veered round to S.W. and blew. This was the
+heaviest gale I ever experienced: wind constantly shifting, the sea had
+no time to get up. Our close-reefed main topsail was blown to ribbons,
+and a close-reefed foresail was blown out of the bolt ropes. That
+part secured to the yard by reef points was blown into knots as big
+as a Norfolk turnip, and so hard that neither chisel nor nails could
+be driven into it. Of the fore staysail nothing remained. Our quarter
+galleries and half-ports were stove in.
+
+Quarter-deck boats had been well secured, but the one on the starboard
+side had been so encrusted with fibres of the mizen trysail as to have
+the appearance of whitewash, which was only removed by three-cornered
+iron scrapers.
+
+As already stated, the sea had no time to rise to any considerable
+height. At daylight the gale moderated. We set a spare fore topsail,
+reefed, as a foresail, bent and set main staysail.
+
+[Sidenote: May 29.]
+
+Breeze moderated and changed to the northward.
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+More bad weather. Split the improvised foresail.
+
+[Sidenote: May 31.]
+
+[Sidenote: June 2.]
+
+Wind more moderate. Bent proper foresail and made sail, wind veering
+round to S.W.
+
+[Sidenote: June 9.]
+
+Shifted topgallant masts from stump to regulation. Standing for Cape
+Frio, opened the entrance of Rio Janeiro. Observed a barque being towed
+out by a Brazilian steam tug.
+
+Being becalmed the _Plumper_ towed us into our anchorage. Met the
+_Cormorant_, steam sloop, Captain Herbert Schomberg, coming out; he
+having received information from the Consul that the tug _Satrap_ was
+assisting a slaver.
+
+The _Plumper_, having towed us to a berth, joined in the chase.
+_Cormorant_ fired into the tug, and knocked away her funnel; on being
+boarded fifteen slaves were found secreted under hatches, and part of a
+slaver’s cargo.
+
+The tug was anchored and placed under a guard. The barque got away, but
+_Plumper_ put a shot into her. The Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral
+Barrington Reynolds, was absent at Monte Video.
+
+Found here _Tweed_, sloop, 18, Commander Lord Francis Russell. She had
+been my first ship: then a 28-gun donkey frigate!
+
+There was also a heavy-looking French frigate _Penelope_. Also two
+handsome Spanish corvettes, _Esmeralda_ and _Arragon_, said to have
+been built on White’s lines, the United States corvette _Dale_, and a
+Dutch brig. Saluted the Brazilian flag, 21 guns.
+
+[Sidenote: June 12.]
+
+4.30 A.M.--Weighed and ran out of the harbour with a light land breeze.
+
+[Sidenote: July 5.]
+
+Gave the ship her last coat of paint, and remounted carronades; neither
+useful nor ornamental.
+
+[Sidenote: July 28.]
+
+Arrived at Spithead. Saluted the flag of Admiral the Hon. Sir T.
+Bladen-Capel, K.C.B. The steam tender _Sprightly_ came off for our
+freight, $900,000, consigned to my friend E. Casher, for transhipment
+to the Bank of England. At sunset weighed for Chatham.
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+Anchored at Sheerness. Saluted flag of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline
+Percy. Glad to again renew an acquaintance which commenced when I
+commanded _Childers_ in Mediterranean and was renewed at the Cape in
+the _Dido_, when Sir Josceline was Commander-in-Chief.
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+Paying off commencing. Sad to think out of 360 fine fellows, only 150
+are left!
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII
+
+AT HOME
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1851. Aug. 7.]
+
+While _Mæander_ was dismantling, I attended the wedding of my nephew,
+Edward Coke, and Miss Agar-Ellis, daughter of Lord Dover, whose
+house was close to the Admiralty, and into which I walked after the
+breakfast, wearing my wedding favour.
+
+I was shown into the First Sea Lord’s room, with whom I had been on
+terms of intimacy some years.
+
+Before many minutes the door was thrown open, and Sir Francis Beaufort,
+head of the Hydrographical Department, attended by his staff, addressed
+me--“Captain Keppel, before I hold out the hand of welcome, I come in
+the name of myself and Board to thank you for the manner in which you
+upheld the dignity of this branch of the service on the Australian
+station.” After shaking hands they withdrew. Being alone with my friend
+Admiral Deans Dundas, I ventured on a little chaff, asking him where
+their Lordships’ reprimand was. He told me that they had given the
+reprimand stronger to Erskine, on whose report they had acted. This
+amused me.
+
+The Admiral then led me into the presence of Sir Francis Baring, the
+First Lord, saying, “Here’s this fellow Keppel. I can do nothing with
+him,” and withdrew. A more straightforward, upright man than Sir
+Francis there could not be. He invited me to go into the business,
+which ended in his asking if there was anything that I wanted at the
+Admiralty.
+
+I replied that if he would kindly promote my First Lieutenant I
+should not care a straw about the reprimands! He then said that if my
+Lieutenant was in every way eligible he should be promoted. (Bowyear
+shortly afterwards served as Commander in the _Vengeance_, 84, with
+Captain Lord Edward Russell. He is now an Admiral, living in Guernsey,
+and often comes across in the summer, when we talk over old times.)
+
+My invalid wife and self moved into the pretty lodge in Hyde Park,
+lent us by my brother-in-law, Harry Stephenson, Deputy Ranger. The
+First Exhibition was in full force, in Hyde Park, the idea having been
+originated by the Prince Consort. Weeks passed before I was tired of
+the novel scene. Everything was there, except ships.
+
+What seemed to astonish our foreign neighbours most were the size of
+our bath-tubs, jugs, and basins. I found that great and good Rajah,
+Sir James Brooke, still under the persecution of his former agent,
+Mr. Wise, who was assisted by what we called “The Revenue Cutter,”
+Mr. Hume! Sir James was a wreck of his former self. Among our Norfolk
+friends and relations I had plenty of shooting.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept.]
+
+Near Quidenham was Edward Eyre, Rector of Larling. His was a charming
+family, consisting of wife, four daughters, and a young son. Eyre
+kindly offered to help me in a book I was perpetrating, with a view to
+vindicate the character of Rajah Brooke. Norfolk is a genial county; in
+spite of politics they all work together.
+
+My father on his deathbed had said to his wife that she would be the
+first lady who ever won the Derby. He had at the time a promising bay
+colt, “Bolingbroke,” who had won the “Hopeful” stakes at Newmarket in
+1849, also the “Prendergast” at the second October meeting of that
+year. Edwards was his trainer. In 1850 Bolingbroke ran sixth in the
+Derby stakes in Edwards’s name. Report was strong that he had been got
+at. He won the Don stakes at Doncaster.
+
+I frequently dined with Rous, and held the sovereigns when matches were
+made. My brother-in-law, Joseph Hawley, was getting up a promising
+racing stud. After Goodwood I went with the Rajah and Brierly for
+the Cowes Regatta. There were rumours of old friend Schetky retiring
+from the office of marine painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron: the
+very thing for Brierly, at all events he might make friends among the
+members.
+
+Every one was anxious to see the clipper yacht _America_, which won the
+R.Y.S. Cup. She had unusually taunt spars, and was sold for £4000.
+
+In the match against _Titiana_ she beat her by four minutes, twelve
+seconds. Heard of Tom Spring’s death--good fellow; he had “benefit of
+clergy” too.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov.]
+
+Holyoake of 78th was now at home, and made me a kind offer of a mount
+with the Pytchley. My hunting kit was always ready. I think the meet
+was Cottesmore. We were riding down the slope of a turnip-field, a
+stiffish hedge at the bottom, a gate in the left corner. A fox got up
+in front, and was through the hedge in a moment.
+
+There was a cry of “keep your line”; mine was to the right of the post.
+Just as my horse sprang for his jump, some heavy farmer on my right
+turned my horse into the bottom of the ditch, which held water.
+
+Unluckily I was undermost, and my spur penetrated the left shoulder of
+the horse, who was got out, lame as a tree. Friend Holyoake was near at
+hand. We had then a walk of four miles. The next time with the Pytchley
+I was known as the “Post Captain.”
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX
+
+SHORE TIME
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1852.]
+
+To Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Jan. 12. Jan. 13.]
+
+At Woolwich; saw _Agamemnon_, nearly ready for launching. _Royal
+Albert_, 120; will be the finest ship in the world.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+To Lodge, Club, and Admiralty. Death of the good Vice-Admiral, Sir
+William Montague, C.B., puts friend Walpole on Flag List.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 18.]
+
+Went to Brighton, with possession of Rajah Brooke’s lodgings, 6 Marine
+Parade.
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+To Cams for Goodwood. Weather fine. Usual load on Delmé’s drag.
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+A jolly week finishes to-day.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 8.]
+
+In London. Walked to Twickenham to dine with the Dowager Lady
+Albemarle, who made me promise to meet her solicitor there on Wednesday
+for my advantage! Went on Wednesday, but did not see advantage!
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 29.]
+
+Dined on guard at St. James’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 3.]
+
+London dull without money! Great idea of applying for the Coast of
+Africa Station. Early September found me among kind Norfolk friends,
+within easy distances. Luckily for myself, but hardly so for friend
+Eyre, Larling Rectory was the centre--besides there was the book. He
+tried to make me believe that it amused him as much as it did me.
+Close by were the Birches at Skipdom, Partridges at Hockham, and Lord
+Colborne, whose keeper at Banham was at my disposal.
+
+At Quidenham with brother Edward, but the blood-stock in the
+neighbourhood had frightened away the game. Further north had equally
+kind welcomes. In those days there was no driving, and as some of the
+turnip-fields held more water than birds, my unwelcome baths were
+frequent.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 14.]
+
+The great Duke of Wellington died.
+
+[Sidenote: Quidenham, Sept. 17.]
+
+Dined with Lord Colborne, meeting Fanny Albemarle, who was staying with
+brother Edward.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 23.]
+
+_Agamemnon_ to be given away. Reported self ready to First Sea Lord.
+Dined with Hyde Parker at the Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 24.]
+
+Visited Baldwin Walker, who had nominated me to the First Sea Lord.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 25.]
+
+To Reigate to visit Rajah Brooke.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 26.]
+
+Busy drawing up a report for the best means of suppressing piracy.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 27.]
+
+To the Admiralty at an early hour. _Agamemnon_ given to Sir T. Maitland.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 28.]
+
+To friend Eyre at Larling. Book progressing.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth, Nov. 4.]
+
+The following letter raised my spirits:--
+
+    ADMIRALTY, _Nov. 3, 1852_.
+
+    MY DEAR KEPPEL--If there is employment in the Baltic, or
+    elsewhere, for one of your rank, I will not forget you.--Yours
+    sincerely,
+
+    (Signed) M. F. H. BERKELEY.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 18.]
+
+Funeral of the Duke of Wellington. After the procession had passed the
+Club, having ticket for St. Paul’s, tried to work my way, but found I
+was not big enough.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 1.]
+
+By train to Portsmouth and Ryde, _en route_ to Puckaster for wedding of
+Fanny Vine and Captain Times: happy match. _Déjeuner_ for forty-five
+persons. Had to propose “Bride and Bridegroom.” Everything went off
+well. Dinner at Sir John and Lady Harrington’s.
+
+After the wedding my invalid wife was left under the care of her
+sisters. I accompanied Fanny Albemarle to stay with her sister at
+Mamhead Park, a charming place near Exeter, belonging to Sir Lydston
+Newman, who, being in the Guards, left his uncle in the family mansion
+to take care of his young sister, with whom I was on visit.
+
+There was a lake which ran parallel with the sea, full of
+wild-fowl--swans, ducks, geese, etc.--a most enjoyable place, with a
+railway station conveniently near for excursions.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+_ST. JEAN D’ ACRE_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1853. May.]
+
+Warlike rumours. Did not like the idea of being far from the
+Admiralty, where I had friends. My wife was again established in our
+pretty cottage at Droxford. The Crosbie family, although separated
+by marriages, were kind to their invalid sister. A gem of same name,
+daughter of Lord Brandon, Mrs. Yorke--now a widow--had a son in the
+Navy.
+
+For neighbours we had Tom Garnier, the kind Dean of Winchester. His
+son, who was afterwards Dean of Lincoln, married my youngest sister
+Caroline.
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Comptroller, had built the finest
+two-decker. The constructor of a new type of ship had generally been
+allowed to nominate the captain. To Sir Baldwin I was indebted for my
+appointment to the _St. Jean d’ Acre_, then fitting at Devonport. She
+was 3400 tons, mounting 101 guns on two decks: crew, with officers and
+men, 900.
+
+[Sidenote: Devonport, May 23.]
+
+_Acre_ was commissioned by Commander Peter Cracroft; most of the
+officers joined in the first week. As this will be the fourth ship
+my kind readers have helped me to fit out, they should be spared the
+intricacies of a dockyard. That everything passed pleasantly I have
+only to mention that my kind friend Commodore Michael Seymour was
+superintendent, with whose charming family I chiefly lived. Admiral Sir
+John Ommaney, K.C.B., a rough diamond, was Commander-in-Chief. Miss
+Ommaney, equally kind, managed the household. Took charge of _Bellona_
+hulk.
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+Marine artillerymen and seamen, gunners joined from _Impregnable_,
+marines from headquarters, making in all 200.
+
+[Sidenote: June 4.]
+
+My old friend, Colonel Yea, and officers of the Royal Fusiliers, who
+were at Malta when I was in the _Childers_, kindly made me an honorary
+member of their mess.
+
+[Sidenote: June 15.]
+
+Admiral came on board to muster and inspect ship’s company. Manned
+yards. Got steam up and successfully tried engines. Got the first of
+Rodgers’s iron-stocked bower anchors at the cat-head, 93 cwts.; neat
+and serviceable-looking. First experience of coaling. Received 509
+tons. Took us five days. Turned over from hulk to ship. Bent sails.
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+Slipped moorings, ran out under screw, two miles beyond the Eddystone.
+3 P.M.--Returned to the Sound.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 15.]
+
+3 P.M.--Sir James Graham and some Lords of the Admiralty came on board
+unofficially. Steamed out. Saluting flag of Commander-in-Chief, stood
+out beyond the Eddystone, and returned to the Sound.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 19.]
+
+Commodore Michael Seymour came on board and paid advance.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+8 A.M.--Weighed, made sail; raised and stowed screw.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+9 A.M.--Off entrance of Cork Harbour, observing court-martial flag.
+Stood off until afternoon. On running in and shortening sail, saluted
+flag of Rear-Admiral Sir William F. Carroll, K.C.B., and made signal,
+“Where to anchor?” Reply, “Where convenient.”
+
+There were nineteen ships, in two lines, composing the Channel
+Squadron, under Rear-Admiral Sir Armand Lowry Corry. It was slack
+water, and the ships, although moored, were in various positions. The
+_Gondola_, cutter yacht, Lord Lichfield, could scarcely get through.
+There was no room for us to haul to the wind. The screw was up. Nothing
+left but to sheet home top and topgallant sails, and run the gauntlet
+between the lines. As stated, they were across the tide. Several flying
+and standing jib-booms had narrow escapes. At the end of the lines we
+anchored.
+
+The _Jenny d’ Acre_, as the seamen called her, got kudos: her
+performance talked of at the clubs in London. On one occasion Lord
+Adolphus Fitz-Clarence remarked on the great advantage of an auxiliary
+screw. To which Sir James Graham replied, “Hang the fellow! He had no
+screw down!”
+
+Friend Brierly was on board, and made a very clever sketch of _Gondola_
+and the _Acre_.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 30.]
+
+Fleet weighed, outermost ships first. Steamed and sailed out of
+harbour. On getting outside we found _Agamemnon_, 91, screw steamship,
+Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, Commander Robert Hall; _Hogue_, 60,
+Captain William Ramsay; _Blenheim_, 60, Captain Hon. Frederick T.
+Pelham; _Imperieuse_, 50, screw steam frigate, Captain Rundle B. Watson
+(Viscount Gilford, a lieutenant); _Tribune_, 30, screw steam frigate,
+Captain Hon. S. T. Carnegie; _Vulture_, 6, steam frigate, Captain Fred.
+H. H. Glasse; _Desperate_, 8, screw steam ship, Captain William W.
+Chambers; and _Sidon_, 22, paddle wheel, Captain George Goldsmith.
+Parted company.
+
+Remainder formed in two divisions--WEATHER: consisting of _Prince
+Regent_ (flag), 90, Captain Frederick Hutton; _St. Jean d’ Acre_, 101;
+_Amphion_, 34, screw steam frigate, Captain Astley C. Key; _Highflyer_,
+21, screw steam frigate, Captain John Moore. LEE DIVISION: _Duke of
+Wellington_, 130, screw steamship, Commodore Henry B. Martin; _London_,
+90, Captain Charles Eden; _Arrogant_, 47, screw steamship, Captain
+Hastings R. Yelverton; _Valorous_, 16, Captain Claude Buckle.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 3.]
+
+8 A.M.--Made all plain sail to try rate of sailing (per signal) on a
+wind. Trial chiefly between the _Duke of Wellington_ and _St. Jean d’
+Acre_, in which the latter had the advantage, a trifle only; the rest
+nowhere. _Acre_ requiring trifle more false keel! 5 P.M.--Formed order
+of sailing.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 5.]
+
+Tried rate of sailing off the wind, in which _St. Jean d’ Acre_ was
+best.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 8.]
+
+9 A.M.--Got steam up. Admiral on board. Hoisted his flag. Tried speed
+with _Duke of Wellington_--about equal. Engineers complaining of the
+coals. 2 P.M.--Admiral returned to his ship, taking flag with him.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 10.]
+
+9.30 A.M.--Laid out targets. Fleet exercised at general quarters,
+firing at a mark.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 12.]
+
+10 A.M.--Got steam up to try rate with _Duke of Wellington_ under steam
+and canvas together; just as we got our steam well up, _Duke_ broke
+down.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Came to at Spithead with the fleet. Moored. Found _Blenheim_, 60;
+_Leopard_, 12; brig _Rolla_, 6; and _Sidon_, 22; also a Russian
+corvette.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 17.]
+
+At Admiralty: met Sir Edmund Lyons, who had been promised a command. He
+was trying to find out what ship they would give him. He was just then
+the only flag officer I would care to serve in the capacity of flag
+captain, and offered ship and self for that purpose. On ascertaining
+that I really meant what I said, he appeared to be equally satisfied
+and went direct to the First Lord, but without success.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 18.]
+
+Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane visited and inspected without notice.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 25.]
+
+4 P.M.--Weighed. Steamed into Portsmouth Harbour and secured alongside
+_Camperdown_.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 12.]
+
+Not sorry to receive enclosed:--
+
+    ADMIRALTY, _Nov. 10, 1853_.
+
+    MY DEAR KEPPEL--When _St. Jean d’ Acre_ is ready for sea you
+    will be ordered on a cruise to the southward in order that you
+    may get your ship’s company into proper training, and I quite
+    agree with you of the necessity for doing so.--Always yours
+    sincerely,
+
+    HYDE PARKER.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 14.]
+
+Turned over to hulk.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 15.]
+
+In steam basin, additional false keel having been placed from 3 inches
+forward to 9 abaft, exactly what I wanted.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 19.]
+
+Noon.--Ship out of basin to hulk. Steam up at 9 A.M. for amusement of
+dockyard officials. Ship coaling. Cleaning hulk, and shifting over.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 26.]
+
+Dressed ship masthead flags. Ships in harbour manning yards and
+saluting on Her Majesty’s embarking from Royal Clarence Victualling
+Yard. Ships at Spithead doing same on _Fairy_ passing through _en
+route_ to Osborne.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+11.20 A.M.--Cast off from hulk and steamed out of harbour. Saluted flag
+of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane. Proceeded to Stokes Bay. Tried
+speed under steam at measured mile. Mean of six trials just under 12
+knots per hour. 3.30 P.M.--Came to at Spithead.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 5.]
+
+Got on board powder and shell. Received supernumeraries for fleet at
+Lisbon.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 6.]
+
+3 P.M.--Weighed and made sail, standing towards St. Helens.
+
+[Sidenote: Plymouth, Dec. 7.]
+
+8.40.--Came to in the Sound. Found _Hogue_ and _Magicienne_.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 12.]
+
+Commodore-Superintendent Michael Seymour came on board and paid advance
+to newly raised men. Crew complete. 7 P.M.--Weighed; made sail and
+stood out of the Sound to join fleet in Tagus.
+
+[Sidenote: Off Tagus, Dec. 18.]
+
+Took pilot on board and ran into the Tagus by northern passage. Pilot
+informing me there was no quarantine, ran past Belem without picking up
+health boat. 3 P.M.--Shortened, and while furling sails, signal from
+flag to take up a different berth from that for which we were prepared.
+
+Being carried up by the tide, and but little steerage way, had
+difficulty in clearing _Imperieuse_, and in swinging carried away
+_Desperate’s_ jibboom. Placed in quarantine. Signal from flag to
+“Moor.” When completed, signal to “Weigh immediately and proceed to
+Belem.” Before under weigh, another signal, “Despatch is necessary.”
+Wind failing and flood making, came to in centre of stream.
+
+[Sidenote: Lisbon, Dec. 19.]
+
+Daylight.--Weighed and dropped down to Belem. Fleet in river,
+consisting of _Prince Regent_, flag; _Duke of Wellington_, Commodore H.
+Martin; _Imperieuse_, _Arrogant_, _Tribune_, _Valorous_, _Desperate_,
+_Odin_, _Amphion_ and _Cruizer_.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 20.]
+
+Having got pratique, 2 P.M., weighed and made sail. Worked up. Fired
+two royal salutes, in company with the fleet, on the young King of
+Portugal visiting and leaving. 4.30--Came to, as per signal, in 26
+fathoms, Packet Stairs, N.E. by E. Measles in the ship; sent cases to
+hospital.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 24.]
+
+Light and contrary winds with falling tides. Signal made for particular
+ships to weigh. 10.40 A.M.--Weighed to allow _Duke of Wellington_ to
+pass clear. At 11, having water-tank alongside, came to in 22 fathoms.
+Fleet under way, working down. Breeze freshening, found ship dragging
+anchor. Stood as close as we could, with safety, in-shore to get out of
+the way.
+
+_Desperate_ missing stays, and having got stem way fell thwart our
+hawse, carrying away mainmast and portion of her bulwarks, we losing
+jib and flying jibboom, and bowsprit cap starting. After this and other
+mishaps, fleet came to an anchor. Chief more at home in Cowes Roads.
+
+[Sidenote: Off Lisbon, Dec. 28.]
+
+11.30.--Weighed. Noon.--Made sail, running down the Tagus for a month’s
+cruising for the purpose of exercising newly raised men. Cruising
+ground between Cape Roca and Madeira. Wind blowing fresh from the N.E.,
+made for the islands.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 31.]
+
+1 P.M.--Came to in 40 fathoms, Funchal Roads. Saluted the Portuguese
+flag.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI
+
+_ST. JEAN D’ ACRE_--CRUISING
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1854. Madeira, Jan. 2.]
+
+Many friends on shore, besides residents; among them Frederick
+Grey, with his charming but invalid wife. My intention was, weather
+permitting, to anchor in the Roads on Saturdays, remain Sundays, and
+proceed on a cruise Monday mornings. Among sailing and yachting friends
+was Sir Charles Lyall, requiring change of air.
+
+Frederick Grey had brought his wife, but she was delicate, and
+preferred the shore; in such an open anchorage the swell is uncertain.
+Regular exercise improved health and strength of crew. We sometimes
+anchored among the Deserter Islands. On Saturdays, if smooth, the poor
+invalid ladies, mostly young and consumptive, used to come on board in
+charge of their doctors. Music was always at hand, and very willing
+partners.
+
+It was pitiable to see the pretty girls, with that sad hectic flush on
+the cheek, pleading with their doctors for “one, only one” quadrille,
+and the doctors reminding their patients of the one month, or so many
+weeks, they had to live, and that each dance would shorten life so many
+days. Most of the poor dears preferred the dance.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 13.]
+
+Anchored in Porto Santo, leaving Grey to amuse himself. Started in gig
+to explore the interior harbour. On nearing the land, found a surf
+breaking: pulled to the eastward. Approaching the Stone, further on,
+observed smooth water inside the surf. I entered, pulling a good half
+mile in perfect safety. We amused ourselves in dredging for shells, etc.
+
+[Illustration: _Gunnery Exercise._]
+
+On returning on board found that Fred Grey had watched the gig
+carefully through my best Dolland. Seeing her disappear behind the
+surf, he told me that he had written the Admiralty an account of my
+loss, and requested he might be appointed to the vacancy!
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 14.]
+
+Weighed at daylight, arriving next day in Funchal Roads.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 17.]
+
+Had a party on board to breakfast and dance.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 19.]
+
+Weighed and made sail, having been most hospitably entertained during
+our visit.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 21.]
+
+The last month’s cruise gave me thorough confidence in the crew. We
+had throughout the usual exercise before sunset in reefing and other
+manœuvres. The officers of the night watches were at liberty to use
+their discretion in making or shortening sail, reporting any change to
+the Captain. Weather beautiful. Until midnight I had walked the deck
+with the officer of the watch. My cot was under the poop.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 22.]
+
+About an hour after I heard the “pat” of single drops of rain.
+Recollecting the old saying, “Rain before the wind, take topsails in;
+wind before the rain, make sail again,” I rang the bell for the officer
+of the watch. He said it was a beautiful night. I cautioned him to keep
+a good look-out, hands by halyards, etc. Not many minutes after, the
+three topgallant masts were over the side. The ship was hove to. The
+wreck was cleared by daylight.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 23.]
+
+The wind abated, but not the sea, and, horror of horrors, at daylight
+the main topmast was found sprung just below the rigging. The main
+topmast of such a ship was heavy, and with ever so light a swell
+difficult to control, but I determined to risk the responsibility. The
+chief danger was, after the head of the new topmast had been passed
+through the main cap, a lurch might spring the head of the mainmast.
+
+A victory after a fight could not have given me greater pleasure than
+when the fid was in its place, and support spread like a cobweb. Fair
+readers, forgive my attempting to describe the event; such a thing can
+never happen again. Nor should you hear of it now, had I not registered
+a vow to tell the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
+so help me ----.” By the 31st we were in Gibraltar Bay, and soon got
+rid of every vestige of our mishap.
+
+[Sidenote: Gibraltar, Feb. 4.]
+
+12.30.--Weighed and steamed out, having received orders to rejoin the
+Fleet at Lisbon, without delay.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 5.]
+
+3 P.M.--Observed the fleet in the Tagus, Rear-Admiral Corry having
+shifted his flag from blue to white. 4.30.--Came to in 12 fathoms off
+Belem Castle, having eight days’ quarantine to complete from the time
+of leaving Gibraltar.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 6.]
+
+De Crispigny promoted to rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to _James
+Watts_. Put him on board _Desperate_ as she steamed past on her way
+home.
+
+[Sidenote: Lisbon, Feb. 12.]
+
+11 A.M.--Weighed, rejoined fleet, came to off Packet Stairs.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 15.]
+
+Weighed and made sail as per signal. Hove to for fleet at noon; filled
+and took station in line-of-battle astern of flag, _Duke of Wellington_
+leading division.
+
+[Sidenote: At Sea, Feb. 21.]
+
+9 A.M.--Fleet formed ahead of lee column. Hove to; laid out targets and
+exercised at general quarters.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+Arrived Spithead. Found _Princess Royal_ with flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
+Charles Napier; _Edinburgh_, flag of Rear-Admiral Chads; _Boscawen_,
+_Hogue_, _Odin_, _Leopard_, _Magæra_, _Dragon_, _Simoom_, and _Frolic_.
+5 P.M.--Sailed _Simoom_, one of our early magnificent class of
+transports, with First Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards _en route_ to
+Crimea. Manned rigging and cheered.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 2.]
+
+Completed water. Sent Phipps, one of our promising youngsters, to the
+hospital. Laid out, and had constant practice at target (an exercise
+which continued to end of the chapter!).
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 5.]
+
+Arrived _Royal George_, Codrington.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 10.]
+
+Arrived _Duke of Wellington_, and hoisted flag of Admiral Sir Charles
+Napier. Manned yards, fired royal salute, and cheered as Her Majesty
+passed through the fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 11.]
+
+12.30--The Queen visited the fleet in the _Fairy_ yacht. Cheered from
+the rigging as Her Majesty passed. Later, signal from the yacht for
+Admirals and Captains to be presented to Her Majesty by the First Lord
+of the Admiralty.
+
+Each ship had friends on board. I had my due proportion of visitors.
+Among them Brierly, nephew Bury; Edward, now Lord Digby; young Harry
+Stephenson, whose father, my brother-in-law, had quarrelled with me not
+long before for having offered to take one of his boys to sea. He now
+was the greatest child, dancing a hornpipe on the forecastle in Hessian
+boots! His son Harry, too young to enter the Navy, was stowed away, and
+remained with me, as did Brierly and Bury.
+
+The wind was west-north-west. Made sail before weighing. Yards braced
+for casting to port. Although on the poop with friends had assumed
+charge. Signal made, “Fleet to weigh.” Her Majesty in yacht ready to
+lead.
+
+The master at that moment reported there was only one ship’s length
+between us and the head of the Spit. The anchor was already at the
+cathead. Piped “Belay.” “Man starboard braces.” As she came head to
+wind, ran the jibs up, heading towards the Spit. With the stern-way
+thus secured we were in deep water, and shortly in position next astern
+of the flag. Old seamen may ask, “Why starboard instead of port braces?”
+
+For increase of purchase I had the head braces, when they reached the
+main bitts, led across, which was quickly understood by that useful
+body of men the Royal Marines. When this little manœuvre was explained,
+Digby went below and wrote a cheque for £100. Never was a tip more
+welcome. Her Majesty led the fleet as far as the Nab. 2.30.--Hove to.
+Friends left according to their arrangements as we ran slowly along
+the coast. Wind fair, weather fine, and constant communication. Many
+remained until following day. With yachts and pleasure boats it was a
+grand sight. At 4 P.M. we, by signal, formed into two lines--
+
+
+       PORT.
+
+    _Edinburgh._
+    _Hogue._
+    _Blenheim._
+    _Ajax._
+    _Tribune._
+    _Amphion._
+
+
+       STARBOARD.
+
+    _Duke of Wellington._
+    _St. Jean d’ Acre._
+    _Royal George._
+    _Princess Royal._
+    _Imperieuse._
+    _Arrogant._
+
+
+Frigates: _Leopard_, flag of Admiral Plumridge, _Valorous_ and _Dragon_.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 12.]
+
+_Hecla_ joined with Baltic pilots. Rough lot; huge pipes, sealskin
+caps, and waistcoats!
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 13.]
+
+Fleet weighed. Proceeded. Dense fog.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 15.]
+
+No rendezvous given.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 16.]
+
+Admiral firing a gun every fifteen minutes. Fog continuing. Several of
+the fleet missing.
+
+[Sidenote: Vinga Sound, Mar. 19.]
+
+Admiral shifted flag to _Valorous_ and proceeded to Copenhagen.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 22.]
+
+Sunset.--_Valorous_ returned with Commander-in-Chief, bringing lots of
+cherry brandy.
+
+[Sidenote: Vinga Sound, Mar. 23.]
+
+Weighed in company with fleet. Formed prescribed order of sailing,
+proceeded towards the Great Belt. 3. P.M.--_Neptune_, with flag of
+Rear-Admiral Corry, in sight. Salutes exchanged between Admirals.
+Signal made “Prepare to anchor.” The usual routine of manœuvring,
+firing at targets, etc., went on. _St. Jean d’ Acre_ being one of the
+few fitted with distilling apparatus, we were constantly supplying
+other ships with pure water.
+
+[Sidenote: Kioga Bay, April 3.]
+
+Squally weather. 1.30.--Parted B.B. cable while veering quickly after
+letting go, but saved fouling _Royal George_. Struck topmasts and let
+go sheet-anchor.
+
+[Sidenote: April 4.]
+
+Succeeded in hooking B.B. cable, but too much swell to weigh. Succeeded
+later.
+
+Following communication made from Commander-in-Chief by signal flags
+from each yard-arm as well as masthead.
+
+    “Lads! war is declared; with a bold and numerous enemy to meet.
+
+    “Should they offer us battle, you know how to dispose of them.
+
+    “Should they remain in port we must try and get at them.
+
+    “Success depends on the precision and quickness of your firing.
+
+    “Lads! sharpen your cutlasses, and the day is your own!”
+
+[Illustration: St. Jean d’Acre.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+THE BALTIC FLEET
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1854. Kioga Bay.]
+
+My cabin was the after-part of the main-deck, with its accommodation
+and comforts; but under the impression that business was intended I
+did away with luxuries. Instead of drawers I had tin cases to fit
+neatly overhead between the beams. One quarter-gallery was my bath and
+dressing-room; no bulkheads of any sort. At dinner-time a temporary
+canvas-screen fitted, after we went to the stern walk, which did duty
+of after-cabin. Exercising at quarters, we transferred the foremost
+guns from each side, and fired them out of my cabin windows.
+
+On visiting Clarence Paget in the _Princess Royal_ I found a cot hung
+up, with a chubby-faced boy down with fever. It was Victor Montagu, the
+young son of Lord Sandwich, midshipman and nephew of his captain. We
+met afterwards in China and elsewhere.
+
+[Sidenote: April 12.]
+
+Daylight.--Fleet weighed and made sail as per signal. In all, 39
+pennants.
+
+[Sidenote: April 25.]
+
+Dressed ships with masthead flags in honour of the birthday of the
+Princess Alice.
+
+[Sidenote: May 1.]
+
+Arrived the _Austerlitz_, 100 guns, screw propeller, Captain Laurençin,
+the first of the French fleet. She had been several days at different
+rendezvous. On board was my friend Gizholme of Tahiti as second. Our
+meeting was cordial: we embraced as Frenchmen. Beyond the exchange
+of salutes, no further public mark shown of how we appreciated the
+alliance, but the figureheads, “Napoleon and Wellington,” were
+confronting one another.
+
+[Sidenote: Elgsmabben, May 4.]
+
+Arrived, Captain Henry Seymour, from West Indies and England. We had
+long been on the look-out for the _Cumberland_. It was a pleasure and
+amusement to initiate Seymour into the mysteries of this warlike fleet,
+which no one seemed to understand. My friend had a charming younger
+brother, Wilfrid, with him, whose profession had not been decided
+on. Henry was full of life and spirits, looking forward to great
+things--yet to be done.
+
+[Sidenote: May 5.]
+
+Fleet weighed as per signal, screws under steam, and proceeded through
+the Daläräo Channel. Rendezvous Golska Sands. _Austerlitz_ in co.
+Before the leading ships had reached the Landsort Lighthouse, the whole
+fleet was enveloped in fog.
+
+[Sidenote: May 7.]
+
+Commander George Wodehouse joined the fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+Intelligence having reached of death from drowning of Captain Foote of
+the _Conflict_, the Admiral promoted Commander Cumming of the _Gorgon_
+into the vacancy, appointing Commander Cracroft of this ship to the
+_Gorgon_; sending the Commander of the _Cressy_, John Dorville, who was
+anxious for a change anywhere, to the _St. Jean d’Acre_; and promoting
+the first lieutenant of the _Duke_, an arrangement which appeared to
+give satisfaction to all parties except myself, who had parted with an
+esteemed friend and good officer. I was glad, however, to get Dorville.
+
+[Sidenote: May 17.]
+
+A division of ships placed under command of Rear-Admiral Corry.
+Remainder formed into two lines:--
+
+    _Duke of Wellington._
+    _Hogue._
+    _St. Jean d’Acre._
+    _Blenheim._
+    _Austerlitz._
+
+    _Edinburgh._
+    _Cressy._
+    _Cæsar._
+    _Princess Royal._
+
+[Sidenote: Running for Hangö.]
+
+We used to be next astern of the flag, but I fancy the Chief got tired
+of our figurehead--a fine half-figure of Sir Robert Stopford--always
+looking into the stern-windows of his cabin!
+
+[Sidenote: Running for Hangö Island.]
+
+11 A.M.--Signal made for us to proceed in chase of a stranger ahead.
+May 14 having been fixed as the latest day on which neutral vessels
+quitting a Russian port would be allowed to pass the line of blockade,
+brought in sight a number of vessels, from whom we obtained accurate
+information of the position and force of the Russian fleets at
+Kronstadt and Helsingfors. 8 P.M.--Resumed station in line of battle.
+
+[Sidenote: May 18.]
+
+Signal made for us to look out on starboard beam of flag.
+
+[Sidenote: May 19.]
+
+7 A.M.--Boarded several vessels that had left Kronstadt or Narva on or
+before the 14th. 8.30 P.M.--Resumed station.
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Arrived _Arrogant_ and _Hecla_ with Russian prize barque, which they
+had cut out at Eckness. They were cheered on joining the fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: May 22.]
+
+Received from the _St. George_ our spare screw propeller, seven tons
+weight; awkward to stow. Placed it athwart, and between the end of the
+booms and galley-funnels. Still supplying distilled water!!
+
+[Sidenote: May 24.]
+
+Fired royal salute in commemoration of Her Majesty’s birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: Hangö Roads, May 26.]
+
+9.30 A.M.--Commander-in-Chief came on board, nominally to inspect,
+and left again after having made some unjust remarks relative to the
+gunnery and drill of the ship, such as, if reported to the Admiralty,
+might be considered by them as an excuse for his having for so long
+persistently avoided the neighbourhood of the enemy’s ships.
+
+[Sidenote: June 2.]
+
+8.45.--Came to with the fleet in Barösund.
+
+[Sidenote: June 3.]
+
+Arrived _Hecla_, who supplied us with eight oxen, without fodder!
+Slaughtered them. Received more potatoes than we could consume.
+
+[Sidenote: June 4.]
+
+Arrived _Pigmy_, Lieutenant James Hunt, my _Dido_ shipmate.
+
+[Sidenote: June 9.]
+
+Stood out of Barösund.
+
+[Sidenote: June 12.]
+
+5.30 A.M.--Weighed under steam, standing to the eastward. _Imperieuse_
+and _Arrogant_ joined, we being on their cruising-ground. Fleet came to
+off Helsingfors, from which place, by telescope, the masts of some of
+the Russian fleet could be seen at anchor in the harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: June 13.]
+
+At 5.30 A.M.--Fleet weighed and made sail. 6.30.--Observed the French
+fleet to the westward. The French Vice-Admiral, M. P. Deschênes,
+hoisted the English ensign at the main, and saluted flag of Sir
+Charles Napier. Salute returned. English fleet saluting French flag.
+10.--Shortened and furled; proceeded under steam.
+
+On joining company, found French fleet to consist of the _Inflexible_,
+90, Vice-Admiral Deschênes; _Du Guesclin_, 90, Rear-Admiral Penana;
+_Hercule_, 100, Captain Louien; _Jemappes_, 100, Captain Robin du
+Parc; _Taga_, 100, Captain Fabore; _Duperié_, 82, Captain Penana; and
+_Trident_, 82, Captain F. de Maussion de Condé, with seven frigates,
+besides steamers. French fleet hove to, while our fleet passed heading
+into Barösund. Paddle-wheel steamers assisting in towing French fleet
+in.
+
+1 P.M.--Came to in sixteen fathoms. After the French fleet had
+anchored, the allied forces in Barösund consisted of 19 English ships
+of the line (11 of these screws), 8 French ships of the line (1 screw)
+4 French, and one English frigate, 13 steamers of both nations. We had
+also the _Belleisle_ (Hospital) and _Resistance_, store-ship, making
+a total of 47 men-of-war. There were in the anchorage _Esmeralda_,
+and R.Y.S. _Gondola_, Lord Lichfield’s yacht, besides colliers and
+transports, making altogether a goodly sight. The French fleet had 2000
+marines on board, beyond their complement.
+
+[Sidenote: June 14.]
+
+Admiral Sir Charles Napier visited the French Commander-in-Chief in the
+_Inflexible_; the French fleet manning yards and cheering.
+
+[Illustration: _The Commander-in-Chief._]
+
+[Sidenote: Barösund, June 15.]
+
+French Vice-Admiral, Parseval Deschênes, returned Sir Charles Napier’s
+visit. The captains of the British ships attended on board the _Duke
+of Wellington_, when they were introduced to the French Admiral, and
+honours paid him similar to those received by Sir Charles Napier.
+Received powder and shot from _Resistance_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 16.]
+
+Laid out targets at 750 yards, and exercised at general quarters.
+Practice particularly good at mark--a single staff cut down over and
+over again. Received shot from _Resistance_, 10, troop-ship, Master
+Commander Manser Bradshaw.
+
+[Sidenote: June 20.]
+
+Dressed ship with masthead flags, and at noon both fleets fired a royal
+salute in honour of anniversary of Her Majesty’s accession.
+
+[Sidenote: Sestran Island, June 24.]
+
+French fleet proceeded to eastward, Admirals communicating, when it was
+proposed by Parseval Deschênes to Sir Charles Napier that, to prove to
+the Russians the _entente cordiale_ that existed between our nations,
+the English screw-liners should each take a French liner in tow, and
+proceed in line past the Russian forts, the French Admiral, as senior
+officer, waiving his right of precedence. His proposition was not
+acceded to by Sir Charles Napier; the excuse that “His Captains were
+too inexperienced to undertake such an operation”!
+
+[Sidenote: Off Kronstadt, June 26.]
+
+5 A.M.--Fleet weighed under steam. French fleet in co., proceeding easy
+to eastward. 11 A.M.--Approached near enough to Kronstadt to observe
+the mastheads of the Russian fleet and then wore. 1.50.--Came to in
+16 fathoms. Anchored in two columns. Frigates and steamers sent to
+reconnoitre.
+
+[Sidenote: June 27.]
+
+_Driver_ arrived. Cholera made its appearance on board both fleets.
+Elliot, Clarence Paget, and myself took advantage of a kind invitation
+from Lord Lichfield for a sail on board the _Gondola_, as we might run
+pretty close to the entrance of Kronstadt without attracting attention.
+
+[Illustration: _The_ Gondola _Yacht off Tolbeacon Light_.]
+
+We were some distance inside the Tolbeacon Lighthouse, as were also the
+cruising frigates, when we observed a large Russian steamer standing
+out. When it was thought advisable for us to haul to the wind, the
+sudden change of motion and difference of size of ships had the effect
+on me of a stomach pump; and when it was reported that the Russian
+was steering for us, I considered myself a Russian prisoner! However,
+cruisers quickly discovered our position and ran towards the Russian,
+which returned to Kronstadt. This led to a report getting into the
+English papers that we had been chased by the Emperor Nicholas in
+person.
+
+[Sidenote: June 28.]
+
+Hoisted masthead flags, and at noon both fleets fired a royal salute in
+honour of anniversary of Her Majesty’s coronation. On these occasions
+the French and English flags were hoisted together. My distillery was
+never at rest, supplying fleet with the purest of water.
+
+[Sidenote: June 29.]
+
+9.30 A.M.--Weighed; made all plain sail for exercise. During our stay
+off Kronstadt, steamers and boats from the fleet were continually
+sounding on the north side of the island, thereby pointing out from
+whence an attack might be expected, when nothing of the sort was ever
+contemplated.
+
+[Sidenote: July 1.]
+
+There was a creek that ran up a considerable distance to the rear of
+the Kronstadt Batteries. Scarcely a ship of the line that did not
+submit to the consideration of the Commander-in-Chief an exact model
+of the boats and spars, with weight and draught of each, by which
+heavy ordnance could be conveyed to the rear of the Russian Batteries.
+The Commander-in-Chief’s fore-cabin was half full of these clever and
+interesting models, which were not even acknowledged.
+
+[Sidenote: July 2.]
+
+9.30.--Weighed under steam. Fleets in co. 6 P.M.--Came to off Seskan
+Island.
+
+No encouragement given by Chief to mix with cheery allies.
+
+[Sidenote: July 13.]
+
+Sailed _Majestic_, on a cruise, being sickly with cholera.
+
+[Sidenote: July 18.]
+
+Arrived _Dauntless_, 33, screw-steamer frigate. Captain Alfred P.
+Ryder. Joined Mr. Stanley Graham, son of First Lord, midshipman from
+_Dauntless_.
+
+[Sidenote: July 21.]
+
+Admiral Corry returning to England in _Dauntless_, ships remaining were
+placed under the orders of Commodore Martin, and proceeded to cruise in
+the Gulf of Finland. 4.30 P.M.--Arrived Admiral Plumridge in _Leopard_;
+with a division of steamers joined company. 7 P.M.--Rounded Lagskar
+Lighthouse. 9.45.--Came to in 13 fathoms in Ledsund.
+
+[Sidenote: July 22.]
+
+Notice having been received that 10,000 French troops were coming out,
+preparations were made for an attack on the fort at Bomarsund. The
+destruction of which might, with little or no difficulty, have been
+accomplished in the month of April by a division of the British fleet.
+
+At daylight the block-ships and _Amphion_ under Admiral Chads, and
+steam division under Admiral Plumridge, proceeded towards Bomarsund--a
+safe channel for ships of any draught having been discovered by Captain
+William Hall of _Hecla_, and afterwards buoyed off by Captain Sullivan.
+
+[Sidenote: July 24.]
+
+Marines inspected by Colonel Graham, who pronounced them the finest
+body of men he had seen in the fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: July 26.]
+
+_Odin_ arrived; Captain Francis Scott, old friend of my lieutenant days.
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+Supplied _Cumberland_ with water. Sent three cholera cases to
+_Belleisle_.
+
+[Sidenote: July 31.]
+
+Four more cholera cases; making us anxious for health of crew. Arrived
+General Barraguay d’Hilliers and staff in the French Emperor’s yacht
+_La Reine Hortense_ from Stockholm; received him with cheers and yards
+manned. Visits exchanged between Chiefs and others. Manning of yards.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 1.]
+
+French and English Generals and engineer officers visiting Bomarsund to
+make arrangements prior to attack. Steam vessels constantly on the move
+between this anchorage and Åland Islands. More cholera cases! Ordered
+by Commander-in-Chief to send field-pieces, _without men_, on board
+_Driver_ for conveyance to Admiral Chads.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 5.]
+
+Another death, a marine, from cholera, making, since its first
+appearance on 27th June, twenty cases, of which twelve proved fatal.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 6.]
+
+French ships proceeding towards Bomarsund, four of their largest ships,
+with both Admirals, besides frigates, steamers, and transports.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 7.]
+
+Sent scaling ladders to _Bulldog_ for conveyance to Admiral Chads.
+General Barraguay d’Hilliers proceeded to Bomarsund in _La Reine
+Hortense_. Embarked seventy marines under command of Captain Clavell,
+and Lieutenants Brooke and Davidson, on board _Dawn_, in compliance
+with a request made by Barraguay d’Hilliers, but reluctantly acceded to
+by Sir Charles Napier, for land service.
+
+Not, as the General informed me, that he required the force, but
+that he was anxious we should share in all operations; such being
+the express wish of the French Emperor. Lieutenant Lennox attended
+as A.D.C. to Colonel Graham. All remaining transports and steamers
+proceeded up. Commander-in-Chief, attended by the Captain of the Fleet,
+Rear-Admiral Seymour and suite, hoisted his flag in _Bulldog_.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII
+
+THE BOMBARDMENT OF BOMARSUND
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1854.]
+
+Before Bomarsund was regularly invested there were places where our
+wardroom officers could land by twos and threes for exercise, when
+it was not worth while for the Russian Circular Towers to expend
+ammunition.
+
+On one occasion, when the officers had taken my nephew, Harry
+Stephenson, a round shot buried itself within a few yards of them. They
+dispersed in haste, all but young Harry, who picked up a pointed stick
+and commenced digging at his first trophy.
+
+The _St. Jean d’Acre_ and the _Cumberland_ were, with many others,
+at Ledsund, five-and-twenty miles from Bomarsund; but Seymour and I
+thought, for the good of the Service, we should be eye-witnesses of the
+preparations. The troops left for Bomarsund on the afternoon of the
+7th. Late in the evening Henry Seymour and I started in my gig, sailing
+or pulling easily.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 8.]
+
+In a thick fog, about 3 A.M., we landed on a wooden pier to cook
+an early coffee. While this was going on we heard _three_ heavy
+explosions. Seymour thought it must be the Admirals’ daylight guns. But
+there were only two Admirals!
+
+Although in a dense fog, with our boat’s compass we knew pretty well
+where we ought to be, and found ourselves alongside the _Blenheim_, 60,
+Captain Hon. Fred Pelham, who gave us all the information we required.
+
+The ball was to open at daylight, by the French steamer _Phlegethon_
+and English frigate _Amphion_, who had ascertained the exact range of
+the Russian fort that was intended to destroy any force that might
+attempt a landing.
+
+After a while we found ourselves close to the very fort on which the
+frigates were to open fire. Neither seeing anything nor hearing the
+slightest noise we entered by one of the embrasures. It was deserted,
+but before doing so the Russians had attempted to burst the guns, and
+had only partially succeeded. One gun had the muzzle blown off; one
+only had completely burst; a third had gone off, but half-buried itself
+in the earth. There were in all five heavy eight-inch guns. These three
+explosions were what Seymour and myself had heard while drinking our
+coffee on the wooden pier.
+
+It was now about the appointed time that the frigates were to open fire
+on the fort we were in; they had taken the exact range the previous
+evening. We lay off, the fog as dense as ever. We were none too soon.
+The _Amphion_ and _Phlegethon_ fired shell, which, bursting in the
+fort, had the appearance in the fog of a return fire.
+
+After a while there was a lull. Presently we heard distant cheering.
+This was from the crews coming to take possession of the fort they
+had silenced. The fog continued, and it was high time we took care of
+ourselves. On the south-eastern end of the anchorage, in Lumpar Bay,
+was the _Odin_ steamer, 16 guns, commanded by our young old friend,
+Frank Scott. Here we were well taken care of and jolly, narrating our
+adventures. Wilfrid Seymour had joined us from the _Sphynx_.
+
+It was between 2 and 3 P.M. when the officer of the watch reported the
+Admiral coming. What were we to do? Frank Scott had a lumber cabin in
+which he kept spare furniture when clear for action. In this we hid.
+When he and Sir Charles had sat down to the usual grog, the Chief said
+to Scott:--“That was a dom’d fine thing of the frigates this morning.”
+Scott replied, without thinking, “Why, I hear there was no one in the
+fort”! To which the old Chief replied, “Who has been telling you a
+dom’d lie? Why, Chaads saw, from the masthead, at least five hundred
+soldiers rush out”!
+
+On the morning of the 10th the disembarkation of the guns commenced.
+Each ship had been ordered to prepare two sledges, made according to a
+pattern by Captain Ramsay of the _Hogue_.
+
+Amongst the officers so employed was H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe,
+mate of the _Cumberland_, who was put in charge of a 12-pounder
+field-piece, with which he kept one of the circular forts employed. He
+was very happy, pounding away at the fort, all the while puffing at his
+pet meerschaum “peep.”
+
+It is not my intention to trouble my readers with a sailor’s opinion
+of the capture of Bomarsund. Experienced officers, both French and
+English, worked well together.
+
+I was like the boy that was sent to a French school, who, on inquiry of
+his parents when he got home for the holidays, said, “We had nothing
+to do, and we did it.” But with my friend Henry Seymour, who had his
+younger brother (now General Lord William Seymour, in command of our
+troops in Canada), we had great fun; with a tent between us and our
+ships’ gigs we really enjoyed ourselves. On one occasion, when camped
+under a hill, the Russian shot passed over our heads into the country
+beyond. The next morning Henry felt a little nervous on account of the
+young brother, and proposed shifting our tent nearer the hill; the
+change was only just completed, when a round shot dropped into the site
+of our former position.
+
+[Illustration: _Circular Fort, Bomarsund._]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIV
+
+_ST. JEAN D’ ACRE_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1854. Ledsund. Aug. 17.]
+
+Ships and steamers coming from Bomarsund.
+
+Launches employed in conveying prisoners from steamers to troop-ships.
+The lately promoted Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour hoisted his flag in
+_Duke of Wellington_.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 19.]
+
+Plumridge sailed in _Leopard_ to relieve Henry Martin, in command of
+the reserve division at Nargen.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 20.]
+
+Sailed _Hannibal_, Commodore Hon. Frederick Grey, _Algiers_, _St.
+Vincent_, _Royal William_, _Termagant_, _Sphynx_, and _Gladiator_ with
+Russian prisoners. Several pleasure steamers from Stockholm passed on
+their way to Bomarsund.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 22.]
+
+Three block-ships, with _Bulldog_, bearing flag of Commander-in-Chief,
+came down from Bomarsund.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 26.]
+
+Dressed ship with masthead flags, and at noon fired a royal salute in
+commemoration of Prince Albert’s birthday.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 1.]
+
+_Cuckoo_ arrived from Bomarsund with flag of Rear-Admiral Seymour,
+which was transferred to the _Duke_.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 2.]
+
+All the paddle-steamers went up to assist in towing transports with
+French troops; they, as well as the French men-of-war, preparing to
+quit Bomarsund on the destruction of the forts.
+
+It was a grand sight, the blowing up of the forts: expensive as well.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 3.]
+
+Heard that my old shipmate of _Dido_, Jim Hunt, now in command of
+_Pigmy_, had gone wrong side of the red buoy and was on shore. Went in
+gig to ascertain amount of assistance required. Found that anchor had
+been laid out, but the crew were tired or else too lazy to work. It
+was evident that they had been observed by Russians on the high ground
+beyond the Narrows, and shortly two pieces of artillery hove in sight.
+
+My boat’s crew were ready to help, when Jim Hunt thus addressed his
+crew:
+
+“The enemy in sight with guns! We shall be made prisoners. You,--you
+lazy blackguards, will be marched off to Siberia, fed on sour krout and
+tallow candles; while _I_ shall be fêted and fed on shore in the best
+society!”
+
+[Sidenote: Ledsund.]
+
+The speech told. _Pigmy_ arrived at Ledsund. Field-Marshal Barraguay
+d’Hilliers came down from Bomarsund in a French war steamer. Both
+fleets manned yards, the flagships saluting, and at 3 P.M. he sailed
+for France.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 12.]
+
+Arrived _La Reine Hortense_, bringing a Field-Marshal’s baton for
+General Barraguay d’Hilliers.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 14.]
+
+_Leopard_, with flag of Rear-Admiral Martin, came from Bomarsund,
+having remained to witness destruction of all the works completed.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 19.]
+
+Fleet weighed per signal and proceeded under steam. French fleet
+in company. Formed order of sailing in two columns. French Admiral
+saluted. On his salute being returned by the _Duke_, fleet hoisted
+French colours. Parted company with French fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+Arrived Russian steamer with flag of truce, and communicated with
+Commander-in-Chief. Fleet weighed, proceeding under steam. Formed order
+of sailing in two columns.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 21.]
+
+_Euryalus_ joined company. Came to, per signal, off Nargen Island.
+
+[Sidenote: Nargen Island, Oct. 10.]
+
+2 P.M.--Arrived _Bulldog_ with mail. Dressed ship with masthead flags,
+and fired a royal salute in commemoration of the victory gained by the
+Allied Army at Alma on September 20 in the Crimea.
+
+[Illustration: _The Battle of the Alma._]
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 23.]
+
+Came to in Kiel Harbour. Received the following interesting letter from
+my nephew, Augustus Stephenson:--
+
+    ROOKSBURY, _October 12, 1854_.
+
+    MY DEAR UNCLE--We have this day received your letter of October
+    3, and are delighted at so good an account of yourself.
+
+    We hope before you receive this that little Harry will have
+    rejoined you.
+
+    By your letter I suppose you have heard of the false news we
+    received here in England of the taking of Sevastopol.
+
+    The news was false at the time; though I believe it was only
+    premature, as before now, I trust, we are in the possession of
+    it.
+
+    The papers of to-day say that the bombardment commenced at 5
+    P.M. on the 4th of this month.
+
+    You say you now receive no newspapers, though before you
+    receive this you will no doubt have heard of the glorious
+    victory of the Alma, on the 20th.
+
+    The despatches are too large to put into this letter, and,
+    moreover, you must get them before you receive this.
+
+    It seems to have been a wonderful affair.
+
+    Menschikoff, whose private papers, carriage, etc., were taken
+    by the French, had written to the Emperor to say he could hold
+    the position for three weeks at least.
+
+    It was stormed in three hours!
+
+    Poor Wenny (Coke), after all his trouble to be in time, was
+    left in charge of the baggage at Varna!
+
+    We had a letter from him, written in the highest spirits; he
+    was to have embarked (as he then thought) on the following day.
+
+    Our friends in the Fusilier Guards have been sadly knocked
+    about. Chewton is reported as having died since. That report
+    is now contradicted, but he is fearfully wounded. He was
+    bayonetted on the ground and has eleven wounds.
+
+    Haygarth was lying with his leg broken, and a Russian,
+    attempting to blow his head off, shot away the upper part of
+    his shoulder.
+
+    He, however, has got as far as Malta on his way home.
+
+    Astley, I hear, has written home for all his friends in
+    hospital. He himself is shot through the neck, but says he
+    would not have been altogether missed on any account!
+
+    Buckley very badly shot. Eumismore many wounds. Black Dal, but
+    slightly wounded in the knee. Hepburn lost an arm. Bulwer hit
+    in the head only.
+
+    I believe you know most of these men. You remember Hugh
+    Drummond at Woolmer; he is reported to have bagged three
+    Russians, who came at him after his horse was shot, with his
+    revolvers!
+
+    Burghersh, who brought home the despatches, says that the pluck
+    of our troops was perfectly wonderful.
+
+    The only Guardsman killed was Cust: leg carried off by a cannon
+    ball. He died after undergoing amputation. As for family news,
+    we are all well. I am off to-morrow on my sessions and hope to
+    come to you when you arrive to welcome you back all safe.
+
+    Love from all to you and the young ’un.--Ever your most
+    affectionate nephew,
+
+    (Signed) AUGUSTUS K. STEPHENSON.
+
+
+[Sidenote: Kiel, Nov. 9.]
+
+Dressed with masthead flags, and at noon fired a royal salute in
+commemoration of the birth of the Prince of Wales.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+Signal to _Princess Royal_ and _Acre_ to “Prepare for sea.”
+
+My vanity may be excused in inserting the following paragraph from a
+book published recently by my friend Clarence Paget:--
+
+    At last came the joyful day when we were to return to England.
+
+    We were to hoist Seymour’s flag and take _St. Jean d’ Acre_
+    with us. I know not why we were always sent in couples; perhaps
+    it may be that we were known by the authorities to be what is
+    called “chummy ships,” but we are always in company, and very
+    good company she is with her jolly, cheerful skipper, Harry
+    Keppel, brave as a lion, gentle as a lamb.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour hoisted his flag on board _Princess Royal_
+and exchanged salutes with Commander-in-Chief, _Acre_ being placed
+under his orders.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 25.]
+
+Daylight.--Weighed under steam. Exchanged cheers from rigging with
+_James Watt_, George Elliott’s ship, which was disapproved of by signal
+from Commander-in-Chief, _Princess Royal_ in company.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 30.]
+
+Weighed and proceeded under easy steam in wake of flag.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 2.]
+
+2 P.M.--Furled sails. Came to at 4.30 in West Port, Christiansund.
+Landed and bought in market twelve brace of capercailzie. Country
+covered with frozen snow, over which we drove in carriages.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+Being the Sabbath, coals not to be obtained until the afternoon, when
+_Princess Royal_ took in some from lighters sent alongside, containing
+about fifteen tons each.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 4.]
+
+Decks covered with 5 or 6 inches of snow. Weighed and followed
+_Princess Royal_.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 8.]
+
+Westerly wind and dirty weather. Asked permission, per signal, to stand
+in under shelter of Yarmouth. Answer, “Rendezvous, Plymouth,” in case
+of parting company. At 7 lost sight of flag.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 9.]
+
+6.15.--Came to in the Downs. Landed Baltic pilot, he having been on
+board nine months, at fifteen shillings a day, without being of the
+slightest use.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 10.]
+
+2.30 A.M.--Came to in Plymouth Sound. Found _Princess Royal_, _Cæsar_,
+and _Monarch_. Saluted flag of Admiral Sir William Parker, K.G.C.B.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 13.]
+
+Steamed into harbour; ship’s company turned over to _Bellona_ hulk.
+Ship taken into Keyham Dock.
+
+[Sidenote: Plymouth, Dec. 18.]
+
+Orders to prepare ship for reception of troops, and proceed to the
+Crimea. Seeing no other chance I started for London before their
+arrival, and was followed by a most kind letter from the First Lord to
+dine _en famille_ and so meet his son on Christmas Day.
+
+What could have been more agreeable? But I had to take leave of a dear
+shipmate, Fred Horton, of whom the doctors gave a bad account, to
+prepare to receive a General and Staff, and embark 1200 troops at Cork
+for the Crimea.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 26.]
+
+Slipped moorings and proceeded under steam into the Sound.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 30.]
+
+Received the following from Admiralty:--
+
+    _December 30, 1854._
+
+    MY DEAR KEPPEL--Make haste or you will be too late for the fun.
+
+    Admiral Lyons writes in high spirits, date 13th inst.
+
+    Admiral Seymour, to whom I have written, will do all that is
+    right about cabins for your passengers.
+
+    Lyons is not the man I take him for if he does not find you
+    something to occupy you, even if you are not in time to charge
+    the barrier across Sevastopol Harbour.--Yours sincerely,
+
+    (Signed) M. F. H. BERKELEY.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LV
+
+THE CRIMEA
+
+
+PLYMOUTH SOUND.
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. Jan. 1.]
+
+2 P.M.--Slipped moorings. Came to in the Sound. Obliged to close lower
+deck ports to prevent watermen pitching parcels on board for the
+Crimea. New Year’s dinner with Admiral Sir William Parker, my old Chief
+in China.
+
+[Sidenote: Plymouth, Jan. 2.]
+
+Glad to meet again, residing here, Mrs. Keith Stewart; accompanied her
+to lunch with Lord Mount Edgcumbe. Dinner with the Charles Edens to
+meet my passengers, Generals Barnard and Lord Rokeby.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 3.]
+
+Lord George Lennox down to sail to Cork with us. 3 P.M.--Crimean
+Generals came alongside in a steamer. Was obliged to leave young
+Graham, Birch, and George Wodehouse to follow.
+
+[Sidenote: Cork, Jan. 4.]
+
+Arrived in afternoon at Cove of Cork, saluting flag of Admiral Carrol.
+Generals and I dined with him; Miss Carrol managing her father’s house.
+
+Received 645 troops, drafts for different regiments in the Crimea,
+consisting of the following:--
+
+    63rd Regt., 51 men, Lieuts. Hunt and Hand.
+    30th Regt., 51 men, Capt. Robertson, Lieut. Hill.
+    33rd Regt., 97 men, Capt. Ellis, Lieut. Wallis, Ensign Ellis.
+    47th Regt., 67 men, Capt. Elgee.
+    41st Regt., 109 men, Capt. Bertram, Lieuts. Lambert and Nowlan.
+    17th Regt., 122 men, Capt. Colthurst, Lieut. Thompson, Ensigns
+        Travis and Disbourne.
+    50th Regt., 17 men.
+    68th Regt., 17 men.
+    55th Regt., 39 men, Lieut. Hannay.
+    49th Regt., 67 men, Lieut. Eustace.
+    57th Regt., 9 men, Capt. Brown, Lieut. Ashwin.
+
+Not sorry to receive telegram to wait for Graham. So need not sail on
+Friday.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 5.]
+
+Shifted berth into Fairway. Schetky, late drawing master of Royal Naval
+College, breakfasted with me.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 6.]
+
+Got fairly away by 8 A.M., George Lennox leaving with the pilot. We
+exchanged binoculars by mistake. My guests, Generals Barnard and Lord
+Rokeby, Colonels Warde and Arthur Lowry Cole, A.D.C’s. Wellesley and
+Barnard, all good fellows. Lord Rokeby, a soldier of Waterloo, the
+cheeriest of all; but he, poor fellow, had lately lost a promising
+young and only son. I was admitted to his confidence. Bright and cheery
+as he was in company, it was a sad consolation for him to describe in
+private the loss he had sustained; outside, no one could have detected
+that he had a trouble in the world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was the depth of winter. On the way out I had made for my Generals
+and Colonels canvas bags, impervious to wet or cold, in which they
+could lie down with uniforms on....
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 7.]
+
+People and luggage beginning to shake down into their places. Officers,
+determined to be pleased, made no complaints. Among the passengers were
+some for whom it was difficult to find a berth. The good Chaplain
+“Thomas” spotted one[2] so situated, and ascertaining that he knew not
+where to sleep, put him into his, the Chaplain’s cabin, making for
+himself a bed under the wardroom mess-table.
+
+[2] Lord Dangan, Coldstream Guards.
+
+[Illustration: _Map--Strait of Gibraltar_]
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 11.]
+
+Soldiers are naturally fond of lounging about the boom-boats.
+Discovered afterwards our cheery Irish recruits had devoured half a ton
+of raw turnips that had been sent on board for the sheep.
+
+[Sidenote: Gibraltar, Jan. 12.]
+
+At sunset we were off the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. Strong
+easterly wind, and the usual inrush of sea; but as it was about our
+dinner time, I had sails furled, and left the Master to steer by the
+well-lighted Spanish coast. When I came on the poop-deck, shortly
+followed by my guests, a bright light, broad on the port bow, made me
+inquire of the Master what it was. He informed me it was Tarifa Point.
+Having ascertained the bearings, I saw at once that it must be Europa
+Point, some twenty miles in advance, and ordered “Starboard the helm.”
+
+Twenty years had elapsed since, when in command of _Childers_ brig, I
+had made almost monthly visits to meet the English mail at Gibraltar.
+My poor nervous Master, who could not have reckoned on the rush of sea
+into the Mediterranean, exclaimed, before my Generals and other guests:
+“You forget, sir, that you have on board 1200 men in addition to the
+ship’s company.” Ordered him to his cabin under arrest!
+
+What my guests in charge of the 1200 troops must have thought I know
+not, but they behaved like the noble fellows they were. I was younger
+than most of them, and there must have been many persons on that deck
+who can still corroborate what I write. The angle formed in our wake
+caused the propelling screw to cut the lead lines, which were also
+cut as soon as replaced. However, in a few minutes we had the full
+blaze of lights on the Rock itself; the harbour was a mass of shipping.
+We could only obtain proper anchorage by passing under the stern of
+the largest transport I could find. We had fortunately here about the
+most promising of our young Captains, George Grey, in charge of the
+dockyard. His perfect arrangements for coaling made the work easy.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 13.]
+
+Self and party dined with the Governor, Sir Robert Gardiner.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 14.]
+
+After church visited Pagets; Mrs. Paget, of the charming Williams
+family, having just returned. Early dinner with George Grey. 320 tons
+of coal on board. Made another start at 11 P.M.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 15.]
+
+The General harangued the troops, while I pitched into sundry
+delinquents: effects of coaling!
+
+[Sidenote: Malta, Jan. 19.]
+
+At 4 A.M. lights were reported. We entered Malta Harbour at 12.30.
+Steamed in and secured to a buoy.
+
+Commenced coaling, watering, etc. Met H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge.
+The same kind manner, but looking reduced and low in spirits. He
+seemed unprepared for the kind and hearty reception that awaited him
+on his return home. Put up at Durnford’s Hotel. Saw many old friends:
+Pocklington, Fred Arkwright, and others. Stores, horses, cases, etc.,
+sent on board without mercy. Dined with Admiral Houston Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+5 P.M.--Slipped from buoy--steamed and made sail.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 23.]
+
+Entered the Dardanelles.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 25.]
+
+At daylight found ourselves in the Sea of Marmora. Kept the northern
+coast to avoid current. 10 A.M.--Came to in the entrance to the
+Golden Horn, off that wonderful city, Constantinople.
+
+[Illustration: _Map--The Bosporus_]
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 26.]
+
+Found Rear-Admiral Boxer the senior officer. Frederick Grey, as
+Commodore, ready to relieve him. Visited the hospital at Scutari, and
+had an interview with Miss Nightingale. Put up at Misseri’s Hotel.
+Dined at the Embassy, meeting there Mrs. Ives and Miss Stanley.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 27.]
+
+After breakfast joined Lady Stratford de Redcliffe’s party, and visited
+bazaars, etc., on Constantinople side. Interview and long chat with
+Mrs. Ives, Emma Maynard that was. Dined at Embassy in thin boots; a
+filthy walk back to hotel.
+
+[Illustration: St. Jean d’ Acre _off Balaclava_.]
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Weighed at 8 A.M., having slept on shore.
+
+Cheered _Queen_ and _Vengeance_ on passing them in Beicos Bay.
+10.--Entered the Black Sea. Two more friends added to my mess in Hugh
+Drummond of Fusilier Guards, and Colonel Norcott of Rifles.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 29.]
+
+Wardroom officers gave a dinner to our Generals and staff. Sat down
+sixty-three: some speeches made and much harmony.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 30.]
+
+1 A.M.--Made the Khersonesia Light. 2.--Came to between the _Algiers_
+and _Agamemnon_, the latter flying the flag of Sir Edmund Lyons, off
+Sevastopol Harbour. Went on board; found Admiral in bed. At 8, Generals
+and self breakfasted with him, and then shifted round to Balaclava.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 31.]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 1.]
+
+Generals disembarked this morning. I also landed, and picked up Wenny
+Coke, who had a bad cold. Put him on our sick list. The Generals
+returned on board to dinner. I had brought some Southdown sheep,
+knowing how welcome they would be. After breakfast guests off to their
+respective posts. On landing near the head of the harbour, found the
+snow a foot deep, with the exception of the foot-trodden paths.
+
+The Royal Marines occupied the lower ground. To the north, above them,
+were the Guards, and on higher land were the 93rd Highlanders. I was
+looking for Sir Colin Campbell.
+
+The first person I came up with was a long soldier, without coat or
+jacket, braces hanging down his back, carrying a bucket of water in one
+hand, and lugging a goat up with the other. He accosted me with, “How
+are you, Keppel?” I replied, “All right, thanks,” and passed on. On
+arriving at the Guards’ ground, the first person I saw standing at his
+tent door was friend Mark Wood. While chatting, the soldier with braces
+down passed. I asked, “Who is that soldier? he seems to know me.” Wood
+said, “Of course he does; that is Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.”
+
+I found Sir Colin Campbell on the high ground, his jacket flying open
+as if it were summer. Our meeting was cordial. I asked him whether
+he would have his Southdown cut up, or whole. He preferred it home
+fashion, with the saddle.
+
+I got him to tell me whether it was true he had refused to form square
+to resist the Russian Cavalry at Balaclava. He said a double line of
+Highlanders was enough, and if I did not mind the snow he would show me
+the Russian horses. Seeing the carcases lying in the snow, I remarked I
+was not aware that the Russians docked their horses so close; he said
+it was done by the French, who took them to make bouillon soup.
+
+When I got down I was anxious to write my name in Lord Raglan’s book,
+and inquired my way to headquarters. A soldier informed me that at the
+next bend on the right I should find “a dead horse and a nasty stink on
+the left. The same all the way up.” As “all the way up” was four miles,
+I preferred returning to the ship.
+
+[Illustration: “_All the way up._”]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 2.]
+
+I was flattered to find my Generals preferred sleeping on board;
+however, hearing heavy firing in the night, they landed prepared to
+fight. Wenny Coke was much amused when he found the Generals went off
+so suddenly; he said, if they had only awoke him he could have informed
+them the same thing happened every night. Was struck yesterday with the
+cheeriness of officers and men. Visited the post-office; observed in
+one corner an ominous-looking bag, which appeared full, marked “Dead.”
+
+The troops, both officers and men, form a motley mixture. It is
+difficult to recognise any one by his dress. They have now, when too
+late, warm clothing: fur caps, sheep-skin coats, and brown boots.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 3.]
+
+Sharp frost, with cold cutting wind, it having snowed hard during the
+night. Rokeby in his canvas bag, his moustache frozen white. Bromley,
+Colonel Carlton, Sir James Dunlop and nephew, Henry Hill, on board
+to dine and sleep. Landed Henry with stock of brandy, poultry, and
+tongue. Thermometer below 19°.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 4.]
+
+Carlton and Bromley landed after breakfast, Dunlop and Wenny remaining.
+Weighed in afternoon. Anchored off Sevastopol.
+
+[Sidenote: The Guards’ Camp.]
+
+While the ship was at Balaclava I met on shore no end of old friends.
+In the Guards’ camp, although they, what was left of them, were bright
+and cheery, I avoided inquiring about the many I missed.
+
+I dined quietly one afternoon with my kinsman, Bob Lindsay, but it was
+difficult to draw from him what his thoughts and feelings were on the
+occasion when he so gallantly carried the Guards’ colours at the Alma.
+
+There was Billy Russell, ever bright and cheery, but never seemed
+inclined to be pumped as to what he had seen and knew.
+
+I had repeated gallops with one or other of the Inkerman heroes.
+When that ride was proposed I never admitted I had been over the
+field before, and delighted to hear over and over again answers to my
+questions. The most melancholy spectacle was the wretched condition of
+the horses, ten and twelve being harnessed to an ammunition waggon that
+on other occasions would be drawn by four.
+
+The painful subject everywhere was the thinned ranks of infantry
+regiments. The Guards were reduced from 4100 to 500. Poor Lord Rokeby
+tried to hide his tears when he saw the remnant of the Brigade. It will
+take from fifteen to twenty years to make them what they were a year
+ago.
+
+After a while no one knew the whole country better than Lord Rokeby.
+I enjoyed my rides with him; always as fast as his good mounts could
+carry us.
+
+The barrier of sunken ships across the harbour of Sevastopol I do
+not think much of, but there is a mysterious-looking line about two
+cables’ length inside the sunken ships that I cannot make out, leading
+about two-thirds of the way across. Carlton and Bromley landed after
+breakfast, Dunlop and Wenny Coke remaining. Up screw, weighed in
+afternoon, and worked round to anchorage off Kamiesch Bay.
+
+[Sidenote: Kamiesch, Feb. 5.]
+
+Accompanied Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons on horseback to Lord Raglan’s
+headquarters. Very interesting conversation by the way, giving me a
+clear insight into state of things.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 6.]
+
+_Princess Royal_, Captain Lord Clarence Paget, arrived, bringing
+General Sir Harry Jones. Received a letter from Lady Wilmot announcing
+sad death of my poor Fred Wilmot Horton. Too down to dine with Admiral.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 7.]
+
+Accompanied Admiral in _Terrible_ to see entrance to the harbour. Ugly
+and formidable-looking batteries. Barriers of sunken ships’ bars,
+spars, and cables across; some tempting-looking liners inside. Dined
+with Sir Edmund. Right man in right place.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 8.]
+
+George Goldsmith of _Sidon_, 22, paddle wheel, came to a quiet dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 9.]
+
+Thompson to dinner; he had visited the muddy camp. More snow falling.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 10.]
+
+Admiral Houston Stewart arrived from Malta in _Spiteful_. Captain Ryder
+and young Yorke to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 12.]
+
+The enemy keeping pace with us in forming defences against our increase
+of batteries, likewise in their reinforcements of supplies and troops.
+Sevastopol likely to hold out until completely invested. Dined with
+Commander-in-Chief. Breeze blowing up, stopped the night.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 14.]
+
+Telegraph by Admiral; change of Ministry.
+
+Lord Palmerston, Premier, and Sir James Graham still at Admiralty,
+which I like.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 16.]
+
+Visited our worthy Chief. Flag shifted to the _Royal Albert_.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 17.]
+
+Charlie Talbot to dine, also Oldfield from the trenches, and Commander
+Willie Partridge.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 18.]
+
+Ship looking clear and clean; herself again. Being near, commenced
+building a stable: a weakness I have long had.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 20.]
+
+Thermometer 7 degrees below freezing. French ship on shore, must go
+to pieces. (Which she did with a cargo of horses and bullocks. Seven
+horses saved out of forty. No human lives lost.)
+
+[Illustration: _How the Guards looked._]
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 23.]
+
+Mail in. F. Johnson promoted. Good fellow--a loss to us.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 24.]
+
+Carpenters while on shore erecting stables, discovered a small French
+town, which smelt so strongly of brandy that my building was delayed.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 25.]
+
+Dined with the Admiral. _Rodney_ laid up near, crew had landed with
+Naval Brigade, she having no steam power.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 27.]
+
+Walk on shore with Talbot. Stable progressing.
+
+Sad quantity of dead horses about. Of a fresh heap of eighteen, several
+appeared in good condition. Dined with Talbot. The horses were French.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 28.]
+
+Mail in during the night. Harry Stephenson has entered the navy, his
+brother Sussex in the Fusilier Guards.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 1.]
+
+Another “no communication” day. My company, young Stanley Graham,
+recovering from chickenpox.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 2.]
+
+Went in with portmanteau to dine with Admiral. Put up by Mends.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 3.]
+
+After breakfast went to see Jack Lyons in _Miranda_, and then outside
+to George Goldsmith, _Sidon_; with him paid an interesting visit to
+the extreme left of the French lines and into the ruins of Khersonese.
+Dined with Admiral and slept on board.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 4.]
+
+Visit from George Broke of _Gladiator_, also George Goldsmith. Webb
+from _Australia_ and Dalyell.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 5.]
+
+Curious to see the temporary towns and shops established by the French.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 6.]
+
+On going on board to dine with Admiral, heard of the Emperor of
+Russia’s death. On returning communicated same to Charlie Talbot and
+Clarence Paget. Curious the unsettled state of mind people are in,
+through the Czar’s death. What strange surmises as to the future.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 8.]
+
+Early arrival of mail. News anything but cheery. Sir James Graham no
+longer First Lord. Kind letter from him. Bread riots. No Government.
+Well-earned good service pension to Milne.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 9.]
+
+Accompanied Admiral Houston Stewart in _Beagle_ steamer to Balaklava.
+Found guards quartered close. Wenny Coke, Robert Lindsay, and other
+friends dined with Lord Rokeby. Put up on board _Diamond_ with Peel.
+Great improvements in Balaklava. Harbour crowded. Dangerous quantity of
+powder afloat.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 10.]
+
+Peel and I, mounted by Sir Colin Campbell, rode to St. George’s
+Monastery. Beautiful scenery, ditto weather. Peace and quiet. Strange
+contrast with encampments close by.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 12.]
+
+Omar Pasha arrived in _Valourous_. Cheered him in passing.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 13.]
+
+Maitland Lennox and his artillery brother to dine and stay the day on
+board.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 14.]
+
+Outside squadron dining with Houston-Stewart. Jolly!
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 15.]
+
+Brisk exchange of shots between the front and Russians. No results.
+Dined with Clarence Paget.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 20.]
+
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief. Death of the Russian Admiral Istoma, one
+of the perpetrators of the Sinope tragedy.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 21.]
+
+A man died this morning from a virulent attack of smallpox. Dined with
+Commander-in-Chief, having previously taken Dalrymple Hay a walk.
+
+[Sidenote: Off Sevastopol, Mar. 22.]
+
+Dined with Pasley on board _Agamemnon_: we had been messmates when I
+was a mid in _Tweed_. Play on board _Algiers_, C. Talbot. Acting good.
+Heavy firing. Town apparently on fire.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 23.]
+
+General Barnard having sent a horse, rode to the front. After luncheon
+walked into the trenches to see the effect of last night’s attack on
+our lines.
+
+[Sidenote: Camp, Mar. 24.]
+
+Flag of truce hoisted at noon for two hours to enable both sides to
+bury their dead. Extraordinary sight. Russians, French, and English
+mixed, looking for their respective dead. 500 corpses lying about.
+Walked at night with friend General Charles Windham.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Attended divine service in the open air. 4th Division of the army
+square formed. Parson with moustache! Ride with General Barnard to
+the site of the charge at Inkerman. Dined with the general, meeting
+Charles Windham, who agrees with me about employing the ships to
+draw fire off the trenches. Interesting view of the town, also the
+fortifications recently made by the Russians.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 26.]
+
+Attended races of 3rd Division. Curious and novel sight: soldiers and
+sailors only. Put up on board _Gladiator_, Captain Broke, now Sir
+George, and son of the famous _Shannon_ and _Chesapeke_ hero.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 27.]
+
+Returned on board after inspecting stables and my new old pony. Walk
+with Thompson: had to bob to a Russian shell, my gold lace cap having,
+they said, attracted attention. Two 10½-inch Russian shells not
+exploded, had them conveyed on board.
+
+Pasley, M‘Cleverty, and Elphinstone to dine.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 29.]
+
+Another case of smallpox. Admiral suggested our getting under weigh, by
+way of cutting off communication. Thought it advisable to have mids and
+youngsters vaccinated; having the necessary lymph on board, they were
+ordered to my cabin. Some, seeing the doctor’s preparations, rather
+hesitated, on which I requested the surgeon to perform on me first,
+when all went on smoothly.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 30.]
+
+Weighed at daylight, running past the entrance of the harbour, and
+came to off Eupatoria. Hoisted quarantine flag. George Hastings came
+alongside. Omar Pasha’s army is encamped in the town.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _Omar Pasha’s Arab._]
+
+CHAPTER LVI
+
+_ST. JEAN D’ ACRE_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. Eupatoria, April 3.]
+
+Landed yesterday and paid a visit to the Turkish Admiral and Omar
+Pasha. He is a fine-looking man. It is astonishing the excellent
+earthworks his army have thrown up round Eupatoria during the last
+fortnight. The place is now secure against surprise or assault. Omar
+mounted me on his favourite charger, an Arab said to be very valuable.
+Never saw so beautiful an animal. Rode with a party and visited the
+Turkish advanced cavalry picquets.
+
+The country round Eupatoria is a vast open plain, with here and there
+hillocks supposed to be of Roman construction. On these the advanced
+Turkish picquets were stationed in pairs. A short distance beyond them
+were the advanced Russian picquets, looking warlike. Behind them again
+were different squadrons of cavalry, all ready mounted for work. But on
+Omar’s charger I was safe. He has more than 45,000 men, 7000 of which
+are cavalry and artillery. I cannot say when I have had so interesting
+a day.
+
+Had party on board to dine. Colonel Simmonds, Ogilvie, and Commanders
+present. Weighed at midnight. Nineteen cases of smallpox. Took
+Surgeon with me to the Admiral, and got permission to land on a small
+uninhabited island and build huts.
+
+[Sidenote: April 4.]
+
+Weighed at daylight; went on shore at Balaklava to get huts from
+Admiral Boxer, who had not turned out. Boxer was a salt of the old
+school. He gave me the order for the houses, and advised me to go on
+shore and rouse up the soldiers in charge, and he would follow. On
+my remarking that he had not breakfasted, he replied--“I am an old
+first lieutenant, and always breakfasts with me hat under the table.”
+Returned to Kazatch, selected ground, marked out sites, and had two
+houses up by sunset. Yellow flags hoisted and regular lazaretto
+established.
+
+[Sidenote: April 5.]
+
+Thirty-nine cases of smallpox. Hospital establishment creditable to the
+designer. Patients doing well. Landed band in afternoon to cheer them.
+At suggestion of surgeon, walked through my newly erected hospital;
+airy and clean. The smallpox room was a trial. Having obtained the
+names, I endeavoured to say something consoling to each. Their heads
+were swollen into the shape and appearance of huge plum-puddings: eyes
+closed--their own mothers could not have recognised them. Prompted by
+the doctor, I was enabled to say something cheery to each and could see
+by a slight move of their heads that it gave pleasure.
+
+[Sidenote: April 6.]
+
+Building huts, making wells and wards about the hospital--an amusement!
+
+[Sidenote: April 11.]
+
+_Banshee_ arrived with mail, little Harry on board; just in time to see
+the bombardment.
+
+[Sidenote: Letter to H.F.S. April 13.]
+
+The nearest point to us is the entrance left of the French
+entrenchment, abutting on the sea. This entrenchment and battery being
+“end on,” we see the Frenchmen load and fire and crouch down. We see
+the Russians doing the same. We easily trace the whole course of the
+shells, see them burst, sometimes throwing heaps of earth and dirt over
+the men as they throw themselves down when they see or hear the missive
+coming.
+
+Higher up in the landscape we see the famous Round Tower and the
+Mamelon (this last the one the French never ought to have allowed
+the Russians to take), keeping up a desperate fire on Gordon’s and
+Chapman’s batteries, which is returned with interest; then again,
+further still, are ours and the French batteries blazing away on the
+Russian fort, while they in the background are firing from numerous
+newly-raised batteries on the Inkerman heights to the north of the
+Khersonese.
+
+When it is calm or the wind off the land, the concussion from the
+reports of the guns shakes the ship. This is kept up night and day, at
+least it has been so for the last four days, and will go on.
+
+We cannot well make out the amount of damage done to the Russian
+batteries, but the fire from them gets very slack towards the
+afternoon, and sometimes is silenced altogether; but they manage to
+repair damages in the dark, and commence in the morning much the
+same. Nearer to us we have seen the Frenchmen’s battery, considerably
+damaged, but they replace their gabions and sand-bags, and go at it
+again. In fact, judging from the supply of shot and shell in rear of
+his battery, the enemy means to keep the ball going for some time.
+
+We get occasional accounts from the camp. Up to yesterday the
+bluejackets appear to have suffered most. Two lieutenants, Twyford
+and Douglas, killed. Captain Lord John Hay wounded, jaw broken, teeth
+knocked out and throat cut by the fragment of a shell: doing well
+though, and wishes to return to the trenches. Seventy-six seamen _hors
+de combat_, and Lord Raglan asking for more. They are decidedly the
+best shots, but take no care of themselves.
+
+I am sorry the town of Sevastopol shows as yet little or no symptoms
+of damage: on the top of one of their sea batteries, I can see ladies
+admiring, as we suppose, our Fleet. While all this is going on on shore
+we (French and English ships) form a long and imposing line across the
+harbour. Our daily routine, muster, bands playing; everything going on
+as if we were in Plymouth Sound or at Spithead.
+
+[Sidenote: Journal.]
+
+Visited hospital, all patients except one doing well. Pasley and Talbot
+to dine. Paget and Drummond went into the harbour after dark in the
+_Valourous_, and caused a slight diversion by opening fire on the forts.
+
+[Sidenote: April 14.]
+
+With Admiral to visit Lord Raglan: unusual on mail departure days.
+
+[Sidenote: April 15.]
+
+Until the place is invested cannot see use of the present expenditure
+of ammunition.
+
+About this time Clarence Paget conceived the idea of placing two lights
+on shore in such a position that, by bringing them in one, we might
+on the darkest nights approach the batteries and deliver our fire in
+succession; in the hope that the enemy, not being able to see the
+ships, would fire at random and probably miss us, whereas we, knowing
+exactly the distance and direction, could point our guns with unerring
+aim. Sir Edmund Lyons, as stated by Paget, brightened on the occasion.
+Paget with his master had sounded the line the ships had to take. I
+expected great things of my _Jenny d’ Acre_ when her turn should come.
+
+[Illustration: _Headquarters._]
+
+This was _Gladiator’s_ turn for night attack on batteries, and as
+it would be my “_Jenny d’ Acre’s_” turn next, I got friend Broke to
+take me on board a little after midnight. All lights out, the paddles
+just turning noiselessly. I was on the paddle-box when a flash from
+the shore and the approach of a burning fuse showed how correctly the
+Russians had calculated the spot. The master fell just before me, and
+the shell exploded over the opposite box, while a third person fell
+from the bridge. On inquiry I found that no one was hurt. The master
+from the _Princess Royal_ was on the bridge and had thrown himself
+down. The officer on the opposite bridge had done likewise. The young
+man who fell off the bridge had taken his tea a little too strong, and
+lost his balance; no harm done.
+
+[Sidenote: April 17.]
+
+Fresh case of smallpox, ditto breaking out in _Royal Albert_, sent
+their cases to our new hospital. With permission of Admiral, shifted
+berth to off Kazatch, to finish hospital. Landed strong party. Dined
+with Houston-Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: April 21.]
+
+Oldfield in from trenches. Respite from firing. Things much the same as
+when trenches opened first.
+
+[Sidenote: April 22.]
+
+Visit from Inspector of Hospitals, Dr. Deas.
+
+[Sidenote: April 23.]
+
+Order from Commander-in-Chief to hoist quarantine flag, and consider
+ourselves in strict quarantine.
+
+[Sidenote: April 24.]
+
+Lord Rokeby and Baillie having come down, met them at stables with
+luncheon. Great farce this quarantine!
+
+[Sidenote: May 2.]
+
+Invited to meet Admiral on shore. Plan for an attack on Kertch with
+12,000 French and 3000 English discussed. No work, though, for these
+big ships. _Alma_ troopship arrived. Friend John Astley, recovered from
+his wound in the neck at Alma, rejoined Fusilier Guards.
+
+[Sidenote: May 3.]
+
+Interruption in hospital works. General signal for captains and
+ordinary sailing: rendezvous and places of landing issued. Things
+looking more like business. Weighed at 8 P.M., and steered towards
+Odessa, altering course for eastward after dark.
+
+[Sidenote: May 4.]
+
+Early morning found Fleet enveloped in fog. Marines preparing to land.
+Fog dispelled by heat of sun. Signal, to cook three days’ provisions.
+Weather fine, all hands full of hope and expectation. As we drew near,
+general signal for “Captains to repair on board flag.” Disappointment
+great when it was announced that the expedition was at an end. French
+Admiral being recalled by Canrobert.
+
+[Sidenote: Kertch, May 5.]
+
+Before we turned our sterns on Kertch, Lord Lyons told me that he
+had tried to persuade General Brown, who commanded our troops, to go
+on with the forces _we_ had to Kertch. But the strict disciplinarian
+declined. Had he consented, on the appearance of our top-gallant yards
+above the horizon, the Kertch forts, which had had been prepared a
+month previously, would have been blown up, the war ended, and millions
+saved to the country.
+
+[Sidenote: Kazatch Bay, May 6.]
+
+Ran ahead of Fleet and came to before 8, off Kazatch Bay. Cutter
+capsized in sailing on shore. Pilkington in her. No one drowned. Rode
+“Bashi” up to headquarters. Returned with Admirals. Blowing fresh, so
+did not dine with them.
+
+[Sidenote: May 8.]
+
+Arthur Williams came on board, having arrived in _Himalaya_ from India
+with his charming wife. All smallpox cases being in hospital, could
+put my friends up on board. Admiral Houston-Stewart to call upon Mrs.
+Williams.
+
+[Sidenote: May 9.]
+
+Williams, Colville, and Foley down from camp to dine. Friends Talbot,
+Horton, and others to dinner. Found Arthur Taylor had called on board,
+having arrived in charge of artillery in cargo transport.
+
+[Sidenote: May 12.]
+
+Dined with Admiral H. Stewart to meet Commander-in-Chief. Foley and
+Colville coming down from camp.
+
+[Sidenote: May 13.]
+
+Held survey on and invalided Captain Sir George Broke. After divine
+service, sent friends in launch and took Mrs. Ives in gig to Streletska
+Bay; landed and visited French trenches and left attack. Dined in
+Wardroom.
+
+[Sidenote: May 14.]
+
+Dined with Pasley. Received pictures of Nelson and Lyons. Foley and
+Colville took their departure for camp in the afternoon.
+
+[Sidenote: May 15.]
+
+Dined with Pasley--best cook in the Fleet.
+
+[Sidenote: May 16.]
+
+Friends from camp--Wenny Coke, Bob Lindsay, Thynne of Rifles, Baillie,
+and Fraser, the Master of Lovat, to dinner. Jolly party, having killed
+the last of my Southdowns. Baillie and Fraser returning at night.
+
+[Sidenote: May 17.]
+
+Commander-in-Chief promising to dine, prepared accordingly. Admiral
+Stewart sending me turtle soup and fish. Lord Rokeby down too in time
+from camp. Baillie. Seventeen to, for these times, a first-rate dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: May 18.]
+
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief, to meet Mrs. F. Grey.
+
+[Sidenote: May 20.]
+
+With Admirals to visit by water, in _Telegraph_ steamer, Prince
+Woronzoff’s place Onianda Aloupka, the Emperor’s Palace, and village
+of Yalta. Mrs. F. Grey, Mrs. and Miss Stewart, Lady George Paget, Lord
+Burgesh, Rose, and others, an agreeable party. Admiral, however, was
+obliged to go to headquarters. Found _Enchantress_ yacht, Sir Thomas
+Whichcote, with Freke and George Bentick on board; offered to tow him
+to Kertch! Another expedition decided on.
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Dined with Wardroom officers to celebrate two years in commission.
+
+[Sidenote: May 22.]
+
+Called on board _York Herald_, Captain Furber, meeting Mrs. Pentland,
+and Miss Furber.
+
+[Illustration: _Map of Crimea._]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVII
+
+SECOND EXPEDITION TO KERTCH
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. May 22.]
+
+I thought this would be a pleasant trip for my yacht friends in the
+_Enchantress_, and advised Whichcote to be prepared after dark to pick
+up the end of a hawser with as little noise as possible, which he would
+find over the stern of the _St. Jean d’ Acre_, and not cast off until
+he heard from me; and gave _Stella_ the option of doing likewise.
+
+At 8.10 P.M. we were moving in line as slowly as the screw would allow,
+when we perceived the P. & O. steamer _Colombo_, carrying troops, on
+starboard bow, creeping out from one of the small inlets, so near that
+unless she at once stopped she must foul us.
+
+We hailed without effect. We could not stop without fouling next
+astern: a musket was fired. _Colombo_ stopped, but too late. A crash,
+and I saw a twelve-foot figurehead drop with a loud splash into the
+water. My tows astern, not injured. We had quietly embarked 600 Turkish
+troops.
+
+[Sidenote: Theodosia, May 23.]
+
+Dense fog during the night. Fleet assembled during the day, and I had
+time to seek the _Colombo_, whose captain found his way on board the
+_Acre_. Something was wrong with the machinery; he had been unable to
+stop his ship in time to save her figurehead. The Crimea is to Russia
+what the Isle of Wight might be to England.
+
+[Sidenote: Kertch, May 24.]
+
+Arrived at Kertch. Army landed during the afternoon and bivouacked on
+the beach. _Princess Royal_ and _St. Jean d’ Acre_ had similar cargoes
+of Turkish troops, which we landed without either trouble or complaint.
+The Russians blew up their magazine, set fire to their stores, ships,
+etc.
+
+A large open space appeared to be covered with tumuli, varying in
+size, shaped like the roofs of barns, from which you could not see far
+without mounting to the top, as Clarence Paget and I did, selecting the
+highest.
+
+From the top, not more than three miles distant, we saw the Russians
+evacuating the Citadel. A battery of artillery faced the spot where our
+troops had landed. In rear of the guns, the Russians, bag and baggage,
+were retreating.
+
+We returned to the landing-place, and had to pass through a regiment of
+French Rifles enjoying a rest and sleep in the sun. Paget, who spoke
+French, told the French officer commanding that there were a thousand
+Russian troops passing within three miles of him. The officer appeared
+not to credit the statement, whereupon Paget put his glass into his
+hand and asked him to mount the nearest tumulus and see for himself.
+
+The officer then drew his sword, calling out, “Aux armes,” in which he
+was joined by the whole regiment. A mile of fishermen’s nets were soon
+in a blaze. Later in the afternoon I took young Stephenson, when we
+mounted on one of these tumuli and noticed a Russian galloping towards
+us.
+
+The troops of the expedition were now all alive and had formed across
+the small peninsula in open skirmishing order, and were advancing to
+capture the small garrison which Paget and I had seen pass out towards
+Arabat four hours previously. The Russian was unaware of the danger he
+was galloping into; he pulled up, but, not understanding us, galloped
+on. It was now time for us to retreat within our own lines. The
+Russian, too, who had seen our skirmishers, was in full retreat.
+
+[Sidenote: Kertch, May 25.]
+
+The next day I went into Kertch in a steamer with Sir Edmund Lyons and
+party, and had no difficulty in recognising our Russian friend owner of
+the fishing nets, as well as other property. In the afternoon joined
+Paget in a foraging party. Took thirty-five bullocks for the Fleet, and
+milch cows for ourselves.
+
+[Sidenote: May 27.]
+
+Dundas, Turner, and Peck on board to church. Dined on board
+_Enchantress_.
+
+[Sidenote: May 29.]
+
+Remained on board, admiring Brierly’s Baltic sketches. Dined with
+Houston-Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+Landed abreast of ship and got some green gooseberries, big enough for
+a tart. Dined with Pasley on board _Agamemnon_.
+
+[Sidenote: May 31.]
+
+Admiral made signal for opportunity to go to Kertch and Yenkali.
+Visited Sir George Brown and the camp. On return found news from Sea of
+Azov of smart doings there by squadron. Dined with Commander-in-Chief.
+
+[Sidenote: June 1.]
+
+Launches off at daylight to join force in Sea of Azov. Took cruise in
+_Stella_ yacht with Frankland. Arrival of 3000 troops from Balaclava.
+Farewell dinner to Whichcote and party on board _Enchantress_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 2.]
+
+Lieutenant H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe joined. Party to dinner,
+Pasley, Paget, Talbot, Prince Victor, Frankland from _Stella_, and
+Jackson.
+
+[Sidenote: June 3.]
+
+Dined self and youngsters, Prince Victor, Graham, Stephenson, and
+Campbell, with Admiral Houston-Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: June 4.]
+
+A cruise with Frankland and Jackson in _Stella_ to Yenkali; council of
+war being held there. Spoony decision not to go to Anapa: younger blood
+required in council.
+
+[Sidenote: June 5.]
+
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief to meet the French and Turkish Admirals.
+
+[Sidenote: June 6.]
+
+News of energetic proceedings in the Sea of Azov; proof of the
+advantage of employing young men.
+
+[Sidenote: June 7.]
+
+Cruise in _Stella_. Landed on sandy spit, Asiatic side; tried to stalk
+a Cossack. Picked up some sea-birds eggs much the same as plovers.
+Signal from flag, “Obstacles removed and free to be attacked.”
+
+[Sidenote: June 9.]
+
+Mamelon taken by the French. Kertch Government buildings on fire. War,
+a terrible thing!
+
+[Sidenote: June 11.]
+
+Accompanied Commander-in-Chief on farewell visit to Kertch. Dined with
+him; got permission to go in _Stella_ to Anapa. Took Prince Victor, and
+weighed before turning in.
+
+[Sidenote: June 12.]
+
+Arrived off Anapa by breakfast time. Place in ruins; picturesque
+Circassians moving about.
+
+[Sidenote: June 13.]
+
+After breakfast returned to Kertch Straits. Not sorry to find our
+allies had already started.
+
+[Sidenote: June 14.]
+
+Fleet weighed at daylight to visit the deserted Anapa; remained a
+couple of hours there. Ice the only thing worth bringing away. 8
+P.M.--Picked up _Stella_ and took her in tow.
+
+[Sidenote: June 15.]
+
+In running in, ship grounded off Sevastopol. Not my fault this time!
+Got off, too, without damage.
+
+[Sidenote: June 16.]
+
+Brierly mounted on “Bashi,” self on “Princess,” rode up to camp. Dined
+with Admiral Houston-Stewart after hot ride to headquarters. Champagne
+iced.
+
+[Sidenote: June 17.]
+
+All in high force at the idea of entering Sevastopol to-morrow.
+
+[Sidenote: Off Sevastopol, June 18.]
+
+Got under weigh at 2.30 A.M. Strongly impressed that this would be the
+anniversary of another glorious victory. But it was not to be. The
+French attack on the Malakoff and the English on the Redan repulsed
+with loss. Sad! Sad! _We_ cruising off the harbour.
+
+There was no particular order of sailing. _St. Jean d’ Acre_ drifted
+near enough to tempt a fire from the northern entrance to the harbour,
+and for us to see our troops retreat from the Redan!
+
+[Sidenote: June 19.]
+
+Landed in Italiska Bay, and rode part of the way to headquarters with
+Maitland Lennox; returned in time for Admiral Houston-Stewart’s dinner
+to meet Commander-in-Chief.
+
+[Sidenote: June 20.]
+
+Brierly back from camp, and with him William Colville to stay a few
+days.
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+On examination of mids, passed three: young Graham first class.
+
+[Sidenote: June 23.]
+
+Preparation by Quartermaster John Shepherd to destroy, alone, a Russian
+three-decker. Called with Clarence Paget on newly-made French Admirals.
+On return found St. George Foley from camp, attached to General
+Pellissier.
+
+[Sidenote: June 24.]
+
+Took John Shepherd to Admiral. Landed St. George Foley at Streletska.
+Received General Codrington on board _Acre_. He with self and friends
+dined in Wardroom.
+
+[Sidenote: June 25.]
+
+Arthur Williams and his charming wife on board, he returning to camp
+after dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: June 27.]
+
+Firing from batteries slack. Colonel Campbell and Colonel Pereira of
+90th. Phipps and Kingston to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: June 29.]
+
+Telegraphic signal announcing the sad intelligence of Lord Raglan’s
+death. A leader not to be replaced. Friend Lord Mark Kerr arrived at
+Balaclava from Gibraltar in command of 13th Regiment.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII
+
+NAVAL BRIGADE
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. July 3.]
+
+A report going that George King, commanding _Rodney_, 74, whose crew,
+she having no steam power, had been landed with the Naval Brigade, was
+about to invalid. It occurred to me that nothing could be done afloat
+with a dual command, and that if George King would, with Admiral’s
+approval, exchange ships, I might stand a chance of seeing more service
+on shore than afloat. Mine was a selfish idea. If ever a man was proud
+of, and happy in, his ship it was myself.
+
+Consulted my kind friend Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, who required time to
+consider. My brother officers decidedly disapproved. Dined early with
+Houston-Stewart to attend later the embarkation of the remains of Lord
+Raglan, deeply lamented, on board the _Caradoc_, Commander Derriman. It
+was an imposing but sad spectacle.
+
+The Admiral having approved of the exchange, allowed _Acre_ to be
+shifted into Kazatch Bay. Now it was settled, a sinking of the heart
+came on at the idea of removing myself from the good fellows with whom
+I had been serving.
+
+[Sidenote: July 7.]
+
+I had promised Lady Churston, Sir Robert Newman’s sister, to remove his
+remains from “a green field through which ran a small stream by the
+stump of a tree.”
+
+This was my only description. To Cathcart’s Hill, however, I had sent
+a party from the _Rodney_, early, with the necessary implements to
+work through granite, and when about it to make a grave large enough
+to hold two. It took me hours to find the place. At last I examined a
+space occupied by 3000 Turkish soldiers without a particle of green on
+it. Stumps of two small trees, a quarter of a mile apart, caused me to
+think they could not now be standing unless fed by water.
+
+We had not far to dig. I had prepared a coffin large enough to hold
+that in which poor Newman might have been buried. But, alas! we found
+only bones, rats had been at work. The only thing that made me believe
+I had the right remains was a pair of brown silk socks. All we could
+collect was carefully arranged, and the coffin screwed down: the Union
+Jack spread over it.
+
+[Sidenote: July 9.]
+
+Rode to the artillery camp at Balaklava, and obtained from the officer
+in charge a corporal and a six-horse limber waggon, on which the coffin
+was placed.
+
+With my smart corporal we rode through the camp on our five or six
+mile journey. Among others we met Honourable William Colville of Rifle
+Brigade; he was a good draughtsman, and kindly dismounted, taking from
+his sabretasche pencil and paper, and made a sketch of this cavalcade
+for me to send to Newman’s sister.
+
+[Illustration: _Sketch by Col. Hon. W. Colville._
+
+_Jack, to newly-arrived subaltern, “Sorry I can’t obleege you with a
+horse, but I have a quiet dromedary I can sell you.”_]
+
+[Sidenote: July 10.]
+
+After breakfast read commission on board _Rodney_, King reading his on
+board _St. Jean d’ Acre_. Sad day for me. In the evening escorted Mrs.
+Williams on board _Europa_ for passage to Scutari. Dined with Charlie
+Talbot on board _Algiers_.
+
+[Sidenote: July 11.]
+
+Early dinner in Wardroom. Pretended to be going to _Rodney_, and so
+avoided taking leave of my good fellows. Young Harry Stephenson and
+Thompson transferred to _Rodney_.
+
+[Sidenote: July 12.]
+
+Dined with General Barnard, who had just been appointed Chief of Staff.
+
+[Sidenote: July 13.]
+
+Dined with General Simpson, now Commander-in-Chief, and reminded him
+of our meeting at his mess when he commanded the 29th at Mauritius in
+1829, I then a mid of the _Tweed_.
+
+[Sidenote: Letter to M. S. July 14.]
+
+Find our Jacks queer fellows; they deal in horses or anything else,
+and as soon as they come out of the trenches they are all over the
+soldiers’ camps, doing work for the officers, repairing tents and that
+sort of thing, receiving part payment in grog, and then share it with
+the first “soger” they meet.
+
+I avoid too many restrictions, as long as men appear at the 10 A.M.
+muster, properly dressed, with their arms cleaned and correct, with
+correct numbers of the men and battery they have to relieve. They are
+then dismissed, and find their own way by trenches or over the open. In
+a body they are pretty sure to draw the enemy’s fire.
+
+[Sidenote: In Camp, July.]
+
+In our camp we are tolerably comfortable. My tent is pitched on a
+patch of ground on the edge of a hill. There is a long open avenue in
+front, on either side are the tents of the officers and seamen, which
+they decorate in the most fantastic way. All sorts of devices for
+weathercocks, etc. The shells that annoy us most are those that burst
+in the air. We are very close to one another in some places, but I
+expect we shall soon shut the Russians up, as they fire very wild when
+fired at; our fellows are as steady as ever; the more casualties, the
+more jokes are cracked!
+
+In front of our batteries, between us and the Redan and Malakoff
+Towers, are the trenches, and the Quarries, formerly a Russian
+position--taken by us before Inkerman, at present held by the guards
+and other troops. While no particular bombardment is going on, our
+orders are, to watch the enemy’s batteries, and only fire on them
+when they fire on our advanced parties in the trenches, so that the
+soldiers are, in a measure, partly under our protection. In this way
+we get some pretty shooting. A shell from the Redan bursts over our
+soldiers in the trenches; bang goes an 8-inch shell from the sailors’
+battery, generally right into the embrasure, from which the mischief
+came. Another shell reaches them from our Left Attack. The French,
+too, take it up and pop one into them from the Mamelon, and then for
+the next half-hour a general scrimmage takes place, exciting to a
+degree. A very little precaution teaches you to know, by every gun that
+the enemy fires, whether they are shot or shell. The shot we do not
+care for. I saw one of our Jacks make a low bow to a shot that he saw
+coming directly at him: at the right moment he bobbed his head, and
+it passed about a foot above his body. There are small hollow places
+on ground above our batteries in which sailors are employed making
+gabions: having expended their materials the bluejackets were amusing
+themselves by running at one another with the gabions over their heads,
+when an enemy’s shell exploded without serious damage to any one.
+Most of the shot strike the parapet and throw a cloud of dust, dirt,
+and small stones into our batteries. Each day I have been so covered
+that you could not have told the proper colour of my dress. The shot
+are very good fun, but the shells are beastly things from which it is
+difficult to escape. They are no respecters of persons. On Sunday a
+man was killed by the fragments of a shell while he was sitting in the
+supposed most secure place inside the entrance to one of our magazines.
+
+[Illustration: _Sketch by Col. Hon. W. Colville. 1855.
+
+In Rear of the Lancaster Battery_]
+
+Wenny Coke goes into the trenches to-night, and to-morrow I shall be
+in our batteries all day and will give such a dusting to any Russian
+battery that has the impudence to molest my favourite Fusiliers. I am
+going to take grub, and have invited Wenny to dinner in the deepest
+part of his trench. Had I had time, I could fill a quire with the
+absurdities of the soldiers as well as sailors, who have given many
+a good laugh. Directly little Harry heard of my appointment, he got
+leave and galloped up to my tent.
+
+[Sidenote: July 15.]
+
+Visited our right division in trenches. Thompson performing divine
+service in open air to the Naval Brigade; “Little Harry” with him. A
+man killed while sitting in the battery reading his Bible.
+
+[Sidenote: July 16.]
+
+Among arrivals from home in Balaklava was a cargo of ice for use of
+Naval Brigade hospitals. For some unknown reason doctors objected
+to receive ice in the hospitals! After my superiors afloat had been
+supplied, the Commander of the Naval Brigade came in for a share. We
+were not far from the French headquarters. I sent a couple of blocks
+to General Pellissier, who invited me to _déjeuner_. He had clever
+fittings with green branches, etc., for luxury and comfort reminding me
+of Vauxhall gardens in bygone times. Dined with General Barnard.
+
+[Sidenote: Letter to H. F. S. July 18.]
+
+Wenny Coke in the trenches last night bowled over by a spent round.
+On visiting his tent I found him cheery, but round shot don’t touch
+gently. I was about to sit on a fur coat, rolled up near the head of
+his bed, when he called out, “Don’t sit there, Uncle Harry. A cat from
+Sevastopol came out last night and dropped nine kittens in the sleeve!”
+
+Shepherd, one of the petty officers of the _St. Jean d’Acre_, had
+conceived the idea that he could, single-handed, blow up a man-of-war
+in Sevastopol harbour. The contrivance appeared simple enough. I had
+already taken him with his apparatus to the Admiral, who was amused and
+approved, leaving the time for the experiment to me. The plan was this.
+To prepare a light iron case a foot long by eighteen inches, with a
+loop at each end. The case to be fitted with a Bickford’s fuse, which
+burns under water. A sort of canvas duck punt was to be fitted to
+exactly hold the case amidships. The after part was to hold one sitter,
+who could easily steer with a canoe paddle without noise. The Russians
+had been in the habit of sending three or four thousand men across
+the entrance end of the harbour. The night fire of war-ships had so
+inconvenienced this passage of their transport boats, they shifted the
+line of their passage higher up the harbour.
+
+The dark night for our expedition arrived at last. The spot for
+embarkation was only separated by a spur of land covered by thick scrub
+and bush, but the darkness of the night enabled our guide to take us to
+the water. At half-past twelve the punt left the rough slips and was
+immediately lost to sight, nor was there the slightest sound. At the
+expiration of three hours nothing had occurred, and there were signs
+of daybreak. With us was Colonel St. George Foley, attached to General
+Pellissier’s staff. We were within range of the Russian sentries, and
+had to creep through scrub and bushes until we were inside the French
+lines: we soon commenced on our refreshments. I was distressed at
+having helped to lose poor John Shepherd--as, if caught, he would be
+shot as a spy. St. George Foley was put out at the loss of his horse,
+servant, and haversack. My coxswain, who, I think, had been washing his
+mouth out, was sent in search among an acre of gun carriages, waggons,
+etc., and returned, announcing to Foley that “The beggar was gone, but
+had left his painter.” Poor Foley applied for explanation. Painter was
+a rope spliced in a ring in the bow of a boat, and most likely the
+horse had slipped his head out of halter and gone home--the servant
+losing no time in following. In fact, all during the night the white
+light of shells had been flying over our heads from three different
+Russian batteries at a French mortar battery. Great was my delight an
+hour after my arrival in camp to hear of Shepherd’s safe return. The
+plucky fellow had pulled past and between a number of Russian steamers,
+and was within 400 yards of the three-deckers, when a whole string of
+Russian boats pushed off from the western shore to convey troops across.
+
+For an hour he lay in his little punt hoping for an opening to pass
+through. Daylight came and he had not time to return the distance to
+where we were; he therefore struck at once for Careening Bay, one side
+of which he knew was in the possession of the French. Lord Charles
+Paget’s plan of night attack had caused the Russians to change the
+route for conveying reliefs across.
+
+[Sidenote: July 19.]
+
+On returning from batteries got news of Lushington’s promotion and my
+appointment to the command of the Naval Brigade! Lucky dog that I am!
+
+[Sidenote: July 20.]
+
+Early ride to Kamiesch and breakfast with the Admiral. Kind and
+confidential chat.
+
+[Sidenote: July 21.]
+
+Assumed command of Naval Brigade: Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, A.D.C.;
+Rev. Josiah Thompson, Chaplain; forage allowance for five horses.
+
+Early morning, a cavalry corporal with two orderlies at my tent door.
+Reported myself at headquarters.
+
+[Sidenote: July 22.]
+
+Sunday, divine service in open air. Visited Right Attack and Quarries
+with Sir Harry Jones; dined with him.
+
+[Sidenote: In the batteries of Naval Brigade, July 23.]
+
+Instructions from headquarters to prepare for a sortie, and that I had
+better communicate with the General at the Quarries. The day was far
+advanced: a storm brewing. Had an experienced and good officer in
+Captain Moorsom, who had been in the Naval Brigade from the beginning.
+Of course Moorsom opened a sharp fire on the Russian batteries, which
+eventually drew part of their fire off our advanced trenches. He knew
+the bearings of the Russian forts on which our batteries could tell
+best. Could not do better than leave him in charge, while I went to
+the quarries for further instruction. Storm commencing, shifted into
+pea-jacket and jack-boots, sword and cap. Rain fell heavily. Zig-zags
+being on the slope, I was soon washed out and took to the open. Dark,
+too, came on with the storm; lost my way, but knew by descending,
+and the constant discharge of musketry, I must come to our own
+troops--which I did; but no one could hear or attend to me. I knew not
+the way. Took to the right. Came on the Guards, whom I knew by their
+bearskins; they were equally busy. It was no use pulling their coats;
+the thunder of guns and muskets rendered one’s voice equally useless,
+so crept on. The storm began to break. Laid hold of a soldier’s coat
+and bellowed to him. He bellowed “sergeant,” who bellowed me what my
+name was. When I told him, he said: “That lie won’t do. I know Captain
+Keppel of the Grenadiers. You must come to our officer.” I pleaded
+inability to walk further. Another bearskin on my left! No alternative.
+The storm and sortie were over.
+
+By the time we reached the officers, they were enjoying a little rest
+as well as refreshment. One of them asked the sergeant: “What have you
+there?” “A prisoner, sir.” After a while there was a laugh. Most of
+them knew and had made me out.
+
+With the assistance of grog and a feed I got back to my tent, but
+the sun was well up. The kind Lord Rokeby pretended to be angry, and
+offered that if I attended the camp, the Brigade should march past
+me; but I don’t think my poor father, had he been alive, would have
+recognised me in my trench costume.
+
+[Sidenote: Letter to M. S. July 28.]
+
+Our batteries are getting so close to the enemy’s that casualties are
+frequent, and the Naval Brigade gradually reducing, without a chance
+of recruiting, except in officers, whose vacancies are replaced from
+the Fleet. Although they hear, afloat, the jokes played, when the time
+comes they forget. Our chief battery on the left is at the foot of a
+hill, and a favourite mark for the enemy’s shells. The fuses burning
+in the air are often heard before the shells are seen. We have trained
+look-out men who know by the sound about where the shell was likely
+to drop. They call out, “Right,” “Left,” “Front,” “Rear,” when those
+present rush to any point they fancy, dodge close to a gun carriage, or
+jump through the embrasure, and so risk a Russian bullet.
+
+The favourite resort was the magazine passage, cut out of the hill
+with a bend in it. The first there, the best chance. The new arrival
+affords the best sport, and is prepared for. The dirtiest stretcher, on
+which some bleeding body had lately been carried, is at hand. The shell
+bursts; the new arrival is struck behind the ear by moist clay, is
+immediately seized, laid on the dirty stretcher, carried off, without
+resistance, by bearers to the zig-zag cutting and upset into the ditch,
+which generally holds water. Of course he is received with cheers,
+and watches anxiously for the next newcomer. Dined yesterday with the
+Commander-in-Chief at headquarters and met our War Minister, the Duke
+of Newcastle; I have established a mess-room, where we meet at supposed
+dinner at eight o’clock. Most of my time is passed in the batteries.
+
+[Sidenote: July 30.]
+
+Visited Left Attack. Found remains of the gallant Colonel Norcott’s
+horse and servant just killed by the same shot. He always rode
+this white charger in front of his rifle regiment. Mail in. Letter
+from First Lord, Sir Charles Wood, informing me of my having the
+Good Service Pension. Visited hospital in Cossack Bay and Admiral
+Freemantle.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX
+
+TRENCHES--BEFORE SEVASTOPOL
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. Aug. 1.]
+
+Heavy fall of rain. Whole country as in winter. Trenches under water.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 2.]
+
+Bought a beautiful Arab from an officer going home, of 10th Hussars.
+Lord Rokeby and Bob Lindsay to dine at our mess.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 3.]
+
+An attempt at a sortie made last night. Russians driven back easily.
+Breakfasted with Hugh Rose, French headquarters. Minute inspection of
+Mamelon with Lord Rokeby, troops marching past. Curious custom: the
+French dig large holes as burial-places in sight of those going to the
+trenches.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 4.]
+
+Rode to Monastery to arrange for Warde’s going afloat. Wenny Coke
+wounded last night in trenches. We have advanced our batteries and
+trenches nearer the enemy’s guns without thickening them in proportion.
+A shot has no business to pass through a parapet. I had a man turned
+over yesterday by a round shot; he was not killed, as the strength of
+the shot was expended before it got through the parapet. One of the
+stones gave me a clip in the back; but the Russians had been riled by
+our cutting a cart in two just before.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 5.]
+
+Sunday, muster and divine service. On visiting the hospital I found
+one of my poor fellows carving a heart on a ring, part of his own
+thigh-bone, which had been amputated. On asking him what he was going
+to do with it, he replied, “To send it to my girl, sir.” Another was
+busy securing the sides of his hat into the shape of a Greenwich
+pensioner’s: a curtain hung round his jacket to look like a long-tailed
+coat. He had only one leg.
+
+A day or two ago I rode with Lord Rokeby to see a division French
+lines--3000 Chasseurs d’Afrique, cream of French cavalry. Saw a Russian
+lady in Sevastopol flying a kite; the wind was in the direction of the
+Mamelon. I pointed it out to the French General Linois, who ordered
+his riflemen to fire; they cut the string and down came the kite just
+inside the trenches. He gave it to Lord Rokeby, who sent it home. The
+French general raised his cap by way of apologising to the lady, and
+ordered the riflemen to raise theirs on the points of their bayonets. A
+round of Russian grape shot sent one cap flying and broke two muskets.
+A broiling day--face burnt cruel.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 6.]
+
+Dined with Lord Rokeby. George Goldsmith up to breakfast. Visited Right
+Attack. Saw, the other day, feeding together in the trenches, Wilbraham
+Oates Lennox, Royal Engineers, V.C., Captain John Maitland Lennox,
+R.M.L.I., and Augustus Frederick, Captain Royal Artillery, sons of my
+friend Lord George Lennox. Dined with General Codrington.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 7.]
+
+Called on Chief of Artillery. Rode with Lord Rokeby to Cossack Bay
+and hospital to see poor D’Aeth, first lieutenant _Sidon_, dying of
+cholera. He was a youngster with me in the _Dido_; a more gallant
+fellow there could not be. He was taken ill at one this morning, having
+been dining at Kamiesch, and was given over five hours afterwards.
+He had a locket containing the miniature of a pretty Portuguese girl
+at Lisbon, and requested it might be buried with him. Went on board
+_Læander_.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 8.]
+
+Visited Left Attack. Both Admirals up; met at headquarters. Stopped
+to luncheon. While in Right Attack trenches received directions from
+headquarters to show the Duke of Newcastle the Quarries. His Grace
+following with attendants, I explained the impossibility of such a
+staff: the feathers alone would bring on us the whole Russian fire. We
+were three or four only. Although shot and shell passed over our heads
+we were right enough, until near the Quarries, when a shell burst,
+sending fragments close to us: one so near that it almost touched the
+Duke, and lodged in a gabion on my side. His Grace expressed a wish to
+have the piece; a soldier dislodged it with his bayonet. I held it out
+to the Duke, but it was so hot that he dropped it. I believe it is now
+at Clumber, with two empty thirteen-inch Russian shells picked up close
+to our Brigade batteries. General Barnard and staff dined at naval mess.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 9.]
+
+Threatening, heavy-looking weather, which came down in a deluge.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 10.]
+
+Visited St. George, my Chief of Artillery. Rode over to Balaklava to
+see Freemantle after his fall. Wenny Coke and other friends to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 11.]
+
+Visited all Right Attack with General Jones. Wenny Coke, E. Somerset,
+Curzon, and other friends to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 12.]
+
+Broiling hot. Artillery under orders to be ready at daylight following
+morning in the field.
+
+Enclosed is a specimen of the notices I so often received in the
+batteries, worth all the foolscap that could be written:--
+
+    DEAR UNCLE HARRY--In case you have not been warned, I am
+    desired by the General to give you notice that an attack from
+    the enemy is expected upon our trenches at 3 A.M. to-morrow.
+    The covering parties in the trenches have been doubled, first
+    division in the Right Attack.--Yours sincerely,
+
+    ROBERT J. LINDSAY.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 13.]
+
+Poor Hughie Drummond, Adjutant of Scots Fusilier Guards, killed in
+trenches.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 15.]
+
+Prince Victor, Thomas, and self rode to Balaclava. I to see Admiral;
+they to get material for a stable.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of my horses, “Vladimir,” was an “ever-lasting.” He had been
+captured on Balaclava day from Prince Vladimir’s regiment. He was
+savage, and one foreleg was held up to enable me to mount. He would
+jump anything I asked him. Prince Victor often had difficulty in
+keeping me in sight. He shod his own horses, and I think was sorry when
+the war was over.
+
+[Sidenote: Battle of Tchernaya, Aug. 16.]
+
+Orders from headquarters to be prepared for a sortie, which, not coming
+off, enabled me to ride with Prince Victor to the Tchernaya, where a
+desperate attack was being made by the Russians on the Italians, the
+French going to their assistance. On the high ground on our way we met
+the dead and dying being brought up on mules, stretchers, and backs
+of men, then laid out in subdivided areas as most convenient for the
+French and English surgeons to get at. We descended to the river; the
+Russians, who had retreated to the high ground, continued to fire
+shot and shell on those who were helping the dying and wounded. The
+Tchernaya is a small river, but required a bridge to get over it. One
+of the painful sights was the badly wounded trying to drag themselves
+to the river, calling for drink. While contemplating the body of a
+young Russian officer (judging from his uniform and spurs), whose upper
+jaw had been shot clean away, the lower had an uninjured row of white
+teeth, heard a voice over my shoulder, remarking, “Il ne mange plus.”
+Further on a Russian soldier had his left arm stretched out straight.
+Thought he must be alive and rode up, to find him stiff and dead. On a
+finger was a large ring. Without dismounting, drew it off, thinking I
+had a memento of the battle, but finding it was only brass, I was very
+near giving it back.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 17.]
+
+Notice from headquarters to be prepared for a determined assault on
+our Right Attack batteries. On my way met my late shipmate, Lieutenant
+Oldfield, weeping: a round shot had just taken his artillery brother’s
+head off! Our batteries, not having been formed at the same time,
+were somewhat irregular, and it had been necessary to prevent the men
+rushing from one battery to the assistance of another: a friendly hint
+was given from headquarters that our men should leave their muskets and
+side arms behind! We had a large battery, with three or four smaller,
+on each side. In the main battery I selected and made a pile of empty
+shell cases, forming a platform for self to stand on. Returning
+after final inspection, found Captain Hammett in possession of my
+pile. Caused him to dismount, though he seemed to object, but having
+learned which of the Russian batteries could bear on our own, I took
+possession. The ball had commenced. After a few minutes I called from
+the position, “Look out, a round shot direct for our battery.” Hammett
+gave the notice to the men, who sprang from either side, but did not
+move himself. The shot touched the muzzle of the gun, and doubled up
+poor Hammett. There was a youngster bending over; I hoped there were
+not two down. Found the poor lad was sick at the sight of Hammett’s
+wounds. My gig’s crew bore him to our camp, some three miles off. Some
+one in camp with a telescope, seeing a gold lace cuff from under the
+stretcher borne by the Captain’s gig’s crew, announced my end. Total:
+five killed, nineteen wounded.
+
+[Illustration: _Plan of Sevastopol._]
+
+[Sidenote: In Naval Brigade, Aug. 18.]
+
+Continued vigorous bombardment on our side, but enemy nearly shut up.
+Whole day on Right Attack. Six men only were wounded on Left Attack.
+Dined with Charlie Windham, the almost too plucky Brigadier General of
+Second Division. Met Duke of Newcastle.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 19.]
+
+_Sunday._--Bombardment continuing. Getting used to narrow escapes; had
+two on Left Attack. Dog killed on Right Attack in afternoon. Redan much
+cut up, also Malakoff. General Barnard, staff and Steele to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 20.]
+
+Visit from Bob Stopford. Returned to usual routine of firing. Visited
+Left Attack. Sir Thomas Pasley and son coming there. Young Pasley just
+made a Commander to take Hammett’s place. Generals Barnard and Bentick
+to dine.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 21.]
+
+Threatened sortie. Troops out. Visited Right Attack; fired some long
+range near the Russian three-decker and bridge, etc.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 22.]
+
+Accompanied Lord Rokeby to show him our long range practice on Right
+Attack. But little time to go elsewhere. Dined with General Sir William
+Eyre to meet the Duke of Newcastle.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 23.]
+
+Introduced Pasley to Right Attack. Not much going on. Threw several
+shot round, if not into Russian ship. Mail arrived. Wynyard, Wenny,
+Connell, and others to dine.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 24.]
+
+To headquarters and Balaklava and hospital, Cossack Bay. Lieutenant
+Everett, severe wound in battery. General Sir William Eyre to dine.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 25.]
+
+Turned out at 2.30 A.M. to meet expected sortie. No go. Lord Rokeby and
+Wenny to dine.
+
+[Illustration: _Inside the Naval Brigade Battery._]
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 26.]
+
+In batteries at an early hour (3 A.M.). Billy Fyler and Fitzroy to
+dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 27.]
+
+Grand meeting at headquarters to invest certain parties with order of
+G. and K.C.B. Visited Right Attack and demolished new works on the
+salient of Redan.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 28.]
+
+Lord Rokeby, who was, I might say, “all over the place,” had visited
+the French lines that extended from the Malakoff in the direction of
+Inkerman. The officers complained how annoyed they had been by a hole
+made by the Russians at the foot of the Malakoff, through which, on
+a dark night, they managed to creep, and having but the sky for a
+background, themselves unseen, managed to pick off the French sentries.
+Rokeby having spotted where the hole was, thought it was within range
+of our Naval Brigade batteries, and having found me, pointed out the
+fresh stopped hole. To make sure, I decided on visiting the place
+myself. Mounted my pony, found the French lines and tried to explain in
+bad French what I had come for. They assisted me through the stopped
+embrasure, at right angles with the Malakoff. I had not been there more
+than a minute than a “pat, pat” noise struck the bushes. It was a noise
+I had heard before, and thinking I had seen quite enough, struggled to
+get back, but found that instead of help, I was detained from within by
+pressure on the _soles of my boots_. I reserved the best French that I
+could think of until I got back, and then let out at my then comrades
+in the foulest French I could muster. They laughed good-humouredly!
+It being late I rode across an open space and was as near as possible
+spotted by a Russian round shot. I got back in time to point such guns
+as would bear on the spot; if it had not been for the good Rokeby I
+felt inclined to lay the guns in another direction.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX
+
+THE REDAN
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. Extract from letter home, Sept. 1.]
+
+Our allies are not yet ready for the next and, I trust, final assault;
+their sap appears to touch the edge of the Malakoff. We, too, are not
+ready, being in want of ammunition. We are all anxious that something
+should be done, as we know not when to prepare for winter quarters.
+If the Malakoff falls, it must naturally be followed by that of the
+remaining works of the enemy. On the south side we shall advance
+somewhat nearer to our work. The Russians, too, appear to be preparing
+for a move. They have established a bridge across the harbour and are
+fast removing their goods and chattels. Everything leads us to suppose
+that the winter will not find us in our present position. The enemy
+will contest every inch of ground. We do not, on our side, grow wiser
+from experience. The other night our working party on the Right Attack
+was surprised and some taken prisoners by a small body of Russians
+who made a sortie. Officers have over and over again been surprised
+and taken prisoners while planting their advanced sentries at night
+by Russians lying concealed in the shrubs and grass. A little more
+care would have prevented this. My silly fellows unnecessarily expose
+themselves in spite of warnings and examples.
+
+We have two casualties; besides, an amateur youngster from the
+_Curaçoa_ must mount the parapet and borrow a sergeant’s musket, to
+take a shot at a Russian. This young Gambier mounted on the top of
+the parapet, had a _Miniè_ ball through his thigh in a moment. One of
+my “Rodneys” got shot through the head yesterday, having gone outside
+the embrasure to pick up sticks to cook his dinner. Yesterday our
+bluejackets acted a play in the open air. Stage, the side of a hill; a
+ballet dancer did Taglioni to perfection. The Duke of Newcastle dined
+at our mess. Never enjoyed better health: lots of excitement and plenty
+to do. In fact I have knocked up in succession all my staff, viz. my
+A.D.C., secretary, and the stout Padre, “Thomas.” But I must not crow
+till out of the wood.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 4.]
+
+Dined with Rokeby, meeting John Dugdale Astley, Scots Fusilier Guards,
+returned with wound cured, and others. Was going to write a line;
+an unusual rattle of musketry announced a sortie. Galloped to our
+batteries, found them blazing away. The attack was on our right on the
+French, who, being well prepared, gave the Russians a dressing. I have
+not heard to what amount.
+
+I must beg allowance of my readers for difference of expression in the
+“Right” and “Left” Attack. Naval Brigade batteries faced Sevastopol,
+while the military maps faced inland.
+
+The moon was rising, and the outlines of hills, forts, and figures
+showing. In each trench, standing up with musket in hand, were several
+rows of our soldiers ready to jump at a call in support of those
+further in advance, or to attack should the French have driven the
+Russians back in that direction. But their attack had been on the
+Mamelon from the Malakoff. We were expecting and ready to repel a
+similar sortie from the Redan, but none came. When I reached the front
+Captain Pechell, only son of Sir George, Bart., R.N., had just been
+shot down with six men of the 77th. It is customary at night for each
+side to throw out sentries in advance directly it is dark enough to
+cover the persons so advancing. Just between the foot of the ditch
+outside the Redan and our advanced trenches there is a cave, the mouth
+of which faces towards the works on our right. Directly it is dark the
+object between the Russians and ourselves is to try which can first
+get possession of it. We have generally succeeded, but last night the
+officer of the 88th, who went to take possession, mistook his way.
+Pechell, who had been in it before, volunteered, but it was then too
+late, the Russians being in possession, and at same time entirely hid
+by the darkness of the cave; they allowed Pechell and his six men to
+approach near enough to make sure, and then potted them all.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 8.]
+
+A bombardment, in earnest, commenced at 6 this morning; at 11.30, the
+usual resting-time of the Russians, the French surprised and carried
+the Malakoff. Our attempt on the Redan was to follow the hoisting of
+the French flag on the Malakoff, which was too late for any further
+surprises. We could now see clearly what our Naval Brigade had to do.
+Leaving the higher batteries, I went down to our extreme left, on the
+real Right Attack, and found a fresh battery had been made during the
+night by engineers, and in charge of a young artillery officer. I had
+already been advised at headquarters that our men should leave their
+small arms behind. General Simpson may have heard that on a previous
+occasion, when the Naval Brigade were told off to carry the scaling
+ladders under the gallant Peel, directly they observed the slope of
+the Redan fortification they proposed to drop the ladders, saying they
+could get in better without them. After visiting the main batteries,
+where my most experienced hands were, I joined our later, extended
+battery. We made a bad beginning, inasmuch as our magazine was blown
+up, which rendered eight guns less effective.
+
+The rush for the Redan had now commenced, and in the excitement our
+men wanted to draw the stakes out of the gabions, and to rush in. I
+noticed, on high ground to my left, the two Generals, Simpson and
+Gascoigne, one wounded in the head. Directly opposite, within 300
+yards, was a Russian battery playing on our men; half the effect of our
+battery was spoilt by being unable to fire, except by dropping shots
+into the Russians opposite. Shortly after an A.D.C. came galloping,
+giving me an order to “cease firing.” Our soldiers were being mowed
+down, chiefly by grape shot. The young artillery officer had ceased
+firing. I ran to his small battery and inquired the reason. He, too,
+had received orders, same effect. I told him I had received the same,
+but on no account to cease firing, and offered to send as many spare
+hands as he could employ, which he accepted. The Russians used grape
+shot, which came hopping along, many of them stopping in the ditch in
+front of our battery. The bombardment was kept up till sunset. Augustus
+Fitzroy, whose battery was on our left, on returning to camp joined
+two of our officers who preferred the open. Before reaching his tent
+he was knocked over by a bullet, which must have come from the Redan;
+the Russians having returned to that end, which the gallant Windham had
+held.
+
+[Illustration: _“Redan” Windham._]
+
+Windham was one of my oldest friends; we were boys together and
+remained friends till his death, February 2, 1870, at the early age
+of fifty-nine. He was properly called the Hero of the Redan, for by
+his gallant bearing on that day he did much to retrieve our good name.
+Dead against the first attack himself, its numbers, place, etc. etc.,
+he nevertheless led it in the most gallant manner, being first in the
+work--and after his three messengers had been disabled had the _moral_
+courage to go back himself and solicit reinforcements.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 9.]
+
+Early this morning visited Sir Colin Campbell; a few Highlanders had
+during the night crept into the Redan and found it deserted. On Sir
+Colin’s invitation we rode into the Redan by the salient angle. Horrors
+met us at every step. Two instances of faithful, but half-starved dogs
+were sitting on bodies, from which no coaxing could draw them. In a
+small hut on a table, leaning against the wall, was a Russian officer,
+looking smart in his uniform; on my speaking to him I found that he was
+dead. In the higher part noticed excavations and could trace wires for
+explosions. Sevastopol had been evacuated during the night--magazines
+blown up--town blazing--ships sank--others on fire. The Russians had
+put themselves on the safe side of the harbour by blowing up the east
+end of the floating bridge. Strolling about I found myself close to
+the ground floor of a hospital. On entering I was between two long
+rows of Russian soldiers, dead and dying, on broad wooden stretchers.
+I will not attempt to describe the horrors, but each body was in a
+position as if trying to escape. At the further end I found a young
+English officer in uniform who said he had been expecting us some
+time--he was wandering in his mind. A flag of truce was hoisted about
+noon. The Russians sent steamers to remove their dead and dying. One,
+the _Vladimir_, was commanded, I think, by Captain Etholin, who had
+done a gallant thing earlier in the war by capturing and taking into
+the harbour an English transport that had grounded in sight of our
+combined fleets. While the truce flag was up I moved three guns down
+to the edge of the harbour. When the Russian steamers had landed their
+dead and dying and returned to their moorings, in front of where we
+stood in a sort of hostile parade, one of the three Naval Brigade
+guns went off and smashed _Vladimir’s_ quarter boat. That same night
+we were building a screen, from behind which we could destroy any
+attempt at landing to interfere with our newly appointed Governor,
+Charles Windham. At midnight, superintending the work, I observed the
+_Vladimir_ make a move in our direction. Not a sound from on board.
+When she got near mid-channel, she stopped and gradually turned with
+her head up the harbour. When broadside on I gave the order to lie down
+behind our newly made screen, whereupon _Vladimir_ quietly settled
+herself at the bottom of the harbour, leaving nothing but the upper
+masts. It was from the foremast of that ship that all flags of truce
+and communications were made.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 10.]
+
+Word was sent to me that poor Augustus Fitzroy’s wound was considered
+mortal. Wrote to prepare his father for the sad event, and then to
+receive his last instructions. Poor dear, unlucky, gallant fellow. I
+had known the whole family from the time I had landed, as a skeleton
+boy, at the Cape of Good Hope in 1827. In pain I took down the items as
+he wished them to be disposed of: poor boy! They were but few. He was
+buried on Cathcart’s Hill with full military honours, in the grave next
+to Sir Robert Newman, which I had made big enough to hold two.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 11.]
+
+The inspection of the evacuated forts showed how destructive had been
+the fire of our batteries and how great a share the Naval Brigade had
+in the Fall of Sevastopol. It is an immense place, but there was not
+a spot where our shot had not penetrated. It was a sad spectacle; so
+precipitate had been the Russian retreat that they had cut off the
+communication by their bridge and left some 2000 wounded in barracks.
+Looking at the mastheads of their line-of-battle ships, and the still
+smoking ruins of their public buildings, I was in hopes that this would
+bring the war to a conclusion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Naval Brigade ordered to prepare for re-embarking. Was frequently in
+the artillery camp arranging details.
+
+One morning, in the Colonel’s marquee, we noticed a sailor coming from
+the town. As he was steering wildly, I thought it best to retire into
+the shade. The Colonel asked where he was from: if he had any loot. He
+replied he had not, and added, “To-morrow, I intends to ewacuate the
+Crimea.”
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI
+
+AFTER FALL OF SEVASTOPOL
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1855. Sevastopol, Sept. 16.]
+
+The breaking up for embarkation of our Brigade was a curious scene.
+First started off 160 mules, with baggage, etc. Such a collection!
+Then came our men, divided into three divisions, according to their
+destinations. I go to the _Rodney_ at Kazatch, and officers to the
+different ships at Balaklava. Two regiments kindly sent their bands:
+the 14th, in which my brother was at Waterloo, and the 18th Royal
+Irish with ours. The Naval Brigade went with flags of all descriptions
+flying, and no end of cheering--with “one more for Captain _Kaple_.”
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 17.]
+
+The more I visit the Russian works and town of Sevastopol, the more
+wonderful does everything connected with the siege appear. One hardly
+knows which is the most extraordinary--the perfect destruction of
+every building in the town by shot and shell, or the stupendous works
+erected by the Russians for their defence. The Redan and Malakoff are
+nothing compared to the Flagstaff and Garden Batteries. The latter were
+impregnable, and might have held out any length of time. The Malakoff
+was taken by surprise by the French, as they had done the Mamelon.
+Of all, the Redan appeared the least difficult to assault--but that
+is a subject we all try to forget. Of our generals, Colonel, now
+Brigadier-General Charles Windham, comes out the best. The Russians
+have left vast stores of guns, etc., they could not, in their haste,
+carry away.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+Little Harry (Stephenson), with symptoms of fever, on board _Rodney_,
+despatched at once with Thompson to Serapia Hospital. Dined with
+Windham as Governor in city of Sevastopol. A shell burst within ten
+yards as I mounted pony to go home.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 23.]
+
+Visited with General Barnard, La Marmora’s look-out houses over the
+Tchernaya and adjacent country. On Saturday pitched my tent near
+General Barnard.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 24.]
+
+Hugh Rose sent me from French headquarters the two last captured
+Cossack spears. (The last I saw of them was at Sir Thomas Whichcote’s,
+Ashwerby Park, to which I afterwards added a link of the chain that
+formed the slings of the main yard of the _Twelve Apostles_.)
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 28.]
+
+Having exchanged with Moorsom, Connell found an artillery waggon for my
+traps, rode down to Balaclava, taking up quarters on board _Læander_.
+My servant, having left Bury’s much-valued clock in tent, sent him back.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 29.]
+
+Like my Admiral, and like having work to do.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 30.]
+
+Took Washington and his son a ride on to Balaclava Plain, and round by
+headquarters.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 1.]
+
+Commenced duties as Flag Captain. Dockyard affording amusement,
+especially erection of stables.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 3.]
+
+Sid Skipwith and I dining with Methven, commanding P. and O. _Colombo_.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 5.]
+
+Busy embarking Royal Marines, the finest body of men now in the Crimea.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 7.]
+
+Embarking troops. Rode in afternoon with the Duberlys, 8th Hussars, to
+Baidar to hear the Sardinian Band.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 8.]
+
+Cavalry and horse artillery embarking for Eupatoria. Lady Paulet on
+board _Oscar_. Lord William Paulet to stay with Admiral.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 13.]
+
+Put box with poor Augustus Fitzroy’s bequests on board _Ripon_ for
+conveyance to his sister, Hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 14.]
+
+Rode over to Kazatch to ascertain means for embarkation of Highland
+Brigade.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Dined with the Duberlys, Windham and St. George Foley.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 19.]
+
+Dinner at a Kamiesch restaurant--Duberlys, Vansittart, St. George
+Foley, Charlie Windham, and Lewis and Earle, A.D.C.’s, Prince Victor
+and Thompson, Sir William Gordon and Lord Dunkellin.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 23.]
+
+Dined on board _Belgravia_ with Lady Paulet, Mrs. Mitchell and Lady
+Manson.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 24.]
+
+Review of cavalry and horse artillery: none like them in the world:
+near 3000 strong.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 28.]
+
+Picnic at Baidar--_Belgravian_ ladies, Prince Victor, T. Duberly, etc.
+Former lost their way coming back.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 29.]
+
+Started with Thompson for Kazatch. My “Rajah” kicking him in play, had
+him carried off on stretcher to Connell’s camp.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 3.]
+
+We formed a cheery party for a ride towards Bilbek, consisting of
+Prince Victor, the Duberlys, Mark Kerr, Coleraine, Vansittart, and
+self, about 13 miles distant. The country hilly, grassy, and bushy;
+weather perfect. The attendants had arranged our picnic on a flat space
+on a hilly point. We had arranged ourselves to feed, when one of our
+party found we had disturbed a cavalry vedette of our own countrymen on
+an adjacent point. A ravine between, they could not conveniently get at
+us.
+
+[Illustration: _Sketched from life by Hon. Col. W. Colville. 1855._
+
+_A Vidette of Cossacks._]
+
+While things were getting ready rode to the western edge of our
+selected spot and found we had likewise disturbed a nest of Cossacks.
+Our small party were not long in packing up this nice little picnic.
+Being well mounted, I waited to take a farewell peep, and from my
+position saw a greasy Cossack, about 30 feet below me, looking about
+with his carbine across his saddle, I suppose for something to eat.
+Being hungry myself, I overtook our party about to picnic a quarter of
+a mile off, Mark Kerr riding, as usual, without his hat.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 4.]
+
+Accompanied Lady Paulet to breakfast with Windham. Rode afterwards to
+Kazatch; dined with Beauchamp Seymour.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 5.]
+
+Breakfast with Sir E. Lyons. Transacted business, rode back to
+Balaclava, putting up a large covey of partridges by the way.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 6.]
+
+8th Hussars embarking. Shall miss them and Mrs. Duberly.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 8.]
+
+With Wenny Coke to look after covey of partridges seen by me. While
+preparing luncheon, observed a French soldier stalking a bird that
+flew from bush to bush. Asked Wenny to shoot the bird for him while I
+prepared luncheon. When he came back I asked if the man was pleased. He
+replied, “I don’t know! I have the bird in my pocket.” I said “What a
+brute you are,” when he produced a woodcock, which we at once cooked.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 11.]
+
+With my Admiral to headquarters. Took leave of General Sir James
+Simpson, also Willy Colville, who accompanies him to England. Mark Kerr
+was there. Admiral and I dined with Dupuis.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov 15.]
+
+A fearful explosion between 3 and 4 P.M. in French Artillery Park, near
+the Mill. Rode over, sad sight. Loaded shells bursting, contents flying
+in a horizontal direction about seven feet from the ground, killing
+almost every horse that was on its legs. It being dinner hour most
+officers escaped. There was a large windmill used as a powder magazine.
+It was a sight to see the gallant engineers mounting ladders with wet
+blankets to nail on the outside of the Mill, to prevent falling fire
+igniting powder. I got so excited that I found myself letting go the
+reins to clasp my hands over my cap, as if that could preserve my
+brain box from falling fragments of shell. There was no distinction
+of nationality. It is fortunate that the first horizontal explosion
+took place while officers were dining. I was still looking on, when a
+working party of the 18th Royal Irish came rushing and formed up. I
+asked the sergeant what they were waiting for. He answered “Orders.”
+I said, “That was not your form when we were in China, and danger in
+sight.” They were off at once, officers and all, into the igniting
+shells. Nearly the last wounded I saw was a young officer carried on a
+stretcher, the boots on his legs heels uppermost. I think his name was
+Dashwood: a more painful sight than any fight. Thirty tons of powder
+lately arrived from England were destroyed.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 18.]
+
+Rode with my Admiral over to Kazatch to visit Commander-in-Chief; with
+him to take last look at Sevastopol Docks before destruction. Russians
+still numerous on north side.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Took leave of Wenny Coke.--homeward bound. Party to dine: Steele and
+Rose.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 28.]
+
+Vansittart, taking his departure, leaves me his horse to forward to his
+mother.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 30.]
+
+Young Dalyell makes his appearance from Constantinople.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From prisoners that had been exchanged, it appeared that the Russians
+made a difference in their treatment of those they took prisoners and
+those who allowed themselves to be taken. They treated the latter with
+great contempt, and used them ill. The _Times_ paid a just tribute
+to the manly bearing of the officers of the Russian army. The naval
+officers--some of them--were fine fellows.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 3.]
+
+Dirty appearance of weather. My Admiral agreeing to remain on shore
+another day, took two youngsters, Wellesley and Molyneux, to see
+steeple chase. Weather turning fine. Sport very good. Rode back with
+boys to dine with Sir Edmund Lyons.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 8.]
+
+Accompanied my Admiral to headquarters, then to Kazatch to stay with
+Sir E. Lyons, and meet Curzon and St. George Foley and Beauchamp
+Seymour. Jolly dinner.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+St. George Foley, Lord Raglan’s A.D.C., died whilst Governor of
+Gibraltar.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 10.]
+
+Function on board French ships in memory of Admiral Bruat, _Royal
+Albert_ firing 59 guns.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 11.]
+
+Visit from Cecil Rice--6 feet 2.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 12.]
+
+Rode to front. Young Willy Barnard ill. Mail in. Sir E. Lyons a
+full Admiral: am so glad. Confidential despatch summoning him to a
+conference in Paris, also Pellissier and La Marmora.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 14.]
+
+Accompanied my Admiral to headquarters. Admiral and I dined with
+Hardinge, meeting Generals Barnard and Dupuis.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 15.]
+
+My Admiral, Prince Victor, and self to Kazatch, on a visit to Sir E.
+Lyons. Brigadier Spencer and large party to dinner.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 16.]
+
+Across to Kaimesch to see Inglefield’s sketches and walk with him. Hugh
+Rose joined dinner party.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 17.]
+
+Snow and frost, slippery riding. Returned to Balaklava.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 19.]
+
+Thousands upon thousands of that beautiful bird the bustard (there
+are two sorts, one much larger), continually passing over to the
+northward. Several of them shot from the heights in time for Christmas.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 23.]
+
+Rode to headquarters. George Cadogan and I to Kazatch on visit to
+Beauchamp Seymour. Found Fitz Berkeley. We making jolly quartette on
+board _Meteor_.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+Ate my Christmas dinner with Charlie Windham: jolly party. Letter from
+Sir Charles Wood, offering me division of gunboats: the thing of all
+others I most coveted! Took passage in _Orinoco_.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 27.]
+
+Rode up with my Admiral to headquarters to take leave: uncommon good
+luncheon.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 28.]
+
+Mail in from England. My name in papers as Commodore!
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 29.]
+
+Took leave of my kind chief and Seymour, the latter agreeing to go as
+my captain in case of my being a real Commodore. Embarked on board
+_Orinoco_ at 1 P.M. from Balaklava.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 30.]
+
+Came to, in afternoon, in the entrance to the Golden Horn. Dined
+with Borlase on board _Melapus_, 42, to meet the Admiral, Sir
+Houston-Stewart.
+
+[Sidenote: Constantinople, Dec. 31.]
+
+No end of friends going both ways. Misseri’s full; H. de Bathe on
+way to Crimea. At Embassy found Lady George Paget; Lady Powlett at
+Misseri’s. Dined with Admiral on board _Hannibal_. Met there the
+Turkish Admiral, our Adolphus Slade.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXII
+
+ARRIVAL FROM CRIMEA--THENCE IN _COLOSSUS_--SHORE TIME
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1856. Jan. 1.]
+
+Constantinople.--Put up at Misseri’s Hotel, when Dalrymple Hay, of
+Flagship, announced that _Orinoco_ only waited for Captain Keppel.
+Adieu to Constantinople.
+
+[Sidenote: Malta, Jan. 5.]
+
+Arrived early in Malta. Found Lady Talbot, Lady Victoria looking
+beautiful, but, I fear, not long for this world. Charlie Talbot dining
+with me. To opera, and re-embarked.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 6.]
+
+Steamed at an early hour.
+
+[Sidenote: England, Jan. 17.]
+
+Passed through the Needles passage a little before 8 A.M. Landed at
+Southampton and started for London by train. Dined with Stephenson,
+felt there was “no place like home.”
+
+[Sidenote: London, Jan. 18.]
+
+First visit to the Admiralty; well received. Found myself appointed
+to _Colossus_ and division of gunboats. Relieving old schoolfellow,
+Captain Robinson. Dined with Sir Maurice Berkeley.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 19.]
+
+Business at Admiralty, carpet-bag full of letters, no rest. Dined with
+First Lord; Lords Lansdowne and Stanley there.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+By ’bus to visit Dowager Lady Albemarle at Twickenham; met Edwards, her
+trainer.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 21.]
+
+Visited Georgie Kennedy at Northbank. Jolly family dinner at
+Stephenson’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 22.]
+
+Called on Lady Fremantle and Lady William Paget, Arundels and Sir
+Edmund Lyons. By rail to Portsmouth. Lodgings at Chambers on the Hard.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth, Jan. 23.]
+
+No uniform to hand, nevertheless visited privately Admiral Sir George
+Seymour and Admiral-Superintendent W. F. Martin. On board _Colossus_
+and _Rodney_.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 25.]
+
+Took up commission for _Colossus_. Seven gunboats defective. Dined with
+Admiral-Superintendent.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 28.]
+
+Got through two courts-martial on engineer and assistant-paymaster,
+both pleading guilty, thereby saving our time, but not their sentences.
+D’Eyncourt, Bowyear, Moorsom, and Clifford taking chop with me.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 31.]
+
+Early telegraph from Lord Arundel, that Sir E. Lyons dined at home. But
+post brought order to dine with Her Majesty at Windsor! Just saved my
+bacon, buying a pair of shoes as I passed through London.
+
+[Sidenote: Windsor Castle, Feb. 1.]
+
+Invited by H.R.H. Prince Albert to shoot. Borrowed coat of Colonel
+Bowater. Shooting perfect. Back by 2 P.M. Visited Duchess of Kent at
+Frogmore. Went over Castle armoury, etc. Took Mrs. Phipps into dinner.
+Prince Albert taking leave over night.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 2.]
+
+By 10 o’clock train to London. Attended John Robb’s wedding and
+breakfast.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 3.]
+
+Long chat with Sir James Graham. At Harry Stephenson’s, another family
+gathering. Leicester and his brothers there. Edward Coke and wife,
+Archie Macdonald and wife, all jolly and happy.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Feb. 6.]
+
+Dined with Duke of Cambridge. All Crimean men. Have seldom seen a
+meeting of twelve men so well satisfied with their dinner as well as
+with one another.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 7.]
+
+Dined with Baldwin Walker.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Feb. 8.]
+
+Ascertained by this day’s _Gazette_ that I was to have the C.B.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 9.]
+
+By 5 P.M. train to Portsmouth. In same carriage as George Lennox; dined
+with him.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth, Feb. 12.]
+
+Handsome mention made of me by Sir Charles Wood in house last night.
+
+[Sidenote: Saturday, Feb. 16.]
+
+By train to London.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 18.]
+
+Dined with First Lord.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I must now take my readers back fourteen years, when the decorations
+on the conclusion of the China war came out. My good father, not
+understanding the rules of the Service, seeing that I was the only
+captain not to receive the C.B., wrote privately to the then First
+Lord, Lord Haddington. A correspondence ensued admitting the hardness
+of my case, Lord Haddington informing my father that I should have the
+first vacancy. On my arrival from the East Indian Station (which then
+included China) in 1845, my father gave me this correspondence. On
+leaving England in the _Mæander_ for the same station, without keeping
+any copy, I respectfully enclosed the letters to Lord Auckland, and
+have no doubt they were transferred to the Private Secretary’s Clerk’s
+office, and may be there now.
+
+But to return to the present. My predecessor in command of the
+Naval Brigade in the Crimea, on his promotion, received the K.C.B.
+and returned to England. Sir Edmund Lyons appointed me to succeed
+Lushington. I felt that my command of the Brigade having terminated
+successfully I might receive a similar distinction.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 19.]
+
+Early to see my friend Berkeley at the Admiralty, who, having well
+considered the case, took me into the presence of the First Lord, Sir
+Charles Wood. With him was his brother-in-law Sir Frederick Grey.
+Admiral Berkeley having clearly stated my case, the First Lord, rather
+excited, addressed me.
+
+“Perhaps, Captain Keppel, you would like me to explain to Her Majesty
+that you would rather decline the C.B.”
+
+I replied, “Exactly, sir, I feel more distinguished as I am.”
+
+Admiral Berkeley here interfered, saying, “Keppel, we are old friends.
+The order comes so directly from Her Majesty that you cannot decline it
+without offence.”
+
+I replied, “Many thanks, sir, that is the last thing I would do.” Made
+my bow and retired.
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 20.]
+
+Attended levee. Dined with De Cliffords. Dance at Lady John Russell’s.
+Evening party at Lady Mary Woods: everybody there!
+
+[Sidenote: Feb. 22.]
+
+Attended Installation of the Order of the Bath at Buckingham Palace;
+was decorated with the Companionship by Her Majesty!
+
+[Sidenote: London, Mar. 8.]
+
+Dined with brother George to meet my new, pretty niece Sophy Bury.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 9.]
+
+By train to Portsmouth.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 11.]
+
+Inspected gunboats at Motherbank. Dined with Fred Pelham to meet
+Admiral Hon. Sir R. Dundas. Getting _Colossus_ cabin ready. Mid-day
+visit to Motherbank.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth, Mar. 12.]
+
+On usual morning attendance on the Commander-in-Chief. Sir George,
+looking unusually serious, said: “I am afraid I must address you as
+‘Captain Keppel.’ I have repeatedly spoken about the carelessness of
+officers in command of gunboats, and now I find that one of your
+Division has been trying to break through Ryde Pier. Now the damage
+done by them, chiefly at night, averages £85 per week.” I was sorry,
+and ventured to ask how he knew the culprit belonged to my Division?
+He replied, “By the number on the bow.” To which I said, “I beg your
+pardon, sir, the most mischievous of these young scamps, when going at
+night where they ought not, carry spare boards with any number on them
+but their own.” He rang the bell and sent for the board, which luckily
+proved to be that of the only gunboat that was, and had been fitting
+alongside the _Colossus_! I think the Admiral was as pleased as myself
+at the mistake. Clifford and I dined with Hope to meet Sir Richard
+Dundas, now our Baltic Chief.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 14.]
+
+On a visit to my kinsman H. H. Lindsay at West Dean, a charming place
+in Sussex.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 16.]
+
+Palm Sunday. Afternoon walked to Goodwood, Duke and Duchess out. Lady
+Cecilia looking lovely; Lady William Paget charming. Got drenched
+walking back.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 17.]
+
+Early train, _via_ Chichester, to Portsmouth. Of course, plenty to
+attend to. _Pelter_, commanded by Lieutenant H. Round, my gunboat for
+the week.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 18.]
+
+Shifted shore quarters to Portland Hotel. Dined with Commander-in-Chief.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 20.]
+
+To the Motherbank. Got Division under weigh round the Nab. Some
+successful manœuvring.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 22.]
+
+By afternoon train to Chichester. Met at station by George Lennox. With
+him to Goodwood. So kindly received. Most enjoyable.
+
+[Sidenote: Goodwood, Mar. 23.]
+
+Easter Sunday. To morning service. Walk after church to West Dean to
+luncheon. Walked back, having taken another pleasanter walk with the
+excellent Duchess.
+
+[Sidenote: 1856. Mar. 24.]
+
+Lords March and George Lennox returning with me for a cruise in
+gunboats. Flotilla under weigh. They much pleased. Dined with
+Commander-in-Chief. First Lord and Admiral Berkeley there.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Admiralty Lords in _Black Eagle_. _Colossus_ and gunboats under weigh
+by signal, and proceeded in company to Portland. Lord Mulgrave, H.
+Corry, and party on board. Dined on board _Black Eagle_.
+
+[Sidenote: Portland, Mar. 26.]
+
+Breakfasted on board _Black Eagle_. Inspected with First Lord the works
+in progress. Easterly wind, too strong for gunboats to return with
+_Black Eagle_. Dined with Lord Mulgrave on board _Titania_ yacht. Slept
+where I dined.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 27.]
+
+On board _Colossus_ to breakfast.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+Luncheon with Lady Hastings. Montagu Thomas taking me to Dorchester. By
+rail to Southampton and Portsmouth.
+
+[Sidenote: Portsmouth.]
+
+Luncheon with Cousin Cecilia Yorke. _Colossus_ with gunboats arriving
+in afternoon from Portland. Reported them and self to Admiral.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 30.]
+
+Peace proclaimed at Paris; great illuminations and rejoicings.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 1.]
+
+Took up quarters on board _Colossus_ in harbour.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 3.]
+
+Stanley Graham joined ship and dined with me.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 8.]
+
+My White Division giving a ball at Ryde. The best that had been given,
+so they all said!
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 9.]
+
+Slept at Ryde Pier Hotel for a few hours. Went to Lady Hastings with
+cousin Cecilia.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 11.]
+
+Arrived _Conqueror_, _Exmouth_, and _Dee_. Commander-in-Chief came out
+in _Fire Queen_, and inspected position of gunboats.
+
+[Sidenote: Spithead, Apr. 14.]
+
+11 A.M.--Weighed, and proceeded to Spithead to take station in line
+with the fleet in Port Division.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 15.]
+
+_Imperieuse_ and _Desperate_ arrived and took station.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 16.]
+
+Arrived _Euryalus_ and _Falcon_. Division of gunboats under weigh
+exercising.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 17.]
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 18.]
+
+Arrived _Pylades_, _Amphion_, and _Centurion_. 1 P.M.--Fleet weighed to
+exercise. Sir George Seymour’s flag flying in _Arrogant_. Stood round
+pivot-ship, and returned to station in line at Spithead.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 19.]
+
+_Rodney_ and _London_, took station as pivot-ships off the Nab.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 20.]
+
+_Sea-horse_ arrived. Gunboats arriving daily.
+
+[Sidenote: Spithead, Apr. 23.]
+
+Grand Review of the whole Fleet. Noon, fired Royal Salute as Her
+Majesty passed up between the two lines, followed by the four Divisions
+of gunboats. First and Second Division leading with two gunboats each,
+making four abreast. As soon as the gunboats had passed through and
+divided to starboard and port round the headmost ships of the Line,
+the whole Fleet weighed and stood to the southward, and so round the
+pivot-ships. The gunboats having taken position in front of Southsea
+beach afterwards opened fire on a signal from Royal Yacht. Her Majesty
+returned into harbour under a second Royal Salute from the whole Fleet,
+the ships coming to an anchor in prescribed order. 9 P.M.--The whole
+Fleet illuminated and burnt rockets.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 29.]
+
+4.30 P.M.--Weighed with the White Division, ran down to Spithead for
+orders. 5.30.--Proceeded to eastward.
+
+[Sidenote: Apr. 30.]
+
+Communicated in gunboats with Dover. 10.40.--Rounded to in the Downs
+and received pilot. Ran through Princes Channel. 8.10.--Came to off the
+Little Nore. White Division in company.
+
+[Sidenote: May 1.]
+
+6.20 A.M.--Weighed with White Division. Saluted flag of Rear-Admiral
+Honourable William Gordon, and proceeded into harbour. Moored on north
+side. Proceeded by permission to London.
+
+[Sidenote: Boulogne, May 2.]
+
+The proclamation of peace affected movements of Division of gunboats,
+which had been destined to take part in operations in the Baltic. After
+breakfast to Admiralty. Offer of Broad Pennant in India. Would a duck
+like a swim! By steamer to Boulogne. Friend Admiral Julien de Gravière
+on board. We lunched on board Sir John Bayley’s yacht _Nymph_.
+
+[Sidenote: May 5.]
+
+9 A.M. steamer to Folkestone. By train to Shoreditch, so to Romford;
+met by Mark Wood, with him to his place, Bishop’s Hall, and his
+charming wife, Miss Williams that was. Lady Thorold too, from
+Lincolnshire, so sorry could not stay longer.
+
+[Sidenote: May 12.]
+
+[Sidenote: May 14.]
+
+To Sheerness, dined with the Vice-Admiral, Sir William Gordon, a dear
+steady old gentleman: at table, good for five hours. He had invited
+Frank Scott and Henry Yorke to dinner. Usual routine with division of
+gunboats.
+
+[Sidenote: May 29.]
+
+On arriving at St. George’s Place, Harry Stephenson informed me that
+_Colossus_ had sailed for Crimea. At Admiralty, ascertained that _Royal
+George_ and _Colossus_ had passed the Downs. I being on leave, Captain
+Robinson had been reappointed to _Colossus_. Telegraphed to detain
+_Centurion_ or _Royal George_ for me at Plymouth.
+
+[Sidenote: May 30.]
+
+By 1 P.M. train, arriving 2 A.M. at Morshead’s, Plymouth.
+
+[Sidenote: May 31.]
+
+Daylight brought in _Royal George_, _Colossus_ having passed on. Found
+that my telegraph to Torquay had effected what I wanted. At 8 sailed in
+_Royal George_ from Plymouth.
+
+[Sidenote: At Sea, June 2.]
+
+Making a fine weather passage. An idler I.
+
+[Sidenote: June 6.]
+
+Once more the Rock of Gibraltar in sight. 9 A.M.--Came to in the Bay.
+Went on shore to the good George Greys, 10 P.M.--_Colossus_ arrived.
+
+[Sidenote: June 7.]
+
+Stewart Paget coming on board for a cruise. 7 P.M.--Weighed and steamed
+out of the Bay.
+
+[Sidenote: Malta, June 14.]
+
+Arrived in Malta. Ship coaled and ready before dark, but a little rest
+for stokers necessary.
+
+[Sidenote: June 15.]
+
+Cast off from buoy, 4 A.M.
+
+[Sidenote: June 18.]
+
+Once again in the Archipelago, having passed Cape St. Angelo in middle
+watch. Should have been at Queen’s Ball to-night “if not otherwise
+engaged.”
+
+[Sidenote: June 19.]
+
+Entered the Dardanelles. Met _Queen_ full of troops in tow of
+_Terrible_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 20.]
+
+In the Sea of Marmora. 1 P.M.--Anchored in the Golden Horn.
+
+[Sidenote: June 21.]
+
+3 P.M.--Weighed; ordered by Rear-Admiral Sir F. Grey to tow transport
+up the Bosphorus!
+
+[Sidenote: Crimea, June 23.]
+
+Anchored off Kazatch. In Comber’s steamer _Viper_ to Sevastopol
+Harbour. Visited north side, from maintop of _Twelve Apostles_, brought
+away slings of main yard. Went over fortifications, docks, Malakoff and
+Redan. Rode to Cathcart’s Hill. Visited graves of my two friends.
+
+[Sidenote: June 24.]
+
+Luncheon at headquarters. With Charlie Windham to Balaclava. Dined with
+Freemantle, and slept on board _Leander_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 25.]
+
+_Colossus_ off the harbour by 7.30. Embarked 754 officers and men of
+the 44th Regiment. Old friend Colonel Charles Stanley in command. Out
+and away at 10.30. Percy Herbert and Romaine on board.
+
+[Sidenote: June 26.]
+
+Ran past Constantinople during the afternoon, telegraphing to Flag,
+without stopping, the regiment and number of troops on board. Clear
+away without a trooper in tow!
+
+[Sidenote: June 27.]
+
+_Centurion_ full of fuel, and with a clean bottom, steamed past us
+this morning in an unpleasant manner. Clear of Dardanelles. Found a
+slashing north-easter blowing.
+
+[Sidenote: June 28.]
+
+I have often thought how easy it would have been with our united fleets
+to have stopped up the mouth of Sevastopol Harbour between Forts
+Nicholas and St. Michael. We had material enough in useless old ships
+to block the entrance assisted by the débris from the aforesaid Forts,
+where during the winter months, mud washed down from the rivers and
+adjacent streams would have formed a lake, to be continually renewed
+until it became arable, and in some future time the farmer’s plough
+might strike the _Vladimir’s_ funnel or remove the head of the _Twelve
+Apostles_.
+
+[Sidenote: June 29.]
+
+Passed through the Doro passage in middle watch and rounded Cape St.
+Angelo.
+
+Fuel falling short: obliged to economize, always a bore! Was in too
+great a hurry passing Constantinople. Divine Service to troops and
+seamen.
+
+4 P.M.--Fell in with a collier consigned to French Government, she not
+knowing of her whereabouts eased her of fifty tons.
+
+[Sidenote: Malta, July 1.]
+
+Arrived at Malta before 8 A.M. Admiral the Hon. Sir Montague Stopford
+in command. Coaled, and off by 4 P.M.
+
+[Sidenote: July 2.]
+
+Rounded Cape Bon. Impatient I!
+
+[Sidenote: July 8.]
+
+6 A.M.--Anchored at Gibraltar. While coaling passed time pleasantly
+enough between George Grey and Pagets. Dined with the General. Got
+everybody on board by 11 P.M. Weighed at midnight.
+
+[Sidenote: Spithead, July 18.]
+
+At daylight passed the Needles, and at an early hour anchored at
+Spithead, within two hours of _Centurion_. George Lennox dined with
+me on board, returned his binoculars. Her Majesty passing through
+Spithead came close by _Colossus_. Great cheering.
+
+[Sidenote: Spithead, July 19.]
+
+Disembarked troops. No men could have behaved better than our 44th
+throughout the voyage. Dined with the good Admiral, Sir George Seymour.
+
+[Sidenote: July 21.]
+
+_Colossus_ coming into harbour, accompanied Admiral and family to
+Cowes. Wrote my name in lodge-book at Osborne.
+
+[Sidenote: July 23.]
+
+By 2.30 train to London; put up with Harry Stephenson. To Haymarket, by
+appointment with Lord William Paget.
+
+[Sidenote: July 24.]
+
+Edward Eyre to breakfast. Hack cab to Twickenham to dine with Dowager
+Lady Albemarle.
+
+[Sidenote: July 29.]
+
+Letter from Sir Charles Wood announcing his intention of giving me a
+broad pennant in India. Started by train for Chichester. Thomas and I
+to Goodwood Races. Sent traps to West Dean, walked there from races.
+
+[Sidenote: Goodwood, July 30.]
+
+To Goodwood Races. Met many friends: George Payne, Admiral Rous, T.
+Whichcote, Crosbie, Joseph Hawley, Colonel Vansittart, etc. Dined at
+Goodwood. Found General Barnard on return to West Dean.
+
+[Sidenote: July 31.]
+
+Cup Day. Sent traps to Goodwood and took up quarters which had been
+vacated by H.R.H. Duke of Cambridge. Dinner for sixty each day.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 1.]
+
+Another splendid day. After races went to West Dean to take leave.
+Duchess and party to Chichester Ball.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 2.]
+
+To Drayton Station by 8.30 train to London. Lost portmanteau. To club;
+met General Barnard. At Antrobus with Romaine to Jack Templer, and
+arranged the foundation of a reconciliation between Brooke and the
+Eastern Archipelago Company--a most desirable event. Back to London
+Bridge Station--no tidings of lost portmanteau--horrid bore! By 4.30
+train to Snodlands and Leyburn Grange. Found Georgie and Sara Hawley,
+Coleraine and Diana coming afterwards. A love of a place this Grange.
+Everything in good taste and perfect order.
+
+Interesting inspection of Hawley’s extensive paddocks. Dinner and
+cooking in keeping with everything else in this cheery spot.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 5.]
+
+Visited Commander-in-Chief. Dined with Cashers. Portmanteau recovered
+by the good “Thomas”[3] at Drayton Station.
+
+[3] The Rev. Josias Thompson.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 8.]
+
+To Cowes Regatta Ball with Lady Montagu and Miss Leeds. Good ball.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 9.]
+
+Started for Portsmouth. Went on board _Royal George_. Found Henry Yorke
+in sick bay with sprained ankle. Brought him on shore.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 11.]
+
+“Thomas” and I by steamer to Cowes Regatta. Sailed in Frankland’s
+_Stella_.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 12.]
+
+Visited Admiral, who gave me his likeness.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 16.]
+
+With Admiral in _Fire Queen_ to Spithead, he visiting Sardinian and
+Dutch frigates. To an afternoon _déjeûner_ at Lord and Lady Downes at
+beautiful Binstead.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 18.]
+
+Made calls with Henry Seymour. Dined with Admiral Sir George Seymour to
+meet Dutch officers, he taking us all to Southsea rooms. Dancing!
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 21.]
+
+Dined with Admiral. Letter from Torquay deciding that Henry Yorke’s
+health will prevent his going to India.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 24.]
+
+Hired a fourwheeler and got kicked out, but succeeded in getting to
+Northlands before dinner was over.
+
+[Sidenote: Osborne, Aug. 26.]
+
+Prince Victor and self were to dine at Osborne, he having a room
+there. We crossed early. Strolling by self in afternoon, came suddenly
+on Her Majesty and the Prince Consort. Tried to get behind a bush--too
+late! Was beckoned to by Her Majesty, who appeared in the best of
+spirits. The Queen asked me how I liked the change of uniform. Replied,
+“I like it very much, your Majesty, but this morning I was taken for
+a railway official.” At this Her Majesty laughed heartily, giving His
+Royal Highness a little nudge, and added: “Have they not taken away
+your epaulettes?” Unfortunately I did not then know the improvement was
+His Royal Highness’s idea. Took in Lady Caroline Barrington to dinner.
+Concert afterwards, it being Prince Albert’s birthday; and a dance in
+servants’ hall, which was attended by charming Lady Churchill, Miss
+Cathcart and household. English country dance, Roger de Coverley, etc.:
+great fun! Slept at Osborne.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 27.]
+
+Her Majesty and family off at 10 for London. Returned by 5 P.M. boat to
+Portsmouth.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 28.]
+
+Called on Sir George and Lady Seymour. Off Slaughter House Pier Thomas
+tried Francis’ patent iron lifeboat, and was nearly drowned. We dined
+with George Lennox.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 29.]
+
+Board of Admiralty arrived.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 30.]
+
+Sir Charles Wood informed me that he had decided on my hoisting the
+broad pennant in the _Raleigh_ for East Indies.
+
+[Sidenote: Aug. 31.]
+
+Went over _Raleigh_ with Turnour: a magnificent frigate. Last of the
+sailers.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIII
+
+THE _RALEIGH_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1856. Sept. 1.]
+
+Portsmouth.--Dined with Admiral-Superintendent to meet First Lord and
+Board.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 2.]
+
+Morning’s post brought letters for the Commodore! Dined with Sir
+Charles Wood and Board of Admiralty at George Hotel; jolly on the whole.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 3.]
+
+Admiralty Board off to town.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 4.]
+
+Took up commission for _Raleigh_. Pennant hoisted by boatswain’s
+wife--good-looking woman, ought to bring luck!
+
+[Sidenote: London, Sept. 5.]
+
+No end of business at Admiralty getting officers appointed, etc.
+
+[Sidenote: Chichester, Sept. 13.]
+
+Breakfast and shot with Sir Maurice Berkeley; 11½ brace between us.
+Dined and slept there.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 19.]
+
+Started on parting visits. By 8 P.M. train from Euston Station for
+Aberdeen. Travelling all night, and still whirling along.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 20.]
+
+[Sidenote: Gordon Castle, Sept. 21.]
+
+From Aberdeen by train to Huntly. Picked up there by Prince Edward of
+Saxe-Weimar in britzska and conveyed to Gordon Castle; cordial welcome
+by everybody to this delightful place.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 22.]
+
+Drove with Duke and Duchess to the Sea. Lord and Lady Churchill
+arrived. Deer-shooting party going some distance, was allowed with
+keeper to shoot in park; made capital shot at a buck. Time passing
+only too quickly.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 24.]
+
+Walk to bridge to see swollen Spey.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 25.]
+
+Shot another buck, cleverly too! Took leave of kind Duchess and friends.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 26.]
+
+Posted to Huntly; train to Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Put up at Graham’s
+Hotel; oyster supper.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 27.]
+
+By train to Carlisle 9 A.M. Met Isteads, Horrocks, and Campbell. Posted
+to Netherby. Kind and hearty welcome by Sir James and Lady Graham.
+Bishop of Oxford here.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 28.]
+
+Forenoon service at Longtown, sermon by Bishop: an excellent and
+forcible preacher as well as a most agreeable man.
+
+[Sidenote: Sept. 29.]
+
+Went out shooting with young Graham; 20 brace partridges.
+
+[Sidenote: Ashwarby Park, Sept. 30.]
+
+Early fly to Carlisle. Train to Newcastle, York, and Grantham. Posted
+to Ashwarby Park. Whichcote away shooting, not having received my
+letter. Lady Whichcote at home, three Miss Yorkes, and Mrs. Turner.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 2.]
+
+Rode to Syston; found Cecilia Yorke and Mrs. Broke Turner. Lady Thorold
+very nice; men shooting. After luncheon with ladies to Grantham.
+I to Newark and Lincoln by train and dogcart--joined Whichcote’s
+party--shooting over pointers: turnips, holding water by bucketsful.
+George Fitzroy, Freke, G. Bentinck. Party bagged 80½ brace. After
+dinner in dogcart to Lincoln. Slept at Great Northern.
+
+[Sidenote: Norfolk, Oct. 3.]
+
+By 7 train to Peterborough; on to Ely. Saw Cathedral. On by train to
+Harling Road. Met by Eyre and family--my best friends.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 4.]
+
+After luncheon conveyed to Quidenham. Susan and girls, George, Mrs. and
+Miss Trotter, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Holford. Dear girls, my nieces. Am
+again under the paternal roof. Slept in the room brother Francis died
+in. To forenoon church, brother Edward performing.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 7.]
+
+By train to London. Business at Admiralty.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 9.]
+
+By express to Portsmouth. _Raleigh_ progressing.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 10.]
+
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir George Seymour.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 14.]
+
+Before 10 superintended paying off _Cæsar_. Remained till 6 P.M.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 15.]
+
+Presented with handsome sword by much-esteemed young friend Henry
+Seymour. [By permission, have since worn no other.]
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 17.]
+
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief Martin, Lady Elizabeth Smith, and Sir
+Charles Ogle, a fine old salt!
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 19.]
+
+Dined on board _Nymph_ with Sir John and Lady Bayley.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 20.]
+
+Dined with Admiral to meet Oglanders.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 23.]
+
+Glad to find “Thomas” at lodgings. Harry Stephenson coming in afternoon.
+
+[Sidenote: Oct. 27.]
+
+Ship alongside hulk.
+
+[Sidenote: London, Nov. 6.]
+
+Lindsay up from West Dean. Took him to dine with Stephenson. Meeting
+Albemarle and Bury.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 11.]
+
+As Commodore, left the fitting-out much to old shipmate, Commander
+Turnour!
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 12.]
+
+Wife and I by train to Portsmouth, where we put up at the comfortable
+Quebec Hotel. Joined by friends Rev. E. Eyre and wife.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 13.]
+
+Attended Admiral at a meeting at the Sailor’s Home; had to propose a
+resolution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 15.]
+
+It was the kind Commander-in-Chief’s intention to give me a
+parting dinner on sailing of _Raleigh_. But to make clear a small
+_contretemps_, I must explain. Among the Wardroom officers of the
+_Raleigh_ was my old friend the Rev. Josias Thompson. He had been with
+me many years, and, as is usual among old shipmates, had established
+the nickname of “Thomas.” Many knew him, as did the kind Chief, by no
+other. The morning for our leaving the regular Admiralty pilot, whose
+name was Thomas, was on board. Two steam tugs ordered from Dockyard in
+attendance; the wind being fair, had no idea, in a sailing frigate,
+of being towed. Took charge, and was in the act of making sail, when
+the dear Chief, who had been to Haslar to attend the funeral of an old
+shipmate, suddenly appeared on board, and turning to me said, “Don’t
+let me interfere, but is Mr. Thomas on board?” I said he was. “Where is
+he?” “Forward on the starboard side, standing on a gun carriage.” I was
+too busy making sail to go with him--the tide was rising. On inquiring
+who had attended the Commander-in-Chief, I found that he had gone
+forward, and making a bow to the pilot, stated that, as the Commodore
+was going to take a parting dinner, he hoped to have the pleasure
+of Mr. Thomas’s company. The ship ran out like the beauty she was,
+saluting Admiral’s flag before coming to anchor.
+
+Near dinner-time wife and self were among early arrivals. We noticed
+a gentleman standing on the rug by the fire with a white choker and
+new suit of clothes; no one seemed to know him. Dinner announced,
+the Admiral took in my wife, I, Lady Seymour. The turtle soup had
+been served, when the Admiral addressed our strange friend with, “Mr.
+Thomas, will you have the goodness to say grace?” The poor Pilot’s
+neighbour whispered to him, “Say ‘Thank God.’” Dinner over, the dear
+Admiral nudged my wife, saying, “That’s a queer parson of yours.” And
+then, in a louder voice, called out, “Mr. Thomas, have the goodness
+to return thanks.” I at the same time asking Lady Seymour “who Mr.
+Thomas was?” Lady Seymour turned to the butler and sent him to tell the
+Admiral that Captain Keppel had never seen that man before. At this
+moment some of the senior captains spotted our friend the pilot! He
+never afterwards met his friends in Portsmouth that they did not ask
+him to say grace.
+
+[Sidenote: _Raleigh_, Nov. 17.]
+
+Took leave of the clinker-built Quebec, the most comfortable hotel in
+Portsmouth. Brother Tom and I dining in gunroom.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 18.]
+
+Inspected by Commander-in-Chief Sir George Seymour.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 19.]
+
+Paid farewell visits. “Thomas” and I dined with George Lennox. Friend
+Edward Eyre arrived; embarked him and Lennox. After men’s dinner
+weighed and ran out by St. Helen’s. Brother Tom, in ill-health, going
+with me as far as the Cape of Good Hope.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIV
+
+THE _RALEIGH_
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1856. _Raleigh_, Nov. 20.]
+
+A fine frigate has ever been the favourite class of ship with seamen as
+well as officers, and I venture to state a finer crew never left a port.
+
+List of officers:--
+
+    _Commander_--Edward W. Turnour.
+    _Secretary_--Matless G. Autey.
+    _Lieutenants_--James G. Goodenough, Viscount Gilford, H.R.H. Prince
+        Victor of Hohenlohe, James S. Graham, W. F. Johnson.
+    _Master_--William H. Williams.
+    _Captain of Marines_--Thomas Magin.
+    _Second Lieutenant of Marines_--Charles L. Owen.
+    _Chaplain_--Josiah Thompson.
+    _Surgeon_--John T. Crawford.
+    _Paymaster_--James G. G. Simmonds.
+    _Naval Instructor_--John L. Laverty.
+    _Assistant-Surgeon_--J. G. T. Forbes.
+    _Midshipmen_--Lord Charles Scott, Hon. Victor A. Montagu,
+        Hon. F. G. Crofton, Henry F. Stephenson, A. E. Dupuis,
+        F. R. Foster, Hugh B. Hammersley, Edward Pilkington,
+        A. Paget, Hardy M‘Hardy.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: At Sea, Nov. 20.]
+
+Friends Henry Seymour, Eyre, and George Lennox enjoying themselves.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 21.]
+
+Late in the evening before we came to Plymouth Sound.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 22.]
+
+Saluted Sir William Parker’s flag at 9 A.M. Called on Newmans at Royal
+Hotel, where I took a room. Visited Hartmans at Saltram, where I
+found my cousins Mrs. Yorke and daughter. Dined with Sam Truscott--a
+character.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 23.]
+
+Breakfasted with Caroline and Louisa Newman. In afternoon Prince
+Victor, Graham, Lord Charles Scott, Harry Stephenson, and I to Saltram
+to dine and sleep.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 24.]
+
+Returned after breakfast to Plymouth. Took Cecilia Yorke and Miss
+Coryton on board _Raleigh_.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 25.]
+
+Was allowed to see Lord Mount-Edgecumbe; cruel wreck of a handsome and
+intellectual man. Too down to dine anywhere. Tea with Newman girls.
+
+[Sidenote: Nov. 26.]
+
+Weighed at 11 and ran out of the Sound. What may not happen before I
+again land in England!
+
+[Sidenote: Madeira, Dec. 9.]
+
+Anchored before 1 in Funchal Roads. Kindly received by friend Stoddard,
+putting up brother Tom and four youngsters. Hired for the time a horse
+Miss O’Rorke used to ride.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 10.]
+
+Drove Miss Stoddard in pony carriage. Before leaving my brother-in-law,
+Harry Stephenson, commissioned me to bring home a pipe of the best
+Madeira. I applied to my friend of many years, now Consul, Mr.
+Stoddard. He had ceased to be a wine merchant, and the remaining pipes
+of the best were put aside as part of the marriage portion of his
+charming daughters; he left it to me to make interest with them to
+obtain a couple of pipes of this precious wine. I had the pipes encased
+in extra casks and stowed in the hold of the _Raleigh_. (It is well I
+did so.)
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 11.]
+
+Prince Victor, good fellow! wishing another day in Madeira, consented
+to remain over Friday. Rio given up. Rode with Miss Lund. Evening at
+Stoddard’s.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 12.]
+
+“Thomas” and I rode over to the Beans. Same hospitable couple I had
+sojourned with in 1824.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 13.]
+
+Weighed early. Everybody pleased with their visit to Madeira.
+
+[Sidenote: At Sea, Dec. 23.]
+
+A marine fell overboard, and was saved by a gallant fellow of the name
+of Moodie, second-class ordinary. The night was dark, and the two
+life-buoys let go by a marine, stationed for the purpose, without first
+pulling the igniting trigger, were lost.
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 25.]
+
+Christmas Day. All the youngsters and warrant officers, including
+Turnour, Autey, Thompson, and brother Tom, to dine--sixteen in all. How
+many of us will meet next Christmas! “Qui en sabe?”
+
+[Sidenote: Dec. 26.]
+
+Neptune came on board and performed the usual ceremonies.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXV
+
+CAPE TO CHINA
+
+
+[Sidenote: 1857.]
+
+[Sidenote: Simon’s Bay, Jan. 17.]
+
+9 P.M.--Arrived in Simon’s Bay, just five weeks from Madeira, and the
+fastest passage by a sailing ship on record.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 18.]
+
+This cape always brings happy recollections of bygone days, when I was
+free as the air and without a care or thought beyond the present.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 19.]
+
+Hired a two-wheel pair-horse cart and drove brother Tom, three
+youngsters, and Thompson to Cape Town. Parke’s hotel. Called with Tom
+on Mrs. Stoll, Longmores, and the Lorentzs. At Lorentz’s met their
+daughter Louisa, whom I had last seen as a pretty child, riding like a
+boy on a goat. She was now a widow; the handsome mother of six children.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 20.]
+
+A regular Cape north-easter blowing. Nothing to be done afloat. Tom and
+I breakfasting with the Stolls. Dined at _table d’hôte_--a large party.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 21.]
+
+To Sans Souci to call. Tea at Lorentz’s, meeting Stolls.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 24.]
+
+Landed £50,000 in gold; sent £300 in copper to _Penelope_. Governor
+kindly lending his eight-horse waggon, started for Simon’s Bay, calling
+at Sans Souci and on the Bishop.
+
+[Sidenote: Jan. 29.]
+
+Dined to-day with the midshipmen. We sat down twenty-four. Not only
+was their mess good and comfortable, with everything clean and in good
+taste, but one could not have met a nicer set of lads. They appeared in
+clean white waistcoats. Felt proud of my boys!
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 9.]
+
+At last we have rounded Acheen Head and passed through the “Surat”
+passage into the Malacca Straits.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 11.]
+
+In a calm let go first anchor in India. From this date our _batta_
+commences.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 12.]
+
+Came to in Penang Roads; was saluted. On landing took up my quarters
+with friend Lewis. Old Jack Rodyk here. With Lewis, two daughters, one
+just from England, and a Miss Neubrouner.
+
+[Sidenote: Penang, Mar. 13.]
+
+Ship taking in water and otherwise getting ready, but contrary to my
+religion to start on a Friday. Dined with Campbell, late of Singapore.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 14.]
+
+Weighed before daylight.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 15.]
+
+Came up with the barque on board of which were Miss Blundell and Amy
+Neubrouner. Serenaded them in passing.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, Mar. 19.]
+
+Arrived in New Harbour; so altered and improved. Called on Governor,
+who lodged me on the hill. Dined with Biddle at Adelphi; met Anabassim:
+the rogue still alive.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 20.]
+
+The saddest news of a treacherous and murderous attack made by Chinese
+on my noble friend, James Brooke, at Sarawak. Dear and noble Rajah,
+would that I could rush to his assistance.
+
+[Sidenote: Singapore, Mar. 21.]
+
+Received a “welcome back” in an address signed by most of the
+residents. Dined with Sir William Hoste on board _Spartan_.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 22.]
+
+Dined with friend Davidson in his new capacity of married man.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 23.]
+
+Dined with Napier and his wife, meeting Mrs. Earle with a ten-year-old
+child, a most promising filly! (Met her again as Mrs. Alt.)
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 24.]
+
+_Spartan_, Sir William Hoste, starting in tow of steamer to the
+assistance of Brooke, taking Prince Victor with him, to rejoin us at
+Hong-Kong. Delayed departure until after dark. Dined with Governor
+Blundell.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 25.]
+
+Weighed in the night.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 28.]
+
+Poor Laverty departed this life at 2. Yesterday week overtook him and
+Owen walking up from new harbour to Singapore in the heat of the day,
+and admonished them for their rashness. They have since been delirious
+with fever, which in Laverty’s case ended fatally.
+
+[Sidenote: Mar. 29.]
+
+Committed the remains of poor Laverty to the deep. How preferable such
+a burial and grave to a shore funeral!
+
+[Sidenote: April 13.]
+
+During the forenoon passed through bamboo fishing buoys, too numerous
+to be avoided, but we did them no injury, the bamboo floating
+perpendicularly some six or eight feet out of the water, and
+distinguished by a small flag or rag on the top.
+
+[Sidenote: April 14.]
+
+Early, we made the land to the southward of Macao. Shortly after noon,
+running through the usual passage between the islands--guns loaded to
+salute the flag--I had just signed the usual returns, when we felt as
+if the ship had struck some heavy floating timber: the leadsman calling
+“By the mark, seven,” at the same time reports from the lower deck that
+daylight could be seen through the rent in the ship’s side. We beat
+to quarters: an unusual event during the men’s dinner hour! I knew we
+were nearly equidistant from Hong-Kong and Macao. I took a second view
+from below. With the easterly wind we might fetch Hong-Kong, but for
+Macao, we should have to run before it. We bore up. My trusty Turnour
+repeated orders clearly and distinctly. I took charge of the conning
+of the ship, the men working cheerfully. My object was to ground in
+shoal water. While running we passed so close to more than one small
+island that a man might have dropped on shore from the rigging. After
+a while, from the hammock-netting where I stood, a ship at anchor off
+Macao was seen. With a glass we made her out to be a frigate flying the
+French Admiral’s flag. The first lieutenant was directed to lower fore
+royal, hoist French flag and fire a salute. The foremost main-deck guns
+had been run aft to prevent the ship from settling forward; they were
+already loaded for our own flag. Most of our after-ports had more than
+one muzzle protruding. A boat was seen coming from the French ship, but
+there was nothing to show that we were in distress beyond our ensign at
+the peak, hoisted Union Jack downwards, which could not be seen from
+Macao on account of studding sails. It was a few minutes after this, I
+felt we were nearing the bottom. By feeling the bow rise ever so gently
+I knew we had touched the mud-bank between the Roko and Typa Islands.
+The French boat was alongside before we knew that we were no longer
+forging ahead.
+
+The officer was quickly informed what had happened. The frigate was the
+_Virginie_, carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Guérin, who came himself
+to see how he could help us. His officer met him at the gangway and
+without delay explained what had happened. The gallant Guérin no longer
+thought of nationalities. He embraced and kissed me, exclaiming, “C’est
+magnifique! C’est magnifique!” A British frigate saluting the French
+flag while sinking! If we had been French we could not have received
+more kind assistance. In the meantime marines with their officers were
+landed to clear the island of Chinese, and select a suitable place for
+our encampment. When the ship stopped in the mud at 3 P.M., she had ten
+feet of water in the hold. By eight o’clock she had eighteen. With the
+assistance of our allies, the ship’s company’s hammocks and bags, goods
+and chattels, as well as ship’s sails, had been landed. On the way
+out we had built a bridge across before the mizen-mast, and over the
+wheel. On this I remained, the kind Frenchmen sending me food and some
+uncommon good claret. The French Admiral had despatched the _Catinat_
+with Lieutenant Goodenough to Hong-Kong.
+
+[Sidenote: April 15.]
+
+_Bittern_, Lieutenant Butler, arrived.
+
+[Sidenote: April 16.]
+
+The Admiral, Sir Michael Seymour, who had been absent, came himself.
+The ship settled down in her soft bed as if she intended never to rise
+again.
+
+[Sidenote: April 17.]
+
+Captain Keith Stewart, _Nankin_, 50, and _Inflexible_ arrived; we
+really did not require them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Commander-in-Chief was now busy preparing for the destruction of
+the China Fleet, which, being up rivers and creeks, our men were more
+useful in boats than on board ship.
+
+[Sidenote: April 20.]
+
+My broad pennant was hoisted on board the _Alligator_, hospital ship.
+With the _Raleigh’s_ crew alone we dismantled and cleared the ship
+even to the ballast. It was something to get lower masts out, and with
+the assistance of our spars only. The bowsprit was the most difficult.
+Clearing the holds was disagreeable. After a while the bilge water
+began to smell. My two pipes of Madeira, fortunately double-cased,
+were not affected. After the ship’s stores we looked out for
+ourselves. Chronometers, etc., were removed to my cabin, under sentry’s
+charge--from there, with a trustworthy crew of five men and a coxswain,
+to the _Alligator_. Later, my steward, no more trusty man in the ship
+except my coxswain, Spurrier, came to me with sad face to state that
+Lord Gilford’s pet chronometer watch, which was kept and used with
+those of the Government, was missing! Search was made in vain, poor
+White offering £10 reward.
+
+[Sidenote: Macao.]
+
+Those princely merchants, Dent and Co., as well as Mathieson, kept open
+house. They lived in palaces. I had apartments at the Dents’ bungalow
+at Hong Kong as well as rooms at Macao--passenger steamers running
+daily. On a late occasion the Chinese passengers had risen, took
+possession, murdered the Europeans. A ship’s captain, Cleverly by name,
+as well as by nature, jumped overboard. He was badly wounded while
+swimming, but was picked up and had rooms at Dent’s Macao house. I need
+not say that after this Chinese passengers were accommodated in an iron
+cage, where they enjoyed their opium.
+
+[Sidenote: April 24.]
+
+Lieutenants Prince Victor and Johnson, who had gone with Hoste in
+_Spartan_ from Singapore to visit Rajah Brooke at Sarawak, rejoined us.
+
+[Sidenote: Hong Kong, April 25.]
+
+The dockyard at Hong Kong full of _Raleigh’s_ stores, guns, anchors,
+cables, shot, etc.--sails spread out to dry.
+
+[Sidenote: April 28.]
+
+Excellent dinner at French Minister’s. Madame Bourboulon charming.
+Smokes regalias only.
+
+[Sidenote: April 29.]
+
+Renewed acquaintance with pretty Mrs. Endicott and Mrs. Parkes.
+
+[Sidenote: April 30.]
+
+Mail arrived. Ministers beaten on China question. Parliament to be
+dissolved: nevertheless, Plenipo and troops coming out. Inspection
+held on my _Raleigh_. My boys, Victor Montagu and Harry Stephenson, on
+shore.
+
+_Macao, May 1._
+
+Letter from Turnour’s brother asking me to break to that good-hearted
+fellow the death of his father. Went on board in Gibb’s yacht, the
+_Zouave_. Dined with him.
+
+[Sidenote: May 3.]
+
+Hope my _Raleigh_ will be got up. Doubts whether Admiral will attempt
+it.
+
+[Sidenote: Hong Kong, May 5.]
+
+Met Admiral and large party at dinner at Dent’s. Judge Hulm fine old
+fellow.
+
+[Sidenote: May 6.]
+
+Gilford and I to dine with Pereira and William Dent. Excellent dinner
+and everything to match.
+
+[Sidenote: May 7.]
+
+Business with my worthy chief about _Calcutta_; transferred youngsters
+to that ship.
+
+[Sidenote: May 12.]
+
+Great and good feed at friend Cane’s, now Lieutenant-Governor. Dinner
+to meet me. Some six-and-twenty sat down.
+
+[Sidenote: May 13.]
+
+Arrival of _Highflyer_ and gunboats. With Admiral in _Coromandel_ to
+visit vessels in Canton River. Came to near _Sybille_ below second fort.
+
+[Sidenote: May 14.]
+
+Went on as far as Macao Fort. Left _Raleigh’s_ band there. All the
+vessels, as well as their commanders, ready for work. Came to near
+_Niger_. Mandarin junks’ masts in sight.
+
+[Sidenote: May 18.]
+
+Tenders for raising _Raleigh_ not such as the Admiral could accept.
+Alas! my poor ship--now to be considered _lost_; she must be sold where
+she is, and I to be tried by court-martial!
+
+[Sidenote: May 21.]
+
+Laid up the last three days, attended by kind Doctor Anderson.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX
+
+
+  Abercorn, the Duke of, iii. 333
+
+  Accra, i. 214, 221, 232, 238, 242; iii. 72
+
+  Adam, General Sir Frederick, i. 148
+    Sir Charles, ii. 46
+
+  Adeane, Lieutenant, iii. 55
+
+  Adelaide, Queen, i. 121, 160, 246
+
+  Aden, iii. 118, 119
+
+  Admiralty Islands, ii. 150
+
+  _Adventure_, iii. 174, 180
+
+  _Africa_, i. 7, 12, 13
+
+  Agar-Ellis, Miss, ii. 201
+
+  Ailesbury, Lady, iii. 322
+
+  Ainos, the, iii. 199
+
+  Aitkin, Lieutenant, iii. 235
+
+  _Alabama_, iii. 83
+
+  Åland Islands, ii. 232
+
+  Albany, ii. 142
+
+  _Albatross_, ii. 81, 127
+
+  Albemarle, George, 3rd Earl, i. 59
+    William Charles, 4th Earl, i. 4, 5, 7, 67, 102, 160, 248, 249, 251,
+        252, 253, 254, 256; ii. 41, 43, 46, 58
+    Augustus Frederick, 5th Earl; _see_ Keppel
+    George Thomas, 6th Earl; _see_ Keppel
+    Lord, i. 14
+
+  Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Consort, i. 250, 251; ii. 313, 324;
+        iii. 38, 39, 78, 80
+
+  Alcock, Sir Rutherford, iii. 143, 171, 192, 194, 236, 237, 259
+
+  Alexandria, i. 170, 178; iii. 18, 117
+
+  Alfred, Prince; _see_ Edinburgh, Duke of
+
+  _Algerine_, iii. 224
+
+  Algoa Bay, iii. 46
+
+  Ali, Pangeran Oman, ii. 84
+
+  Ali, Patingi, ii. 7; iii. 125
+
+  Alicante, i. 187, 188, 190
+
+  Allen, R. C., ii. 3
+
+  _Alligator_, ii. 337; iii. 2, 8
+
+  Allison, William, ii. 160
+
+  Alma, the, ii. 240
+
+  Amaral, Don Joao Maria Farriera do, ii. 116, 121
+
+  _Amazon_, ii. 115
+
+  Amboyna, ii. 147
+
+  _America_ yacht, ii. 203
+
+  Amoor River, iii. 192, 210
+
+  Amoy, iii. 138, 139, 220
+
+  _Amphion_, ii. 47, 234
+
+  Amping, iii. 224
+
+  Andover, Lord and Lady, i. 7, 255
+
+  Andrade, Count Manuel Carvalho Pas de, i. 40, 41, 42
+
+  Anjer, ii. 129
+
+  Anson, Eliza, Lady Waterpark, i. 8, 12
+    Thomas, i. 7, 163
+    Hon. William, i. 8, 22
+
+  Armitage, Whaley, i. 85, 87, 264, 273
+
+  Ascension, i. 90, 243, 244; iii. 69
+
+  Ashantis, the, i. 214, 218, 222
+
+  Astley, Sir Jacob, i. 14
+
+  Auckland, Lord, ii. 44, 46
+
+  Auckland, N.Z., ii. 171
+
+  _Auckland_, ii. 77, 79
+
+  _Aurora_, i. 14, 43, 44, 61
+
+  Australia, ii. 132, 134, 152
+
+  _Australia_, ii. 128, 129
+
+
+  Bahia; _see_ San Salvador
+
+  Baker, Sir Samuel, iii. 320
+    Admiral Sir Thomas, i. 123
+
+  Balaclava, ii. 252, 255, 258, 262
+
+  Balambangan, ii. 94, 127
+
+  Balfour, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 81
+
+  Bali Island, ii. 131
+
+  Baltic, the, ii. 220
+
+  Banda Islands, ii. 144, 146
+
+  Bankok, iii. 229
+
+  Bannerman, Mr., i. 221, 243
+
+  Barbadoes, i. 56, 108
+
+  Barcelona, i. 188, 189, 191, 195-197, 200
+
+  Baring, Admiral Sir Francis, ii. 201
+
+  Barnard, General, ii. 246, 279
+
+  Barösund, ii. 226
+
+  Barrington, Commander Hon. George, i. 51
+
+  Barton, A., ii. 3
+
+  _Basilisk_, iii. 192
+
+  Batang Lupar River, i. 311; ii. 2
+
+  Batavia, i. 147, 216; ii. 129, 130, 131
+
+  Bathurst, iii. 72
+
+  Bay of Islands, N.Z., ii. 171
+
+  Beatrice, H.R.H. Princess, iii. 36
+
+  Beaufort, Sir Francis, ii. 201
+
+  Bedford, Mr. D. B., i. 136, 139
+
+  Beefsteak Club, the, i. 96, 97
+
+  Beith, R., surgeon, ii. 3
+
+  Belcher, Captain Sir Edward, ii. 18
+
+  Belem, ii. 213
+
+  Bell, Admiral, iii. 177
+
+  _Belleisle_, i. 261, 264, 269, 272, 275, 277
+
+  _Bellerophon_, i. 200
+
+  Bentinck, Lord George, ii. 326; iii. 101, 109;
+    _see_ Cavendish-Bentinck
+
+  Beresford, Lord James, i. 187
+    Admiral Sir John de la Poer, i. 121
+
+  Berkeley, Admiral Hon. Sir George, i. 163
+    Lady Georgina Mary, i. 163
+    Admiral Sir Maurice, ii. 244; iii. 29
+
+  Bessani; _see_ Grand Bessani
+
+  “Bishop of Bond Street, the,” ii. 70
+
+  _Bittern_, iii. 1
+
+  Black Sea, ii. 251
+
+  Bladen-Capel, Admiral Hon. Sir T., ii. 199
+
+  Blake, Lieutenant, i. 42, 44
+    Colonel, i. 75, 84, 88
+
+  Blakiston, Captain, iii. 238
+
+  Blanckley, Commander Edward, i. 123
+
+  Bogue Forts, ii. 54
+
+  Bomarsund, ii. 231, 233, 238
+
+  Bombay, iii. 14
+
+  Bonard, Commodore, ii. 177
+
+  Bonham, George, i. 147, 263, 288
+
+  Borneo, i. 290, 292; ii. 9; iii. 127
+
+  Botany Bay, ii. 153, 164
+
+  Boto Fogo, i. 36
+
+  Bouchier, Captain, i. 273, 278
+
+  _Bouncer_, iii. 234
+
+  Bourbon, i. 85
+
+  Bouverie, Admiral Hon. Duncombe, i. 244
+
+  Bowles, Admiral, iii. 281
+
+  Bowyear, Captain George Leger, ii. 57, 58, 59, 158, 177
+
+  Boxer, Admiral, ii. 251, 262
+
+  Boyd, Benjamin, ii. 157
+
+  Bozin, Prince, iii. 180, 181
+
+  Bradshaw, Commander Manser, ii. 227
+
+  Braybroke, Lord and Lady, i. 162
+
+  _Brazen_, i. 41, 42, 97
+
+  Bremer, Captain Sir J. G., ii. 134
+
+  Brierly, Sir Oswald, ii. 156, 157, 182, 203, 210
+
+  Briggs, Admiral Sir Thomas, i. 168
+
+  _Brisk_, iii. 45
+
+  Brooke, Brooke, iii. 11
+    Rajah, i. 288-296, 298, 299, 302, 306, 308, 312, 313, 317, 319,
+        333, 339; ii. 1, 3, 6, 21, 23, 30, 43, 44, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
+        62, 63, 65, 70, 76, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90-92, 103, 111, 127,
+        202, 322, 334; iii. 11, 13, 29, 96, 115, 123, 220
+
+  Brooker, Commander, iii. 194, 260
+
+  Brougham, Henry (Lord High Chancellor), i. 97
+    Lord, i. 11, 177
+
+  Brougham and Vaux, Lady, iii. 25
+
+  Broughton, Lord, i. 97
+
+  Browne, Sir Samuel, ii. 45
+
+  Brunei, ii. 45, 82; iii. 126
+
+  Buccleuch, Duchess of, iii. 326
+
+  Buckland, Francis Trevelyan, iii. 82
+
+  Buckley, Commander, V.C., iii. 40
+
+  Budrudeen, Pangeran, i. 306; ii. 1, 42, 84
+
+  Buffalo River, iii. 46
+
+  Buffon Bay, i. 209, 210
+
+  Bulkeley, Sir Richard, i. 93, 98; ii. 42
+
+  Bullen, Admiral Sir Charles, ii. 55
+
+  Bulman, Mr., i. 257, 262, 263
+
+  Bunting, ii. 21
+
+  Buonaparte; _see_ Napoleon
+
+  Burdett, Sir Francis, i. 8, 9, 14
+
+  Burdett-Coutts, Miss, iii. 115, 124
+
+  Burlton, Lieutenant, iii. 56
+
+  Burnaby, Mr., ii. 121, 122
+
+  Burton, Judge, and Mrs., i. 71
+
+  Bury, Viscount, i. 254
+
+  Bush, Commander, iii. 221
+    Mr., ii. 116
+
+  Butterworth, Colonel, ii. 24, 76
+
+  Byng, H., ii. 48
+
+  Byron, Captain Lord, i. 43
+
+
+  Cabrera, General, i. 188
+
+  Cagayan Sulu, ii. 97, 109, 111
+
+  Cairo, iii. 18
+
+  Calcutta, i. 150, 152, 333, 334
+
+  _Calcutta_, iii. 3
+
+  Calderon, Don, i. 195
+
+  _Caledonia_, i. 168, 170, 200
+
+  Calverley, S., ii. 3
+
+  _Cambrian_, ii. 46
+
+  Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, i. 251; ii. 249; iii. 25, 322
+
+  Campbell, Colonel Sir Colin, i. 262, 269, 272; ii. 80, 82, 252, 301
+    Admiral Sir Patrick, C.B., i. 55, 244
+
+  Canning, George, i. 25
+
+  _Canopus_, i. 169, 170, 171, 176
+
+  Canrobert, Marshal, ii. 267
+
+  Canton, i. 281, 325; ii. 54; iii. 132, 231
+    River, ii. 15; iii. 8
+
+  Cape Coast, i. 214, 216, 217, 221
+
+  Cape de Verd Islands, i. 33, 71
+
+  Cape of Good Hope, i. 68, 69, 71, 72, 77, 87, 159, 202, 262
+
+  Cape Town, iii. 67
+
+  Caroline, Queen, i. 8
+
+  Carteret, Captain, ii. 152
+
+  Carthagena, i. 59, 198
+
+  Casher, E., ii. 55, 199
+
+  Castries Bay, iii. 214
+
+  Cavendish-Bentinck, Lord William, i. 84, 153
+
+  Cavite, i. 331; ii. 125
+
+  Celebes Islands, ii. 108
+
+  Ceram Islands, ii. 146
+
+  Chads, Commodore Henry D., i. 338, 339
+
+  Challier, Commodore, iii. 274
+
+  Charlotte, Princess, i. 6
+
+  Chefoo, iii. 172, 192, 264
+
+  Chernaze, ii. 263
+
+  Chersonese; _see_ Khersonese
+
+  Chesterfield, Lord, iii. 328
+
+  Chiang Kiang-Fu, i. 270, 271
+
+  _Childers_, i. 68, 164, 165, 174, 175, 193, 198, 244, 272, 274
+
+  Chin-kiang, iii. 221, 238
+
+  Christmas Island, ii. 75
+
+  Church, Thomas, ii. 77
+
+  Churchill, Captain Lord John, i. 66, 73, 77, 82, 110, 249, 280
+
+  Chusan, i. 266, 277
+
+  Ciervo Island, ii. 188
+
+  Clarence, William, Duke of, i. 68
+
+  Clarendon, Lord, iii. 265
+
+  Clark, John, surgeon, ii. 143
+
+  Clifford, Sir Augustus, i. 67, 84
+    Lady de, i. 52
+
+  _Clio_, i. 190, 191, 272
+
+  Clyde, Lord; _see_ Campbell, Sir Colin
+
+  Coaker, Jonas, i. 69, 83, 165, 249; ii. 53
+
+  Coburg Peninsula, ii. 134, 136
+
+  Cochrane, Hon. A. J., i. 27
+    Admiral Sir Thomas; _see_ Dundonald (“Young”), iii. 4
+
+  _Cockchafer_, iii. 187, 233
+
+  Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward, i. 68
+    Colonel, ii. 46
+
+  Coghlan, Colonel, iii. 118
+
+  Coke, Edward, ii. 41, 201
+    Henry (“Wenny”), i. 249, 264; ii. 256, 281; iii. 19
+    Thomas William (Earl of Leicester), i. 7, 8, 14, 15, 47, 278
+
+  Cole, General Sir Lowry, i. 77, 78, 81, 82, 83
+    Lady Frances, i. 78
+
+  Collier, Captain Sir Francis, i. 108, 109, 112, 249, 251; ii. 47, 82,
+        128
+
+  Collingwood, Admiral, i. 13
+
+  _Colombo_, ii. 270
+
+  Colonna, the Marquis de, i. 195
+
+  _Colossus_, ii. 312
+
+  _Columbine_, i. 170, 176, 180, 231, 232, 278; ii. 116
+
+  Colville, Admiral Lord, i. 29, 48
+    Sir Charles, i. 77, 85, 87
+
+  Comba Island, ii. 132
+
+  Comber, Lieutenant Henry W., ii. 3, 5, 45, 58, 74, 79, 125, 128
+
+  Commerell, Admiral of the Fleet Sir J. E., ii. 73
+
+  Conolly, Mr., iii. 143, 192
+
+  Constantinople, i. 175, 176; ii. 251, 312
+
+  Conti, General, i. 189
+
+  Cook, Captain, ii. 153
+
+  Cooke, T. P., i. 97, 105
+
+  Cook’s Straits, ii. 169
+
+  Cork, i. 29, 30, 48, 49
+
+  _Cormorant_, ii. 199; iii. 139
+
+  _Cornwallis_, i. 264, 269, 272, 273, 331
+
+  Corromanli, Ali, i. 172
+    Youssuf, i. 171
+
+  Corry, Admiral Sir A. Lowry, ii. 210, 224, 231
+
+  Corvé Bay, iii. 173, 191
+
+  Cotton, Lieutenant Alexander, i. 101, 105
+
+  Courtenay, Captain, iii. 198
+
+  Cracroft, Commander Peter, ii. 208
+
+  Creighton, Captain, iii. 187
+
+  Crimea, the, ii. 218, 244
+
+  Croker, Rt. Hon. John Wilson, i. 105
+
+  Crosbie, Catherine; _see_ Lady Keppel
+    General Sir John, i. 92, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 255; ii. 27
+    “Dob,” iii. 145
+    Lieutenant John, i. 89, 91, 92, 251
+    William, ii. 55
+
+  _Cumberland_, ii. 235; iii. 115
+
+  Cumming, Captain Arthur, iii. 76
+
+  _Cygnet_, ii. 40
+
+
+  D’Aeth, E. H. H., i. 276; ii. 3, 6, 289
+
+  Dalarö Channel, ii. 224
+
+  Dalkeith, Lord, iii. 326
+
+  Daniell, Commander, ii. 127
+
+  Darby, G. S., ii. 3
+
+  Dardanelles, the, i. 176; ii. 249
+
+  _Dauntless_, ii. 230, 231
+
+  Davis, Sir John, ii. 111
+
+  de Grey, Lord, iii. 322
+
+  de Horsey, Captain Algernon, iii. 44, 45, 55
+
+  Delagoa Bay, iii. 46
+
+  De Lesseps, M. Ferdinand, iii. 118
+
+  Delmé, George, i. 81
+
+  Denison, Sir William, ii. 158, 163
+
+  Dent, John, and Co., iii. 143
+
+  Deschênes, Admiral A. F. Parseval, ii. 226-228
+
+  D’Eyncourt, Captain, ii. 73
+
+  _Dido_, i. 255, 256, 257, 262, 270, 272, 277, 319, 326, 332, 340; ii.
+        1, 29, 30
+
+  Digby, Lord, i. 12
+    Edward, i. 12, 98
+    Admiral Sir Henry, i. 7, 12, 13, 14; ii. 219
+    Admiral Hon. R., i. 12
+
+  D’Israeli, Isaac, iii. 230
+
+  Dixcove, i. 213-215
+
+  D’Orsay, Count, i. 163.
+
+  Douglas, Bloomfield, i. 302, 304
+
+  Dover, Lord, ii. 201
+
+  Drake, Sir Frederick, ii. 185
+
+  Droxford, i. 249, 253; ii. 28
+
+  Drummond, Edward, ii. 26
+
+  Duè, iii. 215
+
+  Dundas, Hon. Admiral George, i. 97, 119
+    Admiral J. W. Deans, ii. 47, 57, 128, 201
+    Captain Richard Deans, i. 55, 244
+
+  Dundee, iii. 111
+
+  Dundonald, Earl, i. 14, 36, 38, 39-42, 163, 256, 278, 280, 322, 331;
+        ii. 68, 212
+
+  Dunkin, Captain Thomas, i. 77
+
+  _Dupleix_, iii. 186, 187, 227
+
+  Dupplin, Lord, iii. 323
+
+
+  Eager, John, ii. 7
+
+  Eastern Archipelago, ii. 115
+
+  Eastern Archipelago Company, ii. 63, 127
+
+  East London, Port of, iii. 46
+
+  Eden, Commander Henry, ii. 47
+
+  Edinburgh, H.R.H. the Duke of, iii. 40, 278, 284-315
+
+  _Edinburgh_, i. 169, 170
+
+  Elgin, Lord, iii. 10, 241
+
+  Ellesmere, Lord, ii. 61, 65, 191
+
+  Ellice, Robert, ii. 116
+
+  Ellis, Commander Henry, i. 127
+
+  Ellis and Co., iii. 223
+
+  Elphinstone, Lord, iii. 14
+
+  Emhammud, i. 172
+
+  Emmanuel, Emmanuel, iii. 323
+
+  Emot, Captain, iii. 177
+
+  _Endymion_, i. 168, 180, 183, 184, 266, 274, 278
+
+  Enslie, Consul, iii. 298
+
+  Erskine, Captain J. E., ii. 164
+
+  Esche, Mr., iii. 194, 202
+
+  _Espoir_, i. 68, 69, 77, 86
+
+  Essington, Port, ii. 132, 134, 144
+
+  Etholin, Captain, ii. 302; iii. 218
+
+  Eupatoria, ii. 261
+
+  Europa Island, iii. 50
+
+  Eyre, Captain, i. 74, 260
+
+  Eyres, Captain Henry, i. 242, 278
+
+
+  Fairfax-Moresby, Admiral, ii. 195
+
+  Farquhar, Captain, ii. 81, 127
+
+  Fatshan Creek, iii. 2
+
+  Fernando Po, i. 223, 224
+
+  Ferraz, Captain-General Valentine, i. 187, 188, 225
+
+  Figueroa, Don Cayetano de, ii. 107
+
+  _Firebrand_, ii. 73
+
+  _Firm_, iii. 177
+
+  _Firmee_, iii. 9
+
+  Fitzroy, Colonel, i. 71, 72, 87
+    Commander Arthur, ii. 153; iii. 70
+    Captain Augustus, ii. 40, 153, 157, 303
+    Sir Charles, ii. 40, 153, 155, 164
+    George, ii. 40, 153, 157; iii. 192, 205
+    Mary, ii. 40, 153
+
+  Flowers, Consul, iii. 301
+
+  Foley, St. George, ii. 310
+    Sir George, iii. 9
+
+  Foochow, iii. 236
+
+  Ford, Captain, i. 148
+
+  Formosa, iii. 222, 223
+
+  _Forte_, iii. 39, 41, 65, 77
+
+  Fukevitche, Captain, iii. 206
+
+  Funchal Roads, i. 30; ii. 70, 214; iii. 41
+
+  Furnhjelm, Admiral Jean, iii. 194, 195, 206, 208, 212
+
+  _Fury_, ii. 115, 128
+
+
+  Gage, Admiral Sir William Hall, i. 55, 81, 184; ii. 52
+
+  _Galatea_, i. 100, 101, 103, 105; iii. 284, 299, 302
+
+  Galle; _see_ Point de Galle
+
+  Gambia River, iii. 71
+
+  Garibaldi, iii. 83
+
+  Garnier, George, i. 16, 19
+    Henry, i. 148, 159
+    Lieutenant Keppel, iii. 190, 231
+    Thomas (Dean), i. 15, 16, 25, 103
+    Thomas, iii. 324
+    William, i. 15
+
+  _Gazelle_, ii. 185, 187
+
+  Geisinger, Commodore, ii. 116
+
+  George IV., King, i. 74, 102
+
+  Gibraltar, i. 168, 184, 189, 194, 196, 200, 201; ii. 217, 248
+
+  Gibson, Consul, iii. 224, 226
+
+  Gilford, Lieutenant Lord, iii. 1, 20
+
+  Glanville, Mr., i. 74, 85, 86, 103, 104
+
+  Gleichen, Count, iii. 25
+
+  Goldsmith, Captain George, i. 68, 165, 174, 203, 206, 208, 222, 249;
+        ii. 68
+
+  Goodwood, ii. 55
+
+  Gordon, Sir James, ii. 42, 57
+    General C. G., iii. 245
+
+  Goschen, Mr., iii. 326
+
+  Gough, General Sir Hugh, i. 264, 266, 272, 273
+
+  Gouldisborough, iii. 182
+
+  Gower, Consul, iii. 299
+
+  Graham, Captain Charles, i. 331; ii. 59
+    Sir James, i. 119, 164; ii. 210, 256
+    Lieutenant Stanley, ii. 230; iii. 1, 3
+
+  Grancy, Comte G. F. E. de, iii. 227
+
+  Grand Bessani, i. 212
+
+  Grant, Captain James Augustus, iii. 41, 46
+    Charles, iii. 11
+    Lieutenant Hope, i. 98, 332, 333
+
+  Greville, Commander Henry F., i. 68, 69, 77
+
+  Grey, Admiral Sir Frederick, i. 266, 273, 278; ii. 216, 251; iii. 45,
+        78
+    Sir George, iii. 40, 41, 45, 78, 79
+    Captain Hon. Sir George, i. 22
+    Captain Hon. George, i. 22, 201; ii. 249
+
+  Gurdon, Lieutenant, iii. 224, 225, 226
+
+  Guyamas, ii. 190, 191
+
+  Gye, Frederick, iii. 25
+    Lieutenant Herbert, iii. 235
+
+
+  Haddington, Lord, ii. 30, 31
+
+  Hakodadi, iii. 159, 161, 219
+
+  Hall, Captain J., i. 271, 278; iii. 1
+
+  Halstead, Admiral Sir Lawrence, i. 57
+
+  Hamilton, Lord Claud, iii. 327
+    Kerr Baillie, i. 82
+
+  Hankow, iii. 243, 249
+
+  Hara-Kari, ceremony of the, iii. 182
+
+  Hardinge, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 81
+
+  Hardy, Sir Thomas, i. 69, 119, 164
+
+  _Harlequin_, i. 60, 61, 184, 197, 200, 264, 274, 322, 333
+
+  Harris, Commander Sir W., ii. 68; iii. 194
+
+  _Hartford_, iii. 183
+
+  Hartington, Lord, iii. 322
+
+  Harvey, Admiral Edward, iii. 40
+
+  Hastie, ii. 47
+
+  _Hastings_, ii. 128
+
+  Hathorn, John, i. 43, 44
+
+  Havana, i. 59, 60, 64, 65, 118
+
+  Hawley, Sir Joseph, i. 248, 249
+    Lady; _see_ Sara Crosbie
+
+  Hay, Commander John Dalrymple, ii. 116
+
+  Hayti, i. 61
+
+  Heki Hone, ii. 171
+
+  Henderson, Commander Thomas, i. 231, 232
+
+  Heneage, Admiral, i. 102
+    Captain Algernon C. F., iii. 70, 115, 222, 223, 316
+
+  Henessey, Pope, iii. 230
+
+  Herbert, Sir Thomas, i. 264
+
+  Hewitt, Captain, iii. 192, 283
+
+  Hickley, Captain, iii. 174
+
+  _Highflyer_, iii. 8
+
+  Hill, Colonel, i. 66
+    Dr., iii. 192, 231
+    Captain Sir John, i. 107, 110, 255, 257, 258
+    Lieutenant, i. 228, 232
+    Lady Georgina; _see_ Keppel
+
+  Hilliers, General Barraguay d’, ii. 231
+
+  Hillyar, Lady, ii. 68
+
+  _Hind_, i. 168, 176, 180, 200
+
+  Hiogo, iii. 173, 174, 180, 187, 188
+
+  Hirado Strait, iii. 194
+
+  Hislop, James, i. 71
+
+  Hobart Town, ii. 157, 160
+
+  Hobhouse, Sir John Cam, i. 97; ii. 47
+
+  Hockham, ii. 33, 37, 38, 49, 61
+
+  Hodgson, General, iii. 119
+
+  Hogarth, i. 96
+
+  Holkham, i. 8, 15, 161, 248, 251; iii. 18
+
+  Holland, H.M. the Queen of, iii. 85
+    Henry, Lord, i. 1
+
+  Holman, Joseph, i. 85
+
+  Holyoake, Mr., i. 126, 129
+
+  Home, Captain Sir Everard, i. 275, 276, 277
+
+  Honeywood, W. P., i. 97
+
+  Hong Kong, i. 264, 278, 280, 322, 325-327, 331, 337; ii. 113-115;
+        iii. 9, 113, 129, 172, 180, 186, 220, 231, 234, 311
+
+  _Hong-Kong_, iii. 1, 2, 4, 8
+
+  Hooghly River, i. 155
+
+  Hook, Theodore, i. 121
+
+  Hope, Captain, ii. 73
+
+  Hornby, Sir E., iii. 296
+    James G. P., i. 22
+    Admiral Sir Phipps, ii. 181, 195, 131
+
+  Horsey, Captain Algernon de, iii. 44, 45-55
+
+  Horton, Captain Frederick Wilmot, i. 274, 276, 294, 296, 297,
+        312-316, 325; ii. 40, 256
+
+  Hoste, Admiral Sir William, i. 15, 22; ii. 42
+
+  Howard, Commander Hon. Edward, i. 199
+
+  Howden, Lord, ii. 73
+
+  Hughes, Colonel, i. 93
+
+  Hume, David, ii. 44, 63
+
+  Hunn, Captain Frederick, i. 25, 26, 33, 36, 55, 65, 168
+
+  Hunt, Captain James, i. 304; ii. 239
+
+  Huntingfield, Lord, iii. 323
+
+  Hussein, Seriff, ii. 95
+
+  Hutton, Lieutenant Frederick, i. 119, 124, 136, 157, 200
+
+  _Hydra_, ii. 65
+
+
+  Ibbetson, Robert, i. 147
+
+  _Icarus_, iii. 170, 222
+
+  Ichaboa Island, iii. 68
+
+  Illanuns, the, i. 294
+
+  _Inconstant_, ii. 181
+
+  India, ii. 62
+
+  _Inflexible_, ii. 115
+
+  Ingestre, Captain Lord, i. 169, 176, 177, 187
+    Lady Sarah, i. 187
+
+  Inglefield, Admiral, ii. 76
+
+  Inglis, Bishop J., i. 52, 53
+
+  Inkerman, ii. 259, 280
+
+
+  Jaffer, Seriff, i. 311, 317; ii. 2, 19, 21
+
+  Jago, Commissary-General, i. 79
+
+  Java, ii. 131
+
+  Jenkins, Lieutenant Robert, i. 333; ii. 3
+
+  Jephson, Dr., i. 253
+
+  Jerdan, Mr., ii. 30, 62, 63
+
+  “John Company,” i. 133, 134
+
+  Johnson, C., ii. 3
+    Lieutenant W. F., iii. 1
+
+  Johore, the Tumongong of, iii. 122
+
+  Joinville, Prince de, i. 201
+
+  Jones, Sir Harry, ii. 284
+
+  Jones, Commodore Oliver, iii. 129, 220
+
+  Jonos, the, iii. 165
+
+
+  Kaga, Prince, iii. 169
+
+  Kalamanta Bay, i. 180
+
+  Kapiti Island, ii. 171
+
+  Karabonu, Cape, i. 168, 176
+
+  Karangan, ii. 16
+
+  Kazatch, ii. 262, 266
+
+  Kearney, Major, iii. 2
+
+  _Kearsage_, iii. 83
+
+  Kellett, Admiral Sir H., iii. 310
+
+  Kempt, General Sir James, i. 54
+
+  Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, iii. 36
+
+  KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR HENRY:--
+    Birth, i. 1
+    Christening, i. 1
+    School-days, i. 2-5
+    Choice of a career, i. 7
+    Preparation for the Navy, i. 14
+    Enters the Royal Naval College, Gosport, i. 16
+    First voyage, i. 27
+    Marries Catherine, daughter of Sir George Crosbie, i. 249
+    Marries Jane Elizabeth West, iii. 80
+    Appointments in H.M. Navy--
+      Midshipman, i. 25
+      Mate, i. 79
+      Lieutenant, i. 86
+      Commander, i. 158
+      Commodore, ii. 322
+      Admiral, iii. 15
+    Ships:--
+      _Childers_, i. 164
+      _Colossus_, ii. 312
+      _Cumberland_, iii. 115
+      _Dido_, i. 255
+      _Forte_, iii. 39
+      _Galatea_, i. 100
+      _Magicienne_, i. 119
+      _Mæander_, ii. 58
+      _Manilla_, iii. 143
+      _Pearl_, iii. 135
+      _Pelorus_, iii. 144
+      _Princess Charlotte_, iii. 130, 172
+      _Raleigh_, ii. 324
+      _Rattler_, iii. 143
+      _Rodney_, ii. 276; iii. 173
+      _St. Jean d’Acre_, ii. 208
+      _Tweed_, i. 25, 66
+    Naval stations commanded by:--
+      The Cape, iii. 39
+      China, iii. 113
+      Crimea, Naval Brigade, ii. 284
+      Devonport, iii. 330
+      S.E. America, iii. 71
+      Straits Settlements, ii. 77
+    Honours:--
+      C.B., ii. 314
+      K.C.B., iii. 15
+      G.C.B., iii. 326
+      D.C.L. Oxford, iii. 324-326
+
+  KEPPEL, Lady (Catherine Crosbie), i. 249, 251, 253; ii. 27, 56, 57,
+        88, 202, 207, 208, 328; iii. 18, 35
+
+  KEPPEL, Lady (Jane West), iii. 80, 95, 114, 230
+    Anne, i. 47, 67, 247, 249; ii. 23
+    Augustus, Admiral Lord, i. 8, 59, 326
+    Augustus Frederick, i. 254
+    Captain Hon. Colin Richard, iii. 80, 95, 116, 230, 231, 273
+    Rev. Edward, i. 67, 203; ii. 50; iii. 19
+    Frances, i. 254
+    George Thomas, i. 1, 5, 6, 85, 251, 253; ii. 59, 61
+    Georgina, i. 66
+    Leicester, ii. 61, 69
+    Maria Walpole, iii. 98, 230, 275
+    Mary, i. 1, 66, 93
+    Sophia, i. 4
+    Thomas Robert, i. 2, 4, 7, 22, 46, 47, 67, 81, 86; ii. 29, 45, 50,
+        81
+    William, General, i. 59
+    family of, i. 7
+
+  KEPPEL; _see_ Albemarle
+
+  Kertch, ii. 267, 270-272
+
+  Khersonese, ii. 258, 263
+
+  Khoulalonkorn, King, iii. 229
+
+  Kiel Harbour, ii. 240
+
+  King, Admiral Sir Durnford, ii. 60, 67
+    Admiral George, ii. 276; iii. 113, 114, 121
+    Captain Philip, ii. 134, 169
+
+  Kingsley, Charles, iii. 114
+
+  Kingston, Jamaica, i. 60
+
+  Kinmel, i. 93, 162
+
+  Kissang River, i. 135
+
+  Knollys, Sir Francis, iii. 323
+
+  Knox, Lieutenant Thomas Owen, i. 119, 120, 124
+
+  Kobe, iii. 298
+
+  Korbé; _see_ Corvé
+
+  Korea, iii. 194
+
+  Kororareka (Russell), N.Z., ii. 171
+
+  Korsakof, General, iii. 195, 208
+
+  Kronstadt, ii. 230
+
+  Kuching; _see_ Sarawak
+
+  Kung, the Prince of, iii. 226
+
+
+  Labuan, ii. 30, 63, 76, 82, 87, 90, 125, 127; iii. 126, 230
+
+  Lagos, i. 238, 241, 242
+
+  Lahon, Cape, i. 210, 211
+
+  Lake, Admiral W. T., i. 54
+
+  Lambrick, Captain, ii. 144
+
+  Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth, i. 221
+
+  Lansdowne, Lord, ii. 59
+
+  Lante Bay, i. 170
+
+  _La Place_, iii. 162, 177
+
+  Lawrence, Captain, i. 182
+
+  Leicester, Earl of; _see_ Coke, Thomas William
+    Countess of; _see_ Hon. Anne Keppel
+
+  Leighton, Vice-Chancellor, iii. 324
+
+  Leithbridge, Misses, ii. 55
+
+  Le Marchant, Major, i. 75
+
+  Lennard, Sir Thomas, ii. 45
+
+  Leopold, H.R.H. Prince, i. 53; iii. 36
+
+  Lescanca, Brigadier, i. 189
+
+  Lesseps, Ferdinand de, iii. 118
+
+  _Leven_, iii. 234
+
+  Lexham Hall, i. 7
+
+  Lichfield, Thomas, Lord, i. 7, 162
+
+  Li Hung Chang, iii. 245
+
+  Lima, General, i. 41
+
+  Linga River, ii. 2, 19
+
+  Lingghi River, i. 135
+
+  Linn, Mandarin, i. 264
+
+  Lisbon, i. 103, 184
+
+  Lissa, i. 22
+
+  Livingstone, Dr. David, iii. 67
+
+  Lloyd, Mr., i. 125
+    Lieutenant, iii. 235
+
+  Loch, Captain Granville, i. 260, 261, 262, 263, 270, 272
+
+  Lockyer, Commander Nicholas, C.B., i. 167; ii. 116
+
+  _London_, iii. 110
+
+  Loring, Captain John Wentworth, i. 16, 17
+
+  Louis Philippe, King, ii. 76
+
+  Louise, H.R.H. Princess, iii. 38
+
+  Low, Hugh, ii. 82, 126, 230
+
+  Lowe, Robert, iii. 325
+
+  Lukin, Admiral, i. 7, 14
+
+  Lupar River, ii. 6
+
+  Lushington, Rt. Hon. Stephen, i. 148
+
+  Lyall, Sir Charles, ii. 215
+
+  Lyemoon Pass, iii. 182
+
+  Lynedoch, Lord, i. 54
+
+  Lyons, Admiral Sir Edmund, ii. 211, 256, 267
+
+
+  Macao, i. 264, 327; ii. 120; iii. 1, 8, 9, 130, 222
+
+  M‘Arthur, Captain, ii. 132, 144
+
+  M‘Clure, Sir Robert, iii. 8
+
+  Macdonald, Sir James, i. 4; iii. 323
+
+  MacDonnell, Sir Richard, iii. 129, 231
+
+  Mackenzie, Consul, i. 61
+
+  Macota, ii. 20
+
+  _Madagascar_, i. 165, 170
+
+  Madeira; _see_ Funchal Roads
+
+  Madras, i. 133, 134, 148, 150, 157, 158
+
+  Madrid, i. 186
+
+  Madura, ii. 131
+
+  _Mæander_, ii. 58, 60, 81, 115, 126, 130, 155, 200, 201
+
+  Magellan, Straits of, ii. 195-199
+
+  _Magicienne_, i. 118, 119, 133, 153, 200
+
+  Magin, Captain, iii. 1
+
+  Mahé, Port, iii. 63
+
+  Mahébourg, iii. 63
+
+  Maitland, Admiral Sir F. L., K.C.B., i. 165, 167
+
+  _Malabar_, i. 169, 171, 183, 184
+
+  Malacca, i. 134, 135, 137, 150, 157; ii. 24, 334
+
+  Malaga, i. 185, 186, 188, 190, 196
+
+  Malakoff, ii. 274
+
+  Malanga, ii. 172
+
+  Maldanado Roads, i. 43
+
+  Mallewali, ii. 96
+
+  Malone, Lieutenant, i. 17
+
+  Malta, i. 75, 168, 184, 200; ii. 249; iii. 117
+
+  Mambahennan, ii. 100
+
+  Mamelon, ii. 273
+
+  Manao, iii. 169
+
+  Manchester, Duke and Duchess of, i. 57; iii. 322, 323
+
+  Manila, i. 327; ii. 124; iii. 230
+
+  Maratabu River, ii. 23
+
+  _Mariner_, ii. 77
+
+  Marjoribanks, Dr., i. 326
+
+  Marmora, Sea of, ii. 249
+
+  Marseilles, i. 222
+
+  Martin, Admiral, ii. 239
+    Captain George, i. 169
+    Surgeon William, i. 75
+
+  Matapan, Cape, i. 180
+
+  Mataxa, Count, iii. 99
+
+  Mathieson, Commander, ii. 78
+
+  Maul, Fox; _see_ Panmure, Lord
+
+  Mauritius, i. 85, 260; iii. 63
+
+  Maxwell, Sir Benson, iii. 317
+
+  Maxwell, Rev. Dr., iii. 223
+
+  Mayatchni Island, iii. 195
+
+  Maynard family, the, i. 164
+
+  Mazatlan, ii. 185, 188
+
+  _Medea_, ii. 116
+
+  Medhurst, Sir Walter, iii. 221, 239
+
+  _Medusa_, i. 266, 274
+
+  Melville Island, ii. 134
+
+  Menai Suspension Bridge, i. 94
+
+  Menschikoff, Admiral Prince, ii. 240
+
+  Mexico, city of, i. 56, 64
+    Gulf of, i. 57
+
+  Meyerbeer, iii. 25
+
+  Miako, iii. 174, 175, 180
+
+  Michi, Mr., iii. 238
+
+  Mikado, the, iii. 190, 290
+
+  Millett family, the, i. 253
+
+  Milo, i. 68, 176
+
+  Mina, Captain-General, i. 188, 196
+    Doña, i. 196
+
+  Ming Tombs, the, iii. 172
+
+  Minorca, i. 14
+
+  Minto, Lord, i. 255
+
+  Minwaji-no-Mia, Prince, iii. 286
+
+  Mitford, Bertram, iii. 268, 286, 290
+
+  _Modeste_, i. 243, 277
+
+  Moluccas Islands, ii. 147
+
+  Montagu, Oliver, iii. 323
+
+  Montague, Admiral Sir William, i. 169, 171, 184; ii. 205
+
+  Montenegro, the Marquis of, i. 195
+
+  Moore, Admiral Sir Graham, G.C.B., i. 260
+    General Sir John, i. 260
+
+  Moorsom, Captain, ii. 285
+
+  Moowar, the Rajah of, i. 136, 137, 139-146
+    River, i. 135; ii. 24
+
+  Moriataba River, i. 295
+
+  Mozambique Harbour, iii. 55
+
+  Muda Hassim, Rajah, i. 299, 300, 301, 306, 307, 319, 339; ii. 42, 84
+
+  Mulla, Seriff, i. 312; ii. 6
+
+  Mundy, Captain, i. 157, 172
+
+  Murrundum Island, i. 294
+
+  Musemberg, i. 73
+
+
+  Nagasaki, iii. 144, 145, 170, 191, 192, 220, 300
+
+  Najassi, iii. 201
+
+  Nakoda Bahar, ii. 6
+
+  Nanbu Harbour, iii. 158
+
+  Nancowry Harbour, i. 134, 285
+
+  Nanking, i. 270, 271; iii. 239
+
+  Nankow, iii. 172
+
+  Nanning, i. 134, 135
+
+  Napier, Admiral Sir Charles John, K.C.B., i. 101, 102, 107, 117, 167,
+        247; ii. 53, 57, 226, 228
+    William, i. 288; ii. 24, 64, 67, 87
+
+  Napoleon, i. 1, 86, 90, 253
+
+  Napper, Surgeon James, i. 71
+
+  Nash, Lieutenant Charles, i. 70
+
+  Natunas, i. 294, 296, 297
+
+  Navarino, i. 68
+
+  Nelson, Rev. Edmund, i. 15
+    Lord, i. 13, 15, 24; ii. 267
+
+  New Guinea, ii. 148
+
+  Newman, Sir Robert, ii. 276
+
+  New Spain, i. 64
+
+  New Zealand, ii. 152, 169
+
+  Nicholai, iii. 192, 206
+
+  Nicholas I., Czar, ii. 258
+
+  Nicholson, Port, ii. 169
+
+  Nicobar Islands, i. 134, 284
+
+  Nigata, iii. 167
+
+  Nightingale, Miss Florence, ii. 251
+
+  Ning Po, i. 279
+
+  Noad, Lieutenant Arthur, i. 113, 203, 257
+
+  Nogueras, General, i. 188
+
+  Norfolk Island, ii. 165
+
+  Norman, Colonel, iii. 296
+
+  Norris, Sir William, i. 285, 289
+
+  Northumberland, Duke of, i. 49
+
+  Norton, Mrs., i. 260
+
+  Nova Scotia, i. 52
+
+  Novogorod Harbour, iii. 194
+
+  Nwajima, Prince, iii. 293
+
+
+  _Ocean_, iii. 179, 277
+
+  O’Donnell, Colonel, i. 192
+
+  Ohier, Admiral Marie Gustave, iii. 180, 227
+
+  Oldfield, Lieutenant R. Brice, ii. 59
+
+  Ommaney, Admiral Sir John, ii. 209
+
+  Onrust Island, ii. 130
+
+  Ord, Sir Henry, iii. 316
+
+  _Orestes_, i. 180, 197, 200
+
+  Orizaba Mountain, i. 62
+
+  Osaka, iii. 174, 179, 180, 186, 190, 220, 298
+
+  Osmond, John, i. 84
+
+  Otho, King of Greece, i. 179
+
+  Ou-teng-foi, iii. 235, 236
+
+  Owen, Admiral Sir E. W., i. 127, 128
+
+
+  Paddi, town, i. 317
+
+  Paget, Commander Charles, i. 94
+    Clarence, ii. 264
+
+  Pakington, Sir John, iii. 113
+
+  Pakoo, i. 318
+
+  Palmas, Cape, i. 211
+
+  Palmerston, Lord, i. 185; ii. 123, 182, 256; iii. 28, 29, 32, 100
+
+  Panmure, Lord, i. 162; iii. 15-17
+
+  Papua, ii. 148
+
+  Parker, Rev. Dr., i. 281
+    Admiral Sir William Hyde, i. 191, 193, 195, 198, 254, 264, 266,
+        271, 272, 273, 278, 325; ii. 27, 31
+
+  Parkes, Sir Henry, i. 264, 278; iii. 148, 150, 168, 169, 174, 179,
+        181, 187, 188, 273, 297, 328
+
+  Paros, i. 179
+
+  Parseval Deschênes; _see_ Deschênes
+
+  Partridge, family, i. 5; ii. 49
+
+  Partridge, C., ii. 61
+
+  Paterson, Mr., i. 66, 67
+
+  Patingi, Ali, ii. 7
+
+  Patterson, Admiral, i. 52
+    Charles, i. 52
+
+  Patusen, ii. 2, 3, 5
+
+  Pechell, Captain, ii. 299
+
+  Peck, Henry and George, i. 73
+
+  Pedro, Don, i. 40
+
+  Peel, Sir Lawrence, i. 335
+
+  Peiho River, iii. 171
+
+  Peking, i. 81; iii. 144, 171, 259
+
+  Pelham, Dudley, i. 166
+
+  _Pelican_, i. 226, 231, 242, 277
+
+  Pell, Sir Watkin, ii. 43
+
+  Pelorus, ii. 144
+
+  Penang, i. 146, 149, 282, 333, 337; ii. 334; iii. 14, 120, 229, 318
+
+  _Penelope_, iii. 283
+
+  Penguin Island, i. 203, 208
+
+  Percy, Admiral Hon. Josceline, ii. 199
+
+  Percy, Captain Joseph, i. 169, 176
+
+  Perim, iii. 118, 119
+
+  Pernambuco, i. 41, 42
+
+  Perote, i. 64
+
+  Perry, Dare and Co., Messrs., i. 135
+
+  _Perseus_, iii. 234
+
+  Petropaulovski, i. 178; iii. 208
+
+  Pettigrew, Dr., i. 100
+
+  Pfingsten, Major, iii. 195
+
+  _Phlegethon_, i. 278; ii. 1, 3, 6, 77, 84, 234
+
+  _Piraeus_, the, i. 178
+
+  Plampin, Admiral, i. 48
+
+  Plumridge, Admiral J. H., i. 119, 121, 135; ii. 76, 231; iii. 130
+
+  _Plymouth_, ii. 121
+
+  Point de Galle, iii. 14, 119, 318
+
+  Po-leng, iii. 235
+
+  Polkinghorne, Commander James, i. 79
+
+  Pomony, iii. 56
+
+  Pontranini, ii. 20
+
+  Poore, Sir E., ii. 41
+
+  Popham, Commander Brunswick, i. 226, 231, 232, 242, 243
+
+  Popoe, Little, i. 235, 236
+
+  Porchester Castle, i. 52
+
+  Porirua, Cape, ii. 171
+
+  Port-au-Prince, i. 61
+
+  Portendick, i. 202
+
+  Porter, Captain, i. 98
+
+  Port Jackson, ii. 152, 153
+
+  _Portland_, i. 178, 180
+
+  Port Louis, i. 77, 79, 85
+
+  Port Mahon, i. 194
+
+  Port Nicholson, ii. 171
+
+  Porto Praya, i. 69, 204
+
+  Port Royal, Jamaica, i. 57, 60, 62, 112, 113
+
+  Posietta Bay, iii. 194
+
+  Potoo, i. 278
+
+  Pottinger, Sir Henry, i. 264, 271, 272, 273, 278, 322
+    Major, i. 327
+
+  Price, Captain David, i. 178
+
+  Prince Edward’s Island, ii. 73
+
+  _Princess Charlotte_, i. 52; iii. 129, 130, 220
+
+  Prince’s Island, i. 224, 225, 229, 237, 244
+
+  Princess Royal, the, i. 253; iii. 114, 121
+
+  Province Wellesley, i. 283
+
+  Pulo Sabu, i. 288
+
+
+  Queensberry, Marquis of, iii. 40
+
+  Quidenham, i. 1, 8, 9, 93; ii. 56, 65
+
+  Quin, Captain Michael, ii. 23
+
+  Quitta, i. 235, 240
+
+
+  Raffles, Sir Stamford, i. 285; ii. 76
+
+  Raffles Bay, ii. 134
+
+  Raglan, Lord, ii. 256, 264, 275
+
+  _Raleigh_, ii. 324, 336; iii. 2, 8
+
+  Ramsay, Captain, ii. 235
+
+  _Ranee_, ii. 86
+
+  Ranelagh, Lord, i. 196
+
+  _Rattler_, iii. 190, 227
+
+  _Rattlesnake_, ii. 153
+
+  Read, Lieutenant Charles B., ii. 58, 72
+    W. H., i. 289; iii. 317
+    Lieutenant (U.S.N.), iii. 177
+
+  Redan, the, ii. 274, 299-304
+
+  _Revenge_, i. 200
+
+  Reynolds, Admiral Barrington, ii. 199
+
+  Rice, Edward, i. 169, 248, 260, 264, 274, 277
+    family, the, i. 248
+
+  Rich, Henry, i. 96
+
+  Richmond, Duke of, i. 72, 253
+    Duchess of, i. 72
+
+  Rigby, Colonel, iii. 62, 63
+
+  _Rinaldo_, iii. 187, 221, 222, 234
+
+  Rio de Janeiro, i. 36, 42, 43, 123; ii. 72, 198; iii. 42, 75
+
+  Rio de la Plata, i. 43
+
+  Risk, W. B., iii. 145
+
+  Rivers, Lieutenant, ii. 47
+
+  Roberts, Captain Sir Samuel, i. 168, 180
+
+  Robinson, Commander, iii. 221
+    Sir Hercules, iii. 319
+
+  Roches, M., iii. 174, 180, 188
+
+  _Rodney_, i. 191, 192, 193, 196, 197, 200; ii. 276, 304; iii. 173,
+        177, 180, 222, 247, 276, 323, 324
+
+  Rodyk, Jack, iii. 318
+
+  Roe, Sir Frederick and Lady, ii. 45
+
+  Rokeby, General Lord, ii. 246, 255
+
+  Romney family, the, i. 257
+
+  Rose, Sir Hugh, iii. 14
+
+  Rosebery, Lord, i. 7
+
+  Rouen, Baron de Forth, ii. 117
+
+  Rougemont, Lieutenant, iii. 187
+
+  Rous, Admiral Hon. Henry, i. 87, 90; iii. 20
+
+  Rowley, Sir Charles, ii. 27
+    Admiral Sir Josias, i. 168, 180, 182, 183, 185, 201, 247; ii. 39
+    Josias (junior), i. 261
+    Admiral Samuel, ii. 32
+
+  Roy, Captain, iii. 186
+
+  Rubielo, i. 188
+
+  Ryder, Captain A. P., ii. 230
+
+
+  Sacrificios, i. 114
+
+  Sadong River, i. 311; ii. 85
+
+  Saghalien Island, iii. 194, 198
+
+  Sahib, Seriff, ii. 2, 5, 20
+
+  Saigon, iii. 227
+
+  St. Angelo, Cape, i. 178
+
+  St. Barbara River, i. 227
+
+  San Domingo, i. 16, 61, 163
+
+  St. Helena, i. 90
+
+  St. Jago de Cuba, i. 33, 61, 69, 204, 261
+
+  _St. Jean d’Acre_, ii. 208, 233, 243
+
+  St. John, Sir Spenser, ii. 69
+
+  St. Juan d’Ulloa, i. 62
+
+  St. Paul’s, Cape, i. 235, 238
+    Island, i. 123
+    Roads, i. 85
+
+  San Salvador, i. 38, 39, 40; iii. 77, 78
+
+  St. Thomas Island, i. 229; iii. 73
+
+  St. Vincent, i. 97, 107
+
+  Sakai, iii. 186, 187
+
+  Salamanca, i. 82
+
+  Salamis, Bay of, i. 179
+
+  _Salamis_, iii. 115, 120, 122, 145, 173, 180, 192, 198, 234, 237
+
+  Salisbury, Lord, i. 177; iii. 324
+
+  Saltoun, General Lord, i. 252, 264, 327, 332
+
+  _Samarang_, ii. 18
+
+  Sambas River, i. 292
+
+  Sandilands, Commander A. A., i. 129
+
+  Sandringham, iii. 92, 93, 260
+
+  Sandwich Islands, i. 43; ii. 151
+
+  Santobong, ii. 112
+
+  _Saracen_, i. 203, 223, 228, 231, 232, 239, 240
+
+  Sarawak, i. 294, 296, 304, 319, 339; ii. 21, 83, 112; iii. 11, 124,
+        229
+
+  Sarebas, the, ii. 127
+    River, i. 311
+
+  _Satellite_, iii. 122
+
+  Satsuma, Prince, iii. 174, 175, 178, 180
+
+  Saumarez, Sir James, i. 69
+    Captain, i. 326
+
+  Saxe-Weimar, Duke Bernard of, ii. 131
+    Prince Edward of, ii. 253
+
+  Schomberg, Commodore, i. 85, 87
+
+  Scott, Captain Lord Charles, iii. 170, 222
+    Captain Frank, i. 103, 190; ii. 7
+
+  _Scout_, i. 167, 170, 225, 231, 232, 240, 242
+
+  Sebastopol; _see_ Sevastopol
+
+  Seboo, ii. 2
+
+  Sekarran, country, ii. 2
+    River, i. 312; ii. 6
+
+  Sekarrans, the, ii. 1, 127
+
+  Senegal, i. 238
+
+  _Serapis_, iii. 332
+
+  Seriff Jaffer, ii. 2
+
+  Seton, Sir Henry, i. 335
+
+  Sevastopol, ii. 240, 254, 256, 264
+
+  Seymour family, the, i. 253
+    Admiral Sir George, i. 163, 198, 258; ii. 327; iii. 321
+    Admiral G. Henry, i. 198, 200, 275, 277, 278, 322, 333; ii. 235;
+        iii. 283, 321
+    Admiral Lord Hugh, i. 16, 17
+    Admiral Sir Michael, i. 55; ii. 209, 238, 337; iii. 1, 9
+    Michael (junior), iii. 3
+    Lord William, ii. 235
+
+  Shakotan Bay, iii. 227
+
+  Shanghai, i. 266, 277; iii. 142, 172, 180, 220, 237
+
+  Shaw, Whitehead and Co., i. 288
+
+  Shepherd, Captain, ii. 182
+    Quartermaster John, ii. 274, 282
+
+  Sheridan, Charles, i. 260
+    Francis, i. 260, 261, 262
+
+  Sheriff, Admiral, ii. 47, 56, 60
+
+  Shrewsbury, Lord, i. 187
+
+  Shunski, Ito, iii. 183
+
+  Siefukigi Temple, iii. 183
+
+  Sierra Leone, i. 202, 203, 233; iii. 70
+
+  Simmons, Mr., purser, ii. 80
+
+  Simoneseki Straits, iii. 146, 265
+
+  Simon’s Bay, i. 71, 74, 75, 77, 83, 86, 261; iii. 45, 67, 74
+
+  Simpson, Arthur Bridgman, i. 70, 71
+    General, i. 81; ii. 279
+    Dr., i. 271, 319, 322, 323
+
+  Sinclair, Major, i. 291
+
+  Singapore, i. 147, 157, 263, 281, 285, 288, 322, 333, 338; ii. 23,
+        24, 75, 77, 111, 128, 129; iii. 9, 13, 115, 120, 121, 122, 230
+
+  _Sir Charles Forbes_, iii. 1
+
+  Skipsey, Commodore, i. 76
+
+  Skipwith family, the, i. 253; ii. 48
+    Lieutenant Grey, i. 165, 191, 193, 252, 264, 272, 273, 278, 279,
+        291; ii. 65
+
+  Smith, Lieutenant Christopher, i. 63, 71
+
+  Smyrna, i. 168, 175, 176
+
+  Sober Island, i. 127
+
+  Somerset, the Duke of, iii. 79, 265
+    Lord Charles Fitzroy, i. 72
+
+  Soult, Marshal, i. 247
+
+  Spalding, John, i. 98
+
+  _Spartan_, ii. 41
+
+  Speke, Captain John Hanning, iii. 41, 46, 57, 91
+
+  Spencer, Earl, i. 102, 103, 253
+
+  _Sphynx_, ii. 52
+
+  Spurrier, Mr., iii. 4, 20
+
+  Stanhope, Captain, iii. 179, 181, 186, 187
+    Elizabeth, i. 8
+    Spencer, i. 8
+
+  Stanley, Captain Owen, i. 291; ii. 134, 142, 153, 156
+
+  _Stanley_, iii. 222
+
+  Staveley, Captain, ii. 117-123
+    General, ii. 117
+
+  Stephenson, Augustus, ii. 240
+    Commander Henry Frederick, i. 66, 93, 96, 97, 119, 164; ii. 219;
+        iii. 15-17, 19, 27, 107, 115, 190, 205
+    Henry (junior), ii. 219, 233
+    Lady Mary; _see_ Keppel
+
+  Steward, Mr., ii. 7
+
+  Stewart, Mrs. Keith; _see_ Fitzroy, Mary
+
+  Stoddard, Consul, ii. 70
+
+  Stopford, Admiral Sir Robert, i. 201; ii. 46, 55
+
+  Straits Settlements, the, iii. 121, 316
+
+  Strongiolo Bay, i. 179
+
+  Suckling, i. 20, 24
+
+  Suez, iii. 18, 118
+
+  Suffield, Lord and Lady, i. 162
+
+  Suffolk, Earl of, i. 97
+
+  Sullivan, Sir Charles, Bart., i. 59
+
+  Sulu, the Sultan of, ii. 104
+
+  Sumatra, i. 149
+
+  Summers, Mr., ii. 118-123
+
+  Sunda, Straits of, i. 147, 263; ii. 75
+
+  Surtees family, i. 5
+
+  Sussex, H.R.H. Augustus, Duke of, i. 9, 11, 66, 93, 97, 160, 161,
+        246, 247, 249, 322
+
+  Suttie, Captain Francis, iii. 115
+
+  Swan, Commander John, iii. 190
+
+  Swansen, Mr., i. 214, 215, 216, 219-221
+
+  Swatow, iii. 136, 233, 235
+
+  Swinhoe, Consul, iii. 237
+
+  _Sybille_, iii. 8
+
+  Sydney, ii. 152, 153, 154, 164
+
+  Symonds, Sir William, i. 169; ii. 41, 46
+
+  Syra, i. 180
+
+
+  Tagus, River, ii. 213
+
+  Tahiti, ii. 177
+
+  Tai-wan-foo, iii. 224
+
+  Taki Zingaburo, iii. 183, 184
+
+  Taku Forts, iii. 171, 264, 303, 310
+
+  _Talavera_, i. 169, 171
+
+  Talbot, Captain Charles, i. 123
+
+  Talleyrand, Prince, i. 162, 247
+
+  Tambilan Islands, i. 292, 338
+
+  Tampico, i. 58, 64, 65, 113
+
+  Tangiers, i. 168
+
+  Tang-Tau, iii. 234, 235
+
+  Tanjong Datu, i. 294; ii. 83; iii. 123
+
+  Tanjong Po, i. 295; ii. 83
+
+  Tarragona, i. 189, 196
+
+  Tartary, Gulf of, iii. 192
+
+  Tasmania, ii. 157
+
+  Taylor, pilot, i. 257
+
+  Tchung-How, iii. 263
+
+  Templer, John, ii. 43, 62
+    J. L. B., ii. 43
+
+  Termination Island, iii. 195
+
+  Thackeray, William Makepeace, iii. 82
+
+  Thistlethwaite, Mr., i. 251
+
+  Thompson, Deas, ii. 157
+
+  Thompson, Rev. Josias, ii. 328; iii. 9
+
+  Thours, Captain Du Petit, iii. 187, 227, 271
+
+  _Thunderer_, i. 121, 169, 170, 180
+
+  _Tien Chi_, iii. 222
+
+  Tientsin, iii. 303
+
+  Tillenadin, Conanyaga Modr, i. 128
+
+  Tomari, iii. 163
+
+  Tombeaux Bay, iii. 65
+
+  Tonga Tabu, ii. 172
+
+  Toolyan Island, ii. 106
+
+  Torres, Captain de, i. 36
+
+  Torres Straits, ii. 142
+
+  Tortoza, i. 188
+
+  Tosa, Prince, iii. 170
+
+  Tottenham, Lieutenant, i. 258, 285; ii. 81
+
+  Townshend, Captain Lord James, i. 123
+
+  Tracey, Commander, iii. 177
+
+  Trade Town, i. 203, 206
+
+  Trafalgar, i. 7, 12
+
+  _Tribune_, i. 169, 175, 183, 189; iii. 8
+
+  Trincomalee, i. 125, 128, 147, 157
+
+  Tripoli, i. 171, 178
+
+  Tristan d’Achuna, i. 123
+
+  Trollope, Commander, iii. 222
+
+  Trowbridge, Captain Sir Thomas, i. 257, 272; ii. 116, 117, 120
+
+  Troy, i. 178
+
+  Tseng Kuo-fau, iii. 222
+
+  Tumongong of Singapore, the, ii. 81, 82
+
+  Turnour, Captain Edward W., i. 333; ii. 3-7, 336; iii. 1, 4, 39, 45
+
+  Twanai, iii. 163
+
+  _Tweed_, i. 19, 25, 46, 65, 66, 67, 85
+
+  Twofold Bay, ii. 157
+
+  _Tyne_, i. 169, 176, 187, 189, 200
+
+
+  _Undaunted_, i. 67, 84
+
+  Undop, ii. 5, 6, 19
+
+
+  Valencia, i. 187, 191, 195
+
+  Valparaiso, ii. 195
+
+  _Venus_, iii. 186
+
+  Vera Cruz, i. 57, 58, 62, 65
+
+  Vernon, Lord, i. 184
+
+  _Vernon_, i. 169, 180
+
+  Victor of Hohenlohe, Prince, ii. 235; iii. 1, 2, 9, 25
+
+  Victoria, Queen, i. 247, 250, 251; ii. 218, 313, 324; iii. 19, 41,
+        116, 322, 329
+    Princess; _see_ Princess Royal
+
+  _Victory_, i. 53
+
+  Villa Nueva, i. 200
+
+  Vizeu, Francisco Nunes Sweezer, i. 2, 103
+
+  _Vladimir_, ii. 302
+
+  Vladivostock, iii. 198, 218
+
+  Vlangali, A., iii. 192, 194
+
+  _Volage_, i. 169, 180
+
+  Von Brockhausen, Baron, i. 191
+
+  Vourla, i. 168, 170, 171, 173
+
+
+  Wade, Sir Thomas, i. 81
+    Colonel, i. 81
+    Lieutenant C. F., ii. 3, 6, 14
+
+  Waitemata Harbour, ii. 171
+
+  Wales, H.R.H. the Prince of, i. 96, 257; iii. 81, 92, 93, 105, 113,
+        115, 322, 328, 329, 332, 333
+    H.R.H. the Princess of, iii. 81, 93, 105, 322, 333
+
+  Walker, Captain Sir Baldwin, i. 201; ii. 208; iii. 74
+
+  Walpole-Keppel, family of, i. 7
+
+  _Wanderer_, i. 275, 333
+
+  Waring, Mr., i. 187
+
+  Warren, Admiral, i. 121; iii. 75
+
+  Warrington, Colonel, i. 172
+
+  Waterford, Lord, i. 246
+
+  Waterloo, Battle of, i. 1, 72, 86
+
+  Waterpark, Eliza, Lady, i. 8
+
+  _Waterwitch_, i. 223, 227, 228
+
+  Watson, Captain, i. 274, 277, 278
+
+  Wellesley, Captain George, iii. 14
+
+  _Wellesley_, ii. 68
+
+  Wellington, Duke of, i. 82, 86, 247, 256; ii. 206
+
+  Wellington, N.Z., ii. 171
+
+  Wemyss and March, Earl of, i. 8
+    Frederica, Countess of, i. 8
+
+  West, Green, i. 71
+    Jane; _see_ Keppel, Lady
+    Rev. Richard, iii. 80
+
+  Whampoa, i. 323; ii. 80, 116; iii. 14, 232, 317
+
+  Whichcote, Sir Thomas, iii. 27
+
+  White, Admiral Sir John, ii. 29
+
+  Whitehead, Mr., i. 322
+
+  Whitshed, Admiral Sir James Hawkins, i. 27
+
+  Whydah, i. 237, 239
+
+  Whytock, Colonel, ii. 60
+
+  Wildman, Colonel, i. 11
+
+  William IV., King, i. 102, 120, 121, 160, 161, 163, 200
+
+  Williams, Sir John, i. 94
+    Admiral Sir Thomas, G.C.B., i. 94, 165
+
+  Williamson, Mr., i. 302; ii. 7
+
+  Willoughby, James, iii. 117
+
+  Wilson, Lieutenant A. K., iii. 178
+    family, the, i. 51
+
+  Windham, General Charles, ii. 260, 300, 301
+    Mr., ii. 101, 105
+
+  Windsor, iii. 115, 116
+
+  Wise, Henry, ii. 43, 62, 63
+    Captain W., i. 169
+
+  Wodehouse, George, i. 103
+
+  _Wolverine_, i. 199, 200, 281; ii. 24
+
+  Wood, Sir Charles, iii. 9
+    Rev. James, i. 2, 4
+
+  Woosung, i. 266-269, 275; iii. 180, 220
+
+  Würtemburg, the Prince of, i. 115
+
+  Wynberg, i. 71
+
+
+  Xalapa, i. 57, 63, 64
+
+  Xavier, St. Francis, i. 150
+
+  Xeres, i. 184
+
+
+  Yang-tse-kiang River, i. 268, 269; iii. 237
+
+  Yarborough, Lord, i. 166
+
+  Yates, Mr., i. 66
+
+  Yedo, iii. 148, 179, 180, 265
+
+  Yeh, Admiral, iii. 6
+
+  Yeng Cheow, iii. 223
+
+  Yesso, iii. 164
+
+  Yo-chow, iii. 250
+
+  Yokohama, iii. 148, 150, 151, 162, 174, 177, 179, 180, 191, 192, 220,
+        295
+
+  Yokosha, iii. 191
+
+  York, Cape, ii. 142
+
+  Young, Captain, ii. 79
+
+  Yule, Lieutenant, ii. 165
+
+
+  Zante, i. 180, 182
+
+  Zanzibar, iii. 57
+    the Sultan of, iii. 62
+
+  _Zebra_, iii. 222
+
+
+END OF VOL. II
+
+
+_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
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+<figure class='figcenter' id='front-cover'>
+  <a href='images/cover.jpg'><img class='v100' src='images/cover-t.jpg' alt='Front Cover'></a>
+</figure>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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+<div class="new-page">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_i">[i]</span></p>
+<p class='half-title'>A SAILOR’S LIFE</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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+<div class="new-page">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ii">[ii]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='mt8 mb8'>
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_colophon'>
+  <img class="h20" src="images/i_colophon.png" alt="Colophon">
+</figure>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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+<div class="new-page">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_iv">[iv]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_frontis'>
+  <img class="v100" src="images/i_frontis.jpg" alt="">
+  <p>Photographed by<br>Her Highness the Râni of Sarawak</p>
+  <figcaption>A Hadji.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="new-page">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_v">[v]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<h1>
+<span class='db'>A SAILOR’S LIFE</span>
+<span class='db fs80 mth'>UNDER</span>
+<span class='db mth'>FOUR SOVEREIGNS</span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="center fs80 mt2">BY</p>
+<p class="center mth">ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET</p>
+<p class="center fs120 mth">THE HON. SIR HENRY KEPPEL</p>
+<p class="center fs80 mth">G.C.B., D.C.L.</p>
+
+<p class="center mt2">VOL. II</p>
+
+<p class="center mt2 fs120 blackletter">London</p>
+<p class="center fs120">MACMILLAN AND CO., <span class="smcap">Limited</span></p>
+<p class="center fs80 mtq">NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY</p>
+<p class="center mtq">1899</p>
+
+<p class="center fs80 mt1"><em>All rights reserved</em></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">[vii]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<table class="toc">
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXII'>CHAPTER XXXII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdr fs50" colspan='2' style='margin-top: -1em;'>PAGE</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class='ships'>Dido</span></td>
+<td class="tdr">1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXIII'>CHAPTER XXXIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Dido</span>: Second Expedition</td>
+<td class='tdr'>10</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXIV'>CHAPTER XXXIV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Dido</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>22</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXV'>CHAPTER XXXV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>England</td>
+<td class='tdr'>30</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXVI'>CHAPTER XXXVI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Shore Time—Study Steam</td>
+<td class='tdr'>38</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXVII'>CHAPTER XXXVII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Shore Time</td>
+<td class='tdr'>50</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXVIII'>CHAPTER XXXVIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>Mæander</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XXXIX'>CHAPTER XXXIX</a>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">[viii]</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Cruising</td>
+<td class='tdr'>92</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XL'>CHAPTER XL</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Cruising in the Sulu Sea</td>
+<td class='tdr'>106</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLI'>CHAPTER XLI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Hong Kong</td>
+<td class='tdr'>115</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLII'>CHAPTER XLII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>In Eastern Seas</td>
+<td class='tdr'>124</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLIII'>CHAPTER XLIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>144</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLIV'>CHAPTER XLIV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><i lang='fr'>En route</i> to Sydney</td>
+<td class='tdr'>151</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLV'>CHAPTER XLV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Sydney to Hobart Town</td>
+<td class='tdr'>153</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLVI'>CHAPTER XLVI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Sydney</td>
+<td class='tdr'>164</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_XLVII'>CHAPTER XLVII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>190</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_XLVIII'>CHAPTER XLVIII</a>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">[ix]</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>At Home</td>
+<td class='tdr'>201</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_XLIX'>CHAPTER XLIX</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Shore Time</td>
+<td class='tdr'>205</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_L'>CHAPTER L</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>208</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LI'>CHAPTER LI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>—Cruising</td>
+<td class='tdr'>215</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LII'>CHAPTER LII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Baltic Fleet</td>
+<td class='tdr'>223</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LIII'>CHAPTER LIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Bombardment of Bomarsund</td>
+<td class='tdr'>233</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LIV'>CHAPTER LIV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>238</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LV'>CHAPTER LV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Crimea</td>
+<td class='tdr'>245</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'> <a href='#CHAPTER_LVI'>CHAPTER LVI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>261</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LVII'>CHAPTER LVII</a>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_x">[x]</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Second Expedition to Kertch</td>
+<td class='tdr'>270</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LVIII'>CHAPTER LVIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Naval Brigade</td>
+<td class='tdr'>276</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LIX'>CHAPTER LIX</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Trenches—Before Sevastopol</td>
+<td class='tdr'>288</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LX'>CHAPTER LX</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Redan</td>
+<td class='tdr'>297</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LXI'>CHAPTER LXI</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>After Fall of Sevastopol</td>
+<td class='tdr'>304</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LXII'>CHAPTER LXII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Arrival from Crimea—Thence in <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>—Shore Time</td>
+<td class='tdr'>312</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LXIII'>CHAPTER LXIII</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>325</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LXIV'>CHAPTER LXIV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span></td>
+<td class='tdr'>330</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#CHAPTER_LXV'>CHAPTER LXV</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Cape to China</td>
+<td class='tdr'>333</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdc' colspan='2'><a href='#INDEX'>INDEX</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="new-page">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xi">[xi]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class='nobreak'>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+</div>
+
+<table class='illustrations'>
+<tr>
+<th class="tdc fs80" style='width: 55%'>SUBJECT</th>
+<th class="tdc fs80" style='width: 30%'>ARTIST</th>
+<th class="tdc fs80" style='width: 15%'>PAGE</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Hadji</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Photographed by Her Highness the Râni of Sarawak</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_frontis'>Frontispiece</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> Fitting</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_066'>66</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> leaving Plymouth</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_068'>68</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>“The Bishop”</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>From a photograph</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_071'>71</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> hove to</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_074'>74</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Comber in Danger</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_075'>75</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>New Harbour, Singapore</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_078'>78</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>All Sail set</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_083'>83</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> passing astern of <span class='ships'>Hastings</span></td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_089'>89</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Map—Eastern Archipelago</td>
+<td></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_092'>92</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Kina-Balu, N. Borneo</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_095'>95</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, Hong Kong. Manned Yards on Departure of Sir Francis Collier</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_114'>114</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Spanish Galleon</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_124'>124</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> on Shore</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_126'>126</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Comba</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_133'>133</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> off Port Essington</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_135'>135</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>An Australian Grave</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_136'>136</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Sydney</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_154'>154</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Sir Oswald Brierly</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Nina Daly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_156'>156</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Hobart Town</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_159'>159</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Sham Fight</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_161'>161</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> between Sydney Heads</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_164'>164</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span></td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_166'>166</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Rescue by Convicts. Norfolk Island</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_168'>168</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Coral Island</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_170'>170</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Stockade</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_172'>172</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> in a Gale
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xii">[xii]</span></td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_173'>173</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Point Venus, Tahiti</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_174'>174</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Tahiti Harbour</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_176'>176</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Lieutenant George Bowyear</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Nina Daly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_177'>177</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Eimeo</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_178'>178</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Inland Scenery, Tahiti</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_179'>179</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Coral Atoll</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_181'>181</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Valparaiso</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_183'>183</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Coquimbo</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_186'>186</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Sharks at Mazatlan</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_188'>188</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Cemetery at Guyamas</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_192'>192</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>In the Straits of Magellan</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_197'>197</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Gunnery Exercise</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_216'>216</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_222'>222</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Commander-in-Chief</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Anon.</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_227'>227</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The <span class='ships'>Gondola</span> Yacht off Tolbeacon Light</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Sir Oswald Brierly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_229'>229</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Circular Fort—Bomarsund</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_237'>237</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>The Battle of the Alma</td>
+<td class='tdl'>“<cite>Illustrated London News</cite>”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_241'>241</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Map—Strait of Gibraltar</td>
+<td></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_247'>247</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Map—The Bosporus</td>
+<td></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_250'>250</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span> off Balaclava</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,</cite> <em>K.C.V.O., C.B.</em></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_251'>251</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>“All the Way Up.” The Col of Balaclava</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_254'>254</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>“How the Guards looked”</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>From “Punch,” 1855</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_257'>257</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Omar Pasha’s Arab</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>E. Caldwell</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_261'>261</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Headquarters</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Simpson, I.L.N.</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_265'>265</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Map of Crimea</td>
+<td></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_269'>269</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>“Jack, to Newly-Arrived Subaltern ...”</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,</cite> <em>K.C.V.O., C.B.</em></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_278'>278</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>In Rear of the Lancaster Battery</td>
+<td class='tdc'>”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_281'>281</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Plan of Sevastopol</td>
+<td></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_293'>293</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>Inside the Naval Brigade Battery</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Simpson, I.L.N.</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_295'>295</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>“Redan” Windham</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Nina Daly</cite></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_301'>301</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class='tdl'>A Vidette of Cossacks</td>
+<td class='tdl'><cite>Col. Hon. Sir W. Colville,</cite> <em>K.C.V.O., C.B.</em></td>
+<td class='tdr'><a href='#i_307'>307</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[1]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id='CHAPTER_XXXII'>CHAPTER XXXII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Dido</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="sidenote">1844. Sarawak, Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>This being the morning fixed for the departure
+of our small expedition against the Sekarrans, the
+<span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> weighed at eight and proceeded down the
+river to await the collection of force.</p>
+
+<p>Among those who accompanied us was the Pangeran
+Budrudeen, the intelligent brother of the
+Rajah already noticed. This was an unusual event
+in the Royal Family, and the departure from the
+Rajah’s wharf was imposing. The barge of state
+was decked with banners and canopies. All the
+chiefs attended, with the Arab priest Mudlana at
+their head, and the barge pushed off amid the firing
+of cannon and a general shout to invoke the blessing
+of Mahomet.</p>
+
+<p>Having seen the last boat off, Brooke and I took
+our departure in the gig, when another salute was
+fired from the wharf. Three hours brought us to
+the steamer. Here we heard that a small boat from
+the pirate country had, under pretence of trading,
+been spying into our force, but decamped on our
+appearance. We now got fairly away, the smaller
+boats keeping near the shoals in-shore, while the
+steamer was obliged to make an offing some miles
+from the coast. From the masthead we distinctly
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[2]</span>
+made out the small boat that had left the mouth of
+the river before, pulling and sailing in the direction
+of Batang Lupar, up which the Sekarran country
+lies; and it being desirable that they should not get
+information of our approach, at dusk, being well
+in advance, our auxiliary force following, we despatched
+Brooke’s sampan and one of <span class='ships'>Dido’s</span> cutters
+in chase.</p>
+
+<div class="sidenote">Aug.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>With the flood-tide arrived the well-appointed
+little fleet, and with it the cutter and sampan with
+two out of the three men belonging to the boat of
+which they had been in chase, the third having been
+speared by Seboo on showing a strong inclination to
+run amuck in his own boat. From these men we
+learned that Seriff Sahib was fully prepared for defence—his
+harem had been removed—and that he
+would fight to the last.</p>
+
+<p>We anchored in the afternoon at the mouth of
+the Linga, and sent a messenger to caution the chief,
+Seriff Jaffer, against giving any countenance to either
+Seriff. The Batang Lupar, thus far, is a magnificent
+river, from three to four miles wide, and in most
+parts from 5 to 7 fathoms deep.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight. Shortly after eleven, with
+a tide sweeping us up, we came in sight of the fortifications
+of Patusen. There were five forts. Getting
+suddenly into 6 feet of water, we anchored. We
+were well within musket range, but not so formidable
+a berth as we might have taken up had we been
+aware of the increasing depth of water nearer the
+shore; but we approached so rapidly there was no
+time to ascertain.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Dido</span> and <span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span> boats were not long
+in forming alongside. They consisted of the following:—</p>
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span></p>
+<ul class='no-bullet'>
+<li>Pinnace: Lieutenant C. F. Wade; R. Beith,
+assistant-surgeon; 13 seamen; 5 marines.</li>
+
+<li><span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span>: Lieutenant E. W. Turnour; Mr.
+C. Johnson, midshipman; 21 seamen; 7 marines.</li>
+
+<li>First cutter: Mr. E. H. H. D’Aeth, mate; 8
+seamen; 8 marines.</li>
+
+<li>Second cutter: Mr. Robert Jenkins, acting-mate;
+8 seamen; 2 marines.</li>
+
+<li>Second gig: Mr. R. C. Allen, Master; 6 seamen.</li>
+
+<li><span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span> first cutter: Mr. S. Caverley, first
+officer; 15 men.</li>
+
+<li>Second cutter: Mr. Simpson, second officer; Mr.
+A. Barton, midshipman; 15 seamen.</li>
+
+<li>Third cutter: Mr. H. Comber, acting-mate of
+<span class='ships'>Dido</span>; 12 seamen.</li>
+
+<li>Fourth cutter: Mr. G. S. Darby, fourth officer;
+12 seamen.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>In all, 13 officers; 108 seamen; 16 marines.</p>
+
+<p>We had no steam, and to direct a fleet of boats
+how to attack a succession of half a dozen forts was
+beyond me. They were off, and they were there!
+From the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> we had no difficulty in setting
+fire to the thatched roofs of the forts. Reinforcements
+came across the extensive shelter of Patusen
+Harbour. These we might easily have sunk with
+<span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span> guns, but there was excitement for them
+on landing! They never once checked in their advance,
+but the moment they touched the shore the
+crews rushed up, entering the forts at the embrasures,
+while the pirates fled at the rear. In this sharp and
+short affair we had but one man killed, poor John
+Ellis, a fine young man, and captain of the maintop
+in the <span class='ships'>Dido</span>. He was cut in two by a round-shot
+while in the act of ramming home a cartridge in the
+bow-gun of the <span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span>, of which Lieutenant
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span>
+Edward Turnour was in command. This, and two
+others badly wounded, were the only casualties on
+our side.</p>
+
+<p>Our native allies were not long in following our
+men on shore. The killed and wounded on the part
+of the pirates must have been considerable. Our
+native followers got many heads. There were no
+less than sixty-four brass guns of different sizes,
+besides many iron, found in and about the forts.
+The town was extensive, and after being well looted
+made a glorious blaze. Our Sarawak followers, both
+Malays and Dyaks, behaved with gallantry, and with
+our lads dashed in under the fire of the forts. In
+fact, like their country, anything might be made of
+them under a good Government.</p>
+
+<p>After our men had dined, and had a short rest
+during the heat of the day, we landed our force in
+two divisions to attack a town situated about two
+miles up, on the left bank of a small river called the
+Grahan, the entrance to which had been guarded by
+the forts, and immediately after their capture the tide
+had fallen too low for our boats to get up. Facing
+the stream, too, was a long stockade, so that we determined
+on attacking the place in the rear, which,
+had the pirates waited to receive them, would have
+caused an interesting skirmish. Brooke was away
+independently in the gig. They, however, decamped,
+leaving everything behind them.</p>
+
+<p>In this town we found Seriff Sahib’s residence,
+and among other things his curious and extensive
+wardrobe. It was ridiculous to see our Dyaks
+dressed out in all the finery and plunder of this
+noted pirate, whose very name a few days ago would
+have made them tremble.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug. 6, 7.</div>
+
+<p>We likewise found a magazine in the rear of
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span>
+Sahib’s house, containing about 2 tons of gunpowder,
+which I ordered to be thrown into the river.</p>
+
+<p>It was evident we attacked Patusen at the right
+moment: the preparations for its defence were
+nearly completed, and a delay of a week would have
+resulted in considerable loss of life. It was the key
+to this extensive river, the resort of the worst of
+pirates, and each chief had contributed his share of
+guns and ammunition towards its defence.</p>
+
+<p>We returned to our boats and evening meal
+rather fatigued, but much pleased with our work,
+after ascending near seventy miles from the mouth
+of the river. The habitations of 5000 pirates had
+been burnt to the ground, five strong forts destroyed,
+together with several hundred boats, upwards of
+sixty brass guns captured, and about a fourth of that
+number of iron ones spiked and thrown into the
+river, besides vast quantities of other arms and
+ammunition, and the powerful Sahib, the great
+pirate patron for the last twenty years, ruined past
+recovery, and driven to hide his diminished head in
+the jungle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug. 8, 9.</div>
+
+<p>The 8th and 9th were spent in burning and destroying
+the remains of the staggering town and a
+variety of smaller boats.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>As soon as the tide had risen sufficiently to take
+us over the shoals, we weighed in the steamer for the
+country of the Sekarran Dyaks, having sent the boats
+on before with the first of the flood.</p>
+
+<p>About fifteen miles above Patusen is the branch
+of the river called the Undop. Up this river I sent
+Lieutenant Turnour, with Mr. Comber, in the <i>Jolly
+Bachelor</i> and a division of our native boats, while we
+proceeded to where the river again branches off to
+the right and left, as on the tongue of land so formed
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span>
+we understood we should find a strong fort; besides,
+it was the highest point to which we could attempt
+to take the steamer. We found the place deserted
+and houses empty.</p>
+
+<p>We now divided the force into three divisions—the
+one already mentioned, under Lieutenant
+Turnour, up the Undop; another, under Mr. D’Aeth,
+up the Lupar; while Lieutenant Wade, accompanied
+by Brooke, ascended the Sekarran. I had not calculated
+on the disturbed and excited state in
+which I found the country: two wounded men
+having been sent back from the Undop branch,
+brought accounts of pirates, chiefly Malays, collected
+in great numbers both before and in the rear of our
+small force.</p>
+
+<p>An attempt had been made to cut off the bearer
+of this information, Nakodah Bahar, who had had a
+narrow escape, and had no idea of being the bearer
+of an answer unless attended by a European force.
+I had some difficulty in mustering another crew from
+the steamer, and left my friend Captain Scott with
+only the idlers, rather critically situated. I deemed
+it advisable to re-collect our whole force, and before
+proceeding to the punishment of the Sekarrans to
+destroy the power and influence of Seriff Muller,
+whose town was situated about twenty miles up, said
+to contain a population of 1500 Malays, without
+reckoning the Dyak tribes.</p>
+
+<p>Having despatched boats with directions to Lieutenant
+Wade and Mr. D’Aeth to join us in the
+Undop, a tributary of the Batang Lupar, proceeded
+to the scene of action; leaving the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> to
+maintain as strict a blockade of the Sekarran and
+Lupar branches as, with her reduced force, she was
+capable of.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p>
+
+<p>On my joining Lieutenant Turnour, I found him
+just returned from a very spirited attack which he
+had made, assisted by Mr. Comber, on a stockade
+situated on the summit of a steep hill, Mr. Allen, the
+Master, being still absent on a similar service on the
+opposite side of the river.</p>
+
+<p>The gallant old chief Patingi Ali was likewise
+absent in pursuit of the enemy that had been driven
+from the stockades, with whom he had had a hand-to-hand
+fight, the whole of which, being on the rising
+ground, was witnessed by our boats’ crews, who could
+not resist hailing his return from his gallant achievement
+with three hearty cheers.</p>
+
+<p>We had now to unite in cutting our way through
+a barrier across the river similar to that described
+in the attack on the Sarebas, which having passed
+we brought up for the night close to a still more
+serious obstacle in a number of huge trees felled,
+the branches of which, meeting midway in the river,
+formed apparently an insurmountable obstacle. But
+“patience and perseverance” overcame all obstacles.
+By night only three of the trees remained to be
+cleared away. On the right bank, about 50 yards
+in advance of the barrier, stood a farm building,
+which we considered it prudent to occupy for
+the night.</p>
+
+<p>Having collected fifty volunteers (Brooke and
+Wade had then not rejoined), I took Brooke’s schoolfellow
+Steward, Williamson, and with me Comber, a
+corporal and four marines, my gig’s crew, and, of
+course, my trusty John Eager, the sound of whose
+bugle meant mischief. The remainder composed of a
+medley of picked Malays and Dyaks.</p>
+
+<p>The house being 100 yards in advance of our
+party, and 80 from the river, it was difficult of
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span>
+approach, especially at night. The ground swampy,
+with logs of trees, over which I stumbled, and was up
+to my arms in mud and water. Nevertheless, there
+was no noise. It was a roomy building. In one
+corner I found an enclosure, forming a square of about
+8 feet; of this I took possession, and while in the place—it
+was pitch dark—I quietly divested me of my wet
+trousers.</p>
+
+<p>“Tiga” (three) was the watchword, in case of a
+stranger finding his way in. I was contemplating
+whether my duck trousers were sufficiently dry for
+me to get into, when every one was disturbed by
+a most diabolical war-yell. In a moment every
+man was on his legs—swords, spears, and krisses
+dimly glittered over our heads. It is impossible
+to describe the excitement and confusion of the
+succeeding ten minutes; one and all believed we
+had been surrounded by the enemy and cut off from
+our main party.</p>
+
+<p>I had already thrust the muzzle of my pistol close
+to the heads of several natives, whom in the confusion
+I had mistaken for Sekarrans; and as each
+in his turn called out “Tiga!” I withdrew my
+weapon to apply it to somebody else, until at last
+we found we were <em>all</em> “Tigas.” I had prevented
+Eager more than once from sounding the alarm,
+which from the first he had not ceased to press for
+permission to do.</p>
+
+<p>The Dyak yell had, however, succeeded in throwing
+the whole force afloat into a similar confusion,
+who, not hearing the signal, concluded they, and not
+we, were the party attacked. The real cause we
+afterwards ascertained to have arisen from the alarm
+of a Dyak, who dreamt, or imagined, he felt a spear
+thrust upwards through the bamboo flooring of our
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span>
+building, and immediately gave his diabolical yell.
+The confusion was ten times as much as it would
+have been had the enemy really been there. So
+ended the adventures of the night in the wild jungle
+of Borneo.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_10'>[10]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXIII'>CHAPTER XXXIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Dido</span>: Second Expedition</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1844.
+Aug.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight we were joined by Wade and Brooke,
+their division making a very acceptable increase to
+our force, and by eight o’clock the last barrier was
+cut through between us and Seriff Muller’s devoted
+town.</p>
+
+<p>With the exception of his own house, from which
+some eight or nine Malays were endeavouring to remove
+his effects, the whole place was deserted. They
+made no fight, and an hour afterwards the town had
+been plundered and burnt.</p>
+
+<p>The only lives lost were a few unfortunates, who
+happened to come within range of our musketry
+in their exertions to save some of their master’s
+property.</p>
+
+<p>A handsome large boat belonging to Seriff Muller
+was the only thing saved, and this I presented to
+Budrudeen.</p>
+
+<p>After a short delay in catching our usual supply of
+goats and poultry, with which the place abounded, we
+proceeded up the river in chase of the chief and his
+people, our progress much impeded by the immense
+trees felled across the river.</p>
+
+<p>We ascertained that the pirates had retreated to a
+Dyak village, situated on the summit of a hill, some
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span>
+twenty-five miles higher up the Undop, five or six
+miles only of which we had succeeded in ascending,
+as a most dreary and rainy night closed in, during
+which we were joined by D’Aeth and his division
+from the Lupar River.</p>
+
+<p>The following morning, at daybreak, we again
+commenced our toilsome work. We should have
+succeeded better with lighter boats, and I should
+have despaired of the heavier boats getting up had
+they not been assisted by an opportune and sudden
+rise of the tide, to the extent of 12 or 14 feet, though
+with this we had to contend against a considerably
+increased strength of current.</p>
+
+<p>It was on this day that my ever active and zealous
+First Lieutenant, Charles Wade, jealous of the advanced
+position of our light boats, obtained a place
+in my gig.</p>
+
+<p>That evening the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span> first and second
+cutters, the <span class='ships'>Dido’s</span> two cutters, and their gigs, were
+fortunate enough to pass a barrier composed of trees
+recently felled, from which we concluded ourselves to
+be so near the enemy that, by pushing forward as
+long as we could see, we might prevent further
+impediments from being thrown in our way. This
+we did, but at 9 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, arriving at a broad expanse of
+the river, and being utterly unable to trace our course,
+we anchored our advance force for the night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>The first landing-place we had no trouble in discovering,
+from the number of deserted boats collected
+near it. Leaving these to be looted, we proceeded
+in search of the second, which we understood was
+situated more immediately under the village, and
+which, having advanced without our guides, we had
+much difficulty in finding. The circuit of the base
+of the hill was above five miles.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span></p>
+
+<p>During this warfare, Patingi Ali, who, with his
+usual zeal, had here come up, bringing a considerable
+native force of both Malays and Dyaks, was particularly
+on the alert; while we in the gig attacked
+Seriff Muller himself.</p>
+
+<p>Patingi nearly succeeded in capturing that chief
+in person. He had escaped from his prahu into a
+fast-pulling sampan, in which he was chased by old
+Ali, and afterwards only saved his life by throwing
+himself into the water and swimming to the jungle;
+indeed, it was with no small pride that the gallant
+old chief appropriated the boat to his own use.</p>
+
+<p>In the prahu were captured two large brass guns,
+two smaller ones, a variety of arms, ammunition, and
+personal property, amongst which were also two pairs
+of handsome Wedgewood jars.</p>
+
+<p>While my crew were employed cooking, I crept
+into the jungle and suddenly fancied I heard the
+suppressed hum of many voices not far distant. I
+returned to our cooking party and bade Wade take
+up his double-barrel and come with me. I had not
+penetrated many yards before I came in sight of a
+mass of boats concealed in a snug little inlet, the
+entrance to which had escaped our notice. These
+boats were filled with piratical Dyaks and Malays,
+and sentinels posted at various points on the
+shore.</p>
+
+<p>My first impulse was to conceal ourselves until the
+arrival of our force, but my rash though gallant
+friend deemed otherwise, and, without noticing the
+caution of my upheld hand, dashed in advance, discharging
+his gun, calling upon our men to follow.</p>
+
+<p>It is impossible to conceive the consternation and
+confusion this our sudden sally occasioned among the
+pirates. The confused noise and scrambling from
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span>
+their boats I can only liken to that of a suddenly-roused
+flock of wild-ducks.</p>
+
+<p>Our attack from the point whence it came was
+evidently unexpected; and it is my opinion that they
+calculated on our attacking the hill, if we did so at
+all, from the nearest landing-place, without pulling
+round the other five miles, as the whole attention of
+their scouts appeared to be directed towards that
+quarter.</p>
+
+<p>A short distance above them was a small encampment,
+probably erected for the convenience of their
+chiefs, as in it we found writing materials, two or
+three desks of English manufacture, on the brass
+plate of one of which, I afterwards noticed, was
+engraved the name of “Willson.”</p>
+
+<p>To return to the pirates: with our force, such as
+it was—nine in number—we pursued our terrified
+enemy, headed by Wade.</p>
+
+<p>They foolishly themselves had not the courage to
+rally in their judiciously selected and naturally protected
+encampment, but continued their retreat (firing
+on us from the jungle) towards the Dyak village on
+the summit of the hill. We collected our force,
+reloaded our firearms; and Wade, seeing from this
+spot the arrival at the landing-place of the other
+boats, again rushed on in pursuit.</p>
+
+<p>Before arriving at the foot of the steep ascent on
+the summit of which the Dyak village stood, we had
+to cross a small open space of about 60 yards,
+exposed to the fire from the village as well as the
+surrounding jungle. It was before crossing this
+plain that I again cautioned Wade to await the
+arrival of his men, of whom he was far in advance.</p>
+
+<p>We suddenly came on to the snuggest and best-sheltered
+boat harbour I ever saw. The land was
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span>
+high towards the river, with a narrow and well-concealed
+entrance opening to the river, so high that
+an impromptu bridge in the shape of a large tree
+had been thrown across. It was along this that
+Wade was proceeding in advance, calling “Come on,
+my boys!” And I am afraid I did not disguise my
+gratification at seeing him disappear into the branches
+of a large tree growing beneath.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the cutter and other boats had landed
+at our point and were coming up. I had scarcely got
+across the tree-bridge, when I saw my friend scrambling
+up the opposite side, himself unhurt, his gun not
+discharged.</p>
+
+<p>Our men were now landing fast, and it was for
+very shame I could not allow Wade to proceed
+alone. Only a few minutes afterwards, while still
+trying to check him, a bullet from the hill took his
+thumb and twisted him in my direction; while a
+second shot struck him in the ribs and lodged in the
+spine—and he fell.</p>
+
+<p>By this time a strong party were up, whom I
+directed to pass on, while I ascertained that poor
+Wade’s heart had ceased to beat.</p>
+
+<p>We laid the body in a canoe, with the Union Jack
+for a pall, and descended the river. In the evening,
+the force assembled, committed the body to the deep.
+I read that impressive service from a Prayer-Book
+brought up by poor Wade himself—as he put it, “in
+case of accident.”</p>
+
+<p>Before we again got under way, several Malay
+families, no longer in dread of their piratical chief,
+Seriff Muller, gave themselves up to us as prisoners—the
+first instance of any of them having done so.
+We found sundry suspicious documents, exposing
+deep intrigues and conspiracies, and brought up for the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span>
+night off the still burning ruins of Seriff Muller’s
+town.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>On Tuesday we again reached the steamer. We
+still had something to settle with the Sekarrans, and,
+having rested for two days, started on the 17th on
+our last expedition.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>The weather was unusually fine, and we squatted
+down to our curry and rice with better appetites.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Our approach was made known by fires; but we
+once dropped, without their being aware of our
+approach, upon a boatful of Dyaks, dressed for
+war, with feather cloaks, brass ornaments, and scarlet
+caps. The discharge of our muskets and the capsizing
+of the war-boat was the work of an instant, and
+those who were uninjured escaped into the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>We experienced some difficulty in finding a
+suitable place for our bivouac. While examining
+the most eligible-looking spot on the bank of the
+river, the crew of one of the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span> boats,
+having crept up the opposite bank, came suddenly
+on a party of Dyaks, who saluted them with a
+war-yell and a shower of spears. The <span class='ships'>Phlegethon’s</span>
+men took to the water, much to our amusement
+as well as the Dyaks.</p>
+
+<p>The place we selected for the night was a large
+house, about 40 yards from the edge of the river.
+Here we united our different messes and passed a
+jovial evening. The night, however, set in with a
+fearful thunderstorm. The rain continued to fall
+in torrents, but cleared up at daylight, when we
+proceeded.</p>
+
+<p>As yet the banks of the river had been a continued
+garden, with sugar-cane and bananas; the scenery
+now became wilder.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>We were in hopes that this morning we should
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span>
+have reached their capital, Karangan, supposed to
+be about ten miles further on. Not expecting to
+meet with any opposition for some miles, we gave
+permission to Patingi Ali to advance cautiously with
+his light division, with orders to fall back on the
+first appearance of any natives. As the stream was
+running down strong, we held on to the bank,
+waiting for the arrival of the second cutter, in which
+were Brooke and Jenkins.</p>
+
+<p>Our pinnace and second gig having passed up,
+we remained about a quarter of an hour, when the
+report of a few musket-shots told us that the pirates
+had been fallen in with. We immediately pushed
+on, and as we advanced the increased firing from our
+boats, and the war-yells of some thousand Dyaks,
+let us know that we had met.</p>
+
+<p>It is difficult to describe the scene as I found it.
+About twenty boats were jammed together, forming
+one confused mass—some bottom up; the bows and
+sterns of others only visible, mixed up, pell-mell,
+with huge rafts—and amongst which were nearly all
+our advanced division.</p>
+
+<p>Headless trunks, as well as heads without bodies,
+were lying about; parties hand to hand spearing and
+krissing each other, others striving to swim for their
+lives; and entangled in the common mêlée were our
+advanced boats, while on both banks thousands of
+Dyaks were rushing down to join in the slaughter,
+hurling spears and stones on the boats below.</p>
+
+<p>For a moment I was at a loss what steps to take
+for rescuing our people from the position in which
+they were, as the whole mass, through which there
+was no passage, were floating down the stream, and
+the addition of fresh boats only increased the confusion.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p>
+
+<p>Fortunately, at this critical moment one of the
+rafts, catching the stump of a tree, broke this floating
+bridge, making a passage, through which my gig
+(propelled by paddles instead of oars)—the bugler,
+John Eager, in the bow—was enabled to pass.</p>
+
+<p>It occurred to Brooke and myself simultaneously,
+that by advancing in the gig we should draw the
+attention of the pirates towards us, so as to give time
+for the other boats to clear themselves. This had
+the desired effect. The whole force on shore turned,
+as if to secure what they rashly conceived to be their
+prize.</p>
+
+<p>We now advanced mid-channel, spears and stones
+assailing us from both banks. Brooke’s gun would
+not go off, so, giving him the yoke-lines, I, with the
+coxswain to load, had time to select the leaders from
+amongst the savage mass, on which I kept up a rapid
+fire.</p>
+
+<p>Allen, in the second gig, quickly coming up,
+opened upon them from a Congreve rocket-tube
+such a destructive fire as caused them to retire behind
+the temporary barriers where they had concealed
+themselves previous to the attack on Patingi Ali,
+and from whence they continued, for some twenty
+minutes, to hurl their spears and other missiles,
+among which were short lengths of bamboo loaded
+with stone at one end. The <i lang='tl'>sumpitan</i> was likewise
+freely employed, and although several of our men
+were struck, no fatal results ensued. Mr. Beith, our
+assistant surgeon, dexterously excised the wounds,
+and what poison remained was sucked out by comrades
+of the wounded men.</p>
+
+<p>From this position, however, the Sekarrans retreated
+as our force increased, and could not again
+muster courage to rally. Their loss <em>must</em> have been
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span>
+considerable. Ours might have been light had poor
+old Patingi Ali attended to orders.</p>
+
+<p>He was over confident. Instead of falling back,
+as particularly directed by me, on the first appearance
+of any of the enemy he made a dash, followed by
+his little division of boats, through the narrow pass.
+The enemy at once launched large rafts of bamboo
+and cut off his retreat. Six war-prahus bore down,
+three on either side, on Patingi’s devoted followers.
+One only of a crew of seventeen escaped to tell the
+tale.</p>
+
+<p>When last seen by our advanced boats, Mr.
+Steward and Patingi Ali were in the act (their own
+boats sinking) of boarding the enemy. They were
+doubtless overpowered and killed, with twenty-nine
+others. Our wounded in all amounted to fifty-six.</p>
+
+<p>A few miles further up was the capital of Karangan,
+which we carried without further opposition.</p>
+
+<p>Having achieved the object of our expedition, we
+dropped leisurely down the river; slept in our boats,
+with a strong guard on shore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>On the 20th we reached the steamer, where
+we remained all the next day attending to the
+wounded.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>On the 22nd we reached Patusen, finding everything
+in the wretched state we had left it. At 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>
+we heard the report of a gun, which was repeated
+nearer at nine, and before a signal rocket could be
+fired, we were hailed by the boats of the <span class='ships'>Samarang</span>,
+Captain Sir Edward Belcher, and the next moment
+he was alongside the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> with the welcome
+news of having brought our May mail.</p>
+
+<p>It appears that, on arrival of <span class='ships'>Samarang</span> off Morotoba,
+Sir Edward heard of the loss we had sustained,
+and, with his usual zeal and activity, came to our
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span>
+assistance, having brought his boats no less than 120
+miles in about thirty hours.</p>
+
+<p>There were two accidents just at this moment
+which might have been more serious. D’Aeth, hearing
+of the mail, hurried on board the <span class='ships'>Samarang</span> in a
+small sampan, and was capsized. His skill in swimming
+saved him; his one paddler caught hold of a
+boat near. No sooner than these had been cared for,
+when Brooke, whose ears, always on the alert for
+native cries, heard voices in trouble, and, jumping
+into his Singapore sampan, pushed off with Siboo to
+the assistance of our Dyak followers, who had been
+capsized by the bore. He rescued three out of a
+crew of eleven, and these were half drowned when
+he reached them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>We moved down as far as the mouth of the
+Linga, and on the night of the 24th were once again
+in Sarawak. Here the rejoicings of the previous
+year were repeated.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>But having received information that Seriff Sahib
+had taken refuge in the Linga River, and, assisted
+by Seriff Jaffer, was again collecting followers, we
+were off again on the 28th, with the addition of the
+<span class='ships'>Samarang’s</span> boats. And, determining to crush this
+persevering pirate, in the middle of the night came
+to an anchor inside the Linga River.</p>
+
+<p>When our expedition had been watched safely
+outside the Batang Lupar on its return to Sarawak,
+all those unfortunate families that had concealed
+themselves in the jungle after the destruction of
+Patusen and Undop, emerged from their hiding-places,
+and by means of rafts, canoes, packerangans,
+or anything that would float, were in the act of
+crossing towards Bunting, a flourishing place. Their
+dismay can well be imagined when at daylight on
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span>
+the morning of the 29th they found themselves
+carried by the tide close alongside the terror-spreading
+steamer, in the midst of our augmented fleet.
+Escape to them was hopeless; nor did the women
+seem to mind. It was a choice between starvation
+in the jungle or coming under submission to the
+white man.</p>
+
+<p>I need not say that, instead of being molested,
+they were supplied with such provisions and assistance
+as our means would permit, and allowed to pass
+quietly on. We sent several of our native followers
+into the Batang Lupar to inform the fugitives that
+our business was with the chiefs and instigators of
+piracy, and not with the ryots of the country.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>With the ebb-tide a number of boats came down
+from the town containing the principal chiefs, with
+assurances of their pacific intentions; welcoming us
+with presents of poultry, goats, fruit, etc., which we
+accepted, but paying for them, either in barter or
+hard dollars, the fair market price. We learned that
+Seriff Sahib had arrived at Pontranini, some fifty
+miles beyond their <i lang='tl'>kampong</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We immediately proceeded in chase of him, at
+the same time despatching two boats to look out for
+Macota, who was expected at the mouth of the river.
+We knew what the fate of this once powerful chief
+would be if he fell into the hands of our friendlies.
+He was captured alive in a deep muddy jungle into
+which he had thrown himself when our men arrived.
+Leaving Macota a prisoner on board the <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span>,
+with the flood-tide we pushed forward in pursuit of
+Seriff Sahib.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>For two days we dragged our boats twenty miles
+up a small jungly creek; but Seriff Sahib fled across
+the mountains in the direction of the Pontiana River.
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span>
+So close were we on his rear that he threw away his
+sword, and left behind him a child, whom he had
+hitherto carried, in the jungle. Thus this notorious
+chief was driven, single and unattended, out of the
+reach of doing any further mischief.</p>
+
+<p>The boats returned, and took up a formidable
+position off Bunting, where Seriff Jaffer was summoned
+to a conference, which he attended, but under
+compulsion from his people, who feared their <i lang='tl'>kampong</i>
+being destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>On this occasion I had the satisfaction of witnessing
+a splendid piece of oratory delivered by Brooke
+in Malay. The purport of it was, as I understood,
+to point out the horrors of piracy on the one hand,
+which the British Government determined to suppress,
+and on the other the blessings arising from peace and
+trade, which it was equally our wish to cultivate;
+and he concluded by fully explaining that the
+measures adopted by us against piracy were for the
+protection of the peaceful communities along the
+coast. The people listened with great attention; a
+pin could have been heard, had it dropped, during
+Brooke’s fine speech.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>The force again reached Sarawak, and thus terminated
+a successful expedition against the worst
+class of pirates on the coast of Borneo.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_22'>[22]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXIV'>CHAPTER XXXIV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Dido</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1844.
+Sept.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Steamer’s crew cutting wood, I writing distressing
+letters to the friends of Wade, as well as to the
+father of Dr. Simpson. Hospitably entertained by
+Belcher.</p>
+
+<p>Landed sundry parties after deer and hog.
+Oysters fine, the best things here.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>At an early hour started on a pleasure excursion.
+Late at night anchored in the Lundu River,
+having tiffed by the way at one of the small islands
+on splendid oysters.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored off the town; visited, and was hospitably
+entertained by, the Dyaks. In the evening had
+a feast and a war-dance; was in other ways much
+amused. Slept in the Dyak “scullery” house.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Collected all the dogs and beaters and proceeded
+to the mouth of the river. All sport confined to
+the Dyaks, we never getting a shot; very good fun,
+though—a hog was caught by dogs and speared by
+natives.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Landed again early; more hogs taken by the
+natives. Working on towards Santobong; capital
+luncheon on the finest oysters. Dined on board the
+<span class='ships'>Samarang</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke and self returned to <span class='ships'>Dido</span> in gig, twenty-five
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span>
+miles’ pull. Found heavy sick-list, one marine
+just expired of dysentery.</p>
+
+<p>Took up quarters with Brooke at The Grove.
+Deputations and tenders of allegiance from all the
+surrounding chiefs satisfactory.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Preparing for moving down. Boats to finish;
+spars to get on board; captured guns to embark.
+Visited the Rajah and the Datu, “Father of Hopeful,”
+his women sprinkling us with yellow rice and
+gold-dust—one graceful and pretty and well dressed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Too much to do on board. Did not go off to
+muster.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight saw from my window <span class='ships'>Dido</span> salute
+Rajah and commence dropping down the river.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Went down after breakfast, accompanied by
+Brooke, and found my <span class='ships'>Dido</span> at anchor off the junction.
+Moved further down on rising of tide.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Williamson, Turnour, Partridge, Charlie Johnson,
+and Douglas came down from Sarawak to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Cruikshank and Williamson to dinner. Finished
+my claret.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Reached the mouth of the river. Present of
+warlike weapons from Budrudeen. Took leave of
+dear Rajah Brooke, and worked the ship over the
+bar of the Maratabu.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived in Singapore. Ordered home. More
+anxious for passage than my one cabin can hold.
+Selected a rough diamond, but great character, one
+Michael Quin, lately Captain of <span class='ships'>Minden</span>, hospital
+ship, also Lieutenant Inglefield. I had but one cabin,
+but could swing more than two cots.</p>
+
+<p>Pleasure of thoughts of home damped by news
+of the death of my sister, Lady Leicester.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>News of <span class='ships'>Pelican</span> having sprung a leak; hope not.
+<span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> off for Brooke and Borneo. Dined with
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span>
+Oxley. His nutmeg plantation worth seeing—cinnamon
+and cloves.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Lots of rain. Napier spliced this morning.
+Tiffin at Balestiers’ to meet the happy pair. Good
+fellow Napier, and a pair well matched.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Up very early. On board <span class='ships'>Diana</span> steamer with
+Governor and Mrs. Butterworth. Lady party;
+<span class='ships'>Dido’s</span> band. Returned by Rhio Straits. Dance on
+board. Pleasant day.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Called on the Blundells. Like her and her sister
+much. Dined with Stevenson.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>A snug little dinner of ten good fellows prior to
+a dance given by Tom Church in honour of the
+<span class='ships'>Dido’s</span> Captain. Band got drunk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>My <span class='ships'>Dido</span> visited by Governor and Mrs. Butterworth,
+Mrs. Blundell, and sister—the three nicest
+women in Singapore. A grand parting dinner given
+to me by the inhabitants of Singapore. Nervous,
+very, making my speech.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Old Balestier, American Consul, on board; salutes,
+etc., Governor, giving a grand dinner to “meet
+Captain Keppel”; ladies there; more nervous in
+returning thanks.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed from Singapore. Fort saluting me.
+Invalids improving.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Passed mouth of the Moowar, of bygone memories.
+Came to off Malacca at sunset.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Called on Governor; both nice people. Visited
+Salmona and stopped to dinner; drove in with
+Morrison afterwards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Young Barney Rodyk embarked; sadly pressed
+for room; made sail. <span class='ships'>Wolverine</span> in co.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Well ahead of <span class='ships'>Wolverine</span>. Came to off Parcelar
+Hill; boarded by a boat from a ship full of
+pilgrims from Mecca, having struck on a bank with
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span>
+loss of rudder and hard up for water. Sent <span class='ships'>Wolverine</span>
+to her assistance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>No use fretting about the wind. Hardly consider
+myself as homeward bound until round Acheen
+Head.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Decided, against Master, on southern passage, and
+anchored off Penang at sunset. Went to Captain’s
+house, the most comfortable quarters in India.
+Issued invitations: “Captain Keppel and officers
+request the pleasure of everybody’s company to-morrow
+evening.” Dined with Sir William and
+Lady Norris. Mrs. Hall at home.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Visited various hospitals with Cantor—one of
+lunatics of all sorts. Got “Chopsticks” from school.
+Dined with old Lewis. Capital ball and supper given
+by “Didos.” Kept up till daylight did appear.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed before turning in; very seedy, though.
+Fort saluted me with 13 guns. Really off for home.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Lots of talk about the ball; everybody pleased.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>One of the invalids from <span class='ships'>Driver</span> died—a young
+man; the effects of Hong Kong climate. Committed
+his remains to the deep. Sensible to the last that he
+was going, but did not seem to trouble himself as to
+the road; a good man, too, in his way.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Anniversary of the birthday of Princess Royal.
+Run of 251 miles in last twenty-four hours.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Simon’s Bay,
+Dec.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>My cabin-meeting of the fine arts. Inglefield
+doing me pictures of my <span class='ships'>Dido</span>. Ran into Simon’s
+Bay with a leading wind, saluting the flag of my
+kind friend Sir Jos. Percy, of Mediterranean memory,
+whose flag was now flying on board <span class='ships'>Winchester</span>—Captain
+Charles Eden. Found George Woodhouse
+here in the <span class='ships'>Thunderbolt</span>, 6, a steam vessel.
+In fact, I felt myself already at home—scarcely a
+stone on shore that did not convey some pleasant
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span>
+reminiscence of happy days. In every house a
+home. While refitting I had scarcely time to call
+on half my kind friends. Among those I undertook
+to entertain at my table, in addition to my two
+passengers, was Edward Drummond, a nephew of
+the Admiral, and about to enter the Church.
+[Years afterwards I was his guest at Cadland,
+Southampton, and he the head of the great Drummond
+Bank at Charing Cross.] My other guest, a
+quiet, retiring Swede, who had served his term in our
+service, by name Adleborg, a clever artist as well as
+a good fellow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Luncheon with Lady Sarah Maitland—like the
+Lennoxes, nice family. At Wynberg; a very agreeable
+dinner and evening. Kerr Hamilton there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Ship ready. Stopped to luncheon with Admiral
+at one. Went over <span class='ships'>Winchester</span>: nice order and
+beautifully clean. My <span class='ships'>Dido</span> under way, Charles
+Eden putting me on board. Outside, a freshening
+breeze from the south-east, but we had to weather
+the Cape. Topgallant sails over double-reefed topsails;
+a strong set against us. It was not until close
+to the Anvil and Bellows that we felt the full
+strength of the current. The Master and self had
+taken our position on the forecastle, each holding on
+to the up-and-down part of the fore-topsail sheets,
+spray breaking over us. We now became aware of
+what we had undertaken. On looking under the foot
+of the fore-sail, the Cape and South Africa appeared
+to be rushing at us: it was too late either to bear
+up or attempt to tack. Held on, I am afraid, with
+eyes closed. The Master was the first to call out,
+“Wave weathered”; the offset from the rocky
+Cape alone saved us: we appeared to be rushing
+up the west side of the African coast. On the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span>
+weather-quarter the Cape appeared close to, but
+towering far above our mast-heads. By degrees, but
+slowly, we drew off the west coast. I do not
+believe that any other ship could, under the circumstances,
+have been saved.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Adleborg a first-rate artist, clever at allegorical
+sketches of <span class='ships'>Dido</span>, which I value; very clever and
+witty they are.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>2 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Anchored at St. Helena. Visited old
+Solomon and his shop; also Colonel and Mrs.
+Trelawney. Weighed at 1.30 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> According to
+notice, made sail 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> Found <span class='ships'>Larne</span> and <span class='ships'>Rapid</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1845.
+Jan.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Sails splitting and ropes giving way; foolish
+economy, ships not being better supplied.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Breeze freshening up; thermometer falling;
+bitter cold, hazy weather. Hauled in; made the
+land to the eastward of Bill of Portland; bore up
+for the Needles: arrived at Spithead. Reported
+myself to my old friend Hyde Parker, Admiral
+Superintendent of the Dockyard, Commander-in-Chief
+Sir Charles Rowley being on leave. It was blowing
+fresh from the S.E., but having an experienced pilot,
+gave the Master leave to stay on shore the night,
+and sent my gig on board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Parker said I had better call in the afternoon,
+as he had telegraphed to the Admiralty. I
+then visited my old friend Casher, the wine merchant,
+and inquired if he knew anything of the whereabouts
+of my wife, as he had always forwarded parcels between
+us. He informed me that she had come
+home from Boulogne: only two days ago he had
+sent parcels to my place at Droxford, where she had
+joined her father, who, with his family, had taken
+possession.</p>
+
+<p>The days were short, and it was dark before I got
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span>
+back to the Admiral; he informed me that <span class='ships'>Dido</span> was
+ordered to Sheerness. I ventured to state that I
+had ordered my gig on board. He said: “I have
+anticipated that; you will find the <span class='ships'>Fanny</span> tender
+fast to a buoy at the harbour, with orders to take
+you off.”</p>
+
+<p>Now this <em>was</em> a go; I had been more than four
+years absent: my wife within thirteen miles.</p>
+
+<p>I went to Casher’s and inquired if he had a man
+acquainted with Gosport, or any one who could find a
+Mr. Allen, Master of the <span class='ships'>Dido</span>, and bring him to
+me. I waited a good while, in cocked hat, sword, and
+epaulettes, before the poor Master appeared in pea-jacket
+and oilskin, etc. I soon explained the state of
+affairs.</p>
+
+<p>He was just about my size. It ended by my saying
+that he must change clothes with me. The <span class='ships'>Fanny</span>
+was waiting at the buoy. He would personate me,
+find orders on board, and obey them. Allen muttered
+something about losing my commission. We went
+off in a wherry. On his getting on board he received
+his orders, opened and read them. I touched my hat,
+and said “Goodbye, Sir,” and told the waterman to
+land me at Gosport. Reached Droxford in time for
+dinner! Brother-in-law soon rigged me in proper
+costume.</p>
+
+<p>Following morning took wife and self off in a
+yellow post-chaise, but my danger of being found
+out was not over. The Captain Superintendent,
+W. H. Shireff, was an old friend of mine; fond of
+driving a team of horses, and we used to think he
+managed it in a seamanlike way.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sheerness,
+Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>When we arrived at the dockyard gates it was
+luckily quite dark. Drove to the Superintendent’s
+house and took him at once into my confidence.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>
+Jan.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>No news of <span class='ships'>Dido</span>! Shireff gave us a steamer to
+Sheerness. Took a fly to the pilot, where we had
+lodged while fitting out.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>It was the third night before <span class='ships'>Dido</span> arrived, when,
+in the early morning, the good pilot Taylor took me
+off and I returned the Master his hat and pea-jacket.
+Soon after 8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> reported arrival of <span class='ships'>Dido</span> to Vice-Admiral
+Sir John Chambers, K.C.B.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>My <span class='ships'>Dido</span> inspected for last time by Admiral Sir
+John White. Very cold and rainy weather. Men
+showed themselves well to the last. My brother
+Tom came down.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Getting on with the dismantling. Went on
+board with Tom and wife. Bitter cold weather.
+Tom stopping with us—affectionate, good fellow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Preparations for paying progressing. Dirty and
+bitter cold weather continuing. Custom House
+people troublesome. Smuggling progressing. Paying
+off days much alike!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>My reign in <span class='ships'>Dido</span> finished this morning. Paid
+off, men receiving about £4000. Glad as I am to
+get back, I do not leave my ship without feelings of
+regret.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_30'>[30]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXV'>CHAPTER XXXV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>England</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1845.
+Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Dido</span> paid off. Arrived with wife in London to
+enjoy half-pay! My father living in Berkeley Square,
+we knew where to find a dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Summoned to Admiralty. Gracious reception by
+Lord Haddington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>News from Brooke. Labuan ceded to the British
+Government. Brooke had entrusted me with his
+private diary, and a <i lang='fr'>carte-blanche</i> to use my discretion
+about publishing—a more responsible charge
+than I was then aware of. I had a friend, Jerdan,
+editor of the <cite>Court Journal</cite>. After consultations
+it was decided to publish, under the title of
+“Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. <span class='ships'>Dido</span>.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>At my brother-in-law, Stephenson’s, in Arlington
+Street, always had a bed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Woolwich,
+Feb.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>To Woolwich to see Commodore Sir Francis
+Collier, in charge of the dockyard, his broad pennant
+flying on the <span class='ships'>William and Mary</span> yacht.
+Visited also George Goldsmith, now married, living
+there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Went to Portsmouth on a visit to my late Chief,
+Admiral Hyde Parker and his charming family.
+Remained a week.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Attended levee with Granville Loch. Presented
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span>
+by Sir William Parker on return from China. Her
+Majesty said something nice to me, which, in my
+nervousness, I was sorry not to have heard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>My Mids, D’Aeth and Jenkins, passed first and
+second out of the lot at Portsmouth. My father
+gave me the copy of a correspondence between Lord
+Haddington and himself about my being the only
+Captain not recommended for the C.B. Lord Haddington
+wrote: “Captain Keppel’s ship had not been
+under fire in action.” Father stated that <span class='ships'>Dido</span> was
+not the only ship. Lord Haddington replied: “It
+is evident you allude to the <span class='ships'>Endymion</span>, Captain Grey,
+whose name had been mentioned to General Sir Hugh
+Gough by Brigadier-General Schoedde.” Father could
+not help thinking it was a hard case, which Lord
+Haddington admitted, and promised that my name
+should be down for the first vacancy. I mention
+this here, as the subject was alluded to years afterwards.
+Sir Grey Skipwith, recollecting my weakness,
+offered me a mount with the Warwickshire Hounds,
+and before leaving town I dined with that distinguished
+soldier, Sir William Keir Grant.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Quickly found my way to Newbold Hall. Sir
+Grey and his large family charming as ever.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Started from stables, the usual dozen red coats.
+Meet at Shuckborough, found at Cranborough. Got
+away with the first flight. Not recollecting the
+country, found myself with about a score charging
+the river Leam. Reached opposite bank, which was
+rotten. Fell back and found the bottom. I believe
+only two got out safe. My new pink came out
+black.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Back to London to dine with Sir Thomas Trowbridge.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>To Greenwich by rail, to dine in hospital with that
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span>
+grand old Admiral, Sir Robert Stopford, his happy
+lady and family looking so well.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Templer and I enjoyed an excellent dinner Jerdan
+gave us at the Garrick Club.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Mr. Edward Ellice kindly lent us his house, 18
+Arlington Street. Admiral and Mrs. Sam Rowley
+dined with us on their way through London, she
+informing me I was left in his will, heir and executor.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>We attended the Queen’s Drawing-Room.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Lunched with the Hawleys, who had established
+themselves in Halkin Street. He had a charming
+yacht, the <span class='ships'>Mischief</span>, with a woman for figurehead,
+which his wife disapproved of. An image of a
+monkey was executed to replace the lady; but there
+was so much trouble and legal expense in changing
+a figurehead, that the monkey was transferred to a
+box seat over my coach-house door. As I had no
+carriage the groom was not jealous.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Archie MacDonald dined with us prior to the
+Queen’s Ball. On that occasion, although an old
+Fusilier Guardsman, he hid himself behind a screen
+till the ceremony was over.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Droxford,
+May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Glad to take possession of our snug little place at
+Droxford. A four-horse coach running between
+Gosport and London passed our door twice daily:
+a great convenience. William Garnier’s place,
+Rooksbury Park, was within two miles of us.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>In London met Sir Henry Pottinger: had a walk
+and a talk about China times.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Droxford,
+July&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Arthur Cunynghame, our China friend, came to
+stay with us. Also Fred Horton.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Met George Delmé at the station. With niece to
+see departure of the fleet from Spithead. Too late
+to get out, so took a cruise in the Freemart Fair.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>At Cams. In Delmé’s drag to Goodwood Races.
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span>
+Delmé Radcliffe, Onslow, the two Foleys, etc. My
+father being of the Goodwood party, wife and I
+were invited into the Duke’s end of the grand stand.
+Unaccustomed to racing society, my wife was a trifle
+nervous. However, observing my father in deep
+conversation with a light weight in a blue coat with
+brass buttons, yellow, leathers and mahogany tops,
+she inquired of Lady Albemarle if that was His
+Lordship’s jockey. To which this amiable lady
+replied in a loud voice: “No, my dear. That is
+the Duke of Bedford.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>In Delmé’s drag. Ten outside!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>The great Cup Day. Twenty-one horses started.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Concluded a splendid week’s racing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>We left London for Quidenham. Glad to be
+where I had passed my youth. The dear old father,
+no longer able to shoot, had taken to breeding bloodstock.
+The park near the river was cut into paddocks,
+where I saw some promising youngsters for the
+Derby. I was not sorry when Lady Albemarle inquired
+of my wife how long we were going to stay.
+We had some dear old friends in the neighbourhood:
+Partridges, Surtees, Eyres, and others. Went to
+Hockham on the 22nd.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>A day in London on business. By rail to Chesterford,
+and chaise to my friend Alexander Cotton:
+the same who, as a lieutenant, was capsized with me
+at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour in October
+1830, he having now succeeded to the Hildersham
+property. Cotton’s house very comfortable; his
+claret uncommon good.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Rode after breakfast to Newmarket. In my
+father’s stables saw “Emperor,” “Smuggler Bill,”
+“Little Dorrit,” “Sir Rupert.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Cotton and self to Newmarket.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Left Cotton to visit the Partridges at Hockham.
+Met at Harling Road by my old shipmate George
+Partridge.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Out shooting. I killed eleven partridges and one
+pheasant.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Champion Partridge came over. With the exception
+of a couple of days with George Birche’s Harriers
+had a capital week’s shooting.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Walked over to Larling Parsonage, where I found
+my old friend Colonel Eyre, 98th, with his brother
+Edward the clergyman.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>George Wodehouse, Charles Partridge, and I rode
+over to Quidenham to see the brood-mares and
+young stock. Left Hockham for London. I was
+now in possession of a couple of hunters. Intending
+to enjoy myself, sent them on to Newbold, having
+business in London.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>From London by rail, in company with Joseph
+Hawley, George Payne, Shelley, Greville, and other
+turf men to Chesterford. They to Newmarket. I
+to friend Cotton.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hildersham,
+Oct.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>To Newmarket. Racing particularly good. Cambridgeshire
+stakes won by “Alum.” Twenty-eight
+started, beating “Baron,” the winner of St. Leger,
+and Cæsarwitch, etc.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>This morning’s racing good. Backed my father’s
+colt “Radulphus” in the Glasgow, and lost my money.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Newbold,
+Nov.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Went with Harry Skipwith to Warwickshire
+Hunt; meet at Stonleigh Park, a beautiful place.
+Next day to see the Athelstane; meet at the
+Cross. Some pretty fencing from cover to cover
+and plenty of foxes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Sent horses to Leighton Buzzard. A hearty
+welcome by Delmé Radcliffe at Hitchin Priory.
+The Eliot Yorkes staying there.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Having sent horses on with Delmé Radcliffe, to
+Brand’s hounds, Delmé having been Master of
+Hounds was proud to mount “Heki,” and delighted
+with him, as I was with my “Tom.” The run
+good for this country. We went and returned in a
+yellow post-chaise.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hitchin
+Priory,
+Nov.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Mounted by Radcliffe. Went with the Harriers
+on his “Touch-and-Go”; supposed to be the best
+pack of the sort in England. Good for pastime,
+but it does not do after fox-hunting.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>With Brand’s hounds: rode “Heki,” nothing
+particular by way of a run. Pleased with my horse
+though.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Harriers met at the Priory. Pretty and fast
+thing. Radcliffe hunting them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>With Brand’s hounds. Rode “Tom.” Found at
+Boxwood. Good run of 52 minutes. Was to the
+front the whole time. Radcliffe got the brush for
+my wife in commemoration of “Tom’s” performances.
+Killed at Yardley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>A right good run on “Heki” with the Harriers.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>In afternoon rode “Tom” with the Harriers and
+had an excellent run of 50 minutes, the hare running
+better than many foxes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Sent “Heki” on to meet the Cambridgeshire at
+Shear Hutch. Sharp run over heavy country. I got
+the brush.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>No meet. Rode to see the Charles Radcliffes at
+Halwell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>With Radcliffe to meet the Puckeridge at Bedlington:
+a sharp thing. Got a cropper, but was in
+time to get the brush.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Gilston
+Park,
+Dec.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>By rail to Burnt Mill, where I met Henry Seymour
+and Brice Pearse, who took us to Gilston Park, a
+nice old place he had hired for farming purposes.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Seymour and myself to meet the Puckeridge
+Hounds at Pelham. Rode “Heki”: a good gallop,
+leaving off fourteen miles from home.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>With Brice Pearse to a city stable. Ostler
+brought out an Irish chestnut mare just under fifteen
+hands. On my inquiring if she could jump, a six-barred
+gate was placed across the paved passage road
+leading to the stables, which she jumped without
+trouble or hesitation. I paid £23 for her, and
+named her “Ticket” because she cleared the gates.
+She could not walk, but persevered in a jog trot to
+the end of the longest day. End of season, sold
+her for £70 to the Pytchley Hunt for a whip’s horse.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>An idle day; mostly passed in the stable. Rode
+Pearse’s pony to Harlow with Henry Seymour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Henry Seymour and I posted twenty-two miles
+to meet of Puckeridge Hounds. Had sent “Heki”
+on; a good run well worth the distance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>By early train to London and on from Euston
+Square to Catton Hall. Fred Horton met us at the
+station.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Catton
+Hall,
+Dec.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Catton, a nice old place. Pretty grounds—good
+stabling. Drove with Fred Horton in a
+dogcart. Granville Loch arrived.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Four guns. Bromley, Horton, Loch, and self to
+shoot. Pretty shooting: 42 head returned. I
+bagged 2 rabbits, 5 pheasants, and 11 hares. Fred
+Horton shot, as he thought, a hare creeping in a
+hedge, which proved to be a fox. Gave one of the
+beaters half a sovereign to bury it!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Stormy morning. Rode “Ticket” to meet of
+Meynall Ingram’s hounds at Gorsley Ley. Found
+immediately; was fortunate in getting well away.
+Pretty run for some twelve miles in an enclosed
+country. Long ride home.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Catton
+Hall,
+Dec.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>The Donnington Hounds met near Derby; rode
+over to Osmaston to dine and sleep.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Sat with Lady Wilmot. My China boy “Chopsticks”
+much grown and very spoiled.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>After breakfast rode back to Catton by Twyford
+Ferry: best road for riding.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Ingram Meynall’s hounds meeting at Drakelow.
+Mr. and Lady Sophia De Veux. Rode “Ticket”:
+bad scenting day, and huntsmen no great things.
+Ergo no run; though a find at Drakelow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Rode “Heki” with the Atherstone. Meet at
+Warton; much pleasanter having a companion to
+ride to covert with. Two good runs; though a
+rainy afternoon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Catton,
+Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>General A’Court to dinner with a handsome
+daughter.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Newbold,
+Dec.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of Lady and Miss Horton. I rode
+“Heki”; groom on “Ticket” to Osmaston. Fred
+Horton took care of wife by rail. Lord John Russell
+unable to form a ministry.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Christmas Day. My first in England for some
+time.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>The Donnington Hounds met at Cork Park. A
+beautiful place belonging to Sir John Crewe. “Ticket”
+fell at a fence and gave me a cropper.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Wife to Newbold Vicarage. I on to London,
+<i lang='fr'>en route</i> for Hockham.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_38'>[38]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXVI'>CHAPTER XXXVI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Shore Time—Study Steam</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1846.
+Jan.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>At Hockham shooting.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>By rail to Rugby and on to Newbold.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Mounted Grey Skipwith. Hunt with the Atherstone
+at Coombe Abbey. A goodish run. “Heki”
+a trifle lame.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Departure of Skipwiths in various directions,
+preparatory to the Warwickshire Hunt Ball.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Grey, Sidmouth, and I to meet the Pytchley at
+Crick. Certainly the finest run I had witnessed;
+George Payne giving me the brush.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Went shares in a pair of posters with Grey Skipwith
+to meet the Warwickshire at Shuckborough.
+“Ticket” sent on from Newbold. Found, and fell
+at a brook.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>At Admiralty. Saw Lord Haddington. By
+steam to Woolwich. Only time to look at <span class='ships'>Terrible</span>
+of large dimensions. Dined with Frank Collier.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfast with Tufnell and Fred Horton.
+Attended dinner given by Naval Club to Lord
+Haddington on leaving Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Up early for Rugby, where I had “Ticket” and
+hunting things sent. With the Warwickshire Hounds.
+Meet at Dunchurch. Capital run. Returned to
+Newbold.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Rode “Heki” with Grey Skipwith to Leamington.
+Took his mare and £30 in exchange for “Ticket.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Leamington,
+Feb.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>“Heki” falling lame, left him at Leamington and
+returned by rail to Rugby.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of Newbold. Established ourselves
+in lodgings at Leamington, for wife to be near
+Doctor Jephson. Horses at Stanley’s. “Heki” still
+lame.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Grey Skipwith came to dine and sleep. Letter
+from Mrs. Rowley announcing death of grand old
+Admiral Sir Josias, and enclosing a copy of his will,
+in which, should he survive his wife, after legacies,
+he had left everything to me—a kindness I had no
+right to expect.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Leamington full of lame hunters. By train to
+London.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Feb.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Horton appointed to command of <span class='ships'>Cygnet</span>, 6 gun
+brig, on coast of Africa. Attended levee of First
+Lord.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Great naval dinner at Thatched House Club.
+Prince George of Cambridge there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Eleven train to Leamington. Wife better.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Leamington,
+Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Rode with Grey Skipwith to see the Steeplechase
+at Southam. An amusing scene, but Leamington is
+not the most amusing place for a man who cannot
+keep horses.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Sold “Heki” for £15. Once refused 100 guineas!!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with First Lord of the Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>By steamboat to see Frank Collier at Woolwich.
+He, Nic Lockyer, and I went over the <span class='ships'>Terrible</span>, an
+enormous vessel, 1847 tons, 800 horse-power.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Mar.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>News from the Enlightened States. More warlike
+than ever. Lost no time in tendering services
+to Lord Ellenborough.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Met Sir Charles Fitzroy, with boys, Augustus
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span>
+and George, grown into men: little Mary into a
+tall handsome mother of three children.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>At Leamington. Dined at Lady Farnham’s:
+grub good, but seven ladies!! Saunders and self
+only gentlemen.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>To Coventry races. Racing good as far as horses
+being well matched. Rough attendance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Leamington,
+Mar.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Sported phaeton and pair of horses for the three
+days’ racing.</p>
+
+<p>Delmé Radcliffe, Gore, and two Skipwiths to dine
+with us.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Steeplechase Day. Leamington full of ’legs and
+all sorts of rogues. Party of six to dine. “Grand,
+for us!” First-rate steeplechase.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Acted as chaperon to Amelia Williams; she
+riding Wood’s horse. Warwickshire meet at Stonleigh,
+afterwards steeplechase at Southam.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Bury came to us from London to go to the second
+ball: he dancing mad.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Leamington,
+Mar.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>A good steeplechase at Warwick—country heavy—“Pioneer”
+winning—a splendid horse.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Mounted J. Wood to see the meet at Ladbrook.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Dining with Stephenson, Fox Maule, Lord Ebrington,
+Maria, and brother Edward.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Mar.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with the Duchess of Inverness; large
+party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Talk with Lord Francis Egerton about Brooke
+and Borneo. <span class='ships'>Constance</span> frigate offered to Walker,
+who appears undecided. Dined with the Hawleys—family
+party. That beast “Chow” dying.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Went to Woolwich to look for lodgings for my
+studying steam. By Frank Collier’s advice closed
+with a Captain Dwyer—not much; however, the best.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of Fred Horton at the club, lucky
+that he has not more than a year to run in <span class='ships'>Cygnet</span>
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span>
+on the coast. Dined with Ralph Brandling; Adelphi
+afterwards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>By express to Portsmouth. Dined with the Hyde
+Parkers in Dockyard; Admiral in great form.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Leamington,
+April&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with the Gores, who have been very kind
+to us. Fare-thee-well Leamington. With horses
+and money I should find you more agreeable.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Took departure for London. Letter from Brooke,
+and news from Borneo not pleasing to Wise. Government
+slow in acting for him. To Droxford by 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>
+train.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Took our departure from our snug little Droxford.
+In London by 2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> Got Mrs. Rowley her
+pension at Admiralty. To Woolwich by steamer.
+Took up quarters in Captain Dwyer’s house. Wife
+not taken with our new abode.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>To church in a sail-loft in the Dockyard. Went
+to Greenwich in the afternoon: looked at houses.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>To Greenwich. Decided on No. 17 Croom’s
+Hill at £150 per annum; nice situation, looking into
+the Park.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from Commander Dwyer refusing to let
+me off under three months’ rent! Unlucky dog
+that I am, £36 thrown away. So much for having
+to deal with a gentleman.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>To see the Horse Artillery exercise. Edward
+Coke and Sir E. Poore to call; they going to West
+Indies in June for amusement.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>To London. Saw my father; well in health;
+going to Newmarket.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Receiving a letter from Sir William Symonds,
+asking if he might nominate me to command his
+<span class='ships'>Spartan</span>, started for Somerset House, and found
+from Edge that I was wanted, as in case of <span class='ships'>Constance</span>,
+as a second string to his bow.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Attended the meeting of the Committee for
+the Foundation of a Church Mission-House and
+School in Borneo. Some large subscriptions received.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Again over to Greenwich; hard bargain with
+Mrs. Kemp. Georgie Crosbie and early dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Took my first lesson in steam at Woolwich.</p>
+
+<p>Hearing that a foreigner was inquiring after me,
+avoided him; it turned out afterwards to be an old
+Spanish friend, General Mazzerado of Barcelona,
+who stopped to dinner.</p>
+
+<p>By Templer heard of a most diabolical massacre
+committed in Borneo Proper.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Commencing steam study in earnest.</p>
+
+<p>A Princess born. (Princess Helena.)</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfast at half-past eight. Start at nine to be
+in Dockyard by ten. Pleasant enough while the
+weather is fine. Dined at Greenwich Hospital with
+Sir Robert Stopford to celebrate Her Majesty’s
+birthday. Pleasant party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Derby Day, and I not there. Won by Mr. Gully’s
+“Phyrrus.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>The sad news of the massacre of Rajah Muda
+Hassim and family, and his gallant brother, Budrudeen.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Greenwich Fair. Joined George King and his
+party in a small Whitebait dinner at the “Crown and
+Sceptre.” Paraded the Fair afterwards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Sir James Gordon, Lieutenant-Governor
+of Greenwich Hospital. Though he lost a leg in
+Hostes’ <span class='ships'>Lissa</span> frigate action, Gordon frequently walks
+from London.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+June&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Attended the wedding of Amelia Williams and
+Mark Wood—also to <i lang='fr'>déjeûner</i> given by the Bulkeleys.
+Lovely day; pretty wedding; good breakfast; everything
+right.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Early dinner with the Hawleys. Tattersalls and
+Park afterwards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>To Woolwich Dockyard, Dined with Colonel
+Parker to meet kind friend, his brother, the
+Admiral.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander and Mrs. Dalyell in the
+Hospital. He was for nine years a prisoner of war at
+Verdun; released when Napoleon I. went to Elba.
+Anyone interested in the record of a sailor’s life
+during the end of the last century and early part of
+this should read that of my old friend, who was now
+a pensioner, with apartments in Greenwich Hospital.<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p>
+
+<p>The Dalyells are kind people and have exceedingly
+good taste.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>To Woolwich by steam, meeting on board <i>Lord
+Selkirk</i>, Captain Ross, and Ranelagh. Went to
+Arsenal. Georgie and Jack Crosbie and Grey
+Skipwith to dine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>An impertinent letter from Wise: answered him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>To Woolwich by steam.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Called on Sir James Gordon and on Sir Watkin
+Pell.</p>
+
+<p>Sir Watkin Pell—a wooden leg, and a wonderful
+clever pony on which he used to ride on a three-plank
+bridge when visiting ships fitting out in dock.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Dined at the Stopfords.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Dined in London with my father; returning afterwards
+to Greenwich.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>We went to see the muster of Greenwich schoolboys.
+Interesting sight. 800 of them dining in
+same room. Ministers about to resign.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Represented Brooke at the christening of Templer’s
+boy, named James Lethbridge Brooke.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Business at Admiralty. Saw Lord Auckland about
+Borneo.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Concocted a letter for Lord Auckland, recommending
+possession of Labuan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Capital dinner with Sir Watkin Pell. To the
+Artillery ball at Woolwich. Nothing could be better
+done.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Sir Robert Stopford. Greenwich ball
+in the evening; very good.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>To London with Jack Templer to see Lord
+Auckland concerning Brooke.</p>
+
+<p>Very mysterious. Government evidently doing
+something. Afraid, I think, of Mr. Hume.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>To steam studies. Met Board of Admiralty in
+the Dockyard. Received intimation that my services
+would be again required in Borneo.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Skipwith and ourselves to dine with the
+Newdigates, who have pretty place at Blackheath.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>After studies visited famous mulberry tree in
+Collier’s garden.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Students in steam met at Blackwall to examine the
+machinery of the <span class='ships'>Sir Henry Pottinger</span>, a merchant
+steamer.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Captain Stewart in the Trinity yacht
+to meet the Admiralty Board at Gravesend to inspect
+several plans for lights to be carried by steamers at
+sea to prevent collision.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Invited Roberts to dinner, to meet Edward Rice,
+who did not arrive until late.</p>
+
+<p>Rice to join <span class='ships'>Amphion</span> should I get her!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>At Admiralty to stop Comber being sent off to
+sea. Partly succeeded. Came back to dine with Sir
+Watkin Pell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Woolwich, preparatory to being examined by
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span>
+Lloyd. Passed an hour in the Superintendent’s
+mulberry tree!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>By Gravesend steamer to Purfleet, where Sir
+Thomas Lennard sent his carriage to take us to
+Belhus for three days; brother Tom having married
+his daughter. Large party; hearty welcome. This
+is a nice old-fashioned place. Our room the one
+in which Queen Elizabeth slept.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>After luncheon we were taken a drive with the
+team round the country. Went to Mr. Tower’s
+place: he has some fine old pictures.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave; pony carriage taking us to Gray’s
+Pier. Embarked for Blackwall loaded with game
+and fruit.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>I dined with the Artillery mess at Woolwich.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>To London to attend Borneo Church Mission.
+Capture of Brunei. Saw Mundy’s letter to Baillie
+Hamilton at the Admiralty relative to the affairs there.</p>
+
+<p>On return found Edward Rice from Dane Court.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>To Admiralty to deposit with Lord Auckland my
+father’s correspondence with Lord Haddington relative
+to my not getting the C.B.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>We took the two charming Dalyell girls to the
+Woolwich Garrison races. Very good fun: heats and
+that sort of thing; gentlemen riders.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Sir Samuel Brown of chain-cable notoriety,
+and saw several ingenious inventions.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>To London. Wife on a visit to the Roes at
+Fulham.</p>
+
+<p>Among the intimate friends of the Crosbie
+family were Sir Frederick and Lady Roe. His
+father was a well-to-do merchant residing in the
+City. My father amused me with the following:—As
+Master of the House he had to attend State
+occasions. On going to the City, Sir Frederick Roe
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span>
+was so active with his mounted police as to draw the
+attention of His Majesty, who inquired who he was.
+Father informed the King that it was Sir Frederick
+Roe, the Head of the Police. His Majesty noticed
+another officer equally active, and very like Sir
+Frederick, who my father informed His Majesty was
+a younger brother, likewise in the Police, who helped
+his brother on these occasions, and they went by the
+name of “Hard” Roe and “Soft” Roe. This amused
+His Majesty so much that he wanted to know about
+the father. This rather puzzled my parent, who,
+having volunteered so much, did not like to plead
+ignorance, but answered “They call him, Sir, Paternoster
+Row!”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Ascertained at the Admiralty they had no idea of
+forming a Settlement on the Bornean coast.</p>
+
+<p>Power of a “wise” confidential agent beginning
+to tell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>To Ranelagh House, Fulham, to join wife at Sir
+Frederick and Lady Roe’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Having been invited by Sir Charles and Lady
+Mary Fox to dinner at Addison Road, sent to Greenwich
+for clothes. Wife dining with the Dalyells.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Oct.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Found letter at club from Symonds, stating that
+he had applied to Lord Auckland to appoint me to
+<span class='ships'>Cambrian</span> for trial with Thetis.</p>
+
+<p>Dined with Sir Robert Stopford; a large party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>To Admiralty to inquire about the <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>;
+find I am the favourite, Lord Auckland hovering
+between Smith and myself for the appointment.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Dined on Guard at St. James’ with Colonel
+Codrington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Nothing decided about <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>, Lord Auckland
+waiting for Sir Charles Adam’s opinion. Still
+hope.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span></p>
+
+<p>Dined at the Newdigates.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Reports of my appointment to <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>; hope
+they may prove true. Stephenson writing to thank
+Lord Auckland.</p>
+
+<p>Dined with John Doyle and Lady Susan North.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>To see Admiral Dundas. Early proposal of
+appointing me to <span class='ships'>Amphion</span>. No fancy for her,
+while there is a chance of <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>.</p>
+
+<p>We dined at Colonel Parker’s. On return found
+letter from Dundas, a damper on hopes of <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Baillie Hamilton in the Rangers’ House. Commander
+Henry Eden married to Miss Rivers. Wish
+to get Lieutenant Rivers as my First.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Lord Auckland.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dane
+Court,
+Oct.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>At Dane Court with the Rices; like Dane Court
+and all its people. Everybody receiving me so kindly;
+the children too, as if they had known me all their
+lives.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>A walk with Fanny and Anne in forenoon.
+Afternoon to Dover. Saw 43rd and H. Skipwith
+inspected on the heights.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Received twelve guineas due to members of Old
+Navy Club, Bond Street. Retirement list out, of
+180 Captains.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with my father. Shireff wanting me as
+Flag-Captain.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>To Woolwich to see Sir Frank Collier for last
+time as a Commodore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Dined in London with Stephenson. Meeting
+Hastie and Sir John Hobhouse.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Lord Mayor’s Day. Promotion in Army and
+Navy. Dined with Admiral Dundas. Large party
+at Lord Auckland’s in the evening.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Club full in anxious expectation of “Gazette.”
+The greatest boon that has been granted to the Navy.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span></p>
+
+<p>Dined with General Mundy and family. Disappointed
+about the promotions.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Sir Robert Stopford.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Farewell dinner with the Dalyells. We have been
+treated at Greenwich with the greatest kindness and
+hospitality.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Dined at Club. A meeting of old “Magiciennes,”
+Plumridge, Knox, Forbes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Called for Stephenson at the Excise: with him
+to Cambridge, where, after having enjoyed much
+worth seeing, dined with Henry Coke: Augustus
+Stephenson and young Lord Durham of the party.</p>
+
+<p>We slept at the University Arms.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Visited my brother George at his office, Downing
+Street. Chance of my being appointed to <span class='ships'>Amphitrite</span>.
+Returned with Pearse to Gilston.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Brice Pearse mounting me; after several hours,
+without finding, finished with a fast twenty minutes
+with Conyer’s hounds. In first at the death, and
+got the brush.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Party to shoot. Keeper reserved best ground
+until too dark—only a small bag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Elsenham,
+Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave, after luncheon, of our friends. On a
+visit to the Rushs at Elsenham: a pretty place.
+Much taste and considerable expense in the making.</p>
+
+<p>H. Byng, <i lang='fr'>alias</i> “Buckets,” with his wife to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Newbold,
+Dec.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>By early train to London. In time to leave
+Euston Square for Newbold by eleven o’clock.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Sharp frost. Hunters more expense than profit.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Enjoyed Christmas at Newbold, sitting down
+twenty all told. Sir Grey presiding. Eight sons,
+five daughters, two husbands and wives and ourselves.
+The younger son—a nervous boy, studying for Holy
+Orders—was called on to say grace; after hesitation
+got up and said: “For what we are going to receive,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span>
+the Lord have mercy on us.” A more cheery
+Christmas could not be.</p>
+
+<p>Having business in London, and hoping for
+employment, left my poor invalid under care of the
+celebrated Doctor Jephson, at Leamington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>To my second home, the Stephensons in Arlington
+Street.</p>
+
+<p>Dinner off Norfolk turkey, and a hot devil
+by sister.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>At Hockham shooting, with the Partridges,
+Charles, George, Paterson, and self. Shot with my
+new Westley-Richards. Much pleased with it.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_50'>[50]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXVII'>CHAPTER XXXVII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Shore Time</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1847.
+Jan.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>As brother Tom could not, with increasing family,
+come to me, I went to his parsonage at Creake in
+Norfolk, where we were joined by my other clergyman
+brother Edward. Creake only a walk from
+Holkham.</p>
+
+<p>This entailed visits to other dear friends; but as
+these have not much to do with the promised sailor’s
+life, must not detain readers.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p><i>Sunday.</i>—Both brothers preached; I suppose the
+elder had choice. Reserved opinion.</p>
+
+<p>Recollect some time ago, when brother Edward
+preached at Quidenham, venturing to remark that
+his sermon was rather lengthy. He replied: “It
+now lies at the bottom of a heap and you won’t
+hear it again for three years.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan. 5,
+Holkham.</div>
+
+<p>Went out, fifteen guns, 1085 head.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Drove back with Napier, rector at Holkham,
+elder brother of Brooke’s Singapore friend.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan. 7,
+Holkham.</div>
+
+<p>Shooting the end of the park in the direction of
+Warham; twelve guns, 973 head.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Another good day’s shooting; 1073 head.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>News of the safety of Edward Coke, who had
+been buffalo-shooting in the United States. Never
+once doubted it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Tom and I drove to cousin Fred Keppel’s at
+Lexham, about eighteen miles. Hearty welcome.
+No better fellows than Fred and Edward Keppel,
+“the Cheeryble Brothers.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Lexham,
+Jan.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Went out to enjoy the best shooting Fred had
+left. Six guns: Fred Fitzroy, Derrick Hoste, Fred,
+Edward, Tom, and self.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Wife improving at Leamington under Jephson.
+Fred Keppel and brother Tom doing magistrates’
+business at Litcham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Party breaking up. Fred Fitzroy dropping me
+at friend Rev. C. D. Brereton’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of Brereton. Drive of eleven miles
+to Creake. Bitter cold. Henry Coke arrived from
+Holkham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>To Bobby Hammond’s, now a rich banker;
+change from a mid’s berth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Fred Keppel drove me to brother Edward’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Quidenham
+Parsonage,
+Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Looked over the Quidenham Stud paddocks.
+Some old brood-mares and four yearlings. A colt,
+“Borneo,” promising looking.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Fred Keppel taking me back to Lexham, sent
+things to Anthony Hammond’s at Westacre.</p>
+
+<p>Followed in afternoon. Charming place as well
+as host.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Anthony, Bob Hammond, Henry Coke, and
+others came to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Henry Coke and I took departure from Westacre,
+posting to Brandon, by rail to Cambridge. Henry
+having left the Navy had lodgings there: a quiet
+dinner with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>To London; with Stephensons in Arlington
+Street.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Joined wife at Leamington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>To London. Father recovering from illness.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from Admiralty requesting me to sit on
+a Commission to report on Naval Uniforms—Chairman,
+Rear-Admiral Bowles, C.B. Committee:
+Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier, C.B.; Captains A.
+Fanshawe, C.B.; J. Shepherd; Hon. F. Pelham;
+A. Milne; Lord Clarence Paget; and W. F.
+Martin.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Poor Thistlewayte quite blind.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Droxford,
+Feb.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to Collier’s new house at Wickham.
+Nothing more neat, complete, and comfortable.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Wife and I on a visit to Southwick. George
+Delmé came to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Walked from Southwick to Droxford, and afterwards
+to Rookesbury. Thistlewayte sending wife
+there in carriage. Good William Garnier insisted
+on our all staying at Rookesbury.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Rookesbury,
+Mar.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>William Garnier mounting me, we rode to the
+Dean’s at Winchester. Sister Caroline out. Called
+on Walter Longs on our way back. Collier and
+Campbells to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>On Garnier’s hack to see Hambledon Meet.
+Many friends, but a bad scenting day.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth,
+Mar.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>In break, picking up Wickham’s Admiral,
+Collier, on the way. Lunched with the Hyde
+Parkers. <span class='ships'>Sphynx</span> in harbour after six weeks on
+rocks at back of Isle of Wight.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>By coach to stay with Sivewrights, Symington.</p>
+
+<p>Years since Edward Sivewright and I met. At
+Symington, canvassed for brother George.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Droxford,
+Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Busy with accounts. How much I want money,
+and have wanted, for some time. Still here we are
+jogging on. One-half the world never knows how
+the other half lives!</p>
+
+<p>Visit to Cousin Delmé’s at Cams.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Cams,
+Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Sir William Gage came to Cams.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[53]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>By rail to Winchester, leaving wife at the Deanery.
+George Delmé and I went to see sundry blood-stock
+at Dilly’s and Stockbridge. Expensive playthings!
+“Venison” a fine horse.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Cams,
+Mar.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>In Delmé’s drag to meet the Hampshire Hounds
+at Rockwood, Colonel Greenwood’s. Delmé sending
+a hack for me. Martin Haworth master. No finer
+day, though, to see hounds and horns.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Delmé sending me a mount with the Hambleton.
+Good gallop over the Downs. Lost near Ditcham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Winchester,
+Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p><i>Fast Day</i>—Appointed to be kept by the Government
+on account of the distressing famine in Ireland
+and Scotland. Properly and strictly observed (to
+all appearance) throughout the country.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Rode pony over to Campbell Wyndham’s at
+Exton. Accompanied Mrs. Wyndham to see Hants
+Steeplechase. Sport bad, company good, day fine.
+Good dinner and party at Wyndham’s; slept there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. M‘Dougal volunteered for Borneo.
+Good man.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p><i>Good Friday.</i>—Salt fish and thirst!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from Harry Stephenson announcing birth
+of the finest boy in creation. Saw in the papers
+death of the Earl of Bessborough, Lord-Lieutenant
+of Ireland—a national loss.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>By rail to London. Friends Crawfurd Kerrs
+arrived from China.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Sir Charles Napier going to apply for me as his
+Flag Captain!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>This day my old friend Jonas Coaker had his
+little boy christened Keppel Coaker.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Hawley’s mare “Miami” won the Oaks, ridden
+by Sim Templeman. Dined with the First Lord of
+the Admiralty, Lord Auckland. Full dress, to
+commemorate Her Majesty’s birthday.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[54]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Mail from India. James Brooke coming home
+by July mail. Dinner with Sir William Eden,
+meeting Admiral Parry’s daughter and Charlie Eden.
+Admiral taken ill.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Blackheath,
+June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Took up our quarters in the Blackheath house.
+Greenwich Park, and country round, looking perfection.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+June&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Lady Wilmot Horton, meeting
+Bromleys, Commander Lord Byron, and others.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Charlie Eden to meet Admiral Hyde
+Parker.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>First Lord’s levée. As far off employment as
+ever.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Blackheath,
+June&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Took the Dalyell ladies to see Review of Horse
+Artillery. Grand Duke Constantine. Duke of
+Wellington in Russian uniform. I dined with
+Colonel Parker to meet his brother the Admiral.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Poor Sir Robert Stopford very ill; sad loss to
+Greenwich and service.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Review in Hyde Park. Seen from Mr. Thistlewayte’s
+house in Connaught Place.</p>
+
+<p>Dinner to Lord Auckland at Thatched House;
+well attended. Lift back to Greenwich with Sir
+Watkin Pell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>By steamer, and to Wimbledon by rail to see
+Ingestre and family. Lady Sarah as handsome as
+ever. The little Susan a woman; twelve years since
+we met. Missed train. Shake-down at Ingestre’s!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>By rail with Ingestre to London. News from
+China: Bogue Forts taken, Canton threatened.</p>
+
+<p>With brother George to dine with aged Mrs.
+Clavering, wonderful, dear old lady.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Called on James Brooke’s sister, Mrs. Savage—pretty,
+nice person; strong resemblance to him.
+Got tickets for Astley’s. It is not what it used to be.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[55]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>At two this morning that fine old Admiral and
+dignified old gentleman, Sir Robert Stopford, departed
+this life!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Bayley having lent me his yacht <span class='ships'>Nymph</span>, took
+the Dalyell girls and Augustus Stephenson a sail
+down the river to Gravesend and back.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Dined Thatched House Club. Walpole in chair.
+Jolly party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Attended in full uniform the funeral of Sir Robert
+Stopford; the whole ceremony conducted in a manner
+worthy of so great and good a man.</p>
+
+<p>Dined in South Street with Sir James Kempt; met
+Colonel Brereton and others.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Southampton,
+July&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, who gave
+me a model of <span class='ships'>Dido</span>. He had been Captain-Superintendent
+of Pembroke Dockyard when she was
+building.</p>
+
+<p>By rail to Gosport. Dined with the Hyde
+Parkers. Had a chat with Lord Saltoun at George
+Hotel.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>By steamer to Ryde, and four-horse coach to
+Dudley Pelham at St. Lawrence.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>St. Lawrence,
+July&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Rode Pelham’s pony; re-visited Apple-de-Combe.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Went to Bill Crosbie’s, Emsworth; a jolly party.
+Goodwood with Bill’s party, on Delmé’s drag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from brother George requesting my presence
+at Lymington. When I got to Portsmouth, found
+this day fixed for the election; Ergo, no use my
+going, so rejoined the party for Goodwood.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Party going to the ball at Chichester; returned
+with wife to Portsmouth on a visit to old friends,
+the Cashers at Southsea.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Bill Crosbie and two handsome Miss Leithbridges
+coming over. Made a party to bazaar at Lord
+Down’s, Binstead. The Leithbridges dined with us.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[56]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>By steam to Portsmouth. <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span> given to
+Plumridge.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>In Lord Hardwicke’s yacht to his place Sydney
+Lodge, on the banks of Southampton Water. Nice
+breeze. Good dinner. Lady Hardwicke singing
+delightfully.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Rainy, stormy morning; strong breeze. Returned
+in the <span class='ships'>Susan</span>. She was a yawl-rigged, half-decked,
+30-ton boat which his Lordship steered himself.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Ryde,
+Aug.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Invited by Sir Augustus Clifford to meet Lord
+Auckland at dinner. Borneo affairs to be brought
+under immediate consideration.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>A couple of days at Dudley Pelham’s lovely place
+at St. Lawrence. Met Love, brother officer, who
+danced hornpipe nearly as well as T. P. Cooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Aug.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Met Admiral Shireff. Offer of his Flag-Captain
+in case of his getting <span class='ships'>Pacific</span>; accepted same on conditions.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Cowes,
+Aug.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>A sail in the <span class='ships'>Pearl</span> and dined afterwards with Lord
+Anglesey at Cowes Castle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>By steamer to Southampton. Embarked in
+Chamberlayne’s <span class='ships'>Arrow</span>, sailed through Needles passage
+for Plymouth. Mr. Weld on board—charming old
+boy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Got into Plymouth. Regatta in full force.
+Hundreds of people on the Hoe. Weather fine.
+Went to the Regatta Ball.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Arrow</span> sailing for a cup, time race, which she lost
+by six seconds only, coming in first. Sailed while at
+dinner for Cowes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Lucky in our fine weather. Came close round
+the Bill of Portland <em>within the race</em>. Shortened
+sail for dinner, yacht fashion. Arrived at Cowes
+10 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span></p>
+
+<p>Joining wife at the Vines, Puckaster.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[57]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Steam to Portsmouth. Rail to Farnham. Fly to
+kind good friends at Rookesbury.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>William Gamier, Frank Collier, and Walpole to
+dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Rookesbury,
+Sept.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>That donkey, “the Honest Bishop” of Bond
+Street, not having sent my gun, spoiled a good day’s
+shooting, having only a tool with the lock of the
+right barrel broken.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Garnier kindly giving permission for me to invite
+one of the Cashers to shoot, William came. Ten
+brace between us. Casher to dinner and sleep.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Casher to have another day’s shooting. Bagged
+twenty-two brace. No house in England so enjoyable
+as this Rookesbury; no people so kind and
+generous.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Drizzly rain. Took leave of our kind friends
+at Rookesbury. At Southwick.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Plenty of birds. Lady Farnham staying here.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from Admiral Dundas requiring me to
+decide between Flag-Captaining to Sir Charles
+Napier and a sixth-rate to India.</p>
+
+<p>To Admiralty. Difficult point to decide between
+inclination and economy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Sept.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfasted with Admiral Dundas; decided on
+India. Wrote letter of thanks to Lord Auckland.</p>
+
+<p>Offered appointment as First Lieutenant to Bowyear.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>By rail with wife to Quidenham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Father and Lady Albemarle off to Newmarket.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Adieu to Quidenham—for how long? Wife to
+Blackheath. Found Brooke at Mivart’s Hotel.
+United Service Club giving him a dinner, which was
+crowded.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Business at Admiralty. To Greenwich. Dined
+with Sir James Gordon to meet Brooke.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[58]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Met Brooke at Lord John Russell’s office,
+Downing Street. My old friend, Charles Gore, his
+Private Secretary.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfasted with Brooke at Mivart’s. Meeting
+of Borneo Mission. £3000 subscribed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Lord Auckland to meet Brooke:
+Lord and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Palmerston,
+Lord and Lady Clanricade and pretty
+daughter, Lords Lansdowne and Morpeth, and Dr.
+Hooker.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Brooke to Frank Grant’s, who was
+painting his portrait, indeed a striking likeness.
+Grant the first artist in the country.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Oct.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Anniversary of Trafalgar. Dined at Club of
+1765. Some fine old “Salts” present.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>With Brooke to Admiralty. He invited to
+Windsor Castle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>To Greenwich School. Inspected some nice-looking
+lads for <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke received the Freedom of the City of
+London, and made a speech.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Oct.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Dundas informed me that I should commission
+<span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at once.</p>
+
+<p>As I was anxious to be employed, I had tried
+hard for the <span class='ships'>Active</span>, one of Symonds’ beautiful
+ships he wished me to have. However, that
+lovely frigate was never commissioned. To Portsmouth.
+Ordered outfit. Arranged rendezvous on
+the Hard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>My commission appointing me to the command
+of the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> frigate, 44, at Chatham, made out.
+Allowed to name such officers as I wished.</p>
+
+<ul class='no-bullet'>
+<li>First Lieutenant—George Leger Bowyear.</li>
+<li>Second Lieutenant—Charles B. Read.</li>
+<li>Third Lieutenant—Henry W. Comber.
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[59]</span></li>
+<li>Third Lieutenant—R. Brice Oldfield.</li>
+<li>Master—Francis H. May.</li>
+<li>Marines—First Lieutenant—Rodney V. Allen.</li>
+<li>Paymaster—George Simmonds.</li>
+<li>Surgeon—John Clarke.</li>
+<li>Assistant-Surgeon—William Smith.</li>
+<li>Second Master—William Turton.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Dined with the Lord Mayor to meet Brooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Business at Admiralty. Other appointments
+made. Every vacancy filled up.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>To breakfast with Brooke. By Great Western
+to Chippenham, on visit to Lord Lansdowne at
+Bowood. Large party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p><i>Sunday.</i>—A day for a short walk. Church in
+private chapel; beautiful organ and music.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Many of the party leaving. In afternoon Brooke
+and I a ride with Lords Lansdowne and Morley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Back to London with Brooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sheerness,
+Nov.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>With young Spalding to Sheerness. Breakfasted
+with Captain-Superintendent. Took Spalding on
+Board <span class='ships'>Ocean</span> to be examined. Made my bow and
+presented Commission to Admiral.</p>
+
+<p>Returned to Chatham. First Lieutenant Bowyear,
+Read, and Spalding to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Some good men joining.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from brother George urging me to meet a
+party at dinner. Up in time to a family feed; very
+good though. Put up at Mivart’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Back to Chatham in time to muster Ship’s Company.
+Charlie Graham also down to sign papers;
+dined together.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Admiralty complying with most of my requests,
+to the astonishment of dockyard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Attended a meeting of the Borneo Mission at
+Hanover Square. Had to second resolution and
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[60]</span>
+make a speech. More than 1000 present; chiefly
+ladies—nervous work.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Frock-coats introduced into the service; good
+things and comfortable.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Chatham,
+Nov.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>As senior officer had to inspect men sent from
+Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Vice-Admiral Sir Durnford King sent steamer
+for me to be interviewed at Sheerness relative to
+my refusing drafts from <span class='ships'>Ocean</span>. Returned in
+steamer.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Heard of Admiral Shireff’s death. Good fellow.
+A week ago as hale and healthy a man as any on the
+list.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Reprimand from Admiralty for having refused
+the splendid men they sent! <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> entering
+better hourly.</p>
+
+<p>Dined with Royal Marines. Cheery mess.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Stephenson at Beef Steak Club.</p>
+
+<p>Kind Rajah gave wife handsome bracelets of
+Borneo gold.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sheerness,
+Dec.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Snug and comfortable quarters on board <span class='ships'>Hussar</span>,
+hulk.</p>
+
+<p>Ship removed from dock to alongside hulk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Chatham,
+Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Royal Marines’ Barracks mess with
+Colonel Whylock.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Met two young Egertons at Nine Elms Station.
+Accompanied them to shoot at Lord Ellesmere’s near
+Weybridge. Prettiest grounds and wild shooting.
+Back by return ticket.</p>
+
+<p>Had a capital dinner at Hastie’s—Stephenson,
+Brooke and others.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>We left London for Woburn Abbey. Harvey
+and Brooke with us. A large house; nice and
+agreeable party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke and I put four horses to a stage coach,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span>
+and with wife, and servants, posted across country
+to Cambridge, by rail to Dereham, coach to Wells,
+and in Leicester’s carriage to Holkham, making
+a tedious journey of fifteen hours. Late for
+dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Holkham,
+Dec.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Some nice people here: Edward Digby, Archie
+MacDonald, Porter, 9th Lancers, Henry Coke, and
+others.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>A good day’s shooting, my bag 87 head.</p>
+
+<p>Margaret Coke drove me over to Creake. Decided
+on taking Tom’s little fellow Leicester with me.</p>
+
+<p>Servants’ ball in evening. Great fun.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Shot the Wareham side: not so much game as I
+have seen. I killed 57 head. Brooke not shooting,
+but making himself particularly agreeable.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>To shoot fourteen miles off. Wet, dirty day.
+Leicester not well enough to dine downstairs; the
+youngsters got rather by the head and a little
+noisy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Christmas
+Day,
+Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>To Lexham, Brooke, wife and I, Fred Keppel
+and his brother Edward receiving us. Nice, quiet,
+and comfortable house and party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Lexham
+to Hockham,
+Dec.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Put posters to Fred Keppel’s carriage, sending
+servants and luggage by fly to Hockham. Found
+large party to meet the Rajah.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hockham,
+Dec.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke returned in Fred Keppel’s carriage to
+Lexham. Breretons, Dover, C. Partridge, Reynardson,
+and self to shoot.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Snow. Regular winter’s day.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Quidenham,
+Dec.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Partridge, sending us to Quidenham; Brooke
+arriving in time for dinner. Kindly welcomed by all.</p>
+
+<p>George and his son Willie, Edward and Maria,
+Eustace Hill, Sir Robert Adair, Miss Hunloke and
+selves, a party of twelve.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke took his departure for Norwich to visit
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[62]</span>
+the Bishop. Family party to dinner. My dear
+father in great force. Knowing his dislike to saying
+good-bye, took advantage of his going out of the
+room to walk off to bed. I trust I may find him as
+well, should I live to return. He is in his seventy-sixth
+year, and I am going to India on peculiar
+service. Four years is a long time to look forward
+to. Our meeting again doubtful!</p>
+
+<p>The next three or four years are likely to be the
+most eventful of my life.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>Postscript to 1847</i></h3>
+
+<p>I cannot close my diary this year without mention
+of the sore trouble in which my friend Brooke was
+involved. The commencement, indeed, of the persecution
+from which he emerged stainless, but at the
+cost of mental anxiety which ultimately caused his
+death.</p>
+
+<p>As early as 1843, Brooke thought he had reason
+to suspect the good faith and honour of his London
+agent, Mr. Henry Wise of Austin Friars.</p>
+
+<p>In his confidential letters to his friend, Jack
+Templer, he had referred to his growing uneasiness
+at Wise’s management of his affairs.</p>
+
+<p>Letters passed upon the subject: Wise’s replies
+seldom being satisfactory. In spite of facts, Brooke
+did not break off relations with him.</p>
+
+<p>Brooke had placed his “Journal” at my disposal,
+and Templer brought a mass of private letters from
+Brooke relating to his policy and doings in Sarawak.</p>
+
+<p>Not deeming myself competent to undertake the
+construction of the <span class='ships'>Dido</span> book, I placed these materials,
+as well as my diaries, in the hands of Mr. Jerdan,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[63]</span>
+editor of the <cite>Court Journal</cite>, and a former acquaintance.</p>
+
+<p>We conferred continually, as the record already
+written has shown, and worked amicably enough
+together.</p>
+
+<p>Jerdan improperly allowed Wise access to these
+letters, as well as Brooke’s “Journal,” in spite of their
+containing references of a disparaging nature about
+Wise. In this way the seeds of future mischief were
+sown. Wise saw that Brooke suspected him, and
+under legal compulsion only did he return the letters
+to Templer. However, he had made copies and used
+them as he willed.</p>
+
+<p>Then came the formation of the Eastern Archipelago
+Company (without sanction from Brooke),
+which had at bottom a scheme to buy out Brooke’s
+rights in Sarawak and work the country from one
+point only—that of making money.</p>
+
+<p>Brooke refused to give up the trust reposed in
+him by the Rajah and people of Sarawak, came home
+later on, brought a lawsuit against the Directors of
+the Eastern Archipelago Company, and won it.</p>
+
+<p>The Directors were convicted of fraud in putting
+a false certificate on the charter as to the amount of
+capital subscribed. It was, in fact, a bogus prospectus.
+Mr. Wise had got £18,000 out of it, and much more
+besides.</p>
+
+<p>Finding a ready ear in Mr. David Hume, better
+known in the Navy as the “Revenue Cutter,” and
+who loved a grievance, Wise tried to turn the tables
+on Brooke once more, alleging his “dreadful treatment”
+of the Dyaks as an excuse.</p>
+
+<p>However, “this cock would not fight.” Brooke
+was the lion of the hour in 1847, and was appointed
+Governor of Labuan.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[64]</span></p>
+
+<p>I have always held that ropes were pulled by
+Wise’s familiars and himself to get Brooke, Napier,
+myself, and other truthful witnesses out of England
+in order to further their plans in floating this fraudulent
+company.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_65'>[65]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXVIII'>CHAPTER XXXVIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The <span class='ships'>Mæander</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1848.
+Jan.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Adieu for a while to Quidenham. Farewell, dear
+father.</p>
+
+<p>By rail to London. Business at Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Called with Brooke on Lord Ellesmere. Dined
+with Lord Auckland: agreeable company.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Early boat to Gravesend and Chatham. Ship
+beginning to look well.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_066'>
+  <a href='images/i_066.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_066-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> Fitting.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Splendid boats; nearly finished. <span class='ships'>Hydra</span>, friend
+Grey Skipwith sailing for Rio in command; good
+fellow as well as seaman.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Order from Admiral, to move to Sheerness.</p>
+
+<p>Private letters from Admiralty to remain where
+we are! Cabins building for passengers.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Bent sails.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>At 8.30 taken in tow by the <span class='ships'>Charon</span> steamer.
+Master attendant no nerve to move ship under
+canvas!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>A party of friends and relations from London: a
+jovial party. Gave them the best I could, Admiral
+kindly lending his steam tender to take many of
+them back as far as Chatham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sheerness,
+Jan. 19.</div>
+
+<p>Attempt to get out, but pilot not willing. Jolly
+party still on board.</p>
+
+<p>My brothers remaining; also old Rouse, of Naval
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[67]</span>
+College 1822, and now from Greenwich school, as
+well as other friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Slipped moorings at 11.30, and with the assistance
+of steam got as far as Little Nore. Brother George
+obliged to leave with his boy. Saluted Admiral,
+Sir Edward Durnford King.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Stephenson and his boys, Augustus and Sussex,
+not able to remain longer.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Early morning, the Launch paddled alongside
+with her small engine puffing away. Admiral had
+ship inspected by Captain Price, as much to his satisfaction
+as to mine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Steamer alongside and fore and aft sails set—our
+nervous pilot got under way—nice breeze; made
+sail over the flats and cast off steamer, in which old
+friend Rouse went.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Brothers Tom and Edward, as well as Harvey,
+delighted with their sail. Nine, anchored at Spithead;
+breeze too fresh for wife to land in boat. Admiral
+kindly sent his tender. Dined with Admiral, Sir
+Charles Ogle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>To London by express train. Business at Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Returned to Portsmouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>At two o’clock Board of Admiralty, consisting of
+Lord Auckland, Lord John Hay, Milne, Eden, Ward,
+and Berkeley, with Lady Ellesmere and two charming
+daughters, came on board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Leave-takings over, weighed from Spithead.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Party on board—Sir James Brooke, Mr. and
+Mrs. W. Napier, daughter and baby; Mr. Hugh
+Low, Mr. Spencer St. John, Mr. Scott, Captain
+Hoskins, Mr. Gwynne, my guest; Captain Peyton,
+and Lieutenant Müller, the latter a Norwegian
+naval officer.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[68]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Breeze freshening from westward. Came to in
+Plymouth Sound at 10 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> with watch.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Plymouth,
+Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Landed with Lieutenant Oldfield. Met his father,
+who invited us to drive on the morrow. Visited
+George Goldsmith, now Flag Captain to Lord
+Dundonald on board <span class='ships'>Wellesley</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Met on landing by Lieutenant Oldfield,
+whose mother had been found dead in her bed!</p>
+
+<p>Attended with George Goldsmith a lecture on
+electricity by Captain Sir W. Harris—lightning
+conductors. Dined with Lady Hillyar, a good, dear
+old lady. She entertained Captains after the battle of
+Trafalgar, Gibraltar!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Wind veering to N.W.; weighed from Sound.
+Stood out by Eastern Passage.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_068'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_068.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> leaving Plymouth.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Wind back to W.S.W., accompanied by a smash
+of crockery. Appearance of worse weather.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Took shelter in Cork Harbour. Brooke and I
+dined with Admiral Mackay.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Took Mrs. and Miss Napier, and my young
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[69]</span>
+nephew, Leicester Keppel, to Cork. Sent valentines
+to Bijou Dalyell, Collier, and Georgie
+Johnson.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Wind veering round to northward; took leave of
+Admiral, and borrowed his latest newspapers. At
+11 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> under weigh and stood out of Cork Harbour.
+Adieu to Europe.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Sea getting up; breeze freshening into a gale; ship
+plunging and rolling. Little Leicester announced
+that he was going to die. Smash among chairs and
+what was left of crockery.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight Napier’s little boy, James Brooke,
+aged five months, was found dead in its bed. Sad
+blow to the parents. Supposed to have gone off in
+a fit. Poor Mrs. Napier—poor Napier! Nurse in
+hysterics.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Wind dead on end. Napier wretched. Leaden
+coffin made for the small thing; in evening screwed
+it down in a mahogany one, and covered over with
+a Union Jack, to be landed at Madeira.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Divine service performed in cabin. Gunroom
+table too crowded for my party to dine there. I
+had ever looked forward to the command of a
+frigate as the height of my ambition. I copy the
+following from Sir Spenser St. John’s book, he having
+been one of my passengers:—</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+
+<p>There is no greater error in the world than turning
+vessels of war into passenger ships, particularly when ladies
+are concerned.</p>
+
+<p>Every spot is occupied beforehand, so that the unfortunate
+passengers soon discover that they are <i lang='fr'>de trop</i>, and
+the comfort of the officers and discipline of the ship suffer
+from having a miscellaneous crowd of idlers.</p>
+
+<p>Though every desire was shown by captain and officers
+to render passengers comfortable, it had but poor success!
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[70]</span>
+Mr. Scott, Mr. Hoskins, and myself were stuffed into one
+small cabin with only two beds; I had to resign myself to
+swinging in a hammock.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The main-deck guns, as far forward as the mainmast,
+were dismounted; the ports fitted in as windows,
+and the deck divided into cabins—the ship having
+the appearance of one of Mr. Green’s fine Indiamen,
+without the accommodation.</p>
+
+<p>My cabin was called the “saloon,” my servants
+“waiters,” and when the ship gave an extra plunge,
+sundry “brandies and sodas” were called for.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Madeira,
+Feb.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored in Funchal Roads at daylight. Kindly
+received by Consul Stoddard, an old friend, celebrated
+for his hospitality. Youngsters on shore with
+different friends. Leicester staying with the Scott
+Surtees.</p>
+
+<p>Brooke and I had the honour of dining with
+Her Majesty the Queen Dowager.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Princes Edward and Herman,
+Lord Northland, Major de Winton, Consul
+Stoddard, and a party came to visit and lunch on
+board.</p>
+
+<p>Stoddard invited us to meet the two Princes and
+a party at dinner, and he also got up an expedition
+to see the <span class='ships'>Corral</span>. A dance given by the officers
+was spoilt by dirty weather.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Band landed to perform at a picnic in Mr. Stoddard’s
+garden.</p>
+
+<p>Brooke and I took our farewell dinner with
+Her Majesty, who, very prettily, drank health
+and happiness to wife and self, it being the
+anniversary of our wedding day, and also drank
+success to Brooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>12.20 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed from Funchal Roads;
+weather cold for the latitude.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[71]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Divine service performed in my cabin; it being
+still too cold for the quarter-deck, although getting
+warmer. Flying-fish and dolphins, as well as
+other indications of the tropics. Weather being
+fine, the youngsters commenced school in my fore-cabin.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Three successive good runs, 235, 238, and 234.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>In the evening the ship was hailed by Neptune,
+who sent his messenger over the bows in a blaze
+of light; in witnessing the function the passengers
+got wet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Neptune came on board and performed the usual
+foolery, 160 men underwent
+the operation
+of shaving amid much
+merriment and fun.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Westley Richards,
+the well-known gun maker,
+had an agent,
+by the name of Bishop;
+a character, he
+had visiting cards on
+which he styled himself
+“The Bishop of
+Bond Street.” He
+was a dog-fancier, and
+restored many a lady’s
+lost dogs.</p>
+
+<figure class="figleft" id='i_071'>
+  <img class="v20" src="images/i_071.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>“The Bishop.”</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+<p>When a regiment
+of Guards marched
+through Bond Street,
+I often saw “the
+Bishop” stand in front of his shop in his white
+apron, presenting arms with a double-barrelled
+gun.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[72]</span></p>
+
+<p>He presented me with a thoroughbred Scotch
+terrier; of course the dog could have no other name
+than <em>Bishop</em>. It is difficult to take a thoroughbred
+across the Equator. Sailors are fond of animals,
+dogs in particular.</p>
+
+<p>After leaving Madeira, one forenoon <em>Bishop</em> was
+pronounced to be mad, foaming at the mouth, and
+snapping at everything, there was no mistake.</p>
+
+<p>I was in the fore-cabin, through which he rushed;
+the youngsters at school, their legs dangling; but
+none were bitten. On his journey forward he encountered
+the sailmaker repairing a main-split topsail.
+One blow with a huge marling spike finished the
+poor dog.</p>
+
+<p>I wondered afterwards what effect he must have
+had on a shark’s stomach. It was a mercy no one
+was bitten in the school cabin.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Made the island of Fernando Noronha.</p>
+
+<p>This night a fine young A.B., George Robinson,
+in a fit of delirium got out of his hammock and
+jumped through a main-deck port, saying, “Good-bye,
+shipmates,” as he went. Boats were down on the
+instant, but to no purpose!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Preparing for painting cabin guns. Dined on
+deck, abaft mizen mast, screened in—much discomfort,
+but how fond people are of a change.
+Boat from an American whaler came alongside
+about sunset wanting <em>news</em> only!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Close off the Port of Rio at daylight; had to wait
+the sea breeze. Glad to land passengers for a while.
+Found my old friend Tennyson d’Eyncourt in the
+<span class='ships'>Comus</span>.</p>
+
+<p>William Partridge, unfortunately invalided from
+<span class='ships'>Grecian</span>, had gone home in the Packet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Invalided Read. Poor fellow! Sorry to lose him,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[73]</span>
+but no command of himself. With Brooke to call
+on our Minister, Lord Howden.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Napier tired of shore; came on board with
+belongings; a bore just now.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Determined, with my cargo, on not calling at
+Simon’s Bay. Provisioned accordingly. D’Eyncourt
+dined with me: his ship, the <span class='ships'>Comus</span>, having committed
+the crime of getting on shore! it was necessary
+to heel her over in the River Plate. In doing this
+she lost her balance and found the bottom, this time
+in soft mud.</p>
+
+<p>I believe the Plate takes its name from Plata
+(silver), but any water more like pea-soup in colour
+I never was in. (No time to apply for details to
+Admiral of the Fleet, Sir J. E. Commerell, G.C.B.,
+V.C., A.D.C., who was midshipman on board
+<span class='ships'>Firebrand</span> at this time, and just going home for his
+examination as mate.)</p>
+
+<p>However, with a fine crew and help of Captain
+Hope of <span class='ships'>Firebrand</span>, they got the <span class='ships'>Comus</span> up, minus a
+keel, in which state my friend d’Eyncourt was taking
+her home with a good freight on board. There was
+a suspicious-looking clipper lying off the mouth of the
+harbour at the time, but he thought “a bird in the
+hand,” etc.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Got under way at daylight, and ran out with the
+land breeze. Breeze still holding, enabling us to
+make southing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>My passenger friend Peyton, a very good fellow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Dirty weather. Gig’s crew baling water out of
+fore-cabin. One of my cows dead, the other not
+much.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>In the forenoon made Prince Edward’s Island in
+46° 23´ S. Not often made by ships going to India.
+Best and shortest route though!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[74]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>A slashing breeze. Twelve knots logged for
+eight successive hours. By log 274 miles, to which
+may be added 25—easterly set, making 299 miles.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Once more within the limits of the East Indian
+Station (<span class='ships'>Batta</span>), having crossed the 75° of longitude;
+good run of 270 miles by log.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>While at breakfast John Wallis, a fine young
+fellow, fell overboard from the main topsail yard-arm.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_074'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_074.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> hove to.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>In lowering boats Comber fell out of the cutter:
+recovered much exhausted, but poor Wallis had sunk
+to rise no more alive, the sea had closed over him.
+He was only twenty-four, and Second Captain of the
+Top: a favourite with the ship’s company, who
+expressed a wish to send his mother, whom he supported,
+a day’s pay.</p>
+
+<p>Lots of albatross and other sea-birds about; some
+endeavoured to flap Comber on the head with their
+powerful wings while he was in the water; much
+exhausted, but swam manfully.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_075'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_075.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Comber in Danger.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Occasional heavy squalls, in one of which the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[75]</span>
+chain bowsprit shroud carried away the bowsprit badly
+sprung; wind driving aft, enabling us to repair
+damages without altering course.</p>
+
+<p>Spring in bowsprit was just outside the knight-heads
+and nearly through. Got spare boat’s masts
+out as supporters on each side; secure but not handsome,
+it enabled us to carry the jib with care.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Miss Napier having this day attained her nineteenth
+year, champagne and a dance in the fore-cabin.
+Think there is something in the wind between
+her and Low!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>On referring to my <span class='ships'>Dido</span> log, curious how near
+together the running of the two ships over a space of
+seven thousand miles: never having been a hundred
+ahead of one another.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Made Christmas Island at 3 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> A few days
+over six years since I did so in <span class='ships'>Dido</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+May&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Within the Straits of Sunda: squally weather.
+Master and self piloting ship past the numerous
+shoals: anchored off Singapore. Mail in.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[76]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1848.</div>
+
+<p>Stunning news of Revolution in France; Louis
+Philippe an exile in England; a Republic proclaimed,
+and other extraordinary facts.</p>
+
+<p>Heard of Admiral Inglefield’s death at Bombay
+from wearing cocked hat in the sun. <span class='ships'>Cambrian</span> here
+with Plumridge, my old <span class='ships'>Magicienne</span> Captain, flying
+First-Class Commodore’s broad pennant!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke was received with all the honours due to a
+Governor, and on the following day preparations
+commenced for establishing the new colony of
+Labuan.</p>
+
+<p>An office was opened in Singapore, and contracts
+received for the frameworks of temporary
+residences to be erected for the Government
+functionaries.</p>
+
+<p>Singapore has now become a rich and extensive
+town. By no act of his life did Sir Stamford Raffles
+manifest greater discernment and foresight than by
+founding this settlement; steam then not dreamed of.
+It has become the emporium of all the trading communities
+of the Eastern Archipelago, as well as of
+that of extensive trade carried on by all nations with
+China and India. Here twice a month now come the
+steam-vessels of the Dutch from Batavia, of Spain
+from Manila, and our own from China, to meet the
+European mail.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Butterworth, the present Governor, has
+had roads opened in all parts of the island, and
+thrown substantial bridges across its streams.
+Met Captain M‘Quhae of the <span class='ships'>Dædelus</span>, lunched
+with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>The Governor gave a ball and supper to commemorate
+Her Majesty’s birthday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke, Read, Napier, and some others dined
+with old M‘Quhae, on board the <span class='ships'>Dædelus</span>, before
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[77]</span>
+the ball. M‘Quhae got a little by the head, ships
+and forts having saluted at noon. Took possession
+of Navy House, a nice building, once poor Whitehead’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Dædelus</span> sailed, and I assumed command of the
+Straits Station. Society much enlarged: impossible
+to get through the necessary calls in one day. Band
+on shore in the evenings for the amusement of our
+friends. Peyton and I dined with Tom Church, our
+Resident Councillor.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>In pulling about in my gig among the numerous
+prettily wooded islands on the westward entrance to
+the Singapore river, was astonished to find deep
+water close to the shore, with a safe passage through
+for ships larger than the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Now that steam is likely to come into use, this
+ready-made harbour as a depot for coal would be
+invaluable.</p>
+
+<p>I had the position surveyed, and sent it, with my
+report, to the Board of Admiralty; as it was, the
+forge was landed, boats repaired, and artificers employed
+under commodious sheds, all under the eyes
+of the officers on board.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_078'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_078.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>New Harbour, Singapore.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>New Harbour has another advantage over Singapore
+Roads. In the latter a ship’s bottom becomes
+more foul than in any known anchorage in these
+seas; perhaps from the near proximity to the bottom.
+This is not the case in New Harbour, through
+which there is always a tide running, while a
+current of air passing between the islands keeps it
+comparatively cool.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Despatched <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> with the pioneers of the
+new settlement at Labuan, also to relieve the <span class='ships'>Auckland</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Mariner</span>, 16, arrived from the Cape, having made
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[78]</span>
+a long voyage going the old track, Commander
+Mathieson taking up his quarters with me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Officers of 21st dined “Mæanders,” inviting the
+Napiers to meet them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+June&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>A tiger brought in by some Malays was given me
+by the Governor. Clarke kindly skinned the beast.
+The flesh is in great demand by natives, who fancy that
+eating it makes them strong and brave.</p>
+
+<p>The Malays stated, when they found the monster
+in a hole which had been dug on purpose, they threw
+quicklime in his eyes, and the unfortunate beast,
+while suffering intense pain, drowned himself in some
+water at the bottom of the pit, though not more
+than a foot in depth.</p>
+
+<p>The annual loss of human life from tigers, chiefly
+among the Chinese settlers, is fearful—averaging one
+per diem. Great exertions are still being made for
+the destruction of them, which is effected by pitfalls—cages
+baited with dog, goat, monkey, or other restless
+animal, also by sundry cunning contrivances, but the
+strait between Johore and Singapore is but a short
+swim.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span></p>
+
+<p>One of the recent victims was the son of the head
+man at Passir Pâdi, who, having gone into the jungle
+behind his father’s house to cut wood, was attacked
+by a tiger. The father, hearing screams, rushed
+just in time to grasp his boy’s legs as the brute was
+dragging him.</p>
+
+<p>The father pulled and the tiger growled: it was
+only on other people arriving that he quitted his
+prey; but the unfortunate lad was dead.</p>
+
+<p>There is a procession and much parade in bringing
+these tigers to the Government offices for the
+reward. The tigers are made to look as fierce
+as possible—propped up in a standing position
+by pieces of bamboo, the mouth open, and tail on
+end.</p>
+
+<p>So great is the virtue of tiger flesh as a pick-me-up
+from fever that a portion of my beast found its
+way to the sick-room of a friend in the 21st Madras
+Native Infantry.</p>
+
+<p>He was recovering from fever, and expressed
+surprise at the tough meat in his curry, when his
+native servant explained his reason for supplying it.</p>
+
+<p>Although out on various occasions, I was never
+fortunate enough to fall in with a live tiger. With
+wild hog we had excellent sport, and occasionally with
+deer.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Comber was made a Freemason of the
+lodge “Zetland in the East” (to which I
+subsequently belonged). The members gave a
+farewell dinner to Read, and invited me to meet
+him. Brooke was also a guest, and made an
+excellent speech.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Auckland</span> steamer in from Labuan; Sekarran
+pirates requiring a visit. Captain Young of <span class='ships'>Auckland</span>
+took up his quarters with me.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[80]</span></p>
+
+<p>Drove with the Governor. Assembly ball in
+evening.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+June&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> hoisted Royal Standard and saluted on
+anniversary of the Coronation.</p>
+
+<p>Our worthy old Purser, Simmons, departed this
+life while staying at Whampoa’s country house.</p>
+
+<p>Whampoa was a fine specimen of his country,
+and had for many years been contractor for fresh
+beef and naval stores. His generosity and honesty
+had long made him a favourite.</p>
+
+<p>He had a country house, and of course a garden;
+also a circular pond in which was a magnificent lotus,
+the <i lang='la'>Victoriæ regia</i>, a present from the Regent of Siam,
+who sent it to him by W. H. Read. The huge lily
+grew splendidly, and bore leaves over eleven feet in
+diameter.</p>
+
+<p>When in blossom, Whampoa gave sumptuous
+entertainments to naval officers: although our host,
+he would not eat with us, but sat in a chair, slightly
+withdrawn from the table.</p>
+
+<p>At midnight, by the light of a full moon,
+we would visit this beautiful flower, which faced
+the moon and moved with it until below the
+horizon.</p>
+
+<p>Amongst other pets he had an orang-outang,
+who preferred a bottle of cognac to water. Dear old
+Whampoa’s eldest son was sent to England for
+education, and while there became a Presbyterian.</p>
+
+<p>When I was at Singapore, years after, the young
+man returned, and had the assurance to reappear
+before his father, fresh and well, but minus a tail,
+and consequently was banished to Canton until it regrew
+and he consented to worship the gods of his
+fathers. I now hear from the then lad that he
+holds his father’s place.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[81]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Attended the funeral of Simmons: no kinder or
+better man.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Dined at a farewell dinner, given by the Frasers
+to the Reads. <span class='ships'>Albatross</span>, 12, arrived from Rio.
+Commander Farquhar, a good fellow, took up his
+quarters with me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Mail steamer from China, bringing old friend
+Tottenham to take Lieutenant Read’s vacancy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Large dinner at Government House to meet His
+Excellency Sir James Brooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Cooke and Hessey, 21st Regiment:
+a large party. Brooke came to stay with me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of the Governor and Mrs. Butterworth,
+who are leaving on the morrow to visit the
+various settlements.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Low gave a dinner at the hotel to self and
+friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>On board <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>; got under way to accompany
+Farquhar in <span class='ships'>Albatross</span>, after dining we parted
+company, she proceeding to Bombay.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Landed at 4 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> with the youngsters to draw
+the seine; great fun.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at 10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>, and ran into New Harbour.
+Rajah Brooke far from well, our departure for
+Sarawak postponed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>A snake five feet long found under one of
+the main-deck guns. How he got there, they
+wondered!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Having a large party on board, got under way.
+Ran through the Eastern Passage, round St. John’s,
+and returned by Western Entrance. <span class='ships'>Auckland</span>
+steamer joined us in New Harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>At 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, on the rising of the moon, fired a salute
+of eight guns to please the Tumongong of Singapore,
+in celebration of the close of a Mahommedan Fast.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[82]</span></p>
+
+<p>Ever since meeting him in Singapore in this year,
+my friend, James Meldrum (Dato), has always kept
+me informed of all matters connected with the doings
+of the Tumongong and his family.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived mail steamer, on board which was my old
+friend, Sir Francis Collier, as Commander-in-Chief.
+His birthday too!</p>
+
+<p>Hoisted and saluted his flag on board <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.
+Put him up in Read’s house, now empty, Admiral’s
+flagship <span class='ships'>Hastings</span> to follow. The pleasure of meeting,
+I flatter myself, was mutual. Drove out with
+him after early dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Attended the Admiral in returning many calls.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Assisted at Miss Napier’s cheery wedding with
+Hugh Low: <i lang='fr'>déjeûner</i> given by Napier.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Occupied with Admiral, returning calls. He
+having ventured on the favourite native fruit, Durian,
+will not forget the taste!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Egerton,
+Aug.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Youngsters Karslake and Granville on shore
+preparatory to riding at the races. I won the
+lottery.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Last day of the races: better sport because fairer
+weights; good fun.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Great preparations for the instalment of James
+Brooke. Pity the Governor is not here to perform
+the ceremony.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Installation of Brooke with the order of K.C.B.:
+great business; Napier, Her Majesty’s Representative,
+performing ceremony. Ball in evening at
+Assembly Rooms.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Captain Young and officers of <span class='ships'>Auckland</span> gave a
+ball on board their steaming frigate to the
+“Mæanders.” Very well done.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke returned from short visit to the country;
+sailed with him for Labuan. Left dingey in Read’s
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[83]</span>
+garden for Admiral’s flag. Taylor of Artillery with
+me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>At Sea.
+Aug.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Again on the way to Sarawak. My friend
+Brooke under different circumstances than when he
+went in <span class='ships'>Dido</span>, 1843.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Rounded Tanjong Datu: entered within the limits
+of Brooke’s territory.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_083'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_083.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>All Sail set.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sarawak,
+Sept.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Being off the Santabong entrance sent second gig
+to Sarawak, with letters from Rajah Brooke. Sunset,
+anchored in the Marotobas entrance off Tanjong
+Po: some 12 miles from Kuching.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>The whole Sarawak population appeared to
+be afloat; all their largest and finest boats had
+been put in requisition, and came with tom-toms
+beating, streamers and colours flying to greet their
+Rajah.</p>
+
+<p>The first boat alongside contained the Bornean
+Princes: survivors of the Brunei Massacre,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[84]</span>
+relatives of poor Muda Hassim and the gallant
+Budrudeen.</p>
+
+<p>Among them I recognised Pangeran Oman Alli,
+with a desperate wound in the face and a frightful
+gash across the breast.</p>
+
+<p>While preparing for my guests in proper form,
+their Highnesses found their way into my cabin,
+thereby evading all ceremony—where I will leave
+them a few minutes while I insert here a short extract
+from Rajah Brooke’s letter, dated on board
+<span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span>, August 27, 1846.</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p>“Here I am with a few of the unhappy survivors
+of Muda Hassim’s family.</p>
+
+<p>“I cannot pretend to detail all that has occurred,
+even in a long letter, for events now, as when you
+were with me, progress far faster than the decisions
+of ministers.</p>
+
+<p>“You will have heard of the brutal massacre of
+Muda Hassim, the noble Budrudeen and the other
+brothers, except two.</p>
+
+<p>“They were taken by surprise, their houses
+fired, and during the fire attacked by about fifty
+men.</p>
+
+<p>“Budrudeen, with two men, fought until wounded
+in the wrist and cut over the head; he then blew
+himself and family up.</p>
+
+<p>“Muda Hassim escaped with several of his brothers
+to the opposite side of the river, having lost his guns,
+powder, and property, and then shot himself.”</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The pleasure on both sides at meeting was
+unfeigned, and indeed—setting aside those social
+ties which must bind us all, more or less, to the land
+of our birth—no one, witnessing the real pleasure
+which the return of Sir James Brooke afforded these
+simple people, could wonder at his preferring a
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[85]</span>
+country where such a reception awaited him to
+colder if more civilised England.</p>
+
+<p>With the first of the flood, our Rajah embarked in
+the <span class='ships'>Mæander’s</span> barge, and, quitting the ship under a
+salute and manned yards, attended by his picturesque
+fleet he proceeded up the river, the war prahus
+keeping up a firing of guns.</p>
+
+<p>After Brooke’s departure we stood out to sea, in
+search of the <span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span>. When off Tanjong
+Datu we hoisted out our boom-boats, sending them
+in all directions, standing ourselves towards St.
+Pierre.</p>
+
+<p>We afterwards met the tender off the entrance of
+the Sarawak River. Marryat having mistaken his
+orders, went in by the Santobong entrance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Ran into the river. The largest ship that has
+ever been or likely to come up as far as the Quop.
+Took up my quarters in Brooke’s house; found
+him surrounded by a happy and contented people.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Preparing boats to accompany a small force
+to be sent by Rajah to the Sadong: twenty-five
+boats in all.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>This afternoon tide brought the <span class='ships'>Auckland</span> steamer,
+with the July mail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Went up during a stormy night with young
+Brooke to join his uncle; returned with the ebb.
+<span class='ships'>Auckland</span> having brought up our new steam
+tender, built at Singapore and christened <span class='ships'>Ranee</span>,
+took a small trip in her. The engines, however, not
+of sufficient power. The steam launch was the
+astonishment of the natives.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Boats returned from their expedition to Sadong,
+which was most successful, but a sad accident had
+occurred.</p>
+
+<p>Two seamen and a marine were going on shore in
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[86]</span>
+a sampan, when the seamen began rocking the canoe
+by way of lark, and upset the small vessel, drowning
+the marine and one sailor.</p>
+
+<p>While the First Lieutenant was reporting to me
+the sad accident, a lad fell overboard from the <span class='ships'>Ranee</span>,
+and sank at once, probably seized by an alligator
+not visible in muddy water. Very sad the number
+of deaths in this ship: manned by as fine a crew
+as ever left England.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Attended a grand feast given by the Datu
+Patinggi to the Rajah. Great preparations had been
+made; flags and streamers flying, gongs sounding,
+and salutes fired <i lang='la'>ad libitum</i> from the Datos
+Lelahs.</p>
+
+<p>We were received by the still pretty and graceful
+Inda, mother of Fatima, the youthful heiress to
+Datu Gapoor’s property. Her beauty has attained a
+celebrity throughout the Malayan Archipelago.</p>
+
+<p>The fair Fatima sprinkled us with coloured rice
+and gold dust, to which was added a gentle shower
+of rose water.</p>
+
+<p>Verses from the Koran were chanted, the book
+being handed from one to another, without regard
+to precedence or sanctity, the man with the strongest
+lungs taking the longest pull at it. Then came feasting,
+with undeniably good curries.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Brooke held a Bichara. All the leading Chiefs,
+Datus, and Pangerans attended. Every part of the
+audience-chamber was crowded: light and air being
+almost excluded by the multitude of eager faces
+that filled the openings which served for windows.
+We were in uniform and found it oppressively
+hot.</p>
+
+<p>A new flag, which Brooke had brought from
+England, was unfurled—a black and red cross on
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[87]</span>
+yellow ground—henceforth the national flag of
+Sarawak.</p>
+
+<p>It was hoisted and saluted in due form; the
+<span class='ships'>Mæander’s</span> band, playing lively airs, contributed to
+effect.</p>
+
+<p>The function over, pipes and cigars were introduced.
+We then threw off our jackets, appearing in
+full Sarawak uniform, viz. shirts and trousers only,
+and discussed with less ceremony and more comfort
+the past, the present, and the future, finishing by
+dining with the generous Hunting, who has become
+a landed proprietor.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Up early and down to the ship at the Quop and
+on to Tanjong Po.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>The Rajah having embarked with friends Treacher
+and Macdougal we sailed for Labuan, and in four
+days landed him, although far from well.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Labuan.</div>
+
+<p>But where was the Governor’s house? Where
+the Lieutenant-Governor? Where was any one in
+authority to answer for the miserable huts we found
+raised on the most unhealthy-looking spots on the
+island?</p>
+
+<p>The flat selected for the settlement is below the
+level and out of sight of the sea, from which it is
+protected by a silted-up bank. It cost the lives of
+many marines, and, later, some of my best able seamen.</p>
+
+<p>Landed Brooke under a salute. He and Napier
+were sworn in, and so commenced the Government
+of Labuan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>We again received on board the Governor and
+his staff, His Excellency purposing to pay a visit
+of ceremony to the Sultan of Brunei.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Hoisted out the launch. Got caught in a squall,
+with her and steam tender in tow. Before the sail
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[88]</span>
+could be got off the launch capsized, with a brass
+gun for ballast; the steam tender did not take in so
+much as a spoonful of water.</p>
+
+<p>However, we picked up the two boat-keepers, and
+the greater part of the gear; came to and hoisted in
+the launch. While thus employed the <span class='ships'>Royalist</span> hove
+in sight, having been dismantled in same squall.</p>
+
+<p>The bob-stays had given way, the bowsprit came
+in-board, and the three masts, with royal yards across,
+lay amidships.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Leaving her at Labuan to refit, and a volunteer
+party of marines for duty on shore, we re-landed
+His Excellency and sailed for Singapore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>A marine, William Southcote, another victim,
+departed this life.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Another this evening in Corporal Chalmers, also
+a steady, good man. Have my fears for those
+poor fellows left at Labuan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight arrived at Singapore. My wife
+had previously arrived from England, and was
+kindly received by the Governor and Mrs. Butterworth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral hoisted flag on board. I took Whampoa’s
+house in the country.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Hastings</span>, 72—Captain, Francis Austen; Commander,
+Edward Rice—arrived in the night. Shifted
+flag to her and saluted. Glad she has arrived.
+She had been towed up by <span class='ships'>Fury</span>, 6, from Java
+Head.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Auckland</span>, arriving from Labuan with <span class='ships'>Royalist</span> in
+tow: decided that <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> takes part of 21st
+Regiment on board for Labuan station.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Inquiry, with Captain Morgan, on board <span class='ships'>Royalist</span>,
+as to steps taken by Gordon when she was dismasted.
+Approval of steps taken.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[90]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Company of Sepoy troops embarked on board
+<span class='ships'>Mæander</span>. Weighed immediately.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_089'>
+  <a href='images/i_089.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_089-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> passing astern of
+    <span class='ships'>Hastings</span>.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Lucky in our breeze. Fell in with and passed
+close under the stern of the <span class='ships'>Hastings</span> in tow of <span class='ships'>Fury</span>,
+she having left thirty hours before us. She would
+have done better under canvas.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived at Labuan.</p>
+
+<p>We found nearly the whole colony down with
+fever. More marines had died; many seriously ill,
+and of the survivors the poor Governor in the worst
+condition. He had been delirious, and lay apparently
+with but little hope of recovery. Doctor Treacher,
+his medical attendant, was nearly as bad.</p>
+
+<p>I saw that some steps should be immediately taken,
+and, making my way to the sick bedside, I begged
+Sir James to prepare for removal, giving him choice
+of <span class='ships'>Auckland</span> or <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>. Brooke selected the
+latter.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Feeling better in the morning, he undertook to
+sign a few papers, but fainted twice during the
+day.</p>
+
+<p>When I called just before sunset with the barge’s
+crew to convey him on board, he was so exhausted
+that our surgeon declared it would be dangerous to
+move him.</p>
+
+<p>With great reluctance on my part, he was left to
+imbibe for another night the fœtid air of Labuan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Poor Hannan, our Chaplain, showing strong
+symptoms of delirium; imagines the Queen to be
+coming to Labuan to put things to rights.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Found Brooke not improving. I decided on
+saving his life if possible.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>In spite of remonstrances of the faculty, as well
+as those of some of his staff, my gig’s crew gently
+shouldered the cot on which he lay, and so conveyed
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[91]</span>
+His Excellency to the barge. The sea was smooth;
+those on board were prepared: he was hoisted up;
+once in my cabin no one could approach him
+except through me, and I was proud and hopeful of
+my charge.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_92'>[92]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XXXIX'>CHAPTER XXXIX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Cruising</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1848.
+Labuan,
+Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Sir James Brooke had duties to perform as Her
+Majesty’s Commissioner to the Sultan of Borneo,
+and the Chiefs of the Malayan Archipelago; but
+he was only able to indicate to me the direction he
+wished to go.</p>
+
+<p>Our chief object being the restoration of his
+health, we managed, by keeping the ship under easy
+sail during the day, and anchoring in the evening, to
+give him the advantage of undisturbed rest at night.</p>
+
+<p>Among the invalids were the A.D.C., Captain
+Brooke, poor Dr. Treacher, a mere shadow of what
+he was, young Charles Grant, and the good-tempered
+Spenser St. John, whose kindness to the
+sick had been unabated.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight, and with fair wind, smooth
+water, and fine weather, coasted along in the direction
+of Pulo Tiga, the scenery increasing in beauty
+as we got to the northward.</p>
+
+<p>Running between Pulo Tiga and Tanjong Klias,
+we shaped a course for the Kimanis River, up which
+there was a fine old Orang Kaya (chief man), Istur
+by name, a friend of our Rajah. It was dark when
+we came to. This was formerly a great haunt of the
+Illanuns and other pirates.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_092'>
+  <a href='images/i_092.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_092-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Map—Eastern Archipelago.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[93]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Having obtained the necessary information from
+native fishing boats, sent the second gig up the river
+to inform the Orang Kaya of the Rajah’s arrival, as
+well as to solicit a pilot for the River Mengatal.</p>
+
+<p>I had intended to go up in the cool of the evening,
+but in the afternoon the unusual appearance, in these
+waters, of a boat with a European sail was reported,
+coming along shore. She proved to belong to the
+<span class='ships'>Minerva</span> schooner, bringing the master and mate of
+that vessel, which they had left on a coral bank near
+Balambangan.</p>
+
+<p>In the master, Lonsdale, I recognised an old
+acquaintance, who formerly commanded the <span class='ships'>Maria</span>,
+one of the transports under convoy of the <span class='ships'>Dido</span>
+during the Chinese war. He stated that, having run
+on the reef, and finding that his vessel could not be
+got off without being lightened, he was throwing
+her cargo of teak overboard when he observed
+several prahus coming out from under a point of
+land. Having no arms he had taken to his long-boat,
+with the few valuables he could hastily collect, manned
+by his Lascar crew, making eighteen in all.</p>
+
+<p>Ten of the Lascars afterwards left him on his
+landing at a part of the island for fuel and water.
+He then went on, intending to coast down as far as
+Labuan.</p>
+
+<p>While at morning quarters, off Kimanis, a swarm
+of bees, attracted perhaps by the sound of the band,
+came round the ship, and finally settled on the under
+quarter of the cross-jack-yard, presenting an extraordinary
+appearance. By clinging to one another,
+they formed themselves into a bag 12 or 14 inches
+deep, the mouth of which, attached to the cross-jack-yard,
+occupied a space of about 2 feet in length by
+1 wide, which was shaken and moved by the wind.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[94]</span></p>
+
+<p>Fearing that the men might get stung on going
+aloft, I tried to dislodge the bees, first by discharging
+a musket with a double charge of coarse powder at
+them from the mizzen-rigging, within 4 yards.</p>
+
+<p>This having no effect, it was fired at the same
+distance with a charge of sand, by which a few fell.
+The vacancies were immediately filled up, and the bag
+seemed to stick closer than ever.</p>
+
+<p>They remained two days, during which time we
+were twice under way, making and shortening sail,
+in each of which operations the chain topsail sheet
+ran through the centre of the bag and disturbed large
+portions of them in its passage; but the bees returned
+and repaired the damage as soon as the sheet or
+clew line had been belayed.</p>
+
+<p>The disaster of the <span class='ships'>Minerva</span> induced me to defer
+our visit to the village, in order that we might repair
+to the scene of the wreck and render assistance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Early the following morning, having hoisted the
+boat on board, we weighed with a fresh southerly
+wind, along the coast, a couple of miles off-shore,
+with the noble mountain of Kina-Balu in the background
+raising its magnificent head above the clouds.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_095'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_095.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Kina-Balu.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Nothing could be finer than the scene before us;
+our poor invalids were much too ill to enjoy it, but
+this was the first day in which I had been able to discover
+the slightest improvement in Brooke’s condition.</p>
+
+<p>As might be supposed, when we found the wreck,
+not only had she been completely gutted, but burned
+to the water’s edge, for the sake of the copper and
+iron bolts. We saw, in fact, native boats in the
+distance making off with the plunder.</p>
+
+<p>The appearance of Balambangan is far from
+inviting, and the approaches to it are shoal and
+intricate.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[95]</span></p>
+
+<p>Weighed, and stood into Malludu Bay. On our
+way we fell in with a native prahu, belonging to
+Seriff Hussein, a son of the unfortunate Seriff Osman,
+who made such a gallant resistance in August 1845
+up the Malludu River, when attacked by the boats
+of the <span class='ships'>Vestal</span>, Captain Talbot.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Seriff Hussein was reticent on his first interview
+with Rajah Brooke, but opened out more fully on
+his second visit. He and the chiefs with him complained
+of the unprotected state and want of government
+under which they lived. Each petty chief
+quarrelled with and attacked his weaker neighbours,
+while they in turn lived in constant dread of an
+attack from the more formidable Bajow or Sulu
+pirates.</p>
+
+<p>These people were particularly obliging and civil,
+and sent their men to show us the best shooting-ground,
+rather appearing to like our visit, though we
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[96]</span>
+were not long enough together to establish implicit
+confidence.</p>
+
+<p>Having pulled and poled over a bar, and up a
+shallow salt-water creek, on the east side of the bay,
+a little to the northward of where we were anchored,
+we landed a small shooting party, and were shown
+some particularly likely-looking ground, covered
+with long grass and intersected in all directions by
+the fresh tracks of wild cattle. A hog was the result
+of our sport; but three large deer made their appearance
+on the edge of the jungle, just as the guns had
+been discharged at our less-dignified game.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>With our tender, <span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span>, in company, we
+weighed and stood towards the Island of Mallewali
+and soon entered among the dangers of the Sulu Seas.</p>
+
+<p>As far as the eye could reach from the masthead,
+patches of sand and coral banks were visible, but the
+weather was fine, the water smooth and clear; time
+our own, and with our tender sounding ahead, we
+proceeded, nothing daunted by appearances. We
+could always pick our way by daylight and anchor
+at sunset.</p>
+
+<p>Mallewali is surrounded by coral reefs and sandbanks.
+There appears to be a fine harbour to the
+eastward, but certainly no safe entrance for a ship
+the size of <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Exploring parties landed and the island was well
+traversed, but no traces of inhabitants were seen,
+and only rumours of tracks of game.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mallewali, Dec.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>At 10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> expired, in the prime of life, one of
+our finest young men, John Jago, another victim
+to Labuan fever; he had several times rallied, but
+two days previous to his death he sent to take leave
+of me, and I was some time endeavouring to cheer
+him up.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[97]</span></p>
+
+<p>The sick were suspended in cots on both sides of
+the main-deck; and when a death occurred it was
+difficult to hide from the others what had taken
+place.</p>
+
+<p>Jago was the last of the barge’s crew who was
+taken ill, and had attended most of his shipmates
+through their attacks of fever. There was a happy
+expression of countenance and a generosity about
+this poor fellow that had endeared him to officers
+and men. He left me the address of his mother,
+and of a young girl to whom he was betrothed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sulu, Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>We weighed as soon as the sun was high enough
+to show us the dangers, standing under easy sail to
+the eastward, with <span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span> sounding ahead.
+After some little difficulty in winding the ship between
+the shoals, and an occasional scrape on some
+projecting point of coral that had outgrown the
+bed to which it belonged, we made Cagayan Sulu
+on the 18th, but before coming to an anchor on
+the eastern side, we buried George Martin, a young
+marine.</p>
+
+<p>Dollars not being a current medium of exchange
+among most of these islands, glass beads, looking-glasses,
+coloured cottons, etc., had been brought by
+us for purposes of barter.</p>
+
+<p>We were very anxious to obtain a supply of
+bullocks, to keep our people as much on fresh meat
+as possible. The purser and interpreter, with a party
+of officers, went in a boat to communicate with a
+house which struck us in passing—from its size and
+plantations round it—as probably belonging to some
+chief, by whose assistance we hoped to get a supply
+of cattle.</p>
+
+<p>Having, with difficulty, got inside the shoals, and
+effected a landing, our party was received in the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[98]</span>
+politest manner by a fine-looking old Malay, who
+came down with his family to meet them.</p>
+
+<p>They made him understand our wants; and he
+sent immediately to the chief of the district, and
+acquainted him with our wishes, appointing the next
+morning at nine as the time to receive the chief’s
+answer.</p>
+
+<p>Our people left the shore much pleased with their
+friend, who, as I have before remarked of the well-bred
+Malays, was a gentleman, polite, easy, and
+dignified.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>The next morning the same party landed with
+the necessary articles for barter, expecting to meet
+the chief or his deputy, and make a bargain for the
+cattle. Their friend of the previous evening received
+them in the same kind manner.</p>
+
+<p>They waited some time in expectation of the
+cattle arriving, instead of which, parties of natives
+kept thronging in, well armed with kris, spear, and
+shield—their tom-toms beating outside.</p>
+
+<p>After a while came the chief with a numerous
+train—himself a humpbacked, ferocious-looking
+savage—with all his men in padded jackets, and
+regular fighting costume. He made no reply to the
+questions of our party about bullocks, but kept his
+hand on his kris, and appeared undecided how to
+act.</p>
+
+<p>We were only eight in number, and destitute of
+arms, with the exception of my double-barrel, the
+kind behaviour of their friend the night before
+having completely removed all suspicion of any
+sinister behaviour.</p>
+
+<p>Surrounded now by about sixty well-armed,
+rascally-looking thieves, of hostile demeanour, we
+thought it best to put on as bold a front as possible,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[99]</span>
+and at the same time quietly to retire. Nor did we
+underrate our good fortune in regaining the boat
+without further molestation, the ship being some
+miles distant, and shut from view by projecting
+headlands.</p>
+
+<p>This was a lesson not to venture, in future, out
+of sight of the ship among the natives of these islands
+without an apparent superiority of force. Their
+white flags were hung out as much for the purpose
+of entrapping the weak as of bartering with the
+strong. Finding our wishes not likely to be
+attained, and not liking our berth, which was exposed
+to the eastward, we weighed, and ran round
+to the opposite side of Cagayan Sulu. This island,
+from its size and population, is next in importance
+to Sulu itself.</p>
+
+<p>The scenery, at this stage of our wanderings, was
+the perfection of tropical beauty, with just sufficient
+cultivation to redeem it from the appearance of
+wildness.</p>
+
+<p>As we ran past the bungalows and small villages
+on the southern shore, the inhabitants showed great
+alacrity in displaying pieces of white cloth; we
+ourselves keeping a white flag constantly flying, to
+show our peaceable intention and desire to communicate
+with them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Having stood out for the melancholy purpose of
+committing to the deep the body of a marine,
+named Allan Cameron, another victim to Labuan
+fever, we came to an anchor on the south-west side,
+off the principal village of Cagayan Sulu.</p>
+
+<p>We here encountered none of the menacing
+style of rogues on the eastern side; the people were
+willing to exchange cattle, poultry, and vegetables for
+our articles of barter. Red and white cotton were
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[100]</span>
+the most attractive, while empty bottles and midshipmen’s
+anchor buttons fetched their full value.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and stood towards Mambahennan, a
+small island to the southward, intending to come to
+for the night; but finding no anchorage, and the sea
+being now comparatively clear of shoals, we stood
+to the eastward, came to under the lee of an island,
+a sandy point.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>About noon made some islands. Chart too
+incorrect to make out what they are. Found anchorage
+under the lee of one of them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Invalids improving but slowly. Our clergyman,
+Hannan, very far from well; symptoms of breakdown
+of brain. Also the return of his delusion that the
+Queen was coming to Labuan to put things to
+rights.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Not the merriest Christmas I ever passed. Ship’s
+company landed in evening to amuse themselves
+in the jungle with their muskets. No accidents
+occurred. Passengers dined with me. Poor Rajah
+still ill, also his nephew, Brooke Brooke, the
+A.D.C.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sulu,
+Dec.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>It was late when we came to an anchor. A good
+sprinkling on the sea of fishing and trading boats,
+of picturesque build and rig, gave to this place a
+pleasing appearance of life and animation, such as
+we had not before witnessed.</p>
+
+<p>The ship had been seen from the high land long
+before, and we were not surprised by the appearance
+of some bustle taking place in the town: lights were
+moving about all night. We imagined, and afterwards
+found it to be the case, that they were removing
+their valuables, with their women and children, to
+the mountains, as a precaution in case our visit was
+hostile.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[101]</span></p>
+
+<p>We had looked forward with much interest to
+our visit to Sulu, and were not, on the whole, disappointed—though
+perhaps it may be considered
+rather curious than interesting.</p>
+
+<p>The English ensign was flying over a house,
+which we knew at once must be that of Mr.
+Windham. An officer was sent to communicate and
+obtain information.</p>
+
+<p>The town is built, like most Malay places, partly
+on land and partly in the sea; the former part was
+strongly stockaded and flanked with batteries mounting
+heavy guns. The Sultan, under the influence
+and counsel of the Rajah of Sarawak, had become
+opposed to piracy and anxious for its suppression.</p>
+
+<p>That portion of the town which is not within the
+stockades is built in regular Malay fashion, on piles.
+The houses run in rows or streets; and outside
+them is a platform about six feet wide. These rows
+of birdcage-looking buildings extend into the sea for
+half a mile, over a shoal which is nearly dry at low
+water. The population are principally fishermen and
+Chinese traders.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Mr. Windham’s house was built on one of these
+rickety platforms, and at low water it was necessary
+for us, who wore shoes and stockings, to be carried
+from the boat and deposited on his accommodation-ladder,
+where a kind welcome awaited us.</p>
+
+<p>We found him dressed in Malay costume, and
+from long residence among them he had assumed
+much of the appearance and manner of a native.
+He willingly undertook the task of communicating
+with the Sultan, and arranging an audience for Sir
+James Brooke.</p>
+
+<p>The usual salutes were exchanged. Mr. Windham
+informed us that a short time previously, when
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[102]</span>
+he was absent attending the pearl-fishing at the
+Ceroo Islands, two Dutch men-of-war had arrived
+at Sulu, who, after visiting and exchanging the usual
+salutes, suddenly attacked the town; this accounted
+for the panic on the night of our arrival.</p>
+
+<p>The Dutchmen, having fired on the town for
+some time, landed and burnt a few houses, paying
+Mr. Windham the compliment of making particular
+inquiries for his, which they destroyed, together with
+much valuable property. He took us a short walk,
+I fancy about as far as he dared himself venture, into
+the interior.</p>
+
+<p>What we saw of the country was highly cultivated,
+consisting, with intervals of jungle, of pasture-grounds
+and gardens, and an abundance of cattle.</p>
+
+<p>Our appearance excited much curiosity with the
+natives, and many questions were asked, but the
+presence and explanation of Mr. Windham satisfied
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Before commencing our watering, it was necessary
+to make certain arrangements, as a French squadron
+under Admiral Cecille had been much molested
+during that operation a short time previously, and
+an attempt had been made to poison the springs; all
+necessary precautions, therefore, were taken on our
+part.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Jolly Bachelor</span> was first placed a few yards
+from the watering-place, which her howitzers completely
+covered.</p>
+
+<p>Our people were charged to avoid offending the
+natives in any way during their casual intercourse.
+Under these auspices our watering progressed quickly
+and well.</p>
+
+<p>It was not considered prudent to venture into
+the interior on shooting excursions, but we heard that
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[103]</span>
+there were partridges and quail, wild ducks, snipe,
+and teal. Monkeys, doves, and pigeons we saw.
+The beef we found particularly good.</p>
+
+<p>We went to see what they call their races, which
+were held in an open space not far from the town,
+and observed groups of savage, but picturesque-looking
+men, mounted on spirited, strong-built
+small horses, of the Manila or Spanish breed; they
+were generally well armed, bearing each a spear or
+lance.</p>
+
+<p>Presently a man would dash out from the rest
+as a challenge; then one from another group, or
+perhaps from the same, would ride up alongside;
+then both would start off in lines of their own
+choosing, in a brisk trot; at which pace the races were
+generally contested.</p>
+
+<p>On several occasions I noticed a ruffian, apparently
+mounted no better than his neighbours, start out
+from the crowd; but no one seemed to accept the
+challenge.</p>
+
+<p>These men were a sort of bravos, whom nobody
+cared to quarrel with, and such an offence as beating
+them at a race would be sure to end in a brawl.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>This was the day appointed for Sir James Brooke’s
+interview with the Sultan of Sulu. We landed in
+full dress at ten o’clock. Having walked over the
+sea suburbs, and arrived at the beach, we found a
+guard of honour and attendants waiting to conduct
+Brooke to the Sultan’s presence; they were a motley
+group, but made themselves useful in clearing the way.</p>
+
+<p>Passing within the outer stockade, we arrived, after
+a few minutes’ walk, at the royal residence.</p>
+
+<p>It was walled in and fortified. A large space was
+enclosed by double rows of heavy piles driven into
+the earth, about 5 feet apart, and the space filled
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[104]</span>
+up with large stones and earth, making a solid wall
+15 feet high, with embrasures, or rather portholes, in
+convenient places for cannon, out of which we noticed
+some rusty muzzles. Passing through a massive
+gateway, well flanked with guns and loopholes, we
+entered a large court, in which some two thousand
+persons were assembled, armed, and in their best
+apparel, but observing no sort of order. It was a
+wild and novel sight.</p>
+
+<p>Malays are always armed. The kris to them is
+what the sword was to an English gentleman in the
+Middle Ages. Every person who, by virtue of his
+rank, or on any other pretext, could gain admittance,
+was in attendance on this occasion; for our Rajah
+had become a justly celebrated man in the great
+Eastern Archipelago, and was an object of curiosity.
+The audience-chamber was not large. A table
+covered with green cloth ran across the centre of it.
+Above the table, and round the upper end of the
+room, sat a brilliant semicircle of personages, the
+Sultan occupying a raised seat in the centre.</p>
+
+<p>His Highness gave us a gracious reception, shaking
+hands with each officer as he was presented.
+This ceremony over, chairs were placed for Sir
+James and his suite. The scene was striking and
+gay.</p>
+
+<p>The Sultan is a young-looking man, but with a
+dull and vacant expression, produced by too frequent
+a use of opium. His lips were red with the mixture
+of betel-nut and siri leaf which he chewed. He was
+dressed in rich silks, red and green the predominant
+colours. A large jewel sparkled in his turban, and
+he carried a magnificent kris.</p>
+
+<p>The entire court was dressed in rich coloured
+brocades and silks, and many of the guard wore
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[105]</span>
+ancient chain armour, covering the arms, and reaching
+from throat to knee, their heads protected by
+skull-caps to match.</p>
+
+<p>Those armed with sword, spear, and kris did not
+look amiss, but two sentries, placed to guard the
+entrance to this ancient hall of audience, each shouldering
+a shabby-looking old Tower musket, of which
+they seemed very proud, had an absurd effect.</p>
+
+<p>Although no actual treaty was concluded, Sir
+James Brooke paved the way for opening up commerce,
+and for cultivating a better understanding
+with the natives.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Windham had been trying to persuade the
+Sulus to hoist the St. George’s Cross in their trading
+prahus, as a badge of peaceful mercantile occupation,
+by which they might be known to our cruisers, but
+this suggestion had not yet been adopted.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[106]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XL'>CHAPTER XL</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Cruising in the Sulu Sea</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1849.
+Jan.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>We quitted Sulu with regret. I liked Windham—a
+comical mixture of English honesty and native
+cunning.</p>
+
+<p>Standing along the coast to the eastward, at 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>
+came to in a beautiful and secure anchorage,
+protected by the Island of Toolyan, said to belong
+to the English. Natives frightened. The scenery,
+although no Kina-Balu, was more beautiful than any
+we had yet seen.</p>
+
+<p>Our late arrival caused the same consternation as
+at Sulu. The same noise and flitting about of lights;
+until one fine fellow, determined to risk his life for
+the community, paddled alongside. When our pacific
+intentions were made known confidence was quickly
+established.</p>
+
+<p>This island is separated from Sulu by a narrow
+strait. It appeared well cultivated; there were gardeners
+on shore and fishermen afloat, the people
+more peaceably inclined than their neighbours; but
+we did not trouble them, and proceeded for Samboangan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Our invalids improved, with the exception of the
+chaplain, whose health caused anxiety.</p>
+
+<p>The excitement and interest of our cruise rather
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[107]</span>
+increased as we proceeded. On the 5th we anchored
+off the Bolod Islands, and landed to search for the
+eggs of a bird which, from the description given us,
+we supposed to be the Megapodius.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored off the west coast of the island of
+Basilair, the largest of the Sulu Archipelago, on which
+the Spaniards have established a small settlement, not
+without trouble, the inhabitants being hostile and
+warlike, keeping their garrison on the alert. The
+French squadron, under Admiral Cecille, sustained
+some loss in an attack by boats here. The next
+day we worked our way between numerous small
+but beautiful islands, only regretting we had not
+time to explore them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>The
+Philippines.</div>
+
+<p>At 9 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> we came to off the fort of Samboangan.
+On the following morning saluted the Spanish flag.</p>
+
+<p>The settlement is on the south part of the
+Philippine group, and its population reinforced by
+convicts from Manila.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>The inhabitants are fierce, and celebrated for their
+piratical propensities. We much enjoyed a few days
+in this comparatively civilised place.</p>
+
+<p>Owing to the clever management of the Governor,
+Don Cayetano de Figueroa, Colonel of Engineers, a
+very sociable system of society prevailed, uniting all
+classes—the proud Spanish dames not refusing to
+meet in the same ballroom the pretty half-caste
+women who during the mornings were engaged in
+washing clothes or retailing eggs and poultry in the
+market.</p>
+
+<p>The hospitality of the Governor provided for us at
+his residence early every morning a cup of excellent
+chocolate. After <i lang='hi'>chôta hazari</i>, horses being in
+readiness, he would accompany us, pointing out
+everything worth seeing.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_108">[108]</span></p>
+
+<p>The settlement of Samboangan lies within narrow
+boundaries; but in the immediate vicinity of the town
+the land was highly cultivated.</p>
+
+<p>In our rides we were attended by boys carrying
+our guns, the jungle abounding in varieties of doves
+and pigeons, also a bantam fowl.</p>
+
+<p>We had dances and dinners on shore and on
+board; indeed it was with no small regret we took
+leave of our kind and hospitable friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>There is much in these regions to interest the
+conchologist and to reward his researches among the
+rocks and seaweeds: finding I was a collector, the
+officers of the Spanish marine supplied me from
+their private collections with some beautiful specimens
+of the spondylus and chama.</p>
+
+<p>We left Samboangan in company with a fleet of
+gunboats that would have done credit to any nation.</p>
+
+<p>It must be confessed that in <em>systematic</em> protection
+to the commerce of their respective seas both Spain
+and Holland surpass us. The Spaniards, alive to
+the truth that commerce and piracy cannot co-exist,
+have long since maintained such a naval force as
+has not only driven away, but <em>keeps</em> at a distance
+from the Philippine Islands, those hordes who used
+to inflict on their marine traffic such sacrifice of life
+and property.</p>
+
+<p>The Dutch, true to the same policy, and perhaps
+even more happy in its exercise, have by a system of
+vigilance along the whole coast of Java, so eradicated
+piracy from the Celebes, that murderers have
+been converted into merchants.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Observing a sandbank to the north-west not
+mentioned in our charts, we hauled up, intending to
+anchor near it and ascertain its correct position.</p>
+
+<p>With reduced sail we neared the island; and with
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_109">[109]</span>
+the leads going, look-out men at the masthead, and
+occasional cast of the deep-sea lead, we approached
+the lee side and got within cables’ length of the beach
+without obtaining bottom at 120 fathoms.</p>
+
+<p>A line of breakers with overfalls extended off the
+north-west end, having the appearance of a shelf of
+rocks, but these proved to be nothing but a tide
+ripple as we stood near. The island was small, and
+had the same appearance all round. On landing
+we found a patch of glaring white sand, without
+a vestige of vegetation, surrounded by a belt of
+coral about a mile and a half in circumference, and
+so steep that I believe we might have rubbed the
+sides of the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> against it without obtaining
+bottom.</p>
+
+<p>We found on this lonely coral island the solitary
+grave of a Mussulman. Here was, indeed, a resting-place
+likely to be undisturbed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Cagayan
+Sulu,
+Jan.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in ten fathoms, about a mile off the
+south side of Cagayan, and commenced our examination
+of the curious circular lake before mentioned.
+The entrance is by a gap. This, however, is crossed
+by a bank of coral, which at low water is nearly dry,
+so to exclude any boat larger than a canoe. Just
+outside the middle of the bar was a small island of
+rock and sandstone, with a sufficient shelter to make
+an excellent shaded spot for our picnic.</p>
+
+<p>On passing the bar we found ourselves inside a
+magnificent circular lake of deep blue water, with
+a circumference of about three miles, and completely
+encircled by sandstone cliffs, upwards of 200 feet
+in height and nearly perpendicular, covered with
+shrubs.</p>
+
+<p>In the natural barriers of this remarkable enclosure
+only two small breaks occurred—one was the gap
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_110">[110]</span>
+by which we entered, the other was on the E.N.E.
+side.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing could be more luxuriant than the growth
+of trees and shrubs, their trunks and branches covered
+with a variety of beautiful orchids in brilliant blossom
+hanging in festoons to the water’s edge.</p>
+
+<p>Over our heads, disturbed by such unusual visitors,
+numbers of pigeons flew to and fro, while many
+varieties of the parrot uttered remonstrances.</p>
+
+<p>Formed ourselves into small parties—some to
+haul the seine, others in search of shells, while a
+third explored the gap on the north-east side, clambering
+up without any anticipation of a further
+treat.</p>
+
+<p>At a height of about eighty feet another beautiful
+but smaller lake burst in sight, circular in form, and
+as nearly as possible similar to that which they had
+left.</p>
+
+<p>The two lakes were separated by a natural wall;
+and the spectator standing on its narrow edge could,
+by a turn of head, look at the depth of thirty feet on
+the inner lake, or on the outer one, eighty feet beneath
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Men and axes were procured from the ship, the
+trees were cut down and a path made up the gap, and
+so over to the fresh-water lake. A raft was constructed,
+and with a small boat belonging to the
+tender launched upon the water.</p>
+
+<p>Our operations drew some natives to the spot,
+who expostulated and informed us that the water of
+the upper lake was sacred, and had never yet been
+desecrated by the presence of a canoe; that the Spirit
+of the Lake (by description, a fiery dragon of the
+worst order) would be annoyed at the innovation:
+nothing would induce them to venture on it.
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_111">[111]</span>
+These scruples were, however, got over by a glass
+of grog.</p>
+
+<p>The inner lake was the finer of the two; it might
+at one time, by some volcanic convulsion, have risen
+and burst through its barriers at this spot into the
+lower basin, which in turn may have formed the gap
+in the outer side.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>We now took up our old berth in the south-west
+bay of Cagayan Sulu, and commenced an active
+barter for stock; this, however, was brought to a
+sudden close on the 22nd, the natives taking fright
+at our shell practice. We were exercising at general
+quarters, and a few of them had remained to see
+the shot strike the target; but the double report
+produced by these missiles was too much for Sulu
+nerves.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed, making for the northward of Banguey,
+anchoring occasionally.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Victoria Bay, Labuan, and soon
+after landed Rajah Brooke, restored to comparative
+health.</p>
+
+<p>Found orders for our being in China by the end
+of March. Labuan is much improved, residences
+having been shifted to where they ought to have been
+at the beginning. Hugh Low better.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfasted with, and took leave of, the Rajah,
+who shortly after went to Sarawak. Weighed for
+Singapore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Young Dalyell dined with me to keep his pretty
+sister Bijou’s birthday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored in Singapore Roads. Further orders
+for China, the Commander-in-Chief thinking it
+advisable to have a force ready in case the Government
+should have to enforce the treaty made by Sir
+John Davis with the Chinese Government in 1847,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[112]</span>
+by which the gates of the city of Canton were to be
+opened to foreigners.</p>
+
+<p>This treaty was likely to be disregarded by the
+Chinese, according to opportunity, when the immediate
+danger should be removed: it was made at
+the bayonet point, while our troops were in possession
+of the environs of the Celestial City.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Among memos the Chief left was one directing
+any ship on her way to Hong Kong to bring three
+heavy spars that were waiting passage to the Government
+House for mast, topmast, and yard.</p>
+
+<p>One was ninety-six feet long, a beautiful straight
+stick, but heavy as lead, which no other ship on the
+station could or would carry. How to get it on
+board was a difficulty.</p>
+
+<p>Luckily we had a brig-of-war at anchor: I removed
+the cabin stern windows on the starboard
+side, and the bulkheads of the fore and after cabins.
+Secured the main-deck guns in-board fore and aft.
+The war-brig undertook to lift one end of the spar
+to the level of our main-deck.</p>
+
+<p>On board we had power enough to draw it to
+a snug berth, which gave us a list. The topmast
+and yard we secured to the main and mizzen chains
+on the port side.</p>
+
+<p>We were going to Hong Kong, but were not
+afraid of the war junks even in our disabled state.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed for China, shaping our course so as to communicate
+with Sarawak and Labuan.</p>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Auckland</span> sailed before us with our marines, and
+poor Hannan, our chaplain, invalided. I shall miss
+him much. Eleven of this fine corps of marines had
+become victims to Labuan fever.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Left the ship, which came to off Santobong, in
+gig, up the river to Sarawak.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[113]</span></p>
+
+<p>Kindly received by Brooke, who had returned.
+The place flourishing, but too many useless hangers-on
+about him! Took up the mail; no time to
+spare.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Up early. Succeeded in getting on board in one
+tide. Weighed at once.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Caught a shark this afternoon—the first, by the
+bye, in this ship. Measured about 5 feet, but amazingly
+powerful. He was cut up and eaten within
+twenty minutes of his coming on board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived early in Hong Kong Harbour. Found
+the Admiral recovering from the effects of a paralytic
+stroke—poor, dear old boy!—very game though.
+When I reported having the spars on board, he
+said, “More fool you; if I could not bring them in
+a line-of-battle ship, how were you to do it in a
+frigate?”</p>
+
+<p>A most effective squadron met together, commanded
+by an unusually nice set of fellows:—</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hong
+Kong,
+Mar.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Hastings</span> (Flag), <span class='ships'>Albatros</span>, 12, Commander, Arthur
+Farquhar; <span class='ships'>Scout</span>, 14, Commander, Frederick Johnstone;
+<span class='ships'>Pilot</span>, 12, Edmund M. Lyons; <span class='ships'>Columbine</span>,
+16, John C. D. Hay; <span class='ships'>Arab</span>, 12, William Morris;
+<span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>, 6, steam sloop, John C. Hoseason; and
+the <span class='ships'>Fury</span>, 6, steam sloop, James Wilcox; the two
+latter at Whampoa. Tiffin with Farquhar.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with General Staveley, C.B.; he an old
+friend at the Mauritius in 1829.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Chinese reply, refusing to comply with the Treaty
+of Sir John Davis, and we about to pocket the
+insult.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Finding there was no intention on the part of our
+Government to enforce the Davis Treaty, the Chief
+left in <span class='ships'>Inflexible</span> to visit the northern ports; he ordered
+<span class='ships'>Hastings</span> to Singapore, dispersed the sloops, <span class='ships'>Albatros</span>
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[114]</span>
+to Borneo, and the others to their respective stations
+at the ports in China, opened to trade by the Pottinger
+Treaty. <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> was left to take care of Hong
+Kong.</p>
+
+<p>How little our Government knew about China.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_114'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_114.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, Hong Kong.
+  Manned Yards on Departure of Sir Francis Collier.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[115]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLI'>CHAPTER XLI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>—Hong Kong</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1849.
+Hong
+Kong,
+April to
+May.</div>
+
+<p>Nothing unusual took place during our stay here.
+Various acts of piracy, attended by cruel murders,
+occurred between Hong Kong and the entrance to
+the Canton River; but this could not be called
+unusual.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the rogues were taken by the <span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>,
+and six of them hanged at West Point; but so little
+effect had this example that a fresh act of piracy was
+committed within sight of the suspended sinners and
+the sentry’s musket.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral returned in the <span class='ships'>Fury</span> on the 20th
+May, much benefited by his trip to the northern
+ports.</p>
+
+<p>He sailed again on the 26th, leaving us to await
+the arrival of the <span class='ships'>Amazon</span>, 26, from England. She
+came in the following day, and we prepared to return
+to our old station in the Eastern Archipelago; but
+before our departure an event occurred which gave
+an unanticipated notoriety to our short sojourn.</p>
+
+<p>Were I to pass it unnoticed, my motive might be
+mistaken; but as the narrative must unavoidably be
+egotistical, those of my readers who have no inclination
+to discuss a point of international law, nor to see
+how it was decided, on this occasion at least, by a
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_116">[116]</span>
+British boat’s crew and a party of marines, may pass
+to the next chapter.</p>
+
+<p>Just before the arrival of the <span class='ships'>Amazon</span>, I received
+an invitation, through my young friend, Mr. Robert
+Ellice (Honorary Secretary on the occasion), to act
+as joint umpire with Commodore Geisinger, United
+States Navy, at a regatta which had been got up,
+chiefly by Mr. Bush, the American Consul at Hong
+Kong—he kindly giving a cup to be sailed for.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June.</div>
+
+<p>The event was to come off, weather permitting,
+on the 8th June. To this proposal I cheerfully
+acceded.</p>
+
+<p>As the <span class='ships'>Medea</span>, Commander Lockyer, was cruising
+outside for the suppression of piracy, and the <span class='ships'>Columbine</span>,
+Commander John Dalrymple Hay, was coming
+down from Whampoa about that time for provisions,
+I wrote to each of these officers, inviting them to
+meet me; and as I had to give up the charge of the
+station to Captain Troubridge of the <span class='ships'>Amazon</span> (which
+could be done as well at Macao), we agreed to meet
+there on the 7th.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Macao,
+June&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>The American squadron, consisting of the <span class='ships'>Plymouth</span>,
+the <span class='ships'>Peebles</span>, and the <span class='ships'>Dolphin</span>, added to our
+own, made a gay show in the roads; the Hong
+Kong steamers were also called into requisition, and
+brought nearly all those who had not found their
+way in the men-of-war.</p>
+
+<p>Having fired the usual salute on arrival, I proceeded
+with Captain Troubridge on the following
+morning to pay our respects to the Governor, Don
+Joao Maria Farriera do Amaral.</p>
+
+<p>I may here mention he was a captain in the
+Portuguese Navy—a gallant and distinguished
+officer.</p>
+
+<p>He lost his right arm by a cannon shot, when
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_117">[117]</span>
+eighteen years of age, leading a storming party at
+Itaparica in Brazil.</p>
+
+<p>He had served also in the fleet of Don Pedro
+under Sir Charles Napier, and spoke and understood
+English as well as we did.</p>
+
+<p>Don Joao received us most cordially, and in the
+course of conversation said he had broken through
+a rule, by accepting an invitation to dine with Mr.
+Forbes (an American gentleman to whom we were
+likewise engaged), as he would not forego the pleasure
+of meeting his brother officers.</p>
+
+<p>Taking our leave, we proceeded to the room in
+which we were to arrange the starting of the vessels
+for the cup.</p>
+
+<p>At the door I was met by Captain Staveley, Military
+Secretary to his father, General Staveley, C.B., commanding
+at Hong Kong, who requested my assistance
+in getting a gentleman released, who had been imprisoned
+the previous evening, he believed, for not
+saluting the “Host,” during a procession on the Feast
+of Corpus Christi.</p>
+
+<p>I immediately expressed my willingness to apply
+to the Governor, remarking that he was a very good
+fellow, and I was sure would not hesitate to comply
+with my request.</p>
+
+<p>Accordingly, Troubridge and myself, accompanied
+by Captain Staveley, returned to the Government
+House.</p>
+
+<p>Without waiting to be announced, we proceeded
+at once to the apartment in which we had just before
+left Señor Amaral, and we found him seated with the
+French Chargé d’Affaires, M. le Baron de Forth
+Rouen.</p>
+
+<p>I apologised for the intrusion; His Excellency,
+rising, accompanied me to one of the windows.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_118">[118]</span></p>
+
+<p>I then stated that I was come to ask a favour—that
+he would be so kind as to give an order for the
+release of a Mr. Summers, who, it appeared, had been
+confined in the common prison all night for not
+saluting the “Host.”</p>
+
+<p>I concluded by remarking that, in all probability,
+His Excellency had heard nothing of the business.</p>
+
+<p>To this he sharply replied, that not only did he
+know all about it, but that the person in question
+had been confined by his order.</p>
+
+<p>I then remarked to His Excellency that the
+punishment (Mr. Summers had been confined in
+the common jail, without food, since five o’clock
+the previous afternoon) had surely been equal to
+the offence; and I again expressed a hope that the
+Governor would order his release.</p>
+
+<p>On this he stated that Mr. Summers was sent to
+prison, not for any disrespect to the “Host,” “for
+which he (the Governor) cared, perhaps, as little as
+I did,” but for disobeying his order.</p>
+
+<p>I inquired, “What order?”</p>
+
+<p>He replied, “The order I gave him to take his
+hat off.”</p>
+
+<p>I then said, “Do I understand your Excellency
+rightly, that you could order any person you chose
+to take off his hat in the open streets?”</p>
+
+<p>To this he replied, “Exactly so.”</p>
+
+<p>I then said that this altered the case, and that I
+must now request the immediate liberation of Mr.
+Summers, as I could not consider that the alleged
+offence for which he was imprisoned was any crime
+at all.</p>
+
+<p>I further added that I could hardly believe that
+I had heard now, in the nineteenth century, the
+Governor of a Portuguese settlement assert that he
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[119]</span>
+had imprisoned a British subject for refusing to take
+his hat off in the open streets, when ordered by him,
+through a soldier, to do so.</p>
+
+<p>The Governor replied that I was not acquainted
+with Portuguese law.</p>
+
+<p>I said, “Very likely not, but I know what common
+justice is”; and, having bowed, retired.</p>
+
+<p>When I had got halfway down the steps, the
+Governor, calling me by name, asked if I came to
+demand Mr. Summers’s liberation as a right, or to ask
+it as a favour.</p>
+
+<p>I replied, that while I believed Mr. Summers had
+neglected to take off his hat, as was customary, on
+the passing of one of the religious ceremonies of the
+country, I had asked it as a personal favour; but since
+His Excellency had explained that Mr. Summers was
+confined for what I conceived to be no crime at all,
+I really could not, in the position I then occupied,
+ask for his liberation as a favour.</p>
+
+<p>After this unexpected termination to our interview,
+we retired to the residence of my friend, Mr.
+Patrick Stewart, situated within a few doors of
+Government House, to consider with Captain Troubridge
+what steps should next be taken.</p>
+
+<p>I felt it my duty to demand in writing the
+immediate release of Mr. Summers; considering,
+however, the warm temperament of Señor do Amaral,
+and the bearing towards me which he had already
+assumed, I could scarcely augur for the more formal
+application that success which had been denied to my
+friendly intercession.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>I thought it advisable, therefore, to make the
+necessary arrangements in anticipation of denial.</p>
+
+<p>Owing to the shoalness of the water, no ship of
+any size could anchor within three miles of the landing
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_120">[120]</span>
+place. The boats of the squadron were preparing
+to pull at the regatta.</p>
+
+<p>I sent a gig off to the First Lieutenant of the
+<span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, with an order to him to make the signal,
+“Prepare to land boats for service.”</p>
+
+<p>Captain Staveley, in the meantime, undertook to
+make himself acquainted, without exciting suspicion,
+with the position and state of the prison, the route to
+it, and how it was guarded, etc.</p>
+
+<p>To effect this he assumed a white jacket, the
+usual costume of mercantile gentlemen; and, taking
+with him a basket of fruit, he walked up and obtained
+an interview with the prisoner, returning with the information
+we required.</p>
+
+<p>I wrote and sent off by Captain Troubridge an
+official letter to the Governor, demanding, as senior
+naval officer, the immediate release of Summers.</p>
+
+<p>To which he replied, saying he considered himself
+within his right in ordering the man to take his hat
+off, and waiving the religious aspect of the offence.</p>
+
+<p>To dance attendance beyond this point on Portuguese
+justice at Macao seemed to me unworthy of
+my position and hopeless as to the object.</p>
+
+<p>I was referred to the Judge, who, in his turn, would
+have referred me back to the Governor, whose tool he
+was, and with whom alone I could properly hold
+official intercourse; in the meantime Mr. Summers
+must lie in prison awaiting the “course of law,”
+which had before now left British subjects to die incarcerated
+in this very prison.</p>
+
+<p>I decided on liberating him at once.</p>
+
+<p>To do so with the least possible risk of a disastrous
+incident was now the great object.</p>
+
+<p>A second boat being despatched to the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>,
+with directions that the signal should be made “Boats
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_121">[121]</span>
+to land immediately,” I went on board the <span class='ships'>Canton</span>
+steamer, which was moored off the town, and took my
+place as umpire at the regatta, which was about to
+commence.</p>
+
+<p>We started the sailing-boats, and, shortly afterwards
+observing some of the boats on their way to
+the shore in obedience to signal, I excused myself
+for a few minutes and again landed.</p>
+
+<p>The first boat to arrive was the <span class='ships'>Mæander’s</span> barge,
+commanded by Mr. Burnaby, with a crew of twelve
+blue-jackets and six marines. I asked Staveley
+whether he thought he could, by a <i lang='fr'>coup-de-main</i>,
+release Mr. Summers with that one boat’s crew?</p>
+
+<p>To this he gallantly replied that he had no
+objection to try, stipulating only, like a good general,
+that I should secure his retreat.</p>
+
+<p>Upon this I requested Burnaby, who had charge
+of the barge’s crew, to attend to his wishes.</p>
+
+<p>Passing quickly through a house which had a back
+entrance to the Senate Square, and so to the street in
+which the prison stood, Staveley and his party immediately
+proceeded.</p>
+
+<p>The cutter from the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> arriving next, I
+directed its crew to take charge of the house through
+which Captain Staveley had passed, placing sentries at
+each door.</p>
+
+<p>The third boat had just arrived, when my attention
+was attracted towards Senate Square by the report of
+musketry.</p>
+
+<p>Leaving orders with the officer in charge of the
+landing-place to pay <em>every attention</em> to His Excellency
+should he land before my return (which was not improbable,
+since he must have seen all that was going
+on from on board the <span class='ships'>Plymouth</span>), I was hastening
+to the scene of action, when I met Captain Staveley
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_122">[122]</span>
+walking down, arm-in-arm, with Mr. Summers, the
+rear brought up by the barge’s crew.</p>
+
+<p>I immediately sent to stop the disembarkation of
+any more men.</p>
+
+<p>The whole business from the landing of the
+barge’s crew until their return to the boat with Mr.
+Summers did not occupy a quarter of an hour.</p>
+
+<p>The arms from the launch and barge were transferred
+to the pinnace, and the boats, with the exception
+of those which were to pull for the prizes,
+were ordered back to their respective ships.</p>
+
+<p>I returned to the <span class='ships'>Canton</span>, and had the pleasure of
+seeing the two best prizes won by the launch and
+barge of the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.</p>
+
+<p>I learned from Staveley that his party had to cross
+the Square to get to the street in which the prison
+was situated. On the left side of the Square was the
+entrance to the arsenal, near which was a battery of
+four field-pieces with a guard.</p>
+
+<p>When abreast of this battery, Staveley directed
+Burnaby, with the blue-jackets, to possess themselves
+of the guns and remain there until his return, he
+proceeding with the marines to the prison.</p>
+
+<p>The sentry at the prison presented his musket
+at Staveley, upon which the corporal of marines
+wounded him in the arm, causing him to drop his
+musket. This proved to be superfluous, as the
+musket was found to be unloaded.</p>
+
+<p>The jailer dropping his bunch of keys, and the
+guard having vanished, the liberation of Mr. Summers
+was the work of a few seconds.</p>
+
+<p>I am sorry, however, to add that this object was
+not effected without one serious casualty: a Portuguese
+soldier was killed by a musket-shot, whether
+from the weapon of his countrymen we could not
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_123">[123]</span>
+determine; the victim was said to have been unarmed.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Staveley in his official report stated that
+some shots were exchanged between our men and
+the Portuguese, the latter firing into the Square
+from the windows of the barracks, in which way they
+probably killed their own comrade; but the point is
+not worth discussing, as it could neither lessen nor
+increase my responsibility.</p>
+
+<p>For this I was reprimanded by the Admiralty, and
+thanked by Lord Palmerston.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_124'>[124]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_124'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_124.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>A Spanish Galleon.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLII'>CHAPTER XLII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">In Eastern Seas</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1849.
+Macao,
+June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>We left the scene of this “untoward event” on the
+morning of June 9. On the 21st anchored in
+Manila Bay.</p>
+
+<p>Respecting either the Bay or the City, it would
+be difficult to write anything new, having so recently
+described the visit of the <span class='ships'>Dido</span> to this hospitable
+place.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>We were interested in the remains of an old
+Spanish galleon, at anchor off Cavite Point; the
+same class so greedily sought by our cruisers in
+days gone by.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed from Manila, July 2.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Balabec,
+July&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>In these intricate seas it took most of the day for
+the master and myself to study the charts and sailing
+directions, as supplied by the Admiralty.</p>
+
+<p>We so arranged that the master should keep the
+middle, while I took charge of the morning watch.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_125">[125]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>It was on the 17th that I relieved the master; he
+assuring me that we were now past, as far as the
+Admiralty charts and directions were concerned, all
+dangers, and that I might wash decks or make sail
+as I liked.</p>
+
+<p>Decided on making sail, standing to the westward
+in open sea; nothing in sight.</p>
+
+<p>This done, we were in the act of coiling up
+ropes for washing decks, while on the starboard-hammock
+netting I felt that unpleasant sensation of
+the ship scraping the bottom, just as the headsman
+sang out, “nine fathoms.”</p>
+
+<p>She would not answer her helm, but stuck
+fast.</p>
+
+<p>As the sails came down and hands turned up,
+boatswain piped “Out boats,” the other watch rushed
+to their stations, as good men will, without inquiring
+the cause.</p>
+
+<p>We had taken the ground at the top of high-water;
+boats went away to sound. Booms and
+spars over the side to support her, as the tide left;
+guns slung, buoyed, and cast overboard.</p>
+
+<p>Pinnace, Lieutenant Comber, sent to Labuan for
+assistance. The launch laid out best bower-anchor
+in the direction in which we came.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>The next morning at half-past seven the ship
+lifted.</p>
+
+<p>The heaviest part was the weighing and replacing
+guns. The launch lifted the guns and brought
+them alongside; the main-yard tackle, properly
+secured, had to weigh them, the fall was passed
+round the quarter-deck capstan.</p>
+
+<p>Boys manned the bars and ran round; but
+when the gun reached the surface it required men
+at the capstan to hoist it over the hammock netting.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_126">[126]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_126'>
+  <a href='images/i_126.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_126-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> on Shore.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_127">[127]</span></p>
+
+<p>I mention this to show what every engineer
+knows, the extraordinary power and buoyancy of
+salt water.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>By breakfast-time we were steering, with all sail
+set, for Balambangan; and, if the rusty appearance
+of the muzzles of the guns had not told tales, no
+one who met us could have seen that anything had
+happened.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Met in Kimanis Bay the H.E.T.C. steam-frigate
+<span class='ships'>Semiramis</span>, Commander Daniell, with our
+pinnace in tow. They manned the rigging and
+gave us three hearty cheers.</p>
+
+<p>Comber told me that, after the tide fell, the ship
+had the appearance of lying on the top of a hill.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Came to off Coal Point, Labuan. Coal had
+become so scarce at Singapore that the Commander-in-Chief
+had sent to borrow some from the Dutch
+Government at Batavia.</p>
+
+<p>All the surface coal had been picked off by the
+then contractors, before the Charter was granted
+to the Eastern Archipelago Company to supply
+our steamers, and that part of the seam at which
+they were now working was some 200 yards from
+the water’s edge.</p>
+
+<p>By working in the cool of the morning and
+evening, we put on board in a few days 150 tons,
+filling the after-hold.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>We had just completed our dirty job, when the
+news reached us that the Sekarran and Serebas
+pirates had put to sea, and that the <span class='ships'>Albatros</span>, Captain
+Farquhar, accompanied by Sir James Brooke
+and his native force, was out in search of them: by
+the time we got to the Bornean coast the fleet of
+pirates had been destroyed. Conceive my ill-luck!
+Lucky Farquhar!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_128">[128]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived at Singapore. Ran with our cargo into
+New Harbour by the western entrance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Hastings</span>, with flag flying, arrived in the roads
+in tow of <span class='ships'>Fury</span> from Trincomalee.</p>
+
+<p>Having reported to the Admiralty the natural
+advantages of the Inner Harbour of Singapore as
+a coaling-station over twelve months ago, and no
+notice having been taken of my letter, I now sent a
+similar statement, with survey, to the Secretary of
+the P. and O. Company.</p>
+
+<p>Found the <span class='ships'>Australia</span> schooner at Singapore, sent
+to us by the Admiral from Trincomalee, to man and
+take to Sydney for the Colonial Government. Sent
+Lieutenant Comber and eight men in charge of
+her.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Hastings</span> left for China in tow of <span class='ships'>Fury</span>; a farewell
+salute for Sir Francis Collier.</p>
+
+<p>[To my sorrow we never met again. He died
+in China shortly after we left the station.]</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>We took leave of our many kind friends, and
+proceeded on a more interesting voyage than usually
+falls to the lot of a man-of-war.</p>
+
+<p>Our orders were, after having removed the garrison
+and stores from Port Essington, to visit Sydney
+and Auckland, and call at the Friendly and Society
+Islands on our way to Valparaiso.</p>
+
+<p>With these instructions came a private letter from
+Rear-Admiral J. W. Deans Dundas, Second Sea
+Lord, from which I quote the following:—</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p>I need not recommend Lead and Look Out to ye, but
+the Straits are difficult and so are Society Islands.</p>
+
+<p>Keep <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> off the ground, and when there is a
+doubt, put her head round. God speed ye.—Yours faithfully,</p>
+
+<div class='signature'>
+<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">J. W. D. Dundas</span>.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_129">[129]</span></p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Australia</span> was sent in advance, with
+directions to wait for us in the Straits of Sunda.
+We ran between the Islands of Banca and Billiton
+on the 29th, and anchored in Anjer roads on
+October 1.</p>
+
+<p>Anjer is nothing in itself: a small Dutch town
+and fort, clean, as Dutch places are, with a large,
+comparatively dirty-looking Malay village attached,
+inhabited partly by Chinese.</p>
+
+<p>The tree of Anjer is a striking object, a Banyan
+of great size, growing close to the landing-place.
+From its summit rises a flagstaff, from which floats
+the tricoloured flag of the Netherlands Government.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Anjer is the resort of vessels passing through the
+Straits, and may be considered the key of the
+Eastern Archipelago. Letters left here, properly
+addressed, find their way to any part of the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>The boats which come alongside are laden with a
+variety of fruits, vegetables, live-stock, monkeys,
+parrots, etc., to suit the tastes and wants of the outward
+or homeward bound traders.</p>
+
+<p>Having despatched the schooner to Sydney by the
+western coast of Australia, we weighed on the afternoon
+of October 3.</p>
+
+<p>Our route to the eastward for the next 3000
+miles lay between the 6th and 10th degrees of
+latitude, during which we should pass a succession of
+beautiful islands, with the sea in all probability so
+smooth that a canoe might live in it: the finest
+weather and the prevailing winds in our favour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Java,
+Oct.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>A short run carried us into Batavia Roads. On
+nearing this spacious anchorage, in which the flags
+of all nations may be seen, from the prahus of the
+Spice Islands to the fine traders of the United
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_130">[130]</span>
+States, you are at once impressed with the idea that
+you are approaching a large and opulent city.</p>
+
+<p>We passed inside the fortified island of Onrust,
+on which stands the great Naval Arsenal.</p>
+
+<p>Saluted the Dutch Admiral, while running in,
+with 13 guns, and the Netherlands flag with 21.</p>
+
+<p>A United States ship near us had a cargo of
+Wenham Lake ice, the master of which sent to
+inform our officers that they were welcome to as
+much ice as they liked.</p>
+
+<p>I have always found much generosity and frankness
+among the officers of the American marine.</p>
+
+<p>They “calculate” and they “guess,” and have
+a fair notion of the value of a dollar, and are
+smart fellows at a bargain; they occasionally deal
+a little in the marvellous sea-serpent line, but they
+are amusing, with one exception, which will appear
+hereafter.</p>
+
+<p>Batavia deserves a great deal more notice than we
+had time to bestow upon it, being the capital of all
+the Dutch possessions in the Far East, with a mixed
+population, chiefly Javanese, of about 120,000.</p>
+
+<p>Like Manila, the city is approached from seaward
+by a long straight canal, running between two
+massive walls; and, as there is a strong current
+generally setting out, the easiest way to stem it is to
+land the crew and track the boat.</p>
+
+<p>The houses near the sea, although large and
+handsome buildings, are used for business purposes
+only. The situation is on a swampy flat, and at
+certain times unhealthy.</p>
+
+<p>The appearance of a British man-of-war is so
+uncommon, that the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> excited considerable
+speculation; but when we had stated our destination,
+and that our chief object was to pay our respects to
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_131">[131]</span>
+His Serene Highness, Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar,
+the explanation seemed to be satisfactory.</p>
+
+<p>I had met His Serene Highness last year at
+Madeira.</p>
+
+<p>We were entertained at a grand dinner given by
+the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, General and Commander-in-Chief,
+whose example was followed by several of
+the heads of departments. Dinners and balls followed
+in rapid succession.</p>
+
+<p>The Batavia races took place while we were there,
+most of the prizes being carried off by horses of
+English breed. The enterprising members of this
+Turf Club gave a ball and supper, and made their
+appearance in scarlet coats.</p>
+
+<p>Even during this short stay in the roads, some of
+those whose hammocks were in the fore-part of the
+ship, and got the first of the land breeze, did not
+escape the fatal effects of malaria.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed 16th. Kept along the Java Coast.</p>
+
+<p>The fishing-boats, or “flying canoes of Java,” as
+they are not inaptly styled, were objects of surprise
+and admiration. They are long, with just beam
+enough to enable a man to sit between the gunwales.</p>
+
+<p>Passing Maduira and Java, we came abreast of
+the Island of Bali, the only island in the Archipelago
+where the two great forms in the Hindoo
+religion, the Brahminical (the original) and the
+Bhuddist (the reformed), exist together, undisturbed.</p>
+
+<p>Bali has a remarkably high peak; and looks like
+a mountain sloping out into extensive fertile and rich
+plains, producing two crops a year; and as we passed
+along we saw abundance of cattle, fruit-trees, and
+vegetables.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_132">[132]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>It would be superfluous for me to attempt to
+describe all the beautiful islands we passed.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond the influence of Dutch protection, no
+more fishing canoes enlivened the scene; no smoke
+rose from the numerous inlets along the coasts to
+indicate the abodes of human beings. In the dense
+green vegetation of the jungle, death-like stillness
+reigned supreme.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of our run, we passed numerous
+volcanic mountains; and when in the 123rd degree
+of longitude, two islands attracted special attention.</p>
+
+<p>One, Comba, of a conical shape, had all day been
+shooting up vast volumes of smoke. After dark,
+when at the distance of a couple of miles, we opened
+out the eastern side and observed the crater boiling
+over in immense masses, rolling down the side of
+the mountain, losing none of its brightness until it
+reached the sea, boiling the water.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_133'>
+  <a href='images/i_133.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_133-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Comba.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>After passing Timor, and shaping a course more
+to the south-east, between the two small islands of
+Babi and Kambing (Pig and Goat), leaving Welta
+on our port side, we steered for Port Essington. A
+strong current set us to the westward.</p>
+
+<p>When working up the Australian coast, we were
+boarded by a canoe, with a crew of six of the veriest-looking
+savages we had yet beheld.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>One pair of trousers, the only article of apparel
+between them. The then wearer announced himself,
+in tolerable English, as one of the tribe attached to
+the settlement of Port Essington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>We came to on the evening of November 12,
+in the outer anchorage, and communicated to
+Captain M‘Arthur, then in command of the Royal
+Marines, the agreeable and unexpected intelligence
+that we were come to remove them.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_134">[134]</span></p>
+
+<p>While the garrison rejoiced, the natives, especially
+the women, showed their grief by cutting their
+heads and faces with sharp flints, and otherwise disfiguring
+their already unprepossessing persons.</p>
+
+<p>Port Essington is situated on Coburg Peninsula,
+at the most northern part of Australia. It was
+discovered by Captain Philip King, in his survey
+between the years of 1818 and 1821; and formed,
+after the settlements of Melville Island and Raffles
+Bay had been abandoned, a harbour of refuge for
+vessels bound through Torres Straits, as well as a
+convenient place for holding commercial intercourse
+with the Eastern Archipelago.</p>
+
+<p>The settlement was established by Captain Sir J.
+Gordon Bremer in the <span class='ships'>Alligator</span>, assisted by Commander
+Owen Stanley in the <span class='ships'>Britomart</span> in October
+1838.</p>
+
+<p>They named the town Victoria: it consisted of a
+few wooden houses and small huts, sufficient for the
+accommodation of the garrison, built near the head of
+the harbour, some sixteen miles from the entrance.
+A better site might have been selected nearer the sea,
+which would have been cooler, and better supplied
+with water.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_135'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_135.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> off Port Essington.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>A deeper anchorage, too, might have been considered;
+although, for convenience, we took the
+<span class='ships'>Mæander</span> up off the settlement, we were much too
+near the bottom had it been the stormy season.</p>
+
+<p>The country about Port Essington is undulating;
+there are ranges of hills 10 or 15 miles from the
+settlement, rising to about 450 feet, visible from the
+harbour.</p>
+
+<p>It is an unhealthy climate; the most frequent
+afflictions are intermittent fevers and impairment
+of the digestive organs, caused by the moist heat of
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_136">[136]</span>
+the land-locked harbour, the swamps, and mangrove
+marshes.</p>
+
+<p>There are tribes of natives on Coburg Peninsula,
+differing but little in physical appearance, manners,
+and customs, but speaking a different dialect. They
+meet occasionally to make corroboree, a kind of
+dramatic dance, more famous for its noise than
+anything else.</p>
+
+<p>A dread of invasion from the cannibal tribes in
+the interior made them unite, and was another cause
+of regret at the removal of the marines.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_136'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_136.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>An Australian Grave.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>When a native dies, he is wrapped in the bark of
+a tree, and bound round with cord.</p>
+
+<p>A stage is made, by placing two forked branches,
+eight or ten feet in height, upright in the ground,
+the forks uppermost, distant from each other about
+five or six feet and facing the tree.</p>
+
+<p>A piece of wood is placed transversely, resting on
+the upright branches. Upon this inclined stage the
+body, wrapped in its coffin of bark, is laid, and there
+it remains.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_137">[137]</span></p>
+
+<p>These places of deposit are avoided by the natives.
+Evil spirits haunt them; when they are obliged to
+pass, they carry a fire-stick to propitiate the spirit
+of darkness. Curiously enough, this mode of disposing
+of their dead is common all over Australia,
+and, to their credit, the blacks have never disturbed
+or defaced the graves of the Europeans buried at
+Port Essington.</p>
+
+<p>We only remained long enough to be amused and
+interested with everything we saw, enjoying excursions
+into the country; and the fact of my having
+control over a quantity of damaged bread made the
+natives very obliging.</p>
+
+<p>We had corroborees so often, that the kangaroo
+dance was as well performed on the main-deck of the
+<span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, thousands of miles from where it originated,
+as we had seen it on the spot.</p>
+
+<p>During our stay, shooting-parties were got up.
+The best of the lagoons are situated on the eastern
+side of the harbour; where there is a succession of
+them. The jungle, through which we rode, was
+open below but shaded overhead.</p>
+
+<p>We were attended by marines who had been
+longest on the station, more intelligent in the jungle
+than the natives, who joined us for the sake of what
+they were likely to get to eat, were cheerful and
+obliging, and useful in carrying our ammunition,
+provender, and tents.</p>
+
+<p>Among the marines there were a few who, having
+a taste for that sort of life, had for years supplied the
+settlement with game, and eventually became experienced
+hunters, and excelled the natives in sagacity
+in all that appertains to the mysteries of the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>These men alone were enough to make a bush-party
+agreeable.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_138">[138]</span></p>
+
+<p>Highest in military rank was Sergeant Copp, a
+steady, untiring, keen sportsman. Corporals Rowe,
+Chalford, and Jeffries were all good shots, good-tempered,
+hard-working fellows, for whom the
+natives would do anything.</p>
+
+<p>It was wonderful to see the dexterity with which
+they would light a fire and erect a bush-hut.</p>
+
+<p>They were all cooks; Private Crayton, super-excellent.
+He had been a London butcher, and was
+sharp and intelligent.</p>
+
+<p>Among them was Hutchings, a huge fellow. He
+used to prefer going alone, and never returned
+empty-handed; more generally hung round with
+game,—fifteen or twenty geese, a whole flock
+of ducks, a native companion or two as long
+as himself, two or three kangaroos, and a handkerchief
+full of small birds (specimens of natural
+history), the only part of him visible being his
+great red face, besmeared with perspiration and
+blood.</p>
+
+<p>At the time of our visit these extensive swamps
+were, with the exception of occasional patches and
+a few holes, quite dry, and covered over with a
+crust of land clay sufficiently strong to bear our
+weight, but not that of our horses; the latter were
+nearly bogged on more than one occasion.</p>
+
+<p>It was late the first day when we arrived on our
+ground, and we had only time to light fires and pitch
+our tents on the banks of a stream when the sun went
+down.</p>
+
+<p>While we were preparing for supper, an iguana
+about two feet long ran past me, and at the same
+pace mounted a tree. I pointed out the disgusting
+animal to one of our natives. In less time than it
+takes me to write, he was caught by the tail, split
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_139">[139]</span>
+up the back, spread out with skewers, roasted, and
+eaten.</p>
+
+<p>Long before the break of day we heard that
+peculiar noise occasioned by the wings of wild-fowl:
+then came the low, distant cackle of geese, and
+the strange noise of the whistling-duck passing
+overhead.</p>
+
+<p>I believe we were all alike in a state of excitement.
+Daylight came at last, but with it an excitement of
+another kind.</p>
+
+<p>No one experiencing what we did, could ever forget
+the myriads of flies. Everything was black with them—the
+ground, the air, our food. They clung to our
+clothes, they stuck to our faces. To rid ourselves of
+them, we stripped and rushed into the water, diving
+to get clear—but no! they would hover about and
+swarm on any part of our bodies that appeared
+above the surface.</p>
+
+<p>We were not entirely free for one moment, until
+we left them and our sport together. Never before
+had I fully understood the curse of that particular
+plague of Egypt.</p>
+
+<p>However, by spreading a silk handkerchief over
+the head, and keeping it in its place with a light
+straw hat, we succeeded in protecting our necks and
+faces from the thickest of them; and as there was
+just sufficient wind to keep the corners of the head-dress
+flapping about, we thus partially disappointed
+our tormentors.</p>
+
+<p>With the exception of this one drawback, better
+sport we could not have had. There was room for
+any number of guns.</p>
+
+<p>The geese have one peculiarity—they perch upon
+trees, so that an unskilful sportsman may have, in
+his way, as much amusement as the man who brings
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_140">[140]</span>
+down his geese right and left from a considerable
+height.</p>
+
+<p>In spite of the flies we remained several days in
+nearly the same locality. Those who disliked them
+and preferred more violent exercise found it in
+the pursuit of kangaroo, only obtained with some
+pains and labour, but the tail afforded excellent
+soup.</p>
+
+<p>The geese and ducks also we found delicious
+eating.</p>
+
+<p>The lagoons, too, were excellent places for sport:
+they are between 200 and 300 acres in extent,
+surrounded by forest trees, and with numerous
+little retiring coves about them, in which we might
+conceal ourselves and watch for the game; but,
+except as retreats from the sun, which was oppressively
+hot, these hiding-places were not necessary, as the
+geese were such geese that they did not understand
+the use of powder and shot, and at the same time
+it seemed they imagined that on the top of a tree they
+were safe. If, after a while, one particular set got
+more knowing, there were often lagoons with fresh
+geese at no distance.</p>
+
+<p>The natives will kill almost every kind of bird with
+their spears or throwing-sticks. With water-fowl they
+are so expert that by stealing close to them, or lying
+motionless for a while in one of the patches of water
+when the lagoons are dry, they catch their legs with
+their hands.</p>
+
+<p>On observing, while shooting, a spot that looked
+as if it had only just been quitted by some wild beast,
+and not feeling quite comfortable, I questioned a
+native as to what it meant; he immediately imbedded
+his body into the muddy hole, and had I not seen
+him go in I should have trodden on him. One
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_141">[141]</span>
+of their ways of taking a dirty advantage of the
+game!</p>
+
+<p>On one occasion, while near the entrance to the
+harbour, a whole tribe of natives,—men, women,
+children, and dogs,—without the slightest hesitation
+entered the river to swim across, the small children
+holding on to the long hair of the mothers.</p>
+
+<p>Within a few yards I observed a huge alligator
+asleep in the sun.</p>
+
+<p>When the dusky tribe were safe across, I awoke
+my sleepy friend with the contents of both barrels.
+He lifted his head and sloped into the water, being
+only tickled with my No. 4.</p>
+
+<p>We destroyed, according to orders, what still
+remained of the settlement. The buildings could
+have been of no use to the natives, and would probably
+have been the cause of bloodshed.</p>
+
+<p>I said one day to “Bob,” an intelligent savage,
+“Do you intend to take possession of the Governor’s
+house after we are gone?”</p>
+
+<p>He replied with an air of indifference, “I suppose
+I must.”</p>
+
+<p>We heard afterwards that Bob had grown so
+conceited that they were under the necessity of
+putting a spear through his body.</p>
+
+<p>We had another reason for not leaving the houses
+in anything like a habitable state: had they looked
+too comfortable there would have been an inducement
+to other parties to try their hands at a settlement on
+the same spot—an object that was not considered
+desirable by the Government.</p>
+
+<p>There is no doubt that there should be some port
+or refuge for disabled ships or wrecked crews on this
+coast; and as soon as the corrected charts of the
+surveys of that zealous and indefatigable officer, the late
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_142">[142]</span>
+Captain Owen Stanley, shall have been published, the
+channel by Torres Straits will be oftener frequented.</p>
+
+<p>From what I could learn no better place could be
+found than Cape York or Port Albany, which have
+all the advantages Port Essington lacks, and are not
+more than a mile out of the way of vessels going
+from Sydney to India.</p>
+
+<p>There were two schooners of forty or fifty tons
+that I amused myself in destroying with five-inch
+shells and a fuse which burns under water—passing
+a line under the bow and bringing the ends as far aft
+as the main-mast.</p>
+
+<p>It was easy to attach a fuse and draw the shell
+close up to the keel. There was plenty of time to
+take up a position in my gig, half cable length astern,
+before the burning fuse reached the shell, when the
+explosion was beautiful. Some of the spars went
+into the air, while the bow and stern shook hands as
+they went below.</p>
+
+<p>Besides what had been used for domestic purposes,
+there was a small mountain of empty casks which
+made a glorious attempt at fireworks before we left.</p>
+
+<p>We left behind at Port Essington a number of
+cattle; there were already many quite wild in the
+bush that had escaped from the settlement at an
+earlier period and increased in numbers.</p>
+
+<p>Several horses were also left. In our excursions I
+frequently noticed the footprints, not only of those
+that had been running wild for years, but of young
+foals.</p>
+
+<p>The garrison, marching down to embark, with the
+band at their head, did not excite sufficient interest to
+draw the blackfellows, except a few of the softer sex,
+from their search for what they could find among the
+ruins of the buildings.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_143">[143]</span></p>
+
+<p>During our stay we lost our surgeon, Mr. John
+Clarke—a man who, by his kind and gentle manner
+and his amiable disposition, endeared himself to us all.
+He contracted a disease at Hong Kong, from which
+he never perfectly recovered.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_144'>[144]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLIII'>CHAPTER XLIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1849.
+Nov.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Completed embarkation of the party composing
+the late settlement, consisting of the Commandant,
+Captain M‘Arthur, Captain Lambrick, Lieutenant
+Dunbar, three sergeants, three corporals, twenty-seven
+privates, four women, and one kid; also
+Mr. M‘Arthur, a commissioned agent, and son to
+the Commandant.</p>
+
+<p>We also brought away, besides stores, stock of all
+kinds—bullocks, sheep, and goats—guns left by
+<span class='ships'>Pelorus</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Starting with only fifty tons of not the best water,
+we decided on going to Sydney by the route north
+of New Guinea, and watering at either Banda or
+Amboyna.</p>
+
+<p>Proceeding to the northward and again crossing
+the chain of islands between the Serwatty and
+Tenimber groups, we were carried by a few days’
+pleasant sailing to the Banda Islands.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Banda,
+Dec.</div>
+
+<p>The principal of the group are three in number:
+Banda-Neura—on which the town is built—and
+Gunong Api, a volcanic island close to, and in a line
+with it; they have a narrow but deep channel between
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Opposite, and to the southward of these two, in a
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_145">[145]</span>
+semicircular form, is the larger island of Banda,
+having a rather narrow passage at either end. The
+space thus enclosed forms the very charming harbour
+of Banda.</p>
+
+<p>We were becalmed in the western entrance, and
+while the current swept us up mid-channel to the
+anchorage, we furled sails and hoisted our boom-boats
+out; and when we came to, close off the
+capital, we were in proper harbour costume.</p>
+
+<p>The view of the islands from the ship would form
+a beautiful panorama.</p>
+
+<p>The picturesque town, which is built on a flat,
+ought, from the appearance of Fort Belgica, above
+and in the rear of it, to be well protected.</p>
+
+<p>Gunong Api, a striking feature in the scene, is
+high and conical in shape. Smoke issued from the
+top, but an eruption had not taken place in the
+memory of residents.</p>
+
+<p>From the crater downwards, one-third of the
+distance, it appeared a mass of cinders; from that
+point vegetation commences, increasing towards its
+base, where stand many cottages and fishing huts.</p>
+
+<p>The opposite and more mountainous island surpasses
+the other two in beauty of appearance.</p>
+
+<p>Little rivulets of cool, delicious water run from
+the high land to the harbour, from which we watered
+the ship. The jungle abounds in a variety of beautiful
+birds, especially of the pigeon sort. Deer are to be
+obtained with a little trouble. Some of the merchants
+and most of the proprietors of the hunting plantation
+have houses on this side.</p>
+
+<p>We were most hospitably received by the Dutch
+authorities; nothing that the island produced, which
+could be considered a novelty to us, that we were
+not presented with.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_146">[146]</span></p>
+
+<p>It would be difficult to describe the endless variety
+as well as beauty of the parrots and lowries that were
+sent on board; also the magnificent crown pigeon
+of Papua, nearly as large as a turkey. We had as
+many as eighteen at one time, three pairs of which
+were twenty months on board, and some of them are
+now in the gardens of the Zoological Society.</p>
+
+<p>One very pretty compliment was paid to us,
+which I must not omit to record.</p>
+
+<p>A ball was given by the Governor in honour
+of our visit; and in the course of the evening,
+shortly before midnight, the dance suddenly stopped,
+glasses were put into our hands, champagne
+flowed into them, and the health of Queen Victoria
+was proposed by His Excellency in an appropriate
+speech.</p>
+
+<p>We swallowed our wine as the clock struck
+twelve, the band playing our National Anthem, while
+a royal salute was firing over our heads from the
+fort, during which we were expected to be continually
+refilling glasses.</p>
+
+<p>The following evening we were invited to a dance
+given on the opposite shore.</p>
+
+<p>Our boats were in requisition, and as they passed
+under the stern of the frigate at eight o’clock, we
+took advantage of the opportunity to return the
+compliment by saluting the Netherlands flag, which
+we hoisted at the yard-arms, giving His Excellency
+and family three British cheers.</p>
+
+<p>A fine bull, named “John,” from Port Essington
+was much admired. I presented him to His Excellency,
+and hope he has not taken possession of the
+island.</p>
+
+<p>Leaving Banda, <i lang='fr'>en route</i> to Pitt’s Straits, we
+touched at the Ceram Islands, and under the pilotage
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_147">[147]</span>
+of Mr. James M‘Arthur came to, in certainly not
+the most secure-looking anchorage.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Ceram,
+Dec.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>The island of Ceram is the second in size of the
+Moluccas, having an estimated area of about 10,000
+square miles, but owing to the jealousy of my friends,
+the Dutch, it is but imperfectly known. Their
+object, until of late years, has been the extirpation of
+the clove and nutmeg trees, so as to confine the
+monopoly to the islands on which they have established
+governments.</p>
+
+<p>The mountains are from six to eight thousand feet
+in height, sending down innumerable streams to the
+sea. The vegetation is luxuriant; the trees gigantic.</p>
+
+<p>I have now in my possession a circular slab of
+wood from the island, three and a half inches thick,
+eight and a half feet in diameter.</p>
+
+<p>The sago palm in particular is more abundant
+and productive than on any of the adjoining islands.
+Cloves and nutmegs grow wild.</p>
+
+<p>The Malays are cunning and enterprising
+traffickers, and carry on a great trade with the
+Chinese in Bêche-de-Mer. They hoist the Dutch
+flag, and while one end of the island claims the
+protection of Banda, the other has that of Amboyna.</p>
+
+<p>Our conchologists added considerably to their
+collection here.</p>
+
+<p>We did not remain long at Ceram, and sailed
+December 18.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>There is always more excitement in navigating
+imperfectly-known seas than in passing over the
+more frequented tracks; and on the present occasion
+our charts were of little use.</p>
+
+<p>By anchoring in the evenings, and by keeping
+a good look-out from aloft, and leads constantly over
+the side, we were enabled to thread our way through
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[148]</span>
+strange places. Occasionally canoes came off, as the
+tide swept us along.</p>
+
+<p>The jungle was too dense for us to make out
+habitations, but their locality was indicated by the
+appearance of the cocoanut. I obtained two fine
+specimens of the black Bird of Paradise in exchange
+for an old musket.</p>
+
+<p>The rest of their cargoes were composed of fruits,
+bows and arrows, parrots, shells, spears and tortoise-shell.</p>
+
+<p>The natives are well-proportioned, but ugly-looking
+savages, with a profusion of hair, frizzed out in
+an extraordinary manner, which I have no doubt they
+thought handsome, but which impressed us with the
+idea of a harbour for filth and vermin.</p>
+
+<p>As there is no anchorage, it is desirable that a
+ship should get through Pitt’s Straits in one tide,
+which feat we just succeeded in accomplishing by
+sunset.</p>
+
+<p>On emerging from the Straits we found the wind
+still blowing fresh from the westward with a following
+swell, and a strong easterly set; and as our
+course now lay in that direction, before the following
+morning we were many miles on our voyage, and
+thereby missed seeing a large portion of the northern
+coast of New Guinea, a country about which there
+appears to be more interesting mystery than any we
+had visited.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>New
+Guinea.</div>
+
+<p>The interior of this beautiful island, 900 miles in
+length, is little known, and it is supposed not only to
+abound in minerals, but to possess fertility of soil.
+No country is richer in beautiful rare birds and
+beasts.</p>
+
+<p>The little we saw of the natives confirmed what
+we had heard: that they are a finer race than any of
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_149">[149]</span>
+the islanders. On the southern side, which is protected
+by a coral reef, the people appear to live as much on
+the water as in their jungle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Observed a succession of islands; and steered for
+one that appeared the easternmost of the Admiralty
+group.</p>
+
+<p>On nearing the land just after midnight, and
+obtaining no soundings with the deep-sea lead, we
+sent boats ahead to sound.</p>
+
+<p>This being observed by the natives, whom we
+supposed to be fishing, they started yelling.</p>
+
+<p>Wind having died away, the tide carried us into
+about fifty fathoms’ depth of water, where we held
+on with the kedge-anchor until daylight.</p>
+
+<p>If our boats had created a sensation among the
+savages, great indeed was their surprise at the appearance
+of the ship.</p>
+
+<p>The noise produced by blowing into a shell of
+the Triton species was everywhere heard; and having,
+I doubt not, buried or otherwise concealed a vast
+quantity of rubbish, they disappeared themselves; so
+that shortly after daylight there was not the vestige
+of a habitation nor a human being to be seen.</p>
+
+<p>It was curious to watch, when they found we took
+no steps to draw them out, how carefully and
+cautiously the savages came from their hiding-places.</p>
+
+<p>One emerged from the bush, naked as he was
+born; we thought at first that this was his way of
+proving to us how little we might expect to get from
+him, but they were all in the same undress.</p>
+
+<p>Then another would come forth, spear in hand;
+soon after, the snout of a small canoe was seen to
+protrude from under the bush.</p>
+
+<p>It would be tedious to enumerate the cunning
+and cautious “dodges,” the number of times they
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_150">[150]</span>
+retreated and again hid themselves, on the slightest
+movement on our parts, before any of them ventured
+to approach; before ten o’clock, however, the water,
+for a cable’s length round the ship, was covered with
+grotesque canoes, and still more odd-looking people.</p>
+
+<p>A general barter soon commenced, accompanied
+by a noise and screeching that was deafening; and
+reciprocal confidence was soon established.</p>
+
+<p>These natives are fine-looking men of a dark olive
+colour, with long black hair, which they confine in a
+lump at the back of their head by a small hoop or
+band.</p>
+
+<p>There was one old lady with gray hair, seated
+under a canopy in her canoe, who was paddled round
+the ship several times, and appeared much interested
+in what was going on; but she did not venture very
+near. Several dialects were attempted between us,
+but none succeeded.</p>
+
+<p>Their canoes were of various sizes; a few must
+have measured seventy or eighty feet in length,
+carrying about twenty men each.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_151'>[151]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLIV'>CHAPTER XLIV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><i lang='fr'>En route</i> to Sydney</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1850.
+Jan.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>On the morning of January 4 we passed to the
+northward of Sandwich Island, and found it thirty-five
+miles E.S.E. of the position it has on the
+chart.</p>
+
+<p>We were visited along the coast by a succession
+of canoes. Natives very similar to those of the Fiji
+Islands.</p>
+
+<p>We were puzzled at one time to make out the
+use of a curiously-formed piece of wood, about four
+feet long, shaped like a whale-boat, but solid.</p>
+
+<p>From a hole in the centre descended a strong
+cord of twisted <i lang='ms'>rôtan</i>, forming a running noose, like a
+hangman’s knot. As I was leaning out of the cabin
+window, when there was just sufficient wind to give
+the ship steerageway, I observed a shark swimming
+leisurely along, some ten fathoms below the surface.</p>
+
+<p>The natives, from their canoes, observing the
+monster dropped several of these oddly-shaped buoys
+into the water.</p>
+
+<p>Some of our men fancy they saw them sprinkle a
+powder in a sort of magic circle round the buoys,
+but certain it is that a shark rose, and was fool
+enough to shove his head into the noose, when he was
+as completely hanged in his own element as ever
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_152">[152]</span>
+rogue was from the gallows. The buoyancy of the
+float prevented his diving with it.</p>
+
+<p>Having flourished his tail for a few minutes he
+was drawn up by his head on a level with the water
+and belaboured with the heavy ends of their paddles,
+then tumbled bodily into the canoe and hurried on
+shore amidst the yelling of the flotilla.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Stood over to the New Ireland coast, and then
+to the southward, between that and New Britain.</p>
+
+<p>We now looked out for a harbour near the
+southern end of New Ireland—discovered by and
+named after a Captain Carteret, where fresh water was
+to be obtained.</p>
+
+<p>It is a place occasionally visited by English and
+American whalers, as was proved by a salutation
+which reached our ears while we were nearing the
+shore.</p>
+
+<p>“What ship that?”—then an oath. “Rum
+got?” “Give rope.” While delivering himself of
+these lessons in English and American, without
+waiting for an invitation the native sprang into the
+main-chains and thence on to the quarter-deck.</p>
+
+<p>The manners of these savages were not at all
+improved by their intercourse with civilised nations.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Made the Australian coast, and on the 7th arrived
+at Port Jackson, Sydney.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_153'>[153]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLV'>CHAPTER XLV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Sydney to Hobart Town</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1850.
+Sydney,
+Feb.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>We ran up the beautiful harbour of Port Jackson
+with the first of the sea-breeze and came to in Farm
+Cove, close to the hill on which stands Government
+House.</p>
+
+<p>I can well understand how it was that Captain
+Cook in the first instance overlooked the entrance
+and stood on to the exposed shallow harbour of
+Botany Bay: now crowded with sharks, affording
+sport for gun or spear.</p>
+
+<p>There is a fine dock forming on Cockatoo Island,
+the advantage of which will be incalculable.</p>
+
+<p>We found the <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>, Captain Owen
+Stanley.</p>
+
+<p>Here I was in the midst of friends—Sir Charles
+Fitzroy, the Governor, with Lady Mary—his daughter,
+“little Mary,” now grown into the tall and handsome
+Hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart, mother of a charming
+family; also Captain Augustus Fitzroy, A.D.C., and
+George, Private Secretary; another brother, Arthur,
+was at sea.</p>
+
+<p>To the long and kind nursing of this family I
+owe my life, but from the way I was received it
+would appear that the debt of gratitude was due from
+them!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_154">[154]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_154'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_154.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Sydney.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_155">[155]</span></p>
+
+<p>Of that family there are none alive; the father
+and sons died in distant parts of the world, far from
+one another, as will hereafter appear. I was near
+each one of them at the end.</p>
+
+<p>While at luncheon some one remarked on the
+extraordinary noise caused by the ringing of a bell,
+near, or on board the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span>.</p>
+
+<p>I exclaimed, I hoped not, as that meant fire.</p>
+
+<p>Looking from the window we saw dense masses
+of smoke issuing from the position of the after
+magazine. A youngster was running to inform
+me.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span> had slipped her cables to be out
+of the way.</p>
+
+<p>On board I found a scuttle cut through the gun-room
+deck into the bread-room to pour water, just
+big enough for me. I was nearly suffocated.</p>
+
+<p>We really had a narrow escape. The fire was
+subdued. The powder had been smartly removed,
+but the wood framing had, as in the case of the
+<span class='ships'>Magicienne</span>, been burnt down to the copper-lining.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>March.</div>
+
+<p>During our refit we discovered the head of our
+mizen-mast to be rotten, and as there was a spar of
+same dimension in the <span class='ships'>Anson</span>, convict ship at Hobart
+Town, which was originally made for the <span class='ships'>Southampton</span>,
+I sent my trusty “First” to apply to the Governor of
+Van Dieman’s Land for permission to appropriate it.</p>
+
+<p>Sir Charles Fitzroy, who was going to make a
+short tour into the interior, not only kindly took
+me with him, but mounted me from his first-rate
+stable.</p>
+
+<p>As His Excellency rode some six stone more than
+I could boast of, I never knew what it was to ride a
+tired horse.</p>
+
+<p>While we rode, a light van conveyed our commissariat
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_156">[156]</span>
+and luggage: certainly the most agreeable
+mode of seeing any country.</p>
+
+<p>While we were absent on this tour, a little more
+than a fortnight after our first arrival, the Naval
+Service sustained a sad loss by the sudden death of
+Captain Owen Stanley; it was necessary to despatch
+a messenger for my recall, as his papers could not be
+opened nor his body buried in the absence of the
+senior officer.</p>
+
+<p>We had for many years been acquainted, and I
+cannot help expressing here deep regret and sympathy
+with the many to whom he was so justly dear.</p>
+
+<p>Previous to the death of my friend Owen Stanley,
+I had made the acquaintance of the distinguished
+artist who had been cruising with him, Mr. Oswald
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[157]</span>
+Brierly, who had arrived in Australia in 1842,
+in the yacht <span class='ships'>Wanderer</span>, the property of Mr. Benjamin
+Boyd, a man of means, and of an adventurous
+turn.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_156'>
+  <img class="v100" src="images/i_156.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Brierly.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Brierly was already a student of naval architecture,
+with a love of the sea—in fact he began by studying
+for the service itself.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Boyd’s schemes were many, one of them a
+whaling establishment at Twofold Bay, which he
+placed under Brierly’s control. Boyd then betook
+himself to the Eastern Archipelago, to collect pearls
+and pearl-shells, diamonds, etc., and while exhibiting
+these on board his yacht to a respectable-looking
+pirate his head fell between his legs, and the yacht
+disappeared from the scene.</p>
+
+<p>Brierly had made friends in Sydney and might
+have done well, but his heart was on the sea, and
+he could not resist the offer of a cabin in the <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>.</p>
+
+<p>On Owen Stanley’s death he accepted a similar
+offer from me, until I could land him in England.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed from Port Jackson on March 20.</p>
+
+<p>It being the time of the recess, a very agreeable
+party were enabled to accompany us to Tasmania.</p>
+
+<p>Among my guests were Captain Fitzroy, A.D.C.,
+with his brother George, Private Secretary, master of
+a scratch pack of hounds, also Mr. Deas Thompson,
+whom my friend Colonel Mundy describes as the
+“Prince of Colonial Secretaries,” and, judging from
+the directions I received from the Governor as to the
+care and attention to be shown him, he was not less
+appreciated at headquarters.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Pleased as we were with the appearance of everything
+about Sydney, we were still more so with that
+of Hobart Town, where we arrived March 25.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_158">[158]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_159'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_159.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Hobart Town.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>As we entered the harbour it was difficult to
+imagine ourselves in the Antipodes. English fruits
+and vegetables exposed for sale. Grapes, peaches,
+and nectarines, in the open air, were breaking the
+trees down.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as we anchored Bowyear came on board
+to report. Owing to deaths and invalids we had
+many vacancies.</p>
+
+<p>“What chance of men?” I asked. Pointing to a
+ship lying near, he said, “The whole crew have
+volunteered.”</p>
+
+<p>It was a female convict ship.</p>
+
+<p>The doctor who had come out in her told me the
+most moral were the Irish, the Scotch the least so.</p>
+
+<p>In the streets the public carriages, as well as
+horses, reminded one of the good old coaching
+days; indeed the road from Hobart Town to Launceston
+is little inferior to that from London to
+Birmingham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Tasmania,
+March.</div>
+
+<p>The country we passed through, the quickset
+hedges, turnpikes, farmhouses, stacks of corn and
+hay; the roadside inns, at which the coach changed
+horses or stopped a few minutes to dine; the
+good roast leg of mutton, potatoes <em>and</em> onions, hot
+and ready; the “coming” waiter, with bad brandy
+and worse cigars, all reminded us of home. The
+arrival of the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> was scarcely known in the
+country.</p>
+
+<p>It was the hunting season. The Governor, Sir
+William Denison, who was a lover of the sport,
+kindly mounted me, he himself an invalid and confined
+to his bed. My first meet was at Oatlands.</p>
+
+<p>I was carefully got up in leathers and boots, my
+pink rather stained below the pockets.</p>
+
+<p>Quickset hedges had not reached far into the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_160">[160]</span>
+interior; their substitutes were the upper branches of
+large trees, with bark off, supposed to be impossible
+for cattle, but not for kangaroo.</p>
+
+<p>When I arrived, the hounds had gone; horns
+were blowing. On nearing the hunters, my inexperienced
+eye saw an opening which I considered big
+enough.</p>
+
+<p>The tip of a stiff snag caught the Governor’s mare
+on the shoulder; we came a stunning fall into the
+next field, where we lay for, I suppose, a minute.
+I was first up, patted, and spoke kindly to the mare;
+she then got up. I told her, seeing nothing else, we
+must go back the same way we came. She understood.
+We walked a few yards back for room, and then
+turned. She landed safely among the hunting men.
+Never was a more sincere and hearty cheer raised.
+Striking the pipeclay out of his leathers with his
+fist, the master, whose name was Long, roared out, “By
+Jove! That fellow ought to be King of England.”
+I soon made acquaintance with as nice a set as I
+ever met.</p>
+
+<p>Rode quietly to the Governor’s stables, mounted
+my hack, and from my room wrote the kind Governor
+the sad news that I had lamed his favourite mare!</p>
+
+<p>Besides hounds, there were in the neighbourhood
+a first-rate pack of beagles.</p>
+
+<p>Just before we sailed from Hobart Town, I received
+a letter which I much prized—from Mr.
+William Allison, one of the young men with whom
+I had crossed the country.</p>
+
+<p>His father was a squatter, who had been an officer
+in the Navy, and had served his country throughout
+the eventful period of the late war—one of the finest
+specimens I ever saw of an old mariner.</p>
+
+<p>His son had the management of 40,000 acres,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_162">[162]</span>
+with a flock of 20,000 sheep, and was deeply interested
+in the welfare of the colony.</p>
+
+<p>Speaking of sport, in which he knew I should be
+interested, he says: “We had the most glorious run
+on Saturday I ever saw, or perhaps shall ever see,
+with my brother’s beagles. After a run of 12
+miles, the kangaroo, a forester, jumped dead, 10
+yards in front of the hounds. We had no check,
+and during the last 4 miles we frequently viewed him.
+There were only Nat, myself, a younger brother,
+and a Mr. Difrose in at the death. Had you been
+with us, as we have often wished, you would have
+been there too. Mrs. Lord sent you the kangaroo,
+which we hope reached safely.”</p>
+
+<p>The Hobart Town races came off during our stay,
+and afforded good sport. There was a Governor’s
+cup to be run for.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>The 99th Regiment, whose acquaintance I made
+in Mauritius days,—the “Neuf Neufs,” as the French
+called them,—and ourselves amused the inhabitants of
+Hobart Town by a sham fight.</p>
+
+<p>The soldiers were to occupy some Government
+ground called “The Paddocks,” and oppose an
+invasion.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the 99th had taken up their position
+in a wood to the rear, the invading force effected a
+landing, and were driving in the enemy’s pickets,
+when they were suddenly outnumbered, and obliged
+to retire on their boats, making a gallant
+stand at the end to cover the re-embarkation of their
+artillery.</p>
+
+<p>Much ammunition was expended, and we were
+told so large a concourse of people had never before
+been seen in Hobart Town.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_161'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_161.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>The Sham Fight.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Before taking our departure, I had the gratification
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_163">[163]</span>
+of receiving Sir William Denison on board. Saluted
+him, and made sail down the river as far as the
+“Iron Pot,” Derwent River, and then worked back
+again. Hove to off the anchorage, and landed
+His Excellency; and having collected our Sydney
+contingent, sailed for that port.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_164'>[164]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_164'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_164.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> between Sydney Heads.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLVI'>CHAPTER XLVI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Sydney</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1850.
+April&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Made at noon the south head of Botany Bay.</p>
+
+<p>3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Between the heads entering Port Jackson.
+While running up, exchanged numbers with the
+<span class='ships'>Havannah</span>, 20, Captain J. E. Erskine, and the <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Came to in Farm Cove; making a running moor.
+I now heard of the death of my dear father.</p>
+
+<p>My old friend Erskine was in charge of the
+Australian station, and naturally felt jealous of the
+intrusion of a captain who was his senior.</p>
+
+<p>It was far from me to interfere, but the death of
+poor Owen Stanley obliged me to open the directions
+of the Hydrographical Office before he could be
+buried. In fact, I was recalled from a tour I was
+enjoying with Sir Charles Fitzroy.</p>
+
+<p>The Hydrographical instructions were simple
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_165">[165]</span>
+enough, stating, in case of the death of the captain,
+or any other, the officer who was to succeed. Acting
+upon them, I gave Lieutenant Yule orders to take
+command of the <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>. This offended
+Erskine; who informed me that, on my departure
+for the Pacific, he would supersede my acting order.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake’s</span> time was up, so I gave her the
+order to return to England, and remained in harbour
+long enough to give her twenty-four hours’ start.
+She sailed May 2.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_166'>
+  <a href='images/i_166.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_166-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>The <span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>We left Port Jackson in continuation of our
+route for Port Nicholson and Auckland; but, the
+wind heading, we stood for Norfolk Island, which
+we made on the evening of May 7; and hove to.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Next morning some of the officers started in a
+whale-boat that had been sent by the Governor.
+There being an awkward sea running, they capsized
+off the end of the rickety pier. Owing to precautions
+taken and the activity of convicts, no lives lost.
+Unaware of this accident, I followed with young
+Leicester in the gig, and, waiting for an auspicious
+moment, we landed safely.</p>
+
+<p>From outside, Norfolk Island has the appearance
+of a lonely rock, but is very different on shore.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Price, the Governor, kindly took us a
+charming ride to Mount Pitt, and showed us the
+military barracks, which are capable of holding a
+regiment.</p>
+
+<p>The convict houses are three storeys high, fitted
+for all sorts and conditions of men; some it was
+necessary to confine in huge iron cages. Their
+language, addressed to us strangers, was uncommon
+strong! There were 115 of these ruffians separately
+confined. I saw three chapels, Protestant and Catholic.
+Every trade was encouraged: shoes, boots, coats,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_167">[167]</span>
+and trousers that would have caused envy in the
+bosoms of Hoby and Stultz. I was glad when the
+Governor took us to higher land and change of
+scene.</p>
+
+<p>We were soon passing through orange and lemon
+groves and wooded scenery.</p>
+
+<p>The fir peculiar to the island was conspicuous.
+The india-rubber tree was in full force. Some of the
+officers from the ship had joined us. The youngsters
+soon found out that, by striking the drooping plant
+with a stick, the juice ran out like cream, which no
+marine servant could extract from a uniform cloth
+jacket. To spoil this fun the Governor thought it
+advisable, unless we liked to remain the night, that we
+should be getting down to the boats. The same
+whaler took them off. I preferred the gig in which
+we had landed.</p>
+
+<p>Every precaution was taken by the Governor and
+his officers in case of a capsize. In addition to
+convicts in cork-jackets, there were others with large
+round corks netted over with long cords attached,
+that could be thrown a great distance.</p>
+
+<p>In the gig, in addition to young Leicester Keppel,
+I had some fir-plants of the island, and other odds
+and ends. Our boat bow was scarcely abreast of the
+pier head, when a roller lifted the bow into the air
+and turned over on us.</p>
+
+<p>The only precaution I had taken was to get rid
+of my uniform jacket. I believe a capsize is always
+great fun for the convicts. On my asking to whom
+I was indebted for my life, a convict informed me that
+his name was Emerson, and that he had been in the
+service of my father.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_168'>
+  <a href='images/i_168.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_168-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Rescue by Convicts. Norfolk Island.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>I found later that Emerson had been employed at
+Newmarket, and having “done his horses down,”
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_169">[169]</span>
+was taking a stroll in the evening when he came
+across an old gentleman who did not seem to know
+his way, and “borrowed his watch.” I had three
+sovereigns in my pocket, and offered them to him,
+but he said they were no more use to him than the
+same number of buttons! I mentioned his case to
+the Governor, who would see to it.</p>
+
+<p>Norfolk Island was, in 1787, colonized by Captain
+Philip King, R.N., by free settlers and prisoners
+from New South Wales. In 1809 a combined,
+but unsuccessful attempt was made by the settlers,
+the military, and the prisoners, to take possession of
+the island.</p>
+
+<p>Our second attempt to reach the ship was successful.
+At sunset filled, and made sail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>If my readers are sick of the sea, or sea-sick, I
+advise them to skip the journal until the 19th of
+June.</p>
+
+<p>Since leaving Norfolk Island, the wind, with a
+strong lee set, prevented our reaching Auckland by
+the northern route.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>We entered Cook’s Straits, and in the evening
+came to off Port Nicholson.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed and attempted to work up
+under double-reefed topsails, with topgallant sails
+over, but were obliged to come to again with both
+bower-anchors between Barrett reef and the eastern
+shore in the afternoon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Wind lulled, weighed, ran up, and came to
+in Lampton Harbour. Found our fore-yard
+sprung.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>At noon fired a royal salute in commemoration of
+Her Majesty’s Birthday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail, running down the harbour.
+Before, however, we could get clear of Pencarrow
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_171">[171]</span>
+Head, we were met by a strong southerly breeze;
+reefed topsails, and worked out by sunset.</p>
+
+<p>The breeze outside freshened to a gale, against
+which we worked all night!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>New
+Zealand,
+May&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight found ourselves off Cape Porirua;
+bore up. At 10.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> came to with both bower-anchors
+in 23 fathoms, off Kapiti Island. The
+anchorage none of the best, but any port in such a
+storm as that we had just taken shelter from.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at 5 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> to a light N.E. wind, and ran
+along the land.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in 7 fathoms in Waitemata Harbour.</p>
+
+<p>Port Nicholson and Auckland are both splendid
+harbours.</p>
+
+<p>Much to be done, which British capital and
+enterprise will achieve. At present there is neither
+watering nor landing-place. As a proof of the latter,
+the port captain at Auckland visited the ship in a
+pair of long jack boots—his usual costume! These
+colonies are rapidly rising into importance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and stood out of the harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Worked into the Bay of Islands. Came to in
+Kororareka Bay. Did not find the facility we hoped
+for in obtaining spars.</p>
+
+<p>The town contains but few inhabitants, and was
+reduced to half its former size, by shot-holes in the
+church and other buildings, made during the war with
+the brave Heki. The bay, however, deserves all the
+praise that has been bestowed upon it.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, made sail, and ran out of the bay.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Breeze freshened into a northerly gale, which,
+veering round to N.E., blew hard and reduced us to
+a close-reefed main topsail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>First cutter washed away. More moderate towards
+afternoon.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_172">[172]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Made the land at daylight; not an inviting coast
+for a stranger.</p>
+
+<p>Fired a signal gun and got a native pilot.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_170'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_170.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>A Coral Island.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Noon.—Came to in 13 fathoms off the capital
+of Tonga Tabu, Malanga. The coast is bound by
+a coral reef about 200 yards in width, inside which
+boats will float at low water, when landing is disagreeable.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_172'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_172.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>A Stockade.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The island is well managed by an English
+missionary, who had King George well under control.</p>
+
+<p>In the afternoon His Majesty came on board, and
+was received and entertained with due honours.</p>
+
+<p>He is a Christian and intelligent, but rather too
+prejudiced against the French for his own interests.
+The King once got into a scrape. Drifting about in
+his canoe on a Sunday, he observed a huge turtle
+floating in the warmth of the sun.</p>
+
+<p>His Majesty could not resist the temptation, but
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_173">[173]</span>
+quitting his canoe, swam carefully up and grasped the
+hind-fins of the turtle; which, with so much stern
+weight, could not dive, but was able to make rapid
+headway with his fore-fins, and towed His Majesty a
+good mile before he let go. The King got severely
+reprimanded for his desecration of the Sabbath.</p>
+
+<p>I visited the two schools, crowded with promising
+children of both sexes. Tonga Tabu is a fertile island
+with an industrious population.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed. It was curious navigation between the
+coral reefs. Suddenly, while weighing, a flaw of wind
+veered and caused our stern to touch the edge of a
+coral bank, with 80 fathoms under our chains. She
+was easily backed off.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>We started with a fair wind, which turned into a
+gale.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id='i_173'>
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_173.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> in a Gale.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>We had not many pets, but the purser had a gray
+parrot, the right African sort, who would not talk
+or be taught, and was voted a nuisance.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_175">[175]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>During one of our frequent squalls, in a lee lurch,
+everything was capsized and sent to the scuppers, some
+of us sent off our legs, decanters, tumblers, lamps, the
+parrot’s cage, etc. In the midst of broken crockery
+and glass, a voice was calling out “Abaft there!”
+“A glass of grog!” It was this much-abused
+parrot!</p>
+
+<p>Ship under close-reefed topsails, main trysail, and
+fore-staysail. Weather soon moderated.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>We were now drawing towards Tahiti, carrying
+a mail from Sydney.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_174">
+  <a href='images/i_174.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_174-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Point Venus, Tahiti.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Late in the afternoon a sail was reported, which
+we made out, from the round sort of baskets at the
+fore- and main-topmast-heads, to be a whaler; she
+had boats in the water. We hove to. She hoisted
+American colours: her captain came on board—a
+respectable-looking old salt, with gray hair.</p>
+
+<p>Invited him to my cabin, where, with accompaniments
+of Manila cheroots and Jamaica rum, we had
+an agreeable chat.</p>
+
+<p>On his leaving, I presented him with a box of
+cheroots, saying we had been six months without
+European news.</p>
+
+<p>On which he “guessed” that I must be aware of
+the war between France and England.</p>
+
+<p>He evidently noticed my astonishment, and added
+that the French Admiral was at sea looking for the
+English fleet.</p>
+
+<p>We shook hands and so parted. It was then
+too dark to see the name of his ship. We made
+sail.</p>
+
+<p>I invited the First Lieutenant to consult on the
+news we had received. It was decided that we
+would load every gun with round shot, grape, and
+canister.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_176">[176]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_176">
+  <a href='images/i_176.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_176-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Tahiti Harbour.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_177">[177]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Soon after daylight we were off the harbour, and at
+about seven the English pilot we had heard of,
+but accompanied by a French officer, undertook the
+steerage.</p>
+
+<p>I was so interested at the navigation between coral
+banks, the beauty of the harbour, the merchant ships,
+two fine frigates, with sundry small craft, that I quite
+forgot about the guns.</p>
+
+<figure class="figleft" id="i_177">
+  <img class="v20" src="images/i_177.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Bowyear.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Had my gig manned, and directed Bowyear first
+to salute the Admiral’s flag,
+and when he saw me leaving
+to salute the Governor and
+French flag.</p>
+
+<p>He replied: “You forget,
+sir, that we have round
+shot, grape, and canister in
+every gun. I have nothing
+but this scoop to draw them,
+nor can we get outside
+against the sea-breeze to
+empty them. I could not
+fire a pistol here without
+hitting some one.”</p>
+
+<p>I had, however, to call on the Governor. On
+getting alongside the flagship, an officer informed
+me that I should find him at the Government House,</p>
+
+<p>On landing I was received by His Excellency in
+full dress, a guard of honour with band playing our
+National Air, and all officers attending. I never felt
+so guilty or so small.</p>
+
+<p>The Governor, M. Bonard, Capitaine de Vaisseau
+and Commodore, who included in his person that of
+Governor and Naval Commander-in-Chief, kindly
+put his arm in mine and led me away into his house,
+where he said luncheon would be getting cold.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_178">[178]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_178">
+  <a href='images/i_178.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_178-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Eimeo.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_179">[179]</span></p>
+
+<p>They all spoke or understood English as well as
+myself. The luncheon was excellent, wine to match,
+and I was hungry.</p>
+
+<p>After a while the Governor drew his chair near to
+mine, and, without alluding to my not having fired
+the usual salutes, stated that they were six months
+without news from Europe; and that if ever so small
+a yacht or strange fishing-vessel hove in sight, it
+caused excitement. Telescopes were brought to bear,
+and he said, “You may imagine the appearance of a
+British frigate——”</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_179">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_179.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Inland Scenery.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Before I could commence my explanation he
+added, “Every five minutes I am receiving reports
+of the withdrawal of round shot, grape, and canister
+from every gun in your frigate.”</p>
+
+<p>I then explained my interview with the master of
+the American whaler.</p>
+
+<p>Every one of the gallant French captains
+rose without a moment’s hesitation, shook me
+by the hand, expressing a hope that under similar
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_180">[180]</span>
+circumstances their officers would have done the
+same!</p>
+
+<p>In due time the salutes were fired and returned,
+and we mixed as one family. I have ever found
+French naval officers perfect gentlemen.</p>
+
+<p>Monsieur Gizholme, Lieutenant commanding
+the <span class='ships'>Cocyte</span> steamer, managed everything: balls,
+dinners, dances, picnics in a lovely and interesting
+country. Brierly meanwhile happy with his sketch-book.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Tahiti.</div>
+
+<p>Among guests I had the honour of entertaining
+Queen Pomare. She had been, and appeared very
+happy, and was treated with every kindness and
+attention.</p>
+
+<p>Monsieur D. P. Nicolai, commanding the troops,
+added considerably to my collection of shells.</p>
+
+<p>I had the pleasure of renewing acquaintance in the
+Baltic with Commodore Bonard, with Gizholme, and
+other officers.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Having come from the west, owing to our
+difference in longitude, found I had a day to spare,
+which was a good excuse for lingering in Tahiti,
+therefore we gave ourselves a second “Thursday,
+July 18.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Pilot on board, weighed. Having saluted the
+French flag and that of Commodore Bonard, stood
+over for the island of Guimo. Came to in 19
+fathoms in Opuum Harbour, where we have a depot
+of coals wasting for want of covering. This is likewise
+a beautiful and well-sheltered harbour with good
+fresh water easily obtained.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight; ran out of harbour. Worked
+over to Papeete to land our pilot and pick up their
+mail. 10 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Boat returned filled, and made sail
+to the northward of the island.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_181">[181]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Valparaiso,
+Aug.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>After a month’s light and variable winds, saluted
+the flag of Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, flying on
+board <span class='ships'>Inconstant</span>, 36, Captain John Shepherd.</p>
+
+<p>We were towed into the anchorage by the boats
+of French and English men-of-war.</p>
+
+<p>There were besides <span class='ships'>Driver</span>, steam sloop, 6, Commander
+C. Johnson; <span class='ships'>Champion</span>, 14, Commander
+John Hayes.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_181">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_181.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>A Coral Atoll.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>On my reporting myself to the Commander-in-Chief,
+he informed me he had two reprimands from
+the Admiralty—one for the affair at Macao, and the
+other for interfering with the senior officer on the
+Australian Station.</p>
+
+<p>I applied, in proper form, through my Admiral, to
+the Board of Admiralty for two courts-martial.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral informed me that the <span class='ships'>Inconstant</span> had
+a freight on board and was homeward bound, but
+that I being senior, and <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> longer in commission,
+might take freight out of <span class='ships'>Inconstant</span> and
+so go home, or remain on the station for another year
+and take the chance of picking up a freight myself.</p>
+
+<p>It took me but a few minutes to decide, knowing,
+too, that such arrangement would exactly suit Captain
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_182">[182]</span>
+Shepherd, officers, and men of both ships as well as
+friend Brierly.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral’s was a charming establishment.
+Besides Mrs. Phipps Hornby, and her sister Mrs.
+Parker, there were three daughters. Their son,
+Geoffrey, was Flag-Lieutenant.</p>
+
+<p>They were in the house lately vacated by the
+Admiral’s predecessor, Sir George Seymour, where
+they were sure to find good stabling if nothing
+else.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>This morning our Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. William
+Pitt Adams, arrived from Lima, bringing me a letter
+of thanks from Lord Palmerston for the prompt way
+in which I had acted at Macao.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Joined royal salute in commemoration of the
+Prince Consort’s birth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>At sunset hoisted Admiral’s flag, <span class='ships'>Inconstant</span> having
+sailed for England.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Matthew Ash, captain of mizen-top, while on
+leave was murdered by one of the crew of a Chilian
+frigate, who was subsequently apprehended.</p>
+
+<p>Ship caulking inside and out, not before it was
+needed.</p>
+
+<p>Watered ship from the luxury of a tank.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Asia</span>, 84, Captain Robert F. Stopford, arrived,
+to whom was transferred the Admiral’s flag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Fired royal salute in commemoration of Chilian
+Independence.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Kindly invited to join Admiral’s party to witness
+a rancho: which means to drive wild cattle over a
+space of eighty to a hundred square miles into a
+strong enclosure.</p>
+
+<p>Our preparations were amusing, especially to our
+pretty lady companions, who looked as if they had
+never been out of the saddle.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_183">[183]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_183">
+  <a href='images/i_183.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_183-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>Mæander</span> at Valparaiso.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_184">[184]</span></p>
+
+<p>We started after luncheon for our 10-mile ride
+to Pitama.</p>
+
+<p>The accommodation afforded by our ranchero
+host was a long low building, having a floor, but
+no ceiling, mere wooden truckle-beds to sleep on.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral and family took possession of one
+end, we, the other: within hail, but outside talking
+distance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>We were up early, but the wild cattle were already
+in a disturbed state: bulls and pigs, horses and cows
+rushing across each other. The rancheros or drivers
+had been out a week. The ground was rough and
+varied, but nothing stopped our fair riders.</p>
+
+<p>It was dusk before half the cattle within the
+outer ranchero could be secured. Torches added
+to the wildness of the scene.</p>
+
+<p>The unbroken horses that had been captured by the
+young rancheros, and ridden when their own knocked
+up, began to lie down.</p>
+
+<p>The ladies of our party, who had ridden the
+whole day, appeared as fresh as their brother; but
+the Admiral, who was as hard as nails, himself made
+the signal to return home.</p>
+
+<p>I always regarded him with admiration and
+respect. He had commanded the <span class='ships'>Volage</span> in our
+Norfolk hero’s, Sir William Hoste’s, frigate action off
+Lissa.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed from Valparaiso Roads on our northern
+cruise.</p>
+
+<p>Later I saw <span class='ships'>Driver</span> standing out. She was a
+full-rigged ship and what our American friends
+called a “side wheeler.” Her captain was under the
+delusion he could beat us sailing, but our three topsails
+only were sufficient to convince him of his mistake.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Coquimbo,
+Sept.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Coquimbo Bay.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_185">[185]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_186">
+  <a href='images/i_186.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_186-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Coquimbo.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>While cruising in my gig I observed an ancient-looking
+church, and landed to inspect it.</p>
+
+<p>Like other Catholic churches it had the usual
+images; but I noticed over a side door a white
+marble slab, on which was engraved: “En el año
+1578 esta iglesia ha sido profanado par el pirata
+ingles Francisco Draki.”</p>
+
+<p>Sailed 28th.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Callao,
+Oct.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived in Callao Roads. Found United States
+<span class='ships'>Vandalia</span>, also <span class='ships'>Naiad</span> with stores and topgallant-yards
+across.</p>
+
+<p>Saluted Peruvian flag with twenty-one guns.</p>
+
+<p>Much to the distress of Commander William
+Browne I had directions to convert the once beautiful
+frigate <span class='ships'>Naiad</span> into a store-ship.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail. Observed French
+Commodore Fourichon standing for Callao.</p>
+
+<p>A fresh south-easter carried us across the Equator
+in 113° west, after which we had a long and tedious
+voyage.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>San
+Blaas,
+Nov.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight made Piedra Blanca de Tierre: a
+remarkable white rock, some twelve miles from the
+coast, appearing in the distance like a large ship. At
+noon came to in San Blaas Roads. Purchased cedar
+planks for making treasure boxes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Mazatlan Harbour. Saluted the
+Mexican flag with twenty-one guns.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Saluted Mr. Charles Bankhead, English Minister,
+on his visiting the ship.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mazatlan.</div>
+
+<p>An English brig, the <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span>, arrived at Mazatlan
+with a number of passengers from San Francisco,
+several of whom died on the passage from dysentery
+and other diseases contracted before embarking.
+The brig touched at Cape St. Lucas, where many
+of them landed and refused to return on board.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_187">[187]</span>
+The <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span> sailed; they came round in a boat a
+few days afterwards.</p>
+
+<p>At the instigation of well-known characters calling
+themselves “lawyers,” and forming part of the Civil
+Courts of Justice, the passengers lodged a complaint
+against the Master of the <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span> for ill-treatment,
+and his having thereby been the cause of deaths on
+board.</p>
+
+<p>At the request of the Captain of the Port I
+detained the <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span> and communicated with our
+Consul, who, on investigation, decided there were no
+grounds for complaint; but, on the contrary, they
+had received such treatment as I should have expected,
+knowing the high character of Mr. Wood, the master,
+whom I had met in India.</p>
+
+<p>At a later date I received information to the
+effect that these “gentlemen lawyers,” Gaxiola and
+Cainow, had made an offer to the supercargo of
+the <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span>, whom they met on shore, that they
+would cancel the proceedings against his ship for
+six hundred dollars.</p>
+
+<p>I also heard that a like sum had been offered by
+them to the Captain of the <span class='ships'>Gulnare</span>, an American
+brig under almost similar circumstances, but the
+Master not having the money, the brig now lies
+rotting in the harbour. I allowed the <span class='ships'>Gazelle</span> to
+proceed to sea, offering myself to answer any charges
+preferred against the Captain.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov. 26,
+Mazatlan.</div>
+
+<p>The Governor of Mazatlan visited the ship and
+was saluted.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Foreign Consuls and party were entertained on
+board. Saluted them on leaving.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Sent launch in charge of Lieutenant Oldfield to
+communicate with merchants at Guyamas. The
+pinnace in charge of C. H. Johnstone, mid, left for
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_188">[188]</span>
+San Blaas. At Mazatlan we moored head and
+stern on account of tides, with no room to swing.
+Ciervo Island, close by, is a convenient place, on
+which we repaired our boats and landed the blacksmith’s
+forge, the men working under the eye of the
+officers on board. The centre of the island was tall
+bush, so that the opposite side could not be seen
+except from the masthead.</p>
+
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_188">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_188.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Sharks at Mazatlan.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Departed this life George Fuller, A.B. He had
+been long lingering, and had an extraordinary twist
+in his backbone. He was buried at the back of the
+island with due honours. I was kindly entertained
+and had a room on shore, but by day was much away
+in the gig.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>In the morning the First Lieutenant found the
+boatswain missing, and, later, the doctor. He began
+to smell a rat, but thought it advisable to say nothing.
+The dingey too was missing. On my coming on
+board Bowyear told me the surgeon, John Crawford,
+on hearing from his assistant of the death and burial
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_189">[189]</span>
+of the poor fellow, whose backbone he coveted, was so
+excited that Bowyear stated that the ship’s company
+would not like to have the body disturbed; but the
+doctor was pertinacious, promising that he could
+manage it without anybody knowing. At midnight
+he and the boatswain landed in the dingey and
+hauled the small boat up on the beach.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>When I got on board, at muster, nothing had been
+seen of either the dingey or the boatswain.</p>
+
+<p>At noon an American schooner, sailing near us
+with a cargo of sheep, hailed. Stating he “guessed”
+he had picked up one of our boats at sea, and casting
+off the painter, we received our dingey. Doctor and
+boatswain hid till midnight and got on board unseen.</p>
+
+<p>The lagoons which succeed one another for
+several miles in a line with the coast to the northward
+were full of wild game. It is difficult to
+imagine prettier shooting. The water is not above
+three or four feet deep, and sufficiently wide to
+enable a gun on each side to drive the game. Care
+should be taken to drop your birds on the land, as
+alligators are in possession of the water.</p>
+
+<p>One of the midshipmen and myself bagged fifty-two
+couple of ducks of various sorts in an afternoon.</p>
+
+<p>Snipe are also plentiful. To get at the river there
+is an extensive bar to cross, which troubled our boats
+till they got used to it.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_190'>[190]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLVII'>CHAPTER XLVII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1851.
+Mazatlan,
+Jan.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail, running to the southward
+to meet the pinnace, expected from San Blaas with
+treasure.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Came to at the entrance to the Chamatla River.
+A nasty bar, impassable at low water; heavy surf
+breaks along the coast. Two of our boats were
+swamped in attempting to land. Saved them with loss
+of anchors only. Good wild shooting is to be had by
+ascending the river in canoes. On the banks, near the
+entrance, were hundreds of alligators. Deer in plenty
+were seen on the opposite side of a narrow lagoon
+which runs parallel with the beach.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Pinnace returned. Weighed following day.
+Came to in Mazatlan Harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Having made arrangements for leaving pinnace
+and barge in charge of Mr. May, master, took pilot
+on board. Weighed at 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Guyamas Harbour. A convenient
+port for target practice. Distance from the shore
+from eight hundred to a thousand yards; the shot
+easily recovered. The weather is generally fine. We
+were enabled to send boats to distant points to assist
+the merchants; the men enjoyed the change. Bowyear,
+the First, was equally contented to remain, and,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_191">[191]</span>
+by drill and various exercises, keep the remaining crew
+happy and contented. Among the youngsters, a
+universal favourite was a son of Lord Ellesmere, now
+about sixteen years of age. In a letter before leaving
+England his father wrote: “It is wrong to have a
+favourite in a family, but you take with you the
+Benjamin of my flock.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>In the evening, returning on board, I noticed the
+sad looks of officers as well as men. Bowyear informed
+me I should find young Egerton laid in my cabin badly
+wounded. The poor boy breathed, but knew me not.
+I remained until the end, which came only too soon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Among our friends at Guyamas was the liberal
+Catholic Priest, who appeared to rule supreme.
+He had a portion of the churchyard, half a mile
+from the landing-place, selected for the grave of our
+poor young shipmate, who was there buried with
+full military honours—a firing party of marines,
+band playing that impressive Dead March in “Saul,”
+which brought tears from many lookers-on. The
+remains were followed by the merchants and authorities
+of the place. Ships in port lowered colours.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_192">
+  <a href='images/i_192.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_192-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>The Cemetery at Guyamas.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>I was before this too sad to clearly state cause of accident.
+I mentioned that the First Lieutenant was well
+pleased with the position of our anchorage, as the
+open spaces, as well as position of land and rocks,
+afforded good opportunities for target practice, as
+well as for musket drill in boats. On the present sad
+occasion a mark had been whitewashed on the face of
+a huge rock; the boats passing dropped alternate oars
+and took shots. We were short of officers: the boatswain
+was in the stern-sheets, with the young mid in
+charge. In unnecessary haste, the musket of one of
+the crew went off, with the sad result.</p>
+
+<p>Guyamas is worse off than Mazatlan for water;<span class="pagenum" id="Page_193">[193]</span>
+all the drinking water comes in skins and small
+casks on the backs of mules and donkeys from wells
+dug a couple of miles out of the town in the Hermosilla
+Road. A sufficient supply was so brought
+down to the end of the pier at a charge of $150 per
+ton. The country abounds with large hares, difficult
+to shoot, except on horseback, within eighty yards, so
+they are seldom killed except with ball—a pretty
+amusement for good rifle shots. Deer and wild-fowl
+are plentiful, but in different directions.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>We landed our whole force with field-pieces for a
+sham fight. The spot selected was adapted for the
+purpose, having a sufficient level, besides low brushwood
+and elevated rocky ground for manœuvring.
+We had erected stones to represent a circular fort
+on an eminence, in which four brass boat guns were
+mounted, and a piratical flag hoisted to represent the
+enemy.</p>
+
+<p>The field battery having been placed in position,
+the force advanced to the assault, but, being repulsed,
+they divided, and by circuitous marches on each side
+gained some high ground in rear of, and commanding
+the fort, when the field battery, a little in advance of
+its original position, again opened fire. The fort was
+carried, the Mexican flag hoisted; the band played
+their National Air, and the army, as well as spectators,
+cheered, consisting of the whole population of
+Guyamas.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb. 15</div>
+
+<p>Being spring tides, weighed and ran out into
+deeper water. Came to in five fathoms off the islands
+of Paxaros. During our stay here we received about
+$400,000, none of which paid Custom dues.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—The Governor of Guyamas having come
+on board, weighed. Shortened sail on passing the cave
+on Vincente Point, where a number of our Guyamas
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_194">[194]</span>
+friends, particularly ladies, had assembled to wave last
+adieus. Mutual regrets at parting. Saluted the
+Governor on his quitting the ship. Cheered from
+the rigging and made sail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Came to off San Blaas for water, which is obtained
+by rolling casks about 400 yards from the beach
+to a river, in which the inhabitants of San Blaas
+(both sexes) wash themselves and clothes. The
+water, however, is better than that at Mazatlan or
+Guyamas.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Champion</span>, 14, Commander John M. Hayes,
+arrived from Mazatlan. Supplied her with stores
+and provisions.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed, standing for Piedra de Mer, off which
+we were to pick up our boats.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>At noon the pinnace and cutter came alongside
+with treasure. Sailed, having on board $868,927;
+with the exception of the <span class='ships'>Inconstant’s</span>, the smallest
+shipment that had been made from this coast. More
+than three months had elapsed since the boats and
+officers had all been on board together. The long sea
+cruise before us comes in well to recover from the
+naturally demoralising effects of the frequently prolonged
+absence of boats from ship.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Twenty minutes before midnight exercised at
+general quarters; fired the first gun in two minutes
+and forty-five seconds from the beating of the
+drum.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>After evening quarters exercised shifting topsails.
+Fresh northerly breezes carried us across the equator,
+giving us fair prospects of a good passage to
+Valparaiso.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Midnight.—Beat to quarters; first gun fired in
+three minutes and a half.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>After evening quarters shifted topsail-yards.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_195">[195]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Commenced the new scale of provisions according
+to Admiralty circular, a step towards improving the
+condition and discipline of the seamen.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Observed a stranger we had seen two days previously
+was still gaining. Tacked to try rate of
+sailing. Trimmed ship; re-set sails and communicated
+by signal with her, the <span class='ships'>Balmoral</span> of Aberdeen,
+from San Francisco, bound to Valparaiso.
+Passed to leeward, tacked in her wake and left her
+in an extraordinary manner, proving how much might
+be gained in a long voyage by trimming, and a little
+attention to the set of sails. By sunset she was hull
+down.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Noon.—Came to in Valparaiso Bay. Found here
+the United States frigate <span class='ships'>Raritan</span>, and Russian corvette
+<span class='ships'>Oambylea</span>. Rear-Admiral Fairfax-Morseby relieves
+Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, who had sailed on
+a cruise.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Sent boats to tow the Russian corvette to sea.
+Taking in water and provisions preparatory to sailing
+for England.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>4 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed and made sail. Dark morning,
+lee shore. Vessels at anchor; both sides in thirty-six
+fathoms, a long heave up and down. Got
+the first of a northerly wind. Got up stump
+topgallant masts. Carried our breeze as far as
+43° south.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Exchanged numbers with the <span class='ships'>Amphitrite</span>, 24,
+Captain Charles Frederick from England. Frederick
+strongly advised us not to attempt Straits of Magellan.
+Uneasy motion of the ship made havoc among our
+live stock; obliged to throw several bullocks overboard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>After a calm got a light northerly wind. Shaped
+a course for Cape Pillar, intending to run through the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_196">[196]</span>
+Straits. As the breeze freshened the weather came
+on thick and dirty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Straits of
+Magellan,
+May&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Running for the land; fresh breeze, hazy weather.
+10.40 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Observed rocks N.N.E. 11.10.—Another
+break in the mist showed us land ahead.
+Reefed topsails. 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Passed Cape Pillar. 2.30.—Came
+to in Mercy Harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>2.15 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Entered Long Reach. Passed Half
+Port Bay. 4.50.—Came to in seven and a half
+fathoms, Playa Parda Harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail. 2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.-</span>-Came to in
+Fortescue Bay. Found an American brig, and an
+English barque <span class='ships'>Caspar</span> and brig <span class='ships'>Isabella Thompson</span>
+dismasted in Port Gallant. A snug and beautiful
+harbour. Supplied the brig with one jib-boom for a
+main-mast, and the barque with our stream chain.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>4.20 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed. 8.45.—Rounded Cape
+Froward. On passing San Nicolas Bay observed
+a Chilian man-of-war brig, and American and
+Chilian ships at anchor. Came to at 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> in Port
+Famine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Port
+Famine,
+May&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>4 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed. 11.15.—Came to in seventeen
+fathoms off the settlement to the southward of
+Sandy Point. Saluted the Chilian flag. This
+penal settlement, under its present Governor, Meños,
+a captain in the Chilian Navy, is situated between
+the prairie, on which cattle thrive, and the
+wooded country, containing the necessary material for
+building, is likely to become a large and useful colony.
+It has rich soil, an agreeable, bracing climate, and
+a coal-mine within a few miles, inland, from which a
+stream of good water runs into the sea close to the
+settlement.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed, and worked to windward. Came to at
+11.10 in Loreda Bay.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_197">[197]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1851.
+May&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed to run between Elizabeth and Magdalene
+Islands; got through, but before we could get into
+Royal Roads to anchor the flood-tide set us back.
+12.30.—Brought up in eight fathoms off N.E. end of
+Elizabeth Island.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed, and worked up against N.E. wind to the
+entrance of the second narrows. Wind heading,
+worked into Gregory Bay. Came to at 11.45.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_197">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_197.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>In the Straits of Magellan.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Landed parties to try for guanacoes and ostriches,
+stated in the chart to abound here. A few birds
+were seen in the distance, as well as animals.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed 5 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>, and ran towards the entrance of
+the first narrows, passing to the northward of the
+Triton Bank. Succeeded, with the assistance of a
+strong tide, in getting through, making two tacks only
+towards the eastermost end. 10.30.—Trimmed
+and set studding-sails. 3.40.—Rounded Dungeness Point.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_198">[198]</span></p>
+
+<p>4.30.—Taken aback. Came to in fourteen fathoms
+off Dungeness Point.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>7.15—Weighed and made sail on port tack. 9.—Cape
+Virgin, W by S. ½ S. 10.—Stowed anchors.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Heavy swell from N.E.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Light northerly winds; veered round to S.W. and
+blew. This was the heaviest gale I ever experienced:
+wind constantly shifting, the sea had no time to get
+up. Our close-reefed main topsail was blown to
+ribbons, and a close-reefed foresail was blown out
+of the bolt ropes. That part secured to the yard
+by reef points was blown into knots as big as a
+Norfolk turnip, and so hard that neither chisel nor
+nails could be driven into it. Of the fore staysail
+nothing remained. Our quarter galleries and half-ports
+were stove in.</p>
+
+<p>Quarter-deck boats had been well secured, but
+the one on the starboard side had been so encrusted
+with fibres of the mizen trysail as to have the appearance
+of whitewash, which was only removed by three-cornered
+iron scrapers.</p>
+
+<p>As already stated, the sea had no time to rise to
+any considerable height. At daylight the gale
+moderated. We set a spare fore topsail, reefed, as a
+foresail, bent and set main staysail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Breeze moderated and changed to the northward.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>More bad weather. Split the improvised foresail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Wind more moderate. Bent proper foresail and
+made sail, wind veering round to S.W.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Shifted topgallant masts from stump to regulation.
+Standing for Cape Frio, opened the entrance of Rio
+Janeiro. Observed a barque being towed out by a
+Brazilian steam tug.</p>
+
+<p>Being becalmed the <span class='ships'>Plumper</span> towed us into our
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_199">[199]</span>
+anchorage. Met the <span class='ships'>Cormorant</span>, steam sloop, Captain
+Herbert Schomberg, coming out; he having received
+information from the Consul that the tug <span class='ships'>Satrap</span> was
+assisting a slaver.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Plumper</span>, having towed us to a berth, joined
+in the chase. <span class='ships'>Cormorant</span> fired into the tug, and
+knocked away her funnel; on being boarded fifteen
+slaves were found secreted under hatches, and part of
+a slaver’s cargo.</p>
+
+<p>The tug was anchored and placed under a guard.
+The barque got away, but <span class='ships'>Plumper</span> put a shot into her.
+The Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Barrington
+Reynolds, was absent at Monte Video.</p>
+
+<p>Found here <span class='ships'>Tweed</span>, sloop, 18, Commander Lord
+Francis Russell. She had been my first ship: then a
+28-gun donkey frigate!</p>
+
+<p>There was also a heavy-looking French frigate
+<span class='ships'>Penelope</span>. Also two handsome Spanish corvettes,
+<span class='ships'>Esmeralda</span> and <span class='ships'>Arragon</span>, said to have been built
+on White’s lines, the United States corvette <span class='ships'>Dale</span>,
+and a Dutch brig. Saluted the Brazilian flag,
+21 guns.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>4.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed and ran out of the harbour
+with a light land breeze.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Gave the ship her last coat of paint, and remounted
+carronades; neither useful nor ornamental.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived at Spithead. Saluted the flag of Admiral
+the Hon. Sir T. Bladen-Capel, K.C.B. The steam
+tender <span class='ships'>Sprightly</span> came off for our freight, $900,000,
+consigned to my friend E. Casher, for transhipment
+to the Bank of England. At sunset weighed for
+Chatham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored at Sheerness. Saluted flag of Vice-Admiral
+the Hon. Josceline Percy. Glad to again
+renew an acquaintance which commenced when I
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_200">[200]</span>
+commanded <span class='ships'>Childers</span> in Mediterranean and was renewed
+at the Cape in the <span class='ships'>Dido</span>, when Sir Josceline
+was Commander-in-Chief.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Paying off commencing. Sad to think out of
+360 fine fellows, only 150 are left!</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_201'>[201]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLVIII'>CHAPTER XLVIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">At Home</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1851.
+Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>While <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> was dismantling, I attended the
+wedding of my nephew, Edward Coke, and Miss
+Agar-Ellis, daughter of Lord Dover, whose house
+was close to the Admiralty, and into which I walked
+after the breakfast, wearing my wedding favour.</p>
+
+<p>I was shown into the First Sea Lord’s room, with
+whom I had been on terms of intimacy some years.</p>
+
+<p>Before many minutes the door was thrown open,
+and Sir Francis Beaufort, head of the Hydrographical
+Department, attended by his staff, addressed me—“Captain
+Keppel, before I hold out the hand of
+welcome, I come in the name of myself and Board
+to thank you for the manner in which you upheld
+the dignity of this branch of the service on the
+Australian station.” After shaking hands they withdrew.
+Being alone with my friend Admiral Deans
+Dundas, I ventured on a little chaff, asking him
+where their Lordships’ reprimand was. He told me
+that they had given the reprimand stronger to Erskine,
+on whose report they had acted. This amused me.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral then led me into the presence of
+Sir Francis Baring, the First Lord, saying, “Here’s
+this fellow Keppel. I can do nothing with him,” and
+withdrew. A more straightforward, upright man than
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_202">[202]</span>
+Sir Francis there could not be. He invited me to go
+into the business, which ended in his asking if there
+was anything that I wanted at the Admiralty.</p>
+
+<p>I replied that if he would kindly promote my
+First Lieutenant I should not care a straw about the
+reprimands! He then said that if my Lieutenant
+was in every way eligible he should be promoted.
+(Bowyear shortly afterwards served as Commander
+in the <span class='ships'>Vengeance</span>, 84, with Captain Lord Edward
+Russell. He is now an Admiral, living in Guernsey,
+and often comes across in the summer, when we
+talk over old times.)</p>
+
+<p>My invalid wife and self moved into the pretty
+lodge in Hyde Park, lent us by my brother-in-law,
+Harry Stephenson, Deputy Ranger. The First Exhibition
+was in full force, in Hyde Park, the idea having
+been originated by the Prince Consort. Weeks passed
+before I was tired of the novel scene. Everything
+was there, except ships.</p>
+
+<p>What seemed to astonish our foreign neighbours
+most were the size of our bath-tubs, jugs, and basins.
+I found that great and good Rajah, Sir James
+Brooke, still under the persecution of his former
+agent, Mr. Wise, who was assisted by what we called
+“The Revenue Cutter,” Mr. Hume! Sir James was
+a wreck of his former self. Among our Norfolk
+friends and relations I had plenty of shooting.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.</div>
+
+<p>Near Quidenham was Edward Eyre, Rector of
+Larling. His was a charming family, consisting of
+wife, four daughters, and a young son. Eyre kindly
+offered to help me in a book I was perpetrating, with
+a view to vindicate the character of Rajah Brooke.
+Norfolk is a genial county; in spite of politics they
+all work together.</p>
+
+<p>My father on his deathbed had said to his wife
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_203">[203]</span>
+that she would be the first lady who ever won the
+Derby. He had at the time a promising bay colt,
+“Bolingbroke,” who had won the “Hopeful” stakes
+at Newmarket in 1849, also the “Prendergast” at the
+second October meeting of that year. Edwards was
+his trainer. In 1850 Bolingbroke ran sixth in the
+Derby stakes in Edwards’s name. Report was strong
+that he had been got at. He won the Don stakes at
+Doncaster.</p>
+
+<p>I frequently dined with Rous, and held the
+sovereigns when matches were made. My brother-in-law,
+Joseph Hawley, was getting up a promising
+racing stud. After Goodwood I went with the Rajah
+and Brierly for the Cowes Regatta. There were
+rumours of old friend Schetky retiring from the office
+of marine painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron: the
+very thing for Brierly, at all events he might make
+friends among the members.</p>
+
+<p>Every one was anxious to see the clipper yacht
+<span class='ships'>America</span>, which won the R.Y.S. Cup. She had
+unusually taunt spars, and was sold for £4000.</p>
+
+<p>In the match against <span class='ships'>Titiana</span> she beat her by four
+minutes, twelve seconds. Heard of Tom Spring’s
+death—good fellow; he had “benefit of clergy”
+too.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.</div>
+
+<p>Holyoake of 78th was now at home, and made
+me a kind offer of a mount with the Pytchley. My
+hunting kit was always ready. I think the meet
+was Cottesmore. We were riding down the slope
+of a turnip-field, a stiffish hedge at the bottom, a
+gate in the left corner. A fox got up in front,
+and was through the hedge in a moment.</p>
+
+<p>There was a cry of “keep your line”; mine was
+to the right of the post. Just as my horse sprang
+for his jump, some heavy farmer on my right turned
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_204">[204]</span>
+my horse into the bottom of the ditch, which held
+water.</p>
+
+<p>Unluckily I was undermost, and my spur penetrated
+the left shoulder of the horse, who was got
+out, lame as a tree. Friend Holyoake was near at
+hand. We had then a walk of four miles. The
+next time with the Pytchley I was known as the
+“Post Captain.”</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_205'>[205]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_XLIX'>CHAPTER XLIX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Shore Time</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1852.</div>
+
+<p>To Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Jan. 12.
+Jan.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>At Woolwich; saw <span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>, nearly ready for
+launching. <span class='ships'>Royal Albert</span>, 120; will be the finest ship
+in the world.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>To Lodge, Club, and Admiralty. Death of the
+good Vice-Admiral, Sir William Montague, C.B.,
+puts friend Walpole on Flag List.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Went to Brighton, with possession of Rajah
+Brooke’s lodgings, 6 Marine Parade.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>To Cams for Goodwood. Weather fine. Usual
+load on Delmé’s drag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>A jolly week finishes to-day.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>In London. Walked to Twickenham to dine with
+the Dowager Lady Albemarle, who made me promise
+to meet her solicitor there on Wednesday for my
+advantage! Went on Wednesday, but did not see
+advantage!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Dined on guard at St. James’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>London dull without money! Great idea of
+applying for the Coast of Africa Station. Early
+September found me among kind Norfolk friends,
+within easy distances. Luckily for myself, but
+hardly so for friend Eyre, Larling Rectory was the
+centre—besides there was the book. He tried to
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_206">[206]</span>
+make me believe that it amused him as much as it
+did me. Close by were the Birches at Skipdom,
+Partridges at Hockham, and Lord Colborne, whose
+keeper at Banham was at my disposal.</p>
+
+<p>At Quidenham with brother Edward, but the
+blood-stock in the neighbourhood had frightened
+away the game. Further north had equally kind
+welcomes. In those days there was no driving, and
+as some of the turnip-fields held more water than
+birds, my unwelcome baths were frequent.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>The great Duke of Wellington died.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Quidenham,
+Sept.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Lord Colborne, meeting Fanny
+Albemarle, who was staying with brother Edward.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span> to be given away. Reported self
+ready to First Sea Lord. Dined with Hyde Parker
+at the Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Baldwin Walker, who had nominated me
+to the First Sea Lord.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>To Reigate to visit Rajah Brooke.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Busy drawing up a report for the best means of
+suppressing piracy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>To the Admiralty at an early hour. <span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>
+given to Sir T. Maitland.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>To friend Eyre at Larling. Book progressing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth,
+Nov.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>The following letter raised my spirits:—</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<div class='address'>
+<p class='pr1'><span class="smcap">Admiralty</span>, <i>Nov. 3, 1852</i>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class='cb'><span class="smcap">My dear Keppel</span>—If there is employment in the
+Baltic, or elsewhere, for one of your rank, I will not forget
+you.—Yours sincerely,</p>
+
+<div class='signature'>
+<p class='right pr1'>
+(Signed) &nbsp; &nbsp; <span class="smcap">M. F. H. Berkeley</span>.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Funeral of the Duke of Wellington. After the
+procession had passed the Club, having ticket for
+St. Paul’s, tried to work my way, but found I was
+not big enough.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_207">[207]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>By train to Portsmouth and Ryde, <i lang='fr'>en route</i> to
+Puckaster for wedding of Fanny Vine and Captain
+Times: happy match. <i lang='fr'>Déjeuner</i> for forty-five persons.
+Had to propose “Bride and Bridegroom.” Everything
+went off well. Dinner at Sir John and Lady
+Harrington’s.</p>
+
+<p>After the wedding my invalid wife was left
+under the care of her sisters. I accompanied Fanny
+Albemarle to stay with her sister at Mamhead Park,
+a charming place near Exeter, belonging to Sir
+Lydston Newman, who, being in the Guards, left his
+uncle in the family mansion to take care of his young
+sister, with whom I was on visit.</p>
+
+<p>There was a lake which ran parallel with the sea,
+full of wild-fowl—swans, ducks, geese, etc.—a most
+enjoyable place, with a railway station conveniently
+near for excursions.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_208'>[208]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_L'>CHAPTER L</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1853.
+May.</div>
+
+<p>Warlike rumours. Did not like the idea of
+being far from the Admiralty, where I had friends.
+My wife was again established in our pretty cottage
+at Droxford. The Crosbie family, although separated
+by marriages, were kind to their invalid sister. A
+gem of same name, daughter of Lord Brandon, Mrs.
+Yorke—now a widow—had a son in the Navy.</p>
+
+<p>For neighbours we had Tom Garnier, the kind
+Dean of Winchester. His son, who was afterwards
+Dean of Lincoln, married my youngest sister
+Caroline.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Comptroller, had
+built the finest two-decker. The constructor of
+a new type of ship had generally been allowed to
+nominate the captain. To Sir Baldwin I was indebted
+for my appointment to the <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>,
+then fitting at Devonport. She was 3400 tons,
+mounting 101 guns on two decks: crew, with officers
+and men, 900.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Devonport,
+May&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Acre</span> was commissioned by Commander Peter
+Cracroft; most of the officers joined in the first week.
+As this will be the fourth ship my kind readers have
+helped me to fit out, they should be spared the
+intricacies of a dockyard. That everything passed
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_209">[209]</span>
+pleasantly I have only to mention that my kind friend
+Commodore Michael Seymour was superintendent,
+with whose charming family I chiefly lived. Admiral
+Sir John Ommaney, K.C.B., a rough diamond, was
+Commander-in-Chief. Miss Ommaney, equally kind,
+managed the household. Took charge of <span class='ships'>Bellona</span>
+hulk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Marine artillerymen and seamen, gunners joined
+from <span class='ships'>Impregnable</span>, marines from headquarters, making
+in all 200.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>My old friend, Colonel Yea, and officers of the
+Royal Fusiliers, who were at Malta when I was in the
+<span class='ships'>Childers</span>, kindly made me an honorary member of
+their mess.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral came on board to muster and inspect
+ship’s company. Manned yards. Got steam up and
+successfully tried engines. Got the first of Rodgers’s
+iron-stocked bower anchors at the cat-head, 93 cwts.;
+neat and serviceable-looking. First experience of
+coaling. Received 509 tons. Took us five days.
+Turned over from hulk to ship. Bent sails.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Slipped moorings, ran out under screw, two miles
+beyond the Eddystone. 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Returned to the
+Sound.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Sir James Graham and some Lords of the
+Admiralty came on board unofficially. Steamed out.
+Saluting flag of Commander-in-Chief, stood out
+beyond the Eddystone, and returned to the Sound.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Commodore Michael Seymour came on board and
+paid advance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed, made sail; raised and stowed
+screw.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Off entrance of Cork Harbour, observing
+court-martial flag. Stood off until afternoon. On
+running in and shortening sail, saluted flag of Rear-Admiral
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_210">[210]</span>
+Sir William F. Carroll, K.C.B., and made
+signal, “Where to anchor?” Reply, “Where
+convenient.”</p>
+
+<p>There were nineteen ships, in two lines, composing
+the Channel Squadron, under Rear-Admiral Sir
+Armand Lowry Corry. It was slack water, and the
+ships, although moored, were in various positions.
+The <span class='ships'>Gondola</span>, cutter yacht, Lord Lichfield, could
+scarcely get through. There was no room for us to
+haul to the wind. The screw was up. Nothing left
+but to sheet home top and topgallant sails, and run
+the gauntlet between the lines. As stated, they were
+across the tide. Several flying and standing jib-booms
+had narrow escapes. At the end of the lines
+we anchored.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>Jenny d’ Acre</span>, as the seamen called her, got
+kudos: her performance talked of at the clubs in
+London. On one occasion Lord Adolphus Fitz-Clarence
+remarked on the great advantage of an
+auxiliary screw. To which Sir James Graham
+replied, “Hang the fellow! He had no screw
+down!”</p>
+
+<p>Friend Brierly was on board, and made a very
+clever sketch of <span class='ships'>Gondola</span> and the <span class='ships'>Acre</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Fleet weighed, outermost ships first. Steamed and
+sailed out of harbour. On getting outside we found
+<span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>, 91, screw steamship, Captain Sir Thomas
+Maitland, Commander Robert Hall; <span class='ships'>Hogue</span>, 60,
+Captain William Ramsay; <span class='ships'>Blenheim</span>, 60, Captain Hon.
+Frederick T. Pelham; <span class='ships'>Imperieuse</span>, 50, screw steam
+frigate, Captain Rundle B. Watson (Viscount Gilford,
+a lieutenant); <span class='ships'>Tribune</span>, 30, screw steam frigate,
+Captain Hon. S. T. Carnegie; <span class='ships'>Vulture</span>, 6, steam
+frigate, Captain Fred. H. H. Glasse; <span class='ships'>Desperate</span>, 8,
+screw steam ship, Captain William W. Chambers;<span class="pagenum" id="Page_211">[211]</span>
+and <span class='ships'>Sidon</span>, 22, paddle wheel, Captain George Goldsmith.
+Parted company.</p>
+
+<p>Remainder formed in two divisions—<span class="smcap">Weather</span>:
+consisting of <span class='ships'>Prince Regent</span> (flag), 90, Captain
+Frederick Hutton; <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>, 101; <span class='ships'>Amphion</span>,
+34, screw steam frigate, Captain Astley C. Key;
+<span class='ships'>Highflyer</span>, 21, screw steam frigate, Captain John
+Moore. <span class="smcap">Lee Division</span>: <span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span>, 130,
+screw steamship, Commodore Henry B. Martin;
+<span class='ships'>London</span>, 90, Captain Charles Eden; <span class='ships'>Arrogant</span>, 47,
+screw steamship, Captain Hastings R. Yelverton;
+<span class='ships'>Valorous</span>, 16, Captain Claude Buckle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Made all plain sail to try rate of sailing
+(per signal) on a wind. Trial chiefly between the
+<span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span> and <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>, in which the
+latter had the advantage, a trifle only; the rest
+nowhere. <span class='ships'>Acre</span> requiring trifle more false keel!
+5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Formed order of sailing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Tried rate of sailing off the wind, in which <i>St.
+Jean d’ Acre</i> was best.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Got steam up. Admiral on board.
+Hoisted his flag. Tried speed with <span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span>—about
+equal. Engineers complaining of the
+coals. 2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Admiral returned to his ship, taking
+flag with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>9.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Laid out targets. Fleet exercised at
+general quarters, firing at a mark.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Got steam up to try rate with <i>Duke of
+Wellington</i> under steam and canvas together; just as
+we got our steam well up, <span class='ships'>Duke</span> broke down.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Came to at Spithead with the fleet. Moored.
+Found <span class='ships'>Blenheim</span>, 60; <span class='ships'>Leopard</span>, 12; brig <span class='ships'>Rolla</span>, 6;
+and <span class='ships'>Sidon</span>, 22; also a Russian corvette.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>At Admiralty: met Sir Edmund Lyons, who had
+been promised a command. He was trying to find
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_212">[212]</span>
+out what ship they would give him. He was just
+then the only flag officer I would care to serve in
+the capacity of flag captain, and offered ship and
+self for that purpose. On ascertaining that I really
+meant what I said, he appeared to be equally satisfied
+and went direct to the First Lord, but without success.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane visited and
+inspected without notice.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>4 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed. Steamed into Portsmouth
+Harbour and secured alongside <span class='ships'>Camperdown</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Not sorry to receive enclosed:—</p>
+
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">Admiralty</span>, <i>Nov. 10, 1853</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Keppel</span>—When <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span> is ready for
+sea you will be ordered on a cruise to the southward in order
+that you may get your ship’s company into proper training,
+and I quite agree with you of the necessity for doing so.—Always
+yours sincerely,</p>
+
+<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">Hyde Parker</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Turned over to hulk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>In steam basin, additional false keel having been
+placed from 3 inches forward to 9 abaft, exactly what
+I wanted.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Noon.—Ship out of basin to hulk. Steam up at
+9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> for amusement of dockyard officials. Ship
+coaling. Cleaning hulk, and shifting over.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Dressed ship masthead flags. Ships in harbour
+manning yards and saluting on Her Majesty’s embarking
+from Royal Clarence Victualling Yard.
+Ships at Spithead doing same on <span class='ships'>Fairy</span> passing
+through <i lang='fr'>en route</i> to Osborne.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>11.20 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Cast off from hulk and steamed out
+of harbour. Saluted flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
+Cochrane. Proceeded to Stokes Bay. Tried speed
+under steam at measured mile. Mean of six trials just
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_213">[213]</span>
+under 12 knots per hour. 3.30 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Came to at
+Spithead.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Got on board powder and shell. Received
+supernumeraries for fleet at Lisbon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed and made sail, standing towards
+St. Helens.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Plymouth,
+Dec.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>8.40.—Came to in the Sound. Found <span class='ships'>Hogue</span>
+and <span class='ships'>Magicienne</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Commodore-Superintendent Michael Seymour came
+on board and paid advance to newly raised men. Crew
+complete. 7 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed; made sail and stood
+out of the Sound to join fleet in Tagus.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Off
+Tagus,
+Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Took pilot on board and ran into the Tagus by
+northern passage. Pilot informing me there was no
+quarantine, ran past Belem without picking up health
+boat. 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Shortened, and while furling sails,
+signal from flag to take up a different berth from
+that for which we were prepared.</p>
+
+<p>Being carried up by the tide, and but little steerage
+way, had difficulty in clearing <span class='ships'>Imperieuse</span>, and in
+swinging carried away <span class='ships'>Desperate’s</span> jibboom. Placed
+in quarantine. Signal from flag to “Moor.” When
+completed, signal to “Weigh immediately and proceed
+to Belem.” Before under weigh, another signal,
+“Despatch is necessary.” Wind failing and flood
+making, came to in centre of stream.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Lisbon,
+Dec.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Daylight.—Weighed and dropped down to Belem.
+Fleet in river, consisting of <span class='ships'>Prince Regent</span>, flag; <i>Duke
+of Wellington</i>, Commodore H. Martin; <span class='ships'>Imperieuse</span>,
+<span class='ships'>Arrogant</span>, <span class='ships'>Tribune</span>, <span class='ships'>Valorous</span>, <span class='ships'>Desperate</span>, <span class='ships'>Odin</span>,
+<span class='ships'>Amphion</span> and <span class='ships'>Cruizer</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Having got pratique, 2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, weighed and made
+sail. Worked up. Fired two royal salutes, in
+company with the fleet, on the young King of
+Portugal visiting and leaving. 4.30—Came to, as
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_214">[214]</span>
+per signal, in 26 fathoms, Packet Stairs, N.E. by
+E. Measles in the ship; sent cases to hospital.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Light and contrary winds with falling tides.
+Signal made for particular ships to weigh. 10.40
+<span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed to allow <span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span> to pass
+clear. At 11, having water-tank alongside, came to
+in 22 fathoms. Fleet under way, working down.
+Breeze freshening, found ship dragging anchor.
+Stood as close as we could, with safety, in-shore to
+get out of the way.</p>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Desperate</span> missing stays, and having got stem
+way fell thwart our hawse, carrying away mainmast
+and portion of her bulwarks, we losing jib and flying
+jibboom, and bowsprit cap starting. After this and
+other mishaps, fleet came to an anchor. Chief more
+at home in Cowes Roads.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Off
+Lisbon,
+Dec.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>11.30.—Weighed. Noon.—Made sail, running
+down the Tagus for a month’s cruising for the purpose
+of exercising newly raised men. Cruising ground
+between Cape Roca and Madeira. Wind blowing
+fresh from the N.E., made for the islands.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Came to in 40 fathoms, Funchal Roads.
+Saluted the Portuguese flag.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_215'>[215]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LI'>CHAPTER LI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>—Cruising</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1854.
+Madeira,
+Jan.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Many friends on shore, besides residents; among
+them Frederick Grey, with his charming but invalid
+wife. My intention was, weather permitting, to
+anchor in the Roads on Saturdays, remain Sundays,
+and proceed on a cruise Monday mornings. Among
+sailing and yachting friends was Sir Charles Lyall,
+requiring change of air.</p>
+
+<p>Frederick Grey had brought his wife, but she was
+delicate, and preferred the shore; in such an open
+anchorage the swell is uncertain. Regular exercise
+improved health and strength of crew. We sometimes
+anchored among the Deserter Islands. On
+Saturdays, if smooth, the poor invalid ladies, mostly
+young and consumptive, used to come on board in
+charge of their doctors. Music was always at hand,
+and very willing partners.</p>
+
+<p>It was pitiable to see the pretty girls, with that sad
+hectic flush on the cheek, pleading with their doctors
+for “one, only one” quadrille, and the doctors reminding
+their patients of the one month, or so many
+weeks, they had to live, and that each dance would
+shorten life so many days. Most of the poor dears
+preferred the dance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored in Porto Santo, leaving Grey to amuse
+himself. Started in gig to explore the interior
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_216">[216]</span>
+harbour. On nearing the land, found a surf breaking:
+pulled to the eastward. Approaching the
+Stone, further on, observed smooth water inside the
+surf. I entered, pulling a good half mile in perfect
+safety. We amused ourselves in dredging for shells, etc.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_216">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_216.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Gunnery Exercise.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>On returning on board found that Fred Grey
+had watched the gig carefully through my best
+Dolland. Seeing her disappear behind the surf, he
+told me that he had written the Admiralty an
+account of my loss, and requested he might be
+appointed to the vacancy!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight, arriving next day in
+Funchal Roads.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Had a party on board to breakfast and dance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail, having been most hospitably
+entertained during our visit.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>The last month’s cruise gave me thorough
+confidence in the crew. We had throughout the
+usual exercise before sunset in reefing and other
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_217">[217]</span>
+manœuvres. The officers of the night watches were
+at liberty to use their discretion in making or shortening
+sail, reporting any change to the Captain.
+Weather beautiful. Until midnight I had walked
+the deck with the officer of the watch. My cot
+was under the poop.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>About an hour after I heard the “pat” of single
+drops of rain. Recollecting the old saying, “Rain
+before the wind, take topsails in; wind before the
+rain, make sail again,” I rang the bell for the officer
+of the watch. He said it was a beautiful night.
+I cautioned him to keep a good look-out, hands by
+halyards, etc. Not many minutes after, the three
+topgallant masts were over the side. The ship was
+hove to. The wreck was cleared by daylight.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>The wind abated, but not the sea, and, horror of
+horrors, at daylight the main topmast was found sprung
+just below the rigging. The main topmast of such a
+ship was heavy, and with ever so light a swell difficult
+to control, but I determined to risk the responsibility.
+The chief danger was, after the head of the new
+topmast had been passed through the main cap, a
+lurch might spring the head of the mainmast.</p>
+
+<p>A victory after a fight could not have given me
+greater pleasure than when the fid was in its place,
+and support spread like a cobweb. Fair readers,
+forgive my attempting to describe the event; such a
+thing can never happen again. Nor should you hear
+of it now, had I not registered a vow to tell the
+“truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
+so help me ——.” By the 31st we were in Gibraltar
+Bay, and soon got rid of every vestige of our mishap.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Gibraltar,
+Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>12.30.—Weighed and steamed out, having received
+orders to rejoin the Fleet at Lisbon, without
+delay.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_218">[218]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Observed the fleet in the Tagus, Rear-Admiral
+Corry having shifted his flag from blue to
+white. 4.30.—Came to in 12 fathoms off Belem
+Castle, having eight days’ quarantine to complete
+from the time of leaving Gibraltar.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>De Crispigny promoted to rank of Lieutenant,
+and appointed to <span class='ships'>James Watts</span>. Put him on board
+<span class='ships'>Desperate</span> as she steamed past on her way home.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Lisbon,
+Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>11 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed, rejoined fleet, came to off
+Packet Stairs.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and made sail as per signal. Hove to
+for fleet at noon; filled and took station in line-of-battle
+astern of flag, <span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span> leading
+division.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>At Sea,
+Feb.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Fleet formed ahead of lee column. Hove
+to; laid out targets and exercised at general quarters.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived Spithead. Found <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span> with
+flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier; <span class='ships'>Edinburgh</span>,
+flag of Rear-Admiral Chads; <span class='ships'>Boscawen</span>, <span class='ships'>Hogue</span>,
+<span class='ships'>Odin</span>, <span class='ships'>Leopard</span>, <span class='ships'>Magæra</span>, <span class='ships'>Dragon</span>, <span class='ships'>Simoom</span>, and
+<span class='ships'>Frolic</span>. 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Sailed <span class='ships'>Simoom</span>, one of our early
+magnificent class of transports, with First Battalion
+Scots Fusilier Guards <i lang='fr'>en route</i> to Crimea. Manned
+rigging and cheered.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Completed water. Sent Phipps, one of our
+promising youngsters, to the hospital. Laid out,
+and had constant practice at target (an exercise
+which continued to end of the chapter!).</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Royal George</span>, Codrington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span>, and hoisted flag of
+Admiral Sir Charles Napier. Manned yards, fired
+royal salute, and cheered as Her Majesty passed
+through the fleet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>12.30—The Queen visited the fleet in the <span class='ships'>Fairy</span>
+yacht. Cheered from the rigging as Her Majesty
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_219">[219]</span>
+passed. Later, signal from the yacht for Admirals
+and Captains to be presented to Her Majesty by the
+First Lord of the Admiralty.</p>
+
+<p>Each ship had friends on board. I had my due
+proportion of visitors. Among them Brierly, nephew
+Bury; Edward, now Lord Digby; young Harry
+Stephenson, whose father, my brother-in-law, had
+quarrelled with me not long before for having offered
+to take one of his boys to sea. He now was the
+greatest child, dancing a hornpipe on the forecastle in
+Hessian boots! His son Harry, too young to enter
+the Navy, was stowed away, and remained with me,
+as did Brierly and Bury.</p>
+
+<p>The wind was west-north-west. Made sail before
+weighing. Yards braced for casting to port. Although
+on the poop with friends had assumed charge. Signal
+made, “Fleet to weigh.” Her Majesty in yacht
+ready to lead.</p>
+
+<p>The master at that moment reported there was
+only one ship’s length between us and the head of
+the Spit. The anchor was already at the cathead.
+Piped “Belay.” “Man starboard braces.” As she
+came head to wind, ran the jibs up, heading towards
+the Spit. With the stern-way thus secured we were
+in deep water, and shortly in position next astern of
+the flag. Old seamen may ask, “Why starboard
+instead of port braces?”</p>
+
+<p>For increase of purchase I had the head braces,
+when they reached the main bitts, led across, which
+was quickly understood by that useful body of men
+the Royal Marines. When this little manœuvre was
+explained, Digby went below and wrote a cheque
+for £100. Never was a tip more welcome. Her
+Majesty led the fleet as far as the Nab. 2.30.—Hove
+to. Friends left according to their arrangements
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_220">[220]</span>
+as we ran slowly along the coast. Wind fair,
+weather fine, and constant communication. Many
+remained until following day. With yachts and
+pleasure boats it was a grand sight. At 4 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> we,
+by signal, formed into two lines—</p>
+
+
+<div class='poetry-container'>
+<div style='text-align: left;'>
+
+<div style='float: left; margin-right: 3em;'>
+<p class='center mt1'><span class="smcap">Port.</span></p>
+<ul class='ships mth'>
+<li><span class='ships'>Edinburgh.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Hogue.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Blenheim.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Ajax.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Tribune.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Amphion.</span></li>
+</ul></div>
+
+<div style='float: right;'>
+<p class='center mt1'><span class="smcap">Starboard.</span></p>
+<ul class='ships mth'>
+<li><span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Royal George.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Princess Royal.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Imperieuse.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Arrogant.</span></li>
+</ul></div></div></div>
+
+
+<p class='mt1'>Frigates: <span class='ships'>Leopard</span>, flag of Admiral Plumridge,
+<span class='ships'>Valorous</span> and <span class='ships'>Dragon</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Hecla</span> joined with Baltic pilots. Rough lot; huge
+pipes, sealskin caps, and waistcoats!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Fleet weighed. Proceeded. Dense fog.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>No rendezvous given.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral firing a gun every fifteen minutes. Fog
+continuing. Several of the fleet missing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Vinga
+Sound,
+Mar.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral shifted flag to <span class='ships'>Valorous</span> and proceeded
+to Copenhagen.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Sunset.—<span class='ships'>Valorous</span> returned with Commander-in-Chief,
+bringing lots of cherry brandy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Vinga
+Sound,
+Mar.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed in company with fleet. Formed prescribed
+order of sailing, proceeded towards the Great
+Belt. 3. <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—<span class='ships'>Neptune</span>, with flag of Rear-Admiral
+Corry, in sight. Salutes exchanged between Admirals.
+Signal made “Prepare to anchor.” The usual routine
+of manœuvring, firing at targets, etc., went on. <i>St.
+Jean d’ Acre</i> being one of the few fitted with distilling
+apparatus, we were constantly supplying other ships
+with pure water.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_221">[221]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kioga
+Bay,
+April&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Squally weather. 1.30.—Parted B.B. cable while
+veering quickly after letting go, but saved fouling
+<span class='ships'>Royal George</span>. Struck topmasts and let go sheet-anchor.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Succeeded in hooking B.B. cable, but too much
+swell to weigh. Succeeded later.</p>
+
+<p>Following communication made from Commander-in-Chief
+by signal flags from each yard-arm as well
+as masthead.</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p>“Lads! war is declared; with a bold and
+numerous enemy to meet.</p>
+
+<p>“Should they offer us battle, you know how to
+dispose of them.</p>
+
+<p>“Should they remain in port we must try and get
+at them.</p>
+
+<p>“Success depends on the precision and quickness
+of your firing.</p>
+
+<p>“Lads! sharpen your cutlasses, and the day is
+your own!”</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_222">[222]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_222">
+  <a href='images/i_222.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_222-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span>.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_223'>[223]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LII'>CHAPTER LII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The Baltic Fleet</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1854.
+Kioga
+Bay.</div>
+
+<p>My cabin was the after-part of the main-deck,
+with its accommodation and comforts; but under
+the impression that business was intended I did away
+with luxuries. Instead of drawers I had tin cases to
+fit neatly overhead between the beams. One quarter-gallery
+was my bath and dressing-room; no bulkheads
+of any sort. At dinner-time a temporary
+canvas-screen fitted, after we went to the stern walk,
+which did duty of after-cabin. Exercising at quarters,
+we transferred the foremost guns from each side, and
+fired them out of my cabin windows.</p>
+
+<p>On visiting Clarence Paget in the <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>
+I found a cot hung up, with a chubby-faced boy down
+with fever. It was Victor Montagu, the young son
+of Lord Sandwich, midshipman and nephew of his
+captain. We met afterwards in China and elsewhere.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Daylight.—Fleet weighed and made sail as per
+signal. In all, 39 pennants.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Dressed ships with masthead flags in honour of
+the birthday of the Princess Alice.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived the <span class='ships'>Austerlitz</span>, 100 guns, screw propeller,
+Captain Laurençin, the first of the French fleet.
+She had been several days at different rendezvous.
+On board was my friend Gizholme of Tahiti as second.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_224">[224]</span>
+Our meeting was cordial: we embraced as Frenchmen.
+Beyond the exchange of salutes, no further public
+mark shown of how we appreciated the alliance, but
+the figureheads, “Napoleon and Wellington,” were
+confronting one another.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Elgsmabben,
+May&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived, Captain Henry Seymour, from West
+Indies and England. We had long been on the
+look-out for the <span class='ships'>Cumberland</span>. It was a pleasure and
+amusement to initiate Seymour into the mysteries of
+this warlike fleet, which no one seemed to understand.
+My friend had a charming younger brother, Wilfrid,
+with him, whose profession had not been decided on.
+Henry was full of life and spirits, looking forward to
+great things—yet to be done.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Fleet weighed as per signal, screws under steam,
+and proceeded through the Daläräo Channel. Rendezvous
+Golska Sands. <span class='ships'>Austerlitz</span> in co. Before
+the leading ships had reached the Landsort Lighthouse,
+the whole fleet was enveloped in fog.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Commander George Wodehouse joined the
+fleet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Intelligence having reached of death from drowning
+of Captain Foote of the <span class='ships'>Conflict</span>, the Admiral promoted
+Commander Cumming of the <span class='ships'>Gorgon</span> into the
+vacancy, appointing Commander Cracroft of this ship
+to the <span class='ships'>Gorgon</span>; sending the Commander of the
+<span class='ships'>Cressy</span>, John Dorville, who was anxious for a change
+anywhere, to the <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span>; and promoting the
+first lieutenant of the <span class='ships'>Duke</span>, an arrangement which
+appeared to give satisfaction to all parties except
+myself, who had parted with an esteemed friend and
+good officer. I was glad, however, to get Dorville.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>A division of ships placed under command of
+Rear-Admiral Corry. Remainder formed into two
+lines:—</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_225">[225]</span></p>
+
+<div class='poetry-container'>
+<div style='text-align: left;'>
+<div style='float: left; margin-right: 3em;'>
+<ul class='ships'>
+<li><span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Hogue.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Blenheim.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Austerlitz.</span></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div style='float: right;'>
+<ul class='ships'>
+<li><span class='ships'>Edinburgh.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Cressy.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Cæsar.</span></li>
+<li><span class='ships'>Princess Royal.</span></li>
+</ul></div></div></div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Running
+for
+Hangö.</div>
+
+<p>We used to be next astern of the flag, but I fancy
+the Chief got tired of our figurehead—a fine half-figure
+of Sir Robert Stopford—always looking into the
+stern-windows of his cabin!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Running
+for
+Hangö
+Island.</div>
+
+<p>11 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Signal made for us to proceed in chase
+of a stranger ahead. May 14 having been fixed as
+the latest day on which neutral vessels quitting a
+Russian port would be allowed to pass the line of
+blockade, brought in sight a number of vessels, from
+whom we obtained accurate information of the position
+and force of the Russian fleets at Kronstadt and
+Helsingfors. 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Resumed station in line of battle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Signal made for us to look out on starboard beam
+of flag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>7 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Boarded several vessels that had left
+Kronstadt or Narva on or before the 14th. 8.30 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Resumed
+station.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Arrogant</span> and <span class='ships'>Hecla</span> with Russian prize
+barque, which they had cut out at Eckness. They
+were cheered on joining the fleet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Received from the <span class='ships'>St. George</span> our spare screw propeller,
+seven tons weight; awkward to stow. Placed
+it athwart, and between the end of the booms and
+galley-funnels. Still supplying distilled water!!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Fired royal salute in commemoration of Her
+Majesty’s birthday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hangö
+Roads,
+May&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>9.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Commander-in-Chief came on board,
+nominally to inspect, and left again after having
+made some unjust remarks relative to the gunnery
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_226">[226]</span>
+and drill of the ship, such as, if reported to the
+Admiralty, might be considered by them as an
+excuse for his having for so long persistently avoided
+the neighbourhood of the enemy’s ships.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>8.45.—Came to with the fleet in Barösund.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Hecla</span>, who supplied us with eight oxen,
+without fodder! Slaughtered them. Received
+more potatoes than we could consume.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Pigmy</span>, Lieutenant James Hunt, my <span class='ships'>Dido</span>
+shipmate.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Stood out of Barösund.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>5.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed under steam, standing to
+the eastward. <span class='ships'>Imperieuse</span> and <span class='ships'>Arrogant</span> joined, we
+being on their cruising-ground. Fleet came to off
+Helsingfors, from which place, by telescope, the masts
+of some of the Russian fleet could be seen at anchor
+in the harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>At 5.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Fleet weighed and made sail.
+6.30.—Observed the French fleet to the westward.
+The French Vice-Admiral, M. P. Deschênes,
+hoisted the English ensign at the main, and saluted
+flag of Sir Charles Napier. Salute returned. English
+fleet saluting French flag. 10.—Shortened and
+furled; proceeded under steam.</p>
+
+<p>On joining company, found French fleet to consist
+of the <span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>, 90, Vice-Admiral Deschênes; <i>Du
+Guesclin</i>, 90, Rear-Admiral Penana; <span class='ships'>Hercule</span>, 100,
+Captain Louien; <span class='ships'>Jemappes</span>, 100, Captain Robin du
+Parc; <span class='ships'>Taga</span>, 100, Captain Fabore; <span class='ships'>Duperié</span>, 82,
+Captain Penana; and <span class='ships'>Trident</span>, 82, Captain F. de
+Maussion de Condé, with seven frigates, besides
+steamers. French fleet hove to, while our fleet
+passed heading into Barösund. Paddle-wheel
+steamers assisting in towing French fleet in.</p>
+
+<p>1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Came to in sixteen fathoms. After the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_227">[227]</span>
+French fleet had anchored, the allied forces in Barösund
+consisted of 19 English ships of the line (11
+of these screws), 8 French ships of the line (1 screw)
+4 French, and one English frigate, 13 steamers of
+both nations. We had also the <span class='ships'>Belleisle</span> (Hospital)
+and <span class='ships'>Resistance</span>, store-ship, making a total of 47
+men-of-war. There were in the anchorage <span class='ships'>Esmeralda</span>,
+and R.Y.S. <span class='ships'>Gondola</span>, Lord
+Lichfield’s yacht, besides
+colliers and transports,
+making altogether a goodly
+sight. The French fleet
+had 2000 marines on board,
+beyond their complement.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Sir Charles
+Napier visited the French
+Commander-in-Chief in the
+<span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>; the French fleet
+manning yards and cheering.</p>
+
+<figure class="figleft" id="i_227">
+  <img class="v20" src="images/i_227.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>The Commander-in-Chief.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Barösund,
+June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>French Vice-Admiral,
+Parseval Deschênes, returned
+Sir Charles Napier’s visit.
+The captains of the British
+ships attended on board the
+<span class='ships'>Duke of Wellington</span>, when
+they were introduced to the
+French Admiral, and honours
+paid him similar to those
+received by Sir Charles Napier. Received powder
+and shot from <span class='ships'>Resistance</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Laid out targets at 750 yards, and exercised at
+general quarters. Practice particularly good at mark—a
+single staff cut down over and over again. Received
+shot from <span class='ships'>Resistance</span>, 10, troop-ship, Master
+Commander Manser Bradshaw.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_228">[228]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Dressed ship with masthead flags, and at noon
+both fleets fired a royal salute in honour of anniversary
+of Her Majesty’s accession.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sestran
+Island,
+June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>French fleet proceeded to eastward, Admirals
+communicating, when it was proposed by Parseval
+Deschênes to Sir Charles Napier that, to prove to
+the Russians the <i lang='fr'>entente cordiale</i> that existed between
+our nations, the English screw-liners should each take
+a French liner in tow, and proceed in line past the
+Russian forts, the French Admiral, as senior officer,
+waiving his right of precedence. His proposition was
+not acceded to by Sir Charles Napier; the excuse
+that “His Captains were too inexperienced to undertake
+such an operation”!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Off
+Kronstadt,
+June&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>5 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Fleet weighed under steam. French fleet
+in co., proceeding easy to eastward. 11 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Approached
+near enough to Kronstadt to observe
+the mastheads of the Russian fleet and then wore.
+1.50.—Came to in 16 fathoms. Anchored in two
+columns. Frigates and steamers sent to reconnoitre.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Driver</span> arrived. Cholera made its appearance on
+board both fleets. Elliot, Clarence Paget, and myself
+took advantage of a kind invitation from Lord Lichfield
+for a sail on board the <span class='ships'>Gondola</span>, as we might run
+pretty close to the entrance of Kronstadt without
+attracting attention.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_229">
+  <a href='images/i_229.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_229-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>The <span class='ships'>Gondola</span> Yacht off Tolbeacon Light.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>We were some distance inside the Tolbeacon
+Lighthouse, as were also the cruising frigates, when
+we observed a large Russian steamer standing out.
+When it was thought advisable for us to haul to
+the wind, the sudden change of motion and difference
+of size of ships had the effect on me of a stomach
+pump; and when it was reported that the Russian was
+steering for us, I considered myself a Russian prisoner!
+However, cruisers quickly discovered our position
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_230">[230]</span>
+and ran towards the Russian, which returned to
+Kronstadt. This led to a report getting into the
+English papers that we had been chased by the
+Emperor Nicholas in person.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Hoisted masthead flags, and at noon both fleets
+fired a royal salute in honour of anniversary of Her
+Majesty’s coronation. On these occasions the French
+and English flags were hoisted together. My distillery
+was never at rest, supplying fleet with the
+purest of water.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>9.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed; made all plain sail for
+exercise. During our stay off Kronstadt, steamers and
+boats from the fleet were continually sounding on the
+north side of the island, thereby pointing out from
+whence an attack might be expected, when nothing of
+the sort was ever contemplated.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>There was a creek that ran up a considerable distance
+to the rear of the Kronstadt Batteries. Scarcely
+a ship of the line that did not submit to the consideration
+of the Commander-in-Chief an exact model
+of the boats and spars, with weight and draught of
+each, by which heavy ordnance could be conveyed to
+the rear of the Russian Batteries. The Commander-in-Chief’s
+fore-cabin was half full of these clever
+and interesting models, which were not even acknowledged.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>9.30.—Weighed under steam. Fleets in co.
+6 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Came to off Seskan Island.</p>
+
+<p>No encouragement given by Chief to mix with
+cheery allies.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed <span class='ships'>Majestic</span>, on a cruise, being sickly with
+cholera.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Dauntless</span>, 33, screw-steamer frigate.
+Captain Alfred P. Ryder. Joined Mr. Stanley Graham,
+son of First Lord, midshipman from <span class='ships'>Dauntless</span>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_231">[231]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Corry returning to England in <span class='ships'>Dauntless</span>,
+ships remaining were placed under the orders
+of Commodore Martin, and proceeded to cruise in
+the Gulf of Finland. 4.30 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Arrived Admiral
+Plumridge in <span class='ships'>Leopard</span>; with a division of steamers
+joined company. 7 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Rounded Lagskar Lighthouse.
+9.45.—Came to in 13 fathoms in Ledsund.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Notice having been received that 10,000 French
+troops were coming out, preparations were made for
+an attack on the fort at Bomarsund. The destruction
+of which might, with little or no difficulty, have
+been accomplished in the month of April by a division
+of the British fleet.</p>
+
+<p>At daylight the block-ships and <span class='ships'>Amphion</span> under
+Admiral Chads, and steam division under Admiral
+Plumridge, proceeded towards Bomarsund—a safe
+channel for ships of any draught having been discovered
+by Captain William Hall of <span class='ships'>Hecla</span>, and
+afterwards buoyed off by Captain Sullivan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Marines inspected by Colonel Graham, who
+pronounced them the finest body of men he had seen
+in the fleet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Odin</span> arrived; Captain Francis Scott, old friend of
+my lieutenant days.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Supplied <span class='ships'>Cumberland</span> with water. Sent three
+cholera cases to <span class='ships'>Belleisle</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Four more cholera cases; making us anxious for
+health of crew. Arrived General Barraguay d’Hilliers
+and staff in the French Emperor’s yacht <i>La Reine
+Hortense</i> from Stockholm; received him with cheers
+and yards manned. Visits exchanged between Chiefs
+and others. Manning of yards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>French and English Generals and engineer officers
+visiting Bomarsund to make arrangements prior to
+attack. Steam vessels constantly on the move between
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_232">[232]</span>
+this anchorage and Åland Islands. More cholera
+cases! Ordered by Commander-in-Chief to send
+field-pieces, <em>without men</em>, on board <span class='ships'>Driver</span> for conveyance
+to Admiral Chads.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Another death, a marine, from cholera, making,
+since its first appearance on 27th June, twenty cases,
+of which twelve proved fatal.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>French ships proceeding towards Bomarsund, four
+of their largest ships, with both Admirals, besides
+frigates, steamers, and transports.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Sent scaling ladders to <span class='ships'>Bulldog</span> for conveyance to
+Admiral Chads. General Barraguay d’Hilliers proceeded
+to Bomarsund in <span class='ships'>La Reine Hortense</span>. Embarked
+seventy marines under command of Captain
+Clavell, and Lieutenants Brooke and Davidson, on
+board <span class='ships'>Dawn</span>, in compliance with a request made by
+Barraguay d’Hilliers, but reluctantly acceded to by
+Sir Charles Napier, for land service.</p>
+
+<p>Not, as the General informed me, that he required
+the force, but that he was anxious we should share in
+all operations; such being the express wish of the
+French Emperor. Lieutenant Lennox attended as
+A.D.C. to Colonel Graham. All remaining transports
+and steamers proceeded up. Commander-in-Chief,
+attended by the Captain of the Fleet, Rear-Admiral
+Seymour and suite, hoisted his flag in <span class='ships'>Bulldog</span>.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_233'>[233]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LIII'>CHAPTER LIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The Bombardment of Bomarsund</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1854.</div>
+
+<p>Before Bomarsund was regularly invested there were
+places where our wardroom officers could land by
+twos and threes for exercise, when it was not worth
+while for the Russian Circular Towers to expend
+ammunition.</p>
+
+<p>On one occasion, when the officers had taken my
+nephew, Harry Stephenson, a round shot buried itself
+within a few yards of them. They dispersed in haste,
+all but young Harry, who picked up a pointed stick
+and commenced digging at his first trophy.</p>
+
+<p>The <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span> and the <span class='ships'>Cumberland</span> were,
+with many others, at Ledsund, five-and-twenty miles
+from Bomarsund; but Seymour and I thought, for
+the good of the Service, we should be eye-witnesses of
+the preparations. The troops left for Bomarsund
+on the afternoon of the 7th. Late in the evening
+Henry Seymour and I started in my gig, sailing or
+pulling easily.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>In a thick fog, about 3 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>, we landed on a
+wooden pier to cook an early coffee. While this was
+going on we heard <em>three</em> heavy explosions. Seymour
+thought it must be the Admirals’ daylight guns. But
+there were only two Admirals!</p>
+
+<p>Although in a dense fog, with our boat’s compass
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_234">[234]</span>
+we knew pretty well where we ought to be, and found
+ourselves alongside the <span class='ships'>Blenheim</span>, 60, Captain Hon.
+Fred Pelham, who gave us all the information we
+required.</p>
+
+<p>The ball was to open at daylight, by the French
+steamer <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> and English frigate <span class='ships'>Amphion</span>, who
+had ascertained the exact range of the Russian fort
+that was intended to destroy any force that might
+attempt a landing.</p>
+
+<p>After a while we found ourselves close to the very
+fort on which the frigates were to open fire. Neither
+seeing anything nor hearing the slightest noise we
+entered by one of the embrasures. It was deserted,
+but before doing so the Russians had attempted to
+burst the guns, and had only partially succeeded.
+One gun had the muzzle blown off; one only had
+completely burst; a third had gone off, but half-buried
+itself in the earth. There were in all five
+heavy eight-inch guns. These three explosions were
+what Seymour and myself had heard while drinking
+our coffee on the wooden pier.</p>
+
+<p>It was now about the appointed time that the
+frigates were to open fire on the fort we were in;
+they had taken the exact range the previous evening.
+We lay off, the fog as dense as ever. We were
+none too soon. The <span class='ships'>Amphion</span> and <span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span> fired
+shell, which, bursting in the fort, had the appearance
+in the fog of a return fire.</p>
+
+<p>After a while there was a lull. Presently we
+heard distant cheering. This was from the crews coming
+to take possession of the fort they had silenced.
+The fog continued, and it was high time we took
+care of ourselves. On the south-eastern end of the
+anchorage, in Lumpar Bay, was the <span class='ships'>Odin</span> steamer, 16
+guns, commanded by our young old friend, Frank
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_235">[235]</span>
+Scott. Here we were well taken care of and jolly,
+narrating our adventures. Wilfrid Seymour had
+joined us from the <span class='ships'>Sphynx</span>.</p>
+
+<p>It was between 2 and 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> when the officer of
+the watch reported the Admiral coming. What
+were we to do? Frank Scott had a lumber cabin in
+which he kept spare furniture when clear for action.
+In this we hid. When he and Sir Charles had sat
+down to the usual grog, the Chief said to Scott:—“That
+was a dom’d fine thing of the frigates this
+morning.” Scott replied, without thinking, “Why,
+I hear there was no one in the fort”! To which the
+old Chief replied, “Who has been telling you a dom’d
+lie? Why, Chaads saw, from the masthead, at least
+five hundred soldiers rush out”!</p>
+
+<p>On the morning of the 10th the disembarkation
+of the guns commenced. Each ship had been
+ordered to prepare two sledges, made according to
+a pattern by Captain Ramsay of the <span class='ships'>Hogue</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Amongst the officers so employed was H.S.H.
+Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, mate of the <span class='ships'>Cumberland</span>,
+who was put in charge of a 12-pounder field-piece,
+with which he kept one of the circular forts
+employed. He was very happy, pounding away at
+the fort, all the while puffing at his pet meerschaum
+“peep.”</p>
+
+<p>It is not my intention to trouble my readers
+with a sailor’s opinion of the capture of Bomarsund.
+Experienced officers, both French and English, worked
+well together.</p>
+
+<p>I was like the boy that was sent to a French
+school, who, on inquiry of his parents when he got
+home for the holidays, said, “We had nothing to do,
+and we did it.” But with my friend Henry Seymour,
+who had his younger brother (now General Lord
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_236">[236]</span>
+William Seymour, in command of our troops in
+Canada), we had great fun; with a tent between us
+and our ships’ gigs we really enjoyed ourselves. On
+one occasion, when camped under a hill, the Russian
+shot passed over our heads into the country beyond.
+The next morning Henry felt a little nervous on
+account of the young brother, and proposed shifting
+our tent nearer the hill; the change was only just
+completed, when a round shot dropped into the site
+of our former position.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_237">[237]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_237">
+  <a href='images/i_237.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_237-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Circular Fort, Bomarsund.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_238'>[238]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LIV'>CHAPTER LIV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1854.
+Ledsund.
+Aug.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Ships and steamers coming from Bomarsund.</p>
+
+<p>Launches employed in conveying prisoners from
+steamers to troop-ships. The lately promoted Rear-Admiral
+Michael Seymour hoisted his flag in <i>Duke of
+Wellington</i>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Plumridge sailed in <span class='ships'>Leopard</span> to relieve Henry
+Martin, in command of the reserve division at
+Nargen.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Sailed <span class='ships'>Hannibal</span>, Commodore Hon. Frederick
+Grey, <span class='ships'>Algiers</span>, <span class='ships'>St. Vincent</span>, <span class='ships'>Royal William</span>, <span class='ships'>Termagant</span>,
+<span class='ships'>Sphynx</span>, and <span class='ships'>Gladiator</span> with Russian prisoners. Several
+pleasure steamers from Stockholm passed on their way
+to Bomarsund.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Three block-ships, with <span class='ships'>Bulldog</span>, bearing flag of
+Commander-in-Chief, came down from Bomarsund.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Dressed ship with masthead flags, and at noon
+fired a royal salute in commemoration of Prince
+Albert’s birthday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Cuckoo</span> arrived from Bomarsund with flag of
+Rear-Admiral Seymour, which was transferred to
+the <span class='ships'>Duke</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>All the paddle-steamers went up to assist in
+towing transports with French troops; they, as
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_239">[239]</span>
+well as the French men-of-war, preparing to quit
+Bomarsund on the destruction of the forts.</p>
+
+<p>It was a grand sight, the blowing up of the
+forts: expensive as well.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Heard that my old shipmate of <span class='ships'>Dido</span>, Jim Hunt,
+now in command of <span class='ships'>Pigmy</span>, had gone wrong side of
+the red buoy and was on shore. Went in gig to
+ascertain amount of assistance required. Found
+that anchor had been laid out, but the crew were tired
+or else too lazy to work. It was evident that they
+had been observed by Russians on the high ground
+beyond the Narrows, and shortly two pieces of artillery
+hove in sight.</p>
+
+<p>My boat’s crew were ready to help, when Jim
+Hunt thus addressed his crew:</p>
+
+<p>“The enemy in sight with guns! We shall be
+made prisoners. You,—you lazy blackguards, will
+be marched off to Siberia, fed on sour krout and tallow
+candles; while <em>I</em> shall be fêted and fed on shore in
+the best society!”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Ledsund.</div>
+
+<p>The speech told. <span class='ships'>Pigmy</span> arrived at Ledsund.
+Field-Marshal Barraguay d’Hilliers came down
+from Bomarsund in a French war steamer. Both
+fleets manned yards, the flagships saluting, and at
+3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> he sailed for France.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>La Reine Hortense</span>, bringing a Field-Marshal’s
+baton for General Barraguay d’Hilliers.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Leopard</span>, with flag of Rear-Admiral Martin,
+came from Bomarsund, having remained to witness
+destruction of all the works completed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Fleet weighed per signal and proceeded under
+steam. French fleet in company. Formed order of
+sailing in two columns. French Admiral saluted. On
+his salute being returned by the <span class='ships'>Duke</span>, fleet hoisted
+French colours. Parted company with French fleet.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_240">[240]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived Russian steamer with flag of truce, and
+communicated with Commander-in-Chief. Fleet
+weighed, proceeding under steam. Formed order of
+sailing in two columns.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Euryalus</span> joined company. Came to, per signal,
+off Nargen Island.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nargen
+Island,
+Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Arrived <span class='ships'>Bulldog</span> with mail. Dressed
+ship with masthead flags, and fired a royal salute in
+commemoration of the victory gained by the Allied
+Army at Alma on September 20 in the Crimea.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_241">
+  <a href='images/i_241.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_241-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>The Battle of the Alma.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Kiel Harbour. Received the following
+interesting letter from my nephew, Augustus
+Stephenson:—</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">Rooksbury</span>, <i>October 12, 1854</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Uncle</span>—We have this day received your letter of
+October 3, and are delighted at so good an account of yourself.</p>
+
+<p>We hope before you receive this that little Harry will
+have rejoined you.</p>
+
+<p>By your letter I suppose you have heard of the false news
+we received here in England of the taking of Sevastopol.</p>
+
+<p>The news was false at the time; though I believe it
+was only premature, as before now, I trust, we are in the
+possession of it.</p>
+
+<p>The papers of to-day say that the bombardment commenced
+at 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> on the 4th of this month.</p>
+
+<p>You say you now receive no newspapers, though before
+you receive this you will no doubt have heard of the glorious
+victory of the Alma, on the 20th.</p>
+
+<p>The despatches are too large to put into this letter, and,
+moreover, you must get them before you receive this.</p>
+
+<p>It seems to have been a wonderful affair.</p>
+
+<p>Menschikoff, whose private papers, carriage, etc., were
+taken by the French, had written to the Emperor to say
+he could hold the position for three weeks at least.</p>
+
+<p>It was stormed in three hours!</p>
+
+<p>Poor Wenny (Coke), after all his trouble to be in time,
+was left in charge of the baggage at Varna!</p>
+
+<p>We had a letter from him, written in the highest spirits;
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_242">[242]</span>
+he was to have embarked (as he then thought) on the
+following day.</p>
+
+<p>Our friends in the Fusilier Guards have been sadly knocked
+about. Chewton is reported as having died since. That report
+is now contradicted, but he is fearfully wounded. He was
+bayonetted on the ground and has eleven wounds.</p>
+
+<p>Haygarth was lying with his leg broken, and a Russian,
+attempting to blow his head off, shot away the upper part of
+his shoulder.</p>
+
+<p>He, however, has got as far as Malta on his way home.</p>
+
+<p>Astley, I hear, has written home for all his friends in
+hospital. He himself is shot through the neck, but says he
+would not have been altogether missed on any account!</p>
+
+<p>Buckley very badly shot. Eumismore many wounds.
+Black Dal, but slightly wounded in the knee. Hepburn
+lost an arm. Bulwer hit in the head only.</p>
+
+<p>I believe you know most of these men. You remember
+Hugh Drummond at Woolmer; he is reported to have
+bagged three Russians, who came at him after his horse
+was shot, with his revolvers!</p>
+
+<p>Burghersh, who brought home the despatches, says that
+the pluck of our troops was perfectly wonderful.</p>
+
+<p>The only Guardsman killed was Cust: leg carried off by
+a cannon ball. He died after undergoing amputation. As
+for family news, we are all well. I am off to-morrow on my
+sessions and hope to come to you when you arrive to
+welcome you back all safe.</p>
+
+<p>Love from all to you and the young ’un.—Ever your
+most affectionate nephew,</p>
+
+<p class='right pr1'>
+(Signed) <span class="smcap">Augustus K. Stephenson</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kiel,
+Nov.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Dressed with masthead flags, and at noon fired a
+royal salute in commemoration of the birth of the
+Prince of Wales.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Signal to <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span> and <span class='ships'>Acre</span> to “Prepare for
+sea.”</p>
+
+<p>My vanity may be excused in inserting the following
+paragraph from a book published recently by
+my friend Clarence Paget:—</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_243">[243]</span></p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p>At last came the joyful day when we were to return to
+England.</p>
+
+<p>We were to hoist Seymour’s flag and take <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>
+with us. I know not why we were always sent in couples;
+perhaps it may be that we were known by the authorities to
+be what is called “chummy ships,” but we are always in
+company, and very good company she is with her jolly,
+cheerful skipper, Harry Keppel, brave as a lion, gentle as a
+lamb.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour hoisted his flag
+on board <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span> and exchanged salutes with
+Commander-in-Chief, <span class='ships'>Acre</span> being placed under his
+orders.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Daylight.—Weighed under steam. Exchanged
+cheers from rigging with <span class='ships'>James Watt</span>, George Elliott’s
+ship, which was disapproved of by signal from Commander-in-Chief,
+<span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span> in company.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed and proceeded under easy steam in wake
+of flag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Furled sails. Came to at 4.30 in West
+Port, Christiansund. Landed and bought in market
+twelve brace of capercailzie. Country covered with
+frozen snow, over which we drove in carriages.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Being the Sabbath, coals not to be obtained until
+the afternoon, when <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span> took in some
+from lighters sent alongside, containing about fifteen
+tons each.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Decks covered with 5 or 6 inches of snow. Weighed
+and followed <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Westerly wind and dirty weather. Asked permission,
+per signal, to stand in under shelter of
+Yarmouth. Answer, “Rendezvous, Plymouth,” in
+case of parting company. At 7 lost sight of flag.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>6.15.—Came to in the Downs. Landed Baltic
+pilot, he having been on board nine months, at fifteen
+shillings a day, without being of the slightest use.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_244">[244]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>2.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Came to in Plymouth Sound. Found
+<span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>, <span class='ships'>Cæsar</span>, and <span class='ships'>Monarch</span>. Saluted flag
+of Admiral Sir William Parker, K.G.C.B.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Steamed into harbour; ship’s company turned over
+to <span class='ships'>Bellona</span> hulk. Ship taken into Keyham Dock.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Plymouth,
+Dec.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Orders to prepare ship for reception of troops, and
+proceed to the Crimea. Seeing no other chance I
+started for London before their arrival, and was
+followed by a most kind letter from the First Lord
+to dine <i lang='fr'>en famille</i> and so meet his son on Christmas
+Day.</p>
+
+<p>What could have been more agreeable? But I
+had to take leave of a dear shipmate, Fred Horton, of
+whom the doctors gave a bad account, to prepare
+to receive a General and Staff, and embark 1200
+troops at Cork for the Crimea.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Slipped moorings and proceeded under steam into
+the Sound.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Received the following from Admiralty:—</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p class='right pr1'><i>December 30, 1854.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Keppel</span>—Make haste or you will be too late
+for the fun.</p>
+
+<p>Admiral Lyons writes in high spirits, date 13th inst.</p>
+
+<p>Admiral Seymour, to whom I have written, will do all
+that is right about cabins for your passengers.</p>
+
+<p>Lyons is not the man I take him for if he does not find
+you something to occupy you, even if you are not in time
+to charge the barrier across Sevastopol Harbour.—Yours
+sincerely,</p>
+
+<p class='right pr1'>
+(Signed) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="smcap">M. F. H. Berkeley</span>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_245'>[245]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LV'>CHAPTER LV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The Crimea</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Plymouth Sound.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+Jan.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Slipped moorings. Came to in the
+Sound. Obliged to close lower deck ports to prevent
+watermen pitching parcels on board for the Crimea.
+New Year’s dinner with Admiral Sir William Parker,
+my old Chief in China.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Plymouth,
+Jan.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Glad to meet again, residing here, Mrs. Keith
+Stewart; accompanied her to lunch with Lord Mount
+Edgcumbe. Dinner with the Charles Edens to meet
+my passengers, Generals Barnard and Lord Rokeby.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Lord George Lennox down to sail to Cork with
+us. 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Crimean Generals came alongside in a
+steamer. Was obliged to leave young Graham, Birch,
+and George Wodehouse to follow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Cork,
+Jan.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived in afternoon at Cove of Cork, saluting
+flag of Admiral Carrol. Generals and I dined with
+him; Miss Carrol managing her father’s house.</p>
+
+<p>Received 645 troops, drafts for different regiments
+in the Crimea, consisting of the following:—</p>
+
+<ul class='no-bullet'>
+<li>63rd Regt., 51 men, Lieuts. Hunt and Hand.</li>
+<li>30th Regt., 51 men, Capt. Robertson, Lieut. Hill.</li>
+<li>33rd Regt., 97 men, Capt. Ellis, Lieut. Wallis, Ensign Ellis.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_246">[246]</span></li>
+<li>47th Regt., 67 men, Capt. Elgee.</li>
+<li>41st Regt., 109 men, Capt. Bertram, Lieuts. Lambert and Nowlan.</li>
+<li>17th Regt., 122 men, Capt. Colthurst, Lieut. Thompson, Ensigns Travis and Disbourne.</li>
+<li>50th Regt., 17 men.</li>
+<li>68th Regt., 17 men.</li>
+<li>55th Regt., 39 men, Lieut. Hannay.</li>
+<li>49th Regt., 67 men, Lieut. Eustace.</li>
+<li>57th Regt., 9 men, Capt. Brown, Lieut. Ashwin.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Not sorry to receive telegram to wait for Graham.
+So need not sail on Friday.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Shifted berth into Fairway. Schetky, late drawing
+master of Royal Naval College, breakfasted with me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Got fairly away by 8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>, George Lennox
+leaving with the pilot. We exchanged binoculars
+by mistake. My guests, Generals Barnard and Lord
+Rokeby, Colonels Warde and Arthur Lowry Cole,
+A.D.C’s. Wellesley and Barnard, all good fellows.
+Lord Rokeby, a soldier of Waterloo, the cheeriest
+of all; but he, poor fellow, had lately lost a promising
+young and only son. I was admitted to his
+confidence. Bright and cheery as he was in company,
+it was a sad consolation for him to describe in private
+the loss he had sustained; outside, no one could have
+detected that he had a trouble in the world.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>It was the depth of winter. On the way out I
+had made for my Generals and Colonels canvas bags,
+impervious to wet or cold, in which they could lie
+down with uniforms on....</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>People and luggage beginning to shake down into
+their places. Officers, determined to be pleased, made
+no complaints. Among the passengers were some for
+whom it was difficult to find a berth. The good Chaplain
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_248">[248]</span>
+“Thomas” spotted one<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> so situated, and ascertaining
+that he knew not where to sleep, put him into his,
+the Chaplain’s cabin, making for himself a bed under
+the wardroom mess-table.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_247">
+  <a href='images/i_247.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_247-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Map—Strait of Gibraltar.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Soldiers are naturally fond of lounging about the
+boom-boats. Discovered afterwards our cheery Irish
+recruits had devoured half a ton of raw turnips that
+had been sent on board for the sheep.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Gibraltar,
+Jan.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>At sunset we were off the entrance of the Straits
+of Gibraltar. Strong easterly wind, and the usual
+inrush of sea; but as it was about our dinner time, I
+had sails furled, and left the Master to steer by the well-lighted
+Spanish coast. When I came on the poop-deck,
+shortly followed by my guests, a bright light,
+broad on the port bow, made me inquire of the Master
+what it was. He informed me it was Tarifa Point.
+Having ascertained the bearings, I saw at once
+that it must be Europa Point, some twenty miles in
+advance, and ordered “Starboard the helm.”</p>
+
+<p>Twenty years had elapsed since, when in command
+of <span class='ships'>Childers</span> brig, I had made almost monthly
+visits to meet the English mail at Gibraltar. My
+poor nervous Master, who could not have reckoned
+on the rush of sea into the Mediterranean, exclaimed,
+before my Generals and other guests: “You forget,
+sir, that you have on board 1200 men in addition to
+the ship’s company.” Ordered him to his cabin under
+arrest!</p>
+
+<p>What my guests in charge of the 1200 troops
+must have thought I know not, but they behaved
+like the noble fellows they were. I was younger
+than most of them, and there must have been many
+persons on that deck who can still corroborate what
+I write. The angle formed in our wake caused the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_249">[249]</span>
+propelling screw to cut the lead lines, which were
+also cut as soon as replaced. However, in a few
+minutes we had the full blaze of lights on the Rock
+itself; the harbour was a mass of shipping. We
+could only obtain proper anchorage by passing under
+the stern of the largest transport I could find.
+We had fortunately here about the most promising
+of our young Captains, George Grey, in charge of the
+dockyard. His perfect arrangements for coaling
+made the work easy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Self and party dined with the Governor, Sir
+Robert Gardiner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>After church visited Pagets; Mrs. Paget, of the
+charming Williams family, having just returned.
+Early dinner with George Grey. 320 tons of coal
+on board. Made another start at 11 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>The General harangued the troops, while I pitched
+into sundry delinquents: effects of coaling!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Malta,
+Jan.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>At 4 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> lights were reported. We entered
+Malta Harbour at 12.30. Steamed in and secured to
+a buoy.</p>
+
+<p>Commenced coaling, watering, etc. Met H.R.H.
+The Duke of Cambridge. The same kind manner,
+but looking reduced and low in spirits. He seemed
+unprepared for the kind and hearty reception that
+awaited him on his return home. Put up at Durnford’s
+Hotel. Saw many old friends: Pocklington,
+Fred Arkwright, and others. Stores, horses, cases,
+etc., sent on board without mercy. Dined with
+Admiral Houston Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Slipped from buoy—steamed and made
+sail.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Entered the Dardanelles.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight found ourselves in the Sea of Marmora.
+Kept the northern coast to avoid current.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_251">[251]</span>
+10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Came to in the entrance to the Golden
+Horn, off that wonderful city, Constantinople.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_250">
+  <a href='images/i_250.jpg'><img class="h100" src="images/i_250-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <figcaption>Map—The Bosporus.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Found Rear-Admiral Boxer the senior officer.
+Frederick Grey, as Commodore, ready to relieve
+him. Visited the hospital at Scutari, and had an
+interview with Miss Nightingale. Put up at Misseri’s
+Hotel. Dined at the Embassy, meeting there Mrs.
+Ives and Miss Stanley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>After breakfast joined Lady Stratford de Redcliffe’s
+party, and visited bazaars, etc., on Constantinople
+side. Interview and long chat with Mrs. Ives,
+Emma Maynard that was. Dined at Embassy in thin
+boots; a filthy walk back to hotel.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_251">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_251.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span> off Balaclava.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at 8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>, having slept on shore.</p>
+
+<p>Cheered <span class='ships'>Queen</span> and <span class='ships'>Vengeance</span> on passing them in
+Beicos Bay. 10.—Entered the Black Sea. Two
+more friends added to my mess in Hugh Drummond
+of Fusilier Guards, and Colonel Norcott of Rifles.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Wardroom officers gave a dinner to our Generals
+and staff. Sat down sixty-three: some speeches
+made and much harmony.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>1 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Made the Khersonesia Light. 2.—Came
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_252">[252]</span>
+to between the <span class='ships'>Algiers</span> and <span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>, the latter
+flying the flag of Sir Edmund Lyons, off Sevastopol
+Harbour. Went on board; found Admiral in
+bed. At 8, Generals and self breakfasted with him,
+and then shifted round to Balaclava.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Generals disembarked this morning. I also
+landed, and picked up Wenny Coke, who had a bad
+cold. Put him on our sick list. The Generals returned
+on board to dinner. I had brought some
+Southdown sheep, knowing how welcome they would be.
+After breakfast guests off to their respective posts.
+On landing near the head of the harbour, found
+the snow a foot deep, with the exception of the foot-trodden
+paths.</p>
+
+<p>The Royal Marines occupied the lower ground.
+To the north, above them, were the Guards, and on
+higher land were the 93rd Highlanders. I was
+looking for Sir Colin Campbell.</p>
+
+<p>The first person I came up with was a long
+soldier, without coat or jacket, braces hanging down
+his back, carrying a bucket of water in one hand, and
+lugging a goat up with the other. He accosted me
+with, “How are you, Keppel?” I replied, “All
+right, thanks,” and passed on. On arriving at the
+Guards’ ground, the first person I saw standing at his
+tent door was friend Mark Wood. While chatting,
+the soldier with braces down passed. I asked, “Who
+is that soldier? he seems to know me.” Wood
+said, “Of course he does; that is Prince Edward of
+Saxe-Weimar.”</p>
+
+<p>I found Sir Colin Campbell on the high ground,
+his jacket flying open as if it were summer. Our
+meeting was cordial. I asked him whether he would
+have his Southdown cut up, or whole. He preferred
+it home fashion, with the saddle.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_253">[253]</span></p>
+
+<p>I got him to tell me whether it was true he had
+refused to form square to resist the Russian Cavalry
+at Balaclava. He said a double line of Highlanders
+was enough, and if I did not mind the snow he would
+show me the Russian horses. Seeing the carcases
+lying in the snow, I remarked I was not aware that
+the Russians docked their horses so close; he said it
+was done by the French, who took them to make
+bouillon soup.</p>
+
+<p>When I got down I was anxious to write my
+name in Lord Raglan’s book, and inquired my way
+to headquarters. A soldier informed me that at the
+next bend on the right I should find “a dead horse and
+a nasty stink on the left. The same all the way up.”
+As “all the way up” was four miles, I preferred
+returning to the ship.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_254">
+  <img class="v100" src="images/i_254.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>All the way up.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>I was flattered to find my Generals preferred
+sleeping on board; however, hearing heavy firing in
+the night, they landed prepared to fight. Wenny Coke
+was much amused when he found the Generals went
+off so suddenly; he said, if they had only awoke him he
+could have informed them the same thing happened
+every night. Was struck yesterday with the cheeriness
+of officers and men. Visited the post-office;
+observed in one corner an ominous-looking bag, which
+appeared full, marked “Dead.”</p>
+
+<p>The troops, both officers and men, form a motley
+mixture. It is difficult to recognise any one by his
+dress. They have now, when too late, warm clothing:
+fur caps, sheep-skin coats, and brown boots.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Sharp frost, with cold cutting wind, it having
+snowed hard during the night. Rokeby in his
+canvas bag, his moustache frozen white. Bromley,
+Colonel Carlton, Sir James Dunlop and nephew,
+Henry Hill, on board to dine and sleep. Landed
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_254">[254]</span>
+Henry with stock of brandy, poultry, and tongue.
+Thermometer below 19°.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Carlton and Bromley landed after breakfast,
+Dunlop and Wenny remaining. Weighed in afternoon.
+Anchored off Sevastopol.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_255">[255]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>The
+Guards’
+Camp.</div>
+
+<p>While the ship was at Balaclava I met on shore no
+end of old friends. In the Guards’ camp, although
+they, what was left of them, were bright and cheery,
+I avoided inquiring about the many I missed.</p>
+
+<p>I dined quietly one afternoon with my kinsman,
+Bob Lindsay, but it was difficult to draw from him
+what his thoughts and feelings were on the occasion
+when he so gallantly carried the Guards’ colours at
+the Alma.</p>
+
+<p>There was Billy Russell, ever bright and cheery,
+but never seemed inclined to be pumped as to what
+he had seen and knew.</p>
+
+<p>I had repeated gallops with one or other of the
+Inkerman heroes. When that ride was proposed I
+never admitted I had been over the field before, and
+delighted to hear over and over again answers to my
+questions. The most melancholy spectacle was the
+wretched condition of the horses, ten and twelve
+being harnessed to an ammunition waggon that on
+other occasions would be drawn by four.</p>
+
+<p>The painful subject everywhere was the thinned
+ranks of infantry regiments. The Guards were reduced
+from 4100 to 500. Poor Lord Rokeby tried
+to hide his tears when he saw the remnant of the
+Brigade. It will take from fifteen to twenty years to
+make them what they were a year ago.</p>
+
+<p>After a while no one knew the whole country
+better than Lord Rokeby. I enjoyed my rides with
+him; always as fast as his good mounts could carry us.</p>
+
+<p>The barrier of sunken ships across the harbour of
+Sevastopol I do not think much of, but there is a
+mysterious-looking line about two cables’ length inside
+the sunken ships that I cannot make out, leading
+about two-thirds of the way across. Carlton and
+Bromley landed after breakfast, Dunlop and Wenny
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_256">[256]</span>
+Coke remaining. Up screw, weighed in afternoon,
+and worked round to anchorage off Kamiesch Bay.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kamiesch,
+Feb.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons on
+horseback to Lord Raglan’s headquarters. Very
+interesting conversation by the way, giving me a clear
+insight into state of things.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>, Captain Lord Clarence Paget,
+arrived, bringing General Sir Harry Jones. Received
+a letter from Lady Wilmot announcing sad death of
+my poor Fred Wilmot Horton. Too down to dine
+with Admiral.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Admiral in <span class='ships'>Terrible</span> to see entrance
+to the harbour. Ugly and formidable-looking batteries.
+Barriers of sunken ships’ bars, spars, and cables across;
+some tempting-looking liners inside. Dined with Sir
+Edmund. Right man in right place.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>George Goldsmith of <span class='ships'>Sidon</span>, 22, paddle wheel,
+came to a quiet dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Thompson to dinner; he had visited the muddy
+camp. More snow falling.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral Houston Stewart arrived from Malta in
+<span class='ships'>Spiteful</span>. Captain Ryder and young Yorke to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>The enemy keeping pace with us in forming
+defences against our increase of batteries, likewise in
+their reinforcements of supplies and troops. Sevastopol
+likely to hold out until completely invested.
+Dined with Commander-in-Chief. Breeze blowing
+up, stopped the night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Telegraph by Admiral; change of Ministry.</p>
+
+<p>Lord Palmerston, Premier, and Sir James Graham
+still at Admiralty, which I like.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Visited our worthy Chief. Flag shifted to the
+<span class='ships'>Royal Albert</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Charlie Talbot to dine, also Oldfield from the
+trenches, and Commander Willie Partridge.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_257">[257]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Ship looking clear and clean; herself again.
+Being near, commenced building a stable: a weakness
+I have long had.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Thermometer 7 degrees below freezing. French
+ship on shore, must go to pieces. (Which she did
+with a cargo of horses and bullocks. Seven horses
+saved out of forty. No human lives lost.)</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_257">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_257.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>How the Guards looked.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Mail in. F. Johnson promoted. Good fellow—a
+loss to us.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Carpenters while on shore erecting stables, discovered
+a small French town, which smelt so strongly
+of brandy that my building was delayed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with the Admiral. <span class='ships'>Rodney</span> laid up near,
+crew had landed with Naval Brigade, she having no
+steam power.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Walk on shore with Talbot. Stable progressing.</p>
+
+<p>Sad quantity of dead horses about. Of a fresh
+heap of eighteen, several appeared in good condition.
+Dined with Talbot. The horses were French.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_258">[258]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Mail in during the night. Harry Stephenson has
+entered the navy, his brother Sussex in the Fusilier
+Guards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Another “no communication” day. My company,
+young Stanley Graham, recovering from
+chickenpox.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Went in with portmanteau to dine with Admiral.
+Put up by Mends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>After breakfast went to see Jack Lyons in
+<span class='ships'>Miranda</span>, and then outside to George Goldsmith,
+<span class='ships'>Sidon</span>; with him paid an interesting visit to the
+extreme left of the French lines and into the ruins of
+Khersonese. Dined with Admiral and slept on board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Visit from George Broke of <span class='ships'>Gladiator</span>, also
+George Goldsmith. Webb from <span class='ships'>Australia</span> and
+Dalyell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Curious to see the temporary towns and shops
+established by the French.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>On going on board to dine with Admiral, heard
+of the Emperor of Russia’s death. On returning
+communicated same to Charlie Talbot and Clarence
+Paget. Curious the unsettled state of mind people
+are in, through the Czar’s death. What strange surmises
+as to the future.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Early arrival of mail. News anything but cheery.
+Sir James Graham no longer First Lord. Kind letter
+from him. Bread riots. No Government. Well-earned
+good service pension to Milne.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Admiral Houston Stewart in <span class='ships'>Beagle</span>
+steamer to Balaklava. Found guards quartered
+close. Wenny Coke, Robert Lindsay, and other
+friends dined with Lord Rokeby. Put up on
+board <span class='ships'>Diamond</span> with Peel. Great improvements in
+Balaklava. Harbour crowded. Dangerous quantity
+of powder afloat.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_259">[259]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Peel and I, mounted by Sir Colin Campbell, rode
+to St. George’s Monastery. Beautiful scenery, ditto
+weather. Peace and quiet. Strange contrast with
+encampments close by.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Omar Pasha arrived in <span class='ships'>Valourous</span>. Cheered him
+in passing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Maitland Lennox and his artillery brother to dine
+and stay the day on board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Outside squadron dining with Houston-Stewart.
+Jolly!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Brisk exchange of shots between the front and
+Russians. No results. Dined with Clarence Paget.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander-in-Chief. Death of the
+Russian Admiral Istoma, one of the perpetrators of
+the Sinope tragedy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>A man died this morning from a virulent attack
+of smallpox. Dined with Commander-in-Chief,
+having previously taken Dalrymple Hay a walk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Off
+Sevastopol,
+Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Pasley on board <span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>: we
+had been messmates when I was a mid in <span class='ships'>Tweed</span>.
+Play on board <span class='ships'>Algiers</span>, C. Talbot. Acting good.
+Heavy firing. Town apparently on fire.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>General Barnard having sent a horse, rode to the
+front. After luncheon walked into the trenches to
+see the effect of last night’s attack on our lines.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Camp,
+Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Flag of truce hoisted at noon for two hours to
+enable both sides to bury their dead. Extraordinary
+sight. Russians, French, and English mixed, looking
+for their respective dead. 500 corpses lying about.
+Walked at night with friend General Charles Windham.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Attended divine service in the open air. 4th
+Division of the army square formed. Parson with
+moustache! Ride with General Barnard to the site of
+the charge at Inkerman. Dined with the general,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_260">[260]</span>
+meeting Charles Windham, who agrees with me
+about employing the ships to draw fire off the
+trenches. Interesting view of the town, also the
+fortifications recently made by the Russians.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Attended races of 3rd Division. Curious and
+novel sight: soldiers and sailors only. Put up on
+board <span class='ships'>Gladiator</span>, Captain Broke, now Sir George, and
+son of the famous <span class='ships'>Shannon</span> and <span class='ships'>Chesapeke</span> hero.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Returned on board after inspecting stables and
+my new old pony. Walk with Thompson: had to
+bob to a Russian shell, my gold lace cap having, they
+said, attracted attention. Two 10½-inch Russian
+shells not exploded, had them conveyed on board.</p>
+
+<p>Pasley, M‘Cleverty, and Elphinstone to dine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Another case of smallpox. Admiral suggested
+our getting under weigh, by way of cutting off communication.
+Thought it advisable to have mids and
+youngsters vaccinated; having the necessary lymph
+on board, they were ordered to my cabin. Some,
+seeing the doctor’s preparations, rather hesitated, on
+which I requested the surgeon to perform on me
+first, when all went on smoothly.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight, running past the entrance of
+the harbour, and came to off Eupatoria. Hoisted
+quarantine flag. George Hastings came alongside.
+Omar Pasha’s army is encamped in the town.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_261'>[261]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_261">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_261.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Omar Pasha’s Arab.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LVI'>CHAPTER LVI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+Eupatoria,
+April&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Landed yesterday and paid a visit to the Turkish
+Admiral and Omar Pasha. He is a fine-looking man.
+It is astonishing the excellent earthworks his army
+have thrown up round Eupatoria during the last
+fortnight. The place is now secure against surprise
+or assault. Omar mounted me on his favourite charger,
+an Arab said to be very valuable. Never saw so
+beautiful an animal. Rode with a party and visited
+the Turkish advanced cavalry picquets.</p>
+
+<p>The country round Eupatoria is a vast open
+plain, with here and there hillocks supposed to be
+of Roman construction. On these the advanced
+Turkish picquets were stationed in pairs. A short
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_262">[262]</span>
+distance beyond them were the advanced Russian
+picquets, looking warlike. Behind them again were
+different squadrons of cavalry, all ready mounted for
+work. But on Omar’s charger I was safe. He has
+more than 45,000 men, 7000 of which are cavalry
+and artillery. I cannot say when I have had so
+interesting a day.</p>
+
+<p>Had party on board to dine. Colonel Simmonds,
+Ogilvie, and Commanders present. Weighed at midnight.
+Nineteen cases of smallpox. Took Surgeon
+with me to the Admiral, and got permission to land
+on a small uninhabited island and build huts.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at daylight; went on shore at Balaklava
+to get huts from Admiral Boxer, who had not turned
+out. Boxer was a salt of the old school. He gave
+me the order for the houses, and advised me to go
+on shore and rouse up the soldiers in charge, and he
+would follow. On my remarking that he had not
+breakfasted, he replied—“I am an old first lieutenant,
+and always breakfasts with me hat under the table.”
+Returned to Kazatch, selected ground, marked
+out sites, and had two houses up by sunset. Yellow
+flags hoisted and regular lazaretto established.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Thirty-nine cases of smallpox. Hospital establishment
+creditable to the designer. Patients doing well.
+Landed band in afternoon to cheer them. At
+suggestion of surgeon, walked through my newly
+erected hospital; airy and clean. The smallpox room
+was a trial. Having obtained the names, I endeavoured
+to say something consoling to each. Their heads were
+swollen into the shape and appearance of huge plum-puddings:
+eyes closed—their own mothers could not
+have recognised them. Prompted by the doctor, I was
+enabled to say something cheery to each and could see
+by a slight move of their heads that it gave pleasure.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_263">[263]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Building huts, making wells and wards about
+the hospital—an amusement!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Banshee</span> arrived with mail, little Harry on board;
+just in time to see the bombardment.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Letter to
+H.F.S.
+April&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>The nearest point to us is the entrance left of the
+French entrenchment, abutting on the sea. This
+entrenchment and battery being “end on,” we see
+the Frenchmen load and fire and crouch down. We
+see the Russians doing the same. We easily trace
+the whole course of the shells, see them burst, sometimes
+throwing heaps of earth and dirt over the men
+as they throw themselves down when they see or hear
+the missive coming.</p>
+
+<p>Higher up in the landscape we see the famous
+Round Tower and the Mamelon (this last the one the
+French never ought to have allowed the Russians to
+take), keeping up a desperate fire on Gordon’s and
+Chapman’s batteries, which is returned with interest;
+then again, further still, are ours and the French
+batteries blazing away on the Russian fort, while
+they in the background are firing from numerous
+newly-raised batteries on the Inkerman heights to
+the north of the Khersonese.</p>
+
+<p>When it is calm or the wind off the land, the concussion
+from the reports of the guns shakes the ship.
+This is kept up night and day, at least it has been
+so for the last four days, and will go on.</p>
+
+<p>We cannot well make out the amount of damage
+done to the Russian batteries, but the fire from them
+gets very slack towards the afternoon, and sometimes
+is silenced altogether; but they manage to repair
+damages in the dark, and commence in the morning
+much the same. Nearer to us we have seen the
+Frenchmen’s battery, considerably damaged, but they
+replace their gabions and sand-bags, and go at it again.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_264">[264]</span>
+In fact, judging from the supply of shot and shell
+in rear of his battery, the enemy means to keep the
+ball going for some time.</p>
+
+<p>We get occasional accounts from the camp. Up
+to yesterday the bluejackets appear to have suffered
+most. Two lieutenants, Twyford and Douglas,
+killed. Captain Lord John Hay wounded, jaw
+broken, teeth knocked out and throat cut by the
+fragment of a shell: doing well though, and wishes
+to return to the trenches. Seventy-six seamen <i>hors
+de combat</i>, and Lord Raglan asking for more. They
+are decidedly the best shots, but take no care of themselves.</p>
+
+<p>I am sorry the town of Sevastopol shows as yet
+little or no symptoms of damage: on the top of one
+of their sea batteries, I can see ladies admiring, as
+we suppose, our Fleet. While all this is going on on
+shore we (French and English ships) form a long and
+imposing line across the harbour. Our daily routine,
+muster, bands playing; everything going on as if
+we were in Plymouth Sound or at Spithead.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Journal.</div>
+
+<p>Visited hospital, all patients except one doing well.
+Pasley and Talbot to dine. Paget and Drummond
+went into the harbour after dark in the <span class='ships'>Valourous</span>,
+and caused a slight diversion by opening fire on the
+forts.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>With Admiral to visit Lord Raglan: unusual on
+mail departure days.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Until the place is invested cannot see use of the
+present expenditure of ammunition.</p>
+
+<p>About this time Clarence Paget conceived the
+idea of placing two lights on shore in such a position
+that, by bringing them in one, we might on the
+darkest nights approach the batteries and deliver our
+fire in succession; in the hope that the enemy, not
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_265">[265]</span>
+being able to see the ships, would fire at random and
+probably miss us, whereas we, knowing exactly the
+distance and direction, could point our guns with
+unerring aim. Sir Edmund Lyons, as stated by
+Paget, brightened on the occasion. Paget with his
+master had sounded the line the ships had to take.
+I expected great things of my <span class='ships'>Jenny d’ Acre</span> when
+her turn should come.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_265">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_265.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Headquarters.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>This was <span class='ships'>Gladiator’s</span> turn for night attack on
+batteries, and as it would be my “<span class='ships'>Jenny d’ Acre’s</span>” turn
+next, I got friend Broke to take me on board a little
+after midnight. All lights out, the paddles just
+turning noiselessly. I was on the paddle-box when a
+flash from the shore and the approach of a burning
+fuse showed how correctly the Russians had calculated
+the spot. The master fell just before me, and the shell
+exploded over the opposite box, while a third person
+fell from the bridge. On inquiry I found that no
+one was hurt. The master from the <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>
+was on the bridge and had thrown himself down.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_266">[266]</span>
+The officer on the opposite bridge had done likewise.
+The young man who fell off the bridge had taken his
+tea a little too strong, and lost his balance; no harm
+done.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Fresh case of smallpox, ditto breaking out in
+<span class='ships'>Royal Albert</span>, sent their cases to our new hospital.
+With permission of Admiral, shifted berth to off
+Kazatch, to finish hospital. Landed strong party.
+Dined with Houston-Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Oldfield in from trenches. Respite from firing.
+Things much the same as when trenches opened
+first.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Visit from Inspector of Hospitals, Dr. Deas.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Order from Commander-in-Chief to hoist quarantine
+flag, and consider ourselves in strict quarantine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Lord Rokeby and Baillie having come down, met
+them at stables with luncheon. Great farce this
+quarantine!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Invited to meet Admiral on shore. Plan for an
+attack on Kertch with 12,000 French and 3000
+English discussed. No work, though, for these big
+ships. <span class='ships'>Alma</span> troopship arrived. Friend John Astley,
+recovered from his wound in the neck at Alma, rejoined
+Fusilier Guards.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Interruption in hospital works. General signal
+for captains and ordinary sailing: rendezvous and
+places of landing issued. Things looking more like
+business. Weighed at 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, and steered towards
+Odessa, altering course for eastward after dark.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Early morning found Fleet enveloped in fog.
+Marines preparing to land. Fog dispelled by heat
+of sun. Signal, to cook three days’ provisions.
+Weather fine, all hands full of hope and expectation.
+As we drew near, general signal for “Captains to
+repair on board flag.” Disappointment great when
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_267">[267]</span>
+it was announced that the expedition was at an end.
+French Admiral being recalled by Canrobert.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kertch,
+May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Before we turned our sterns on Kertch, Lord
+Lyons told me that he had tried to persuade General
+Brown, who commanded our troops, to go on with
+the forces <em>we</em> had to Kertch. But the strict disciplinarian
+declined. Had he consented, on the appearance
+of our top-gallant yards above the horizon,
+the Kertch forts, which had had been prepared a month
+previously, would have been blown up, the war ended,
+and millions saved to the country.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kazatch
+Bay,
+May&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Ran ahead of Fleet and came to before 8, off
+Kazatch Bay. Cutter capsized in sailing on shore.
+Pilkington in her. No one drowned. Rode “Bashi”
+up to headquarters. Returned with Admirals. Blowing
+fresh, so did not dine with them.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Arthur Williams came on board, having arrived
+in <span class='ships'>Himalaya</span> from India with his charming wife.
+All smallpox cases being in hospital, could put my
+friends up on board. Admiral Houston-Stewart
+to call upon Mrs. Williams.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Williams, Colville, and Foley down from camp
+to dine. Friends Talbot, Horton, and others to
+dinner. Found Arthur Taylor had called on board,
+having arrived in charge of artillery in cargo transport.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Admiral H. Stewart to meet Commander-in-Chief.
+Foley and Colville coming down
+from camp.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Held survey on and invalided Captain Sir George
+Broke. After divine service, sent friends in launch
+and took Mrs. Ives in gig to Streletska Bay; landed
+and visited French trenches and left attack. Dined
+in Wardroom.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Pasley. Received pictures of Nelson
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_268">[268]</span>
+and Lyons. Foley and Colville took their departure
+for camp in the afternoon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Pasley—best cook in the Fleet.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Friends from camp—Wenny Coke, Bob Lindsay,
+Thynne of Rifles, Baillie, and Fraser, the Master of
+Lovat, to dinner. Jolly party, having killed the
+last of my Southdowns. Baillie and Fraser returning
+at night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Commander-in-Chief promising to dine, prepared
+accordingly. Admiral Stewart sending me turtle
+soup and fish. Lord Rokeby down too in time
+from camp. Baillie. Seventeen to, for these times,
+a first-rate dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander-in-Chief, to meet Mrs.
+F. Grey.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>With Admirals to visit by water, in <span class='ships'>Telegraph</span>
+steamer, Prince Woronzoff’s place Onianda Aloupka,
+the Emperor’s Palace, and village of Yalta. Mrs.
+F. Grey, Mrs. and Miss Stewart, Lady George
+Paget, Lord Burgesh, Rose, and others, an agreeable
+party. Admiral, however, was obliged to go to
+headquarters. Found <span class='ships'>Enchantress</span> yacht, Sir Thomas
+Whichcote, with Freke and George Bentick on board;
+offered to tow him to Kertch! Another expedition
+decided on.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Wardroom officers to celebrate two
+years in commission.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Called on board <span class='ships'>York Herald</span>, Captain Furber,
+meeting Mrs. Pentland, and Miss Furber.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_269">[269]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_269">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_269.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Map of Crimea.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_270'>[270]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LVII'>CHAPTER LVII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Second Expedition to Kertch</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+May&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>I thought this would be a pleasant trip for my
+yacht friends in the <span class='ships'>Enchantress</span>, and advised Whichcote
+to be prepared after dark to pick up the end of
+a hawser with as little noise as possible, which he
+would find over the stern of the <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>,
+and not cast off until he heard from me; and gave
+<span class='ships'>Stella</span> the option of doing likewise.</p>
+
+<p>At 8.10 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> we were moving in line as slowly
+as the screw would allow, when we perceived the
+P. &amp; O. steamer <span class='ships'>Colombo</span>, carrying troops, on starboard
+bow, creeping out from one of the small inlets,
+so near that unless she at once stopped she must
+foul us.</p>
+
+<p>We hailed without effect. We could not stop
+without fouling next astern: a musket was fired.
+<span class='ships'>Colombo</span> stopped, but too late. A crash, and I saw a
+twelve-foot figurehead drop with a loud splash into
+the water. My tows astern, not injured. We had
+quietly embarked 600 Turkish troops.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Theodosia,
+May&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Dense fog during the night. Fleet assembled
+during the day, and I had time to seek the <span class='ships'>Colombo</span>,
+whose captain found his way on board the <span class='ships'>Acre</span>.
+Something was wrong with the machinery; he had
+been unable to stop his ship in time to save her
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_271">[271]</span>
+figurehead. The Crimea is to Russia what the Isle
+of Wight might be to England.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kertch,
+May&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived at Kertch. Army landed during the afternoon
+and bivouacked on the beach. <span class='ships'>Princess Royal</span>
+and <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span> had similar cargoes of Turkish
+troops, which we landed without either trouble or
+complaint. The Russians blew up their magazine,
+set fire to their stores, ships, etc.</p>
+
+<p>A large open space appeared to be covered with
+tumuli, varying in size, shaped like the roofs of
+barns, from which you could not see far without
+mounting to the top, as Clarence Paget and I did,
+selecting the highest.</p>
+
+<p>From the top, not more than three miles distant,
+we saw the Russians evacuating the Citadel. A
+battery of artillery faced the spot where our troops
+had landed. In rear of the guns, the Russians, bag
+and baggage, were retreating.</p>
+
+<p>We returned to the landing-place, and had to pass
+through a regiment of French Rifles enjoying a rest
+and sleep in the sun. Paget, who spoke French,
+told the French officer commanding that there were
+a thousand Russian troops passing within three miles
+of him. The officer appeared not to credit the
+statement, whereupon Paget put his glass into his
+hand and asked him to mount the nearest tumulus
+and see for himself.</p>
+
+<p>The officer then drew his sword, calling out, “Aux
+armes,” in which he was joined by the whole
+regiment. A mile of fishermen’s nets were soon in a
+blaze. Later in the afternoon I took young Stephenson,
+when we mounted on one of these tumuli and
+noticed a Russian galloping towards us.</p>
+
+<p>The troops of the expedition were now all alive
+and had formed across the small peninsula in open
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_272">[272]</span>
+skirmishing order, and were advancing to capture the
+small garrison which Paget and I had seen pass out
+towards Arabat four hours previously. The Russian
+was unaware of the danger he was galloping into;
+he pulled up, but, not understanding us, galloped on.
+It was now time for us to retreat within our own lines.
+The Russian, too, who had seen our skirmishers, was
+in full retreat.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Kertch,
+May&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>The next day I went into Kertch in a steamer with
+Sir Edmund Lyons and party, and had no difficulty
+in recognising our Russian friend owner of the fishing
+nets, as well as other property. In the afternoon
+joined Paget in a foraging party. Took thirty-five
+bullocks for the Fleet, and milch cows for ourselves.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Dundas, Turner, and Peck on board to church.
+Dined on board <span class='ships'>Enchantress</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Remained on board, admiring Brierly’s Baltic
+sketches. Dined with Houston-Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Landed abreast of ship and got some green gooseberries,
+big enough for a tart. Dined with Pasley
+on board <span class='ships'>Agamemnon</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Admiral made signal for opportunity to go to
+Kertch and Yenkali. Visited Sir George Brown and
+the camp. On return found news from Sea of Azov
+of smart doings there by squadron. Dined with
+Commander-in-Chief.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Launches off at daylight to join force in Sea of
+Azov. Took cruise in <span class='ships'>Stella</span> yacht with Frankland.
+Arrival of 3000 troops from Balaclava. Farewell
+dinner to Whichcote and party on board <span class='ships'>Enchantress</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Lieutenant H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe
+joined. Party to dinner, Pasley, Paget, Talbot, Prince
+Victor, Frankland from <span class='ships'>Stella</span>, and Jackson.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Dined self and youngsters, Prince Victor, Graham,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_273">[273]</span>
+Stephenson, and Campbell, with Admiral Houston-Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>A cruise with Frankland and Jackson in <span class='ships'>Stella</span> to
+Yenkali; council of war being held there. Spoony
+decision not to go to Anapa: younger blood required
+in council.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander-in-Chief to meet the
+French and Turkish Admirals.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>News of energetic proceedings in the Sea of
+Azov; proof of the advantage of employing young
+men.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Cruise in <span class='ships'>Stella</span>. Landed on sandy spit, Asiatic
+side; tried to stalk a Cossack. Picked up some sea-birds
+eggs much the same as plovers. Signal from
+flag, “Obstacles removed and free to be attacked.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Mamelon taken by the French. Kertch Government
+buildings on fire. War, a terrible thing!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Commander-in-Chief on farewell
+visit to Kertch. Dined with him; got permission
+to go in <span class='ships'>Stella</span> to Anapa. Took Prince Victor, and
+weighed before turning in.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived off Anapa by breakfast time. Place in
+ruins; picturesque Circassians moving about.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>After breakfast returned to Kertch Straits. Not
+sorry to find our allies had already started.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Fleet weighed at daylight to visit the deserted
+Anapa; remained a couple of hours there. Ice the
+only thing worth bringing away. 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Picked up
+<span class='ships'>Stella</span> and took her in tow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>In running in, ship grounded off Sevastopol. Not
+my fault this time! Got off, too, without damage.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Brierly mounted on “Bashi,” self on “Princess,”
+rode up to camp. Dined with Admiral Houston-Stewart
+after hot ride to headquarters. Champagne
+iced.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_274">[274]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>All in high force at the idea of entering Sevastopol
+to-morrow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Off
+Sevastopol,
+June&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Got under weigh at 2.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> Strongly impressed
+that this would be the anniversary of another glorious
+victory. But it was not to be. The French attack
+on the Malakoff and the English on the Redan
+repulsed with loss. Sad! Sad! <em>We</em> cruising off
+the harbour.</p>
+
+<p>There was no particular order of sailing. <i>St.
+Jean d’ Acre</i> drifted near enough to tempt a fire
+from the northern entrance to the harbour,
+and for us to see our troops retreat from the
+Redan!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Landed in Italiska Bay, and rode part of the way
+to headquarters with Maitland Lennox; returned in
+time for Admiral Houston-Stewart’s dinner to meet
+Commander-in-Chief.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Brierly back from camp, and with him William
+Colville to stay a few days.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>On examination of mids, passed three: young
+Graham first class.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Preparation by Quartermaster John Shepherd to
+destroy, alone, a Russian three-decker. Called with
+Clarence Paget on newly-made French Admirals. On
+return found St. George Foley from camp, attached
+to General Pellissier.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Took John Shepherd to Admiral. Landed St.
+George Foley at Streletska. Received General Codrington
+on board <span class='ships'>Acre</span>. He with self and friends
+dined in Wardroom.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Arthur Williams and his charming wife on board,
+he returning to camp after dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Firing from batteries slack. Colonel Campbell
+and Colonel Pereira of 90th. Phipps and Kingston
+to dinner.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_275">[275]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Telegraphic signal announcing the sad intelligence
+of Lord Raglan’s death. A leader not to
+be replaced. Friend Lord Mark Kerr arrived
+at Balaclava from Gibraltar in command of 13th
+Regiment.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_276'>[276]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LVIII'>CHAPTER LVIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Naval Brigade</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+July&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>A report going that George King, commanding
+<span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, 74, whose crew, she having no steam power,
+had been landed with the Naval Brigade, was about
+to invalid. It occurred to me that nothing could
+be done afloat with a dual command, and that if
+George King would, with Admiral’s approval, exchange
+ships, I might stand a chance of seeing more
+service on shore than afloat. Mine was a selfish idea.
+If ever a man was proud of, and happy in, his ship it
+was myself.</p>
+
+<p>Consulted my kind friend Admiral Sir Edmund
+Lyons, who required time to consider. My brother
+officers decidedly disapproved. Dined early with
+Houston-Stewart to attend later the embarkation of
+the remains of Lord Raglan, deeply lamented, on
+board the <span class='ships'>Caradoc</span>, Commander Derriman. It was
+an imposing but sad spectacle.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral having approved of the exchange,
+allowed <span class='ships'>Acre</span> to be shifted into Kazatch Bay. Now
+it was settled, a sinking of the heart came on at the
+idea of removing myself from the good fellows with
+whom I had been serving.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>I had promised Lady Churston, Sir Robert Newman’s
+sister, to remove his remains from “a green
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_277">[277]</span>
+field through which ran a small stream by the stump
+of a tree.”</p>
+
+<p>This was my only description. To Cathcart’s Hill,
+however, I had sent a party from the <span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, early,
+with the necessary implements to work through
+granite, and when about it to make a grave large
+enough to hold two. It took me hours to find
+the place. At last I examined a space occupied
+by 3000 Turkish soldiers without a particle of green
+on it. Stumps of two small trees, a quarter of a
+mile apart, caused me to think they could not
+now be standing unless fed by water.</p>
+
+<p>We had not far to dig. I had prepared a coffin
+large enough to hold that in which poor Newman
+might have been buried. But, alas! we found only
+bones, rats had been at work. The only thing that
+made me believe I had the right remains was a pair
+of brown silk socks. All we could collect was carefully
+arranged, and the coffin screwed down: the
+Union Jack spread over it.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to the artillery camp at Balaklava, and
+obtained from the officer in charge a corporal and a
+six-horse limber waggon, on which the coffin was placed.</p>
+
+<p>With my smart corporal we rode through the
+camp on our five or six mile journey. Among
+others we met Honourable William Colville of Rifle
+Brigade; he was a good draughtsman, and kindly
+dismounted, taking from his sabretasche pencil and
+paper, and made a sketch of this cavalcade for me to
+send to Newman’s sister.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_278">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_278.jpg" alt="">
+  <p>Sketch by Col. Hon. W. Colville.</p>
+  <figcaption>Jack, to newly-arrived subaltern, “Sorry I can’t obleege you with a horse,
+but I have a quiet dromedary I can sell you.”</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>After breakfast read commission on board <span class='ships'>Rodney</span>,
+King reading his on board <span class='ships'>St. Jean d’ Acre</span>. Sad day
+for me. In the evening escorted Mrs. Williams on
+board <span class='ships'>Europa</span> for passage to Scutari. Dined with
+Charlie Talbot on board <span class='ships'>Algiers</span>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_278">[278]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Early dinner in Wardroom. Pretended to be
+going to <span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, and so avoided taking leave of my
+good fellows. Young Harry Stephenson and Thompson
+transferred to <span class='ships'>Rodney</span>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_279">[279]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with General Barnard, who had just been
+appointed Chief of Staff.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with General Simpson, now Commander-in-Chief,
+and reminded him of our meeting at his
+mess when he commanded the 29th at Mauritius in
+1829, I then a mid of the <span class='ships'>Tweed</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Letter to
+M. S.
+July&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Find our Jacks queer fellows; they deal in horses
+or anything else, and as soon as they come out of
+the trenches they are all over the soldiers’ camps,
+doing work for the officers, repairing tents and
+that sort of thing, receiving part payment in grog,
+and then share it with the first “soger” they
+meet.</p>
+
+<p>I avoid too many restrictions, as long as men
+appear at the 10 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> muster, properly dressed, with
+their arms cleaned and correct, with correct numbers
+of the men and battery they have to relieve. They
+are then dismissed, and find their own way by trenches
+or over the open. In a body they are pretty sure to
+draw the enemy’s fire.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>In
+Camp,
+July.</div>
+
+<p>In our camp we are tolerably comfortable. My
+tent is pitched on a patch of ground on the edge of
+a hill. There is a long open avenue in front, on
+either side are the tents of the officers and seamen,
+which they decorate in the most fantastic way. All
+sorts of devices for weathercocks, etc. The shells
+that annoy us most are those that burst in the air.
+We are very close to one another in some places,
+but I expect we shall soon shut the Russians up, as
+they fire very wild when fired at; our fellows are
+as steady as ever; the more casualties, the more
+jokes are cracked!</p>
+
+<p>In front of our batteries, between us and the
+Redan and Malakoff Towers, are the trenches, and
+the Quarries, formerly a Russian position—taken
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_280">[280]</span>
+by us before Inkerman, at present held by the
+guards and other troops. While no particular bombardment
+is going on, our orders are, to watch the
+enemy’s batteries, and only fire on them when they
+fire on our advanced parties in the trenches, so that the
+soldiers are, in a measure, partly under our protection.
+In this way we get some pretty shooting. A shell
+from the Redan bursts over our soldiers in the trenches;
+bang goes an 8-inch shell from the sailors’ battery,
+generally right into the embrasure, from which the
+mischief came. Another shell reaches them from our
+Left Attack. The French, too, take it up and pop
+one into them from the Mamelon, and then for the
+next half-hour a general scrimmage takes place,
+exciting to a degree. A very little precaution
+teaches you to know, by every gun that the enemy
+fires, whether they are shot or shell. The shot we
+do not care for. I saw one of our Jacks make a low
+bow to a shot that he saw coming directly at him:
+at the right moment he bobbed his head, and it
+passed about a foot above his body. There are
+small hollow places on ground above our batteries
+in which sailors are employed making gabions:
+having expended their materials the bluejackets were
+amusing themselves by running at one another with
+the gabions over their heads, when an enemy’s shell
+exploded without serious damage to any one. Most of
+the shot strike the parapet and throw a cloud of dust,
+dirt, and small stones into our batteries. Each day
+I have been so covered that you could not have told
+the proper colour of my dress. The shot are very
+good fun, but the shells are beastly things from which
+it is difficult to escape. They are no respecters of
+persons. On Sunday a man was killed by the fragments
+of a shell while he was sitting in the supposed
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_281">[281]</span>
+most secure place inside the entrance to one of our
+magazines.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_281">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_281.jpg" alt="">
+  <p>Sketch by Col. Hon. W. Colville. 1855.</p>
+  <figcaption>In Rear of the Lancaster Battery.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Wenny Coke goes into the trenches to-night, and
+to-morrow I shall be in our batteries all day and will
+give such a dusting to any Russian battery that has
+the impudence to molest my favourite Fusiliers. I
+am going to take grub, and have invited Wenny
+to dinner in the deepest part of his trench. Had I
+had time, I could fill a quire with the absurdities of
+the soldiers as well as sailors, who have given many a
+good laugh. Directly little Harry heard of my
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_282">[282]</span>
+appointment, he got leave and galloped up to my
+tent.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Visited our right division in trenches. Thompson
+performing divine service in open air to the Naval
+Brigade; “Little Harry” with him. A man killed
+while sitting in the battery reading his Bible.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Among arrivals from home in Balaklava was a
+cargo of ice for use of Naval Brigade hospitals.
+For some unknown reason doctors objected to receive
+ice in the hospitals! After my superiors afloat had
+been supplied, the Commander of the Naval Brigade
+came in for a share. We were not far from the
+French headquarters. I sent a couple of blocks to
+General Pellissier, who invited me to <i lang='fr'>déjeuner</i>. He
+had clever fittings with green branches, etc., for
+luxury and comfort reminding me of Vauxhall
+gardens in bygone times. Dined with General
+Barnard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Letter to
+H. F. S.
+July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Wenny Coke in the trenches last night bowled
+over by a spent round. On visiting his tent I found
+him cheery, but round shot don’t touch gently.
+I was about to sit on a fur coat, rolled up near the
+head of his bed, when he called out, “Don’t sit there,
+Uncle Harry. A cat from Sevastopol came out last
+night and dropped nine kittens in the sleeve!”</p>
+
+<p>Shepherd, one of the petty officers of the <i>St. Jean
+d’Acre</i>, had conceived the idea that he could, single-handed,
+blow up a man-of-war in Sevastopol harbour.
+The contrivance appeared simple enough. I had
+already taken him with his apparatus to the Admiral,
+who was amused and approved, leaving the time for
+the experiment to me. The plan was this. To prepare
+a light iron case a foot long by eighteen inches, with
+a loop at each end. The case to be fitted with a
+Bickford’s fuse, which burns under water. A sort
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_283">[283]</span>
+of canvas duck punt was to be fitted to exactly hold
+the case amidships. The after part was to hold one
+sitter, who could easily steer with a canoe paddle
+without noise. The Russians had been in the habit
+of sending three or four thousand men across the
+entrance end of the harbour. The night fire of war-ships
+had so inconvenienced this passage of their
+transport boats, they shifted the line of their passage
+higher up the harbour.</p>
+
+<p>The dark night for our expedition arrived at
+last. The spot for embarkation was only separated
+by a spur of land covered by thick scrub and
+bush, but the darkness of the night enabled our
+guide to take us to the water. At half-past twelve
+the punt left the rough slips and was immediately
+lost to sight, nor was there the slightest sound.
+At the expiration of three hours nothing had
+occurred, and there were signs of daybreak. With
+us was Colonel St. George Foley, attached to
+General Pellissier’s staff. We were within range
+of the Russian sentries, and had to creep through
+scrub and bushes until we were inside the French
+lines: we soon commenced on our refreshments. I
+was distressed at having helped to lose poor John
+Shepherd—as, if caught, he would be shot as a spy.
+St. George Foley was put out at the loss of his horse,
+servant, and haversack. My coxswain, who, I think,
+had been washing his mouth out, was sent in search
+among an acre of gun carriages, waggons, etc., and
+returned, announcing to Foley that “The beggar was
+gone, but had left his painter.” Poor Foley applied
+for explanation. Painter was a rope spliced in a
+ring in the bow of a boat, and most likely the horse
+had slipped his head out of halter and gone home—the
+servant losing no time in following. In fact, all
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_284">[284]</span>
+during the night the white light of shells had
+been flying over our heads from three different
+Russian batteries at a French mortar battery. Great
+was my delight an hour after my arrival in camp to
+hear of Shepherd’s safe return. The plucky fellow
+had pulled past and between a number of Russian
+steamers, and was within 400 yards of the three-deckers,
+when a whole string of Russian boats
+pushed off from the western shore to convey troops
+across.</p>
+
+<p>For an hour he lay in his little punt hoping for an
+opening to pass through. Daylight came and he had
+not time to return the distance to where we were; he
+therefore struck at once for Careening Bay, one side
+of which he knew was in the possession of the French.
+Lord Charles Paget’s plan of night attack had caused
+the Russians to change the route for conveying
+reliefs across.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>On returning from batteries got news of Lushington’s
+promotion and my appointment to the command
+of the Naval Brigade! Lucky dog that I am!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Early ride to Kamiesch and breakfast with the
+Admiral. Kind and confidential chat.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Assumed command of Naval Brigade: Prince
+Victor of Hohenlohe, A.D.C.; Rev. Josiah Thompson,
+Chaplain; forage allowance for five horses.</p>
+
+<p>Early morning, a cavalry corporal with two
+orderlies at my tent door. Reported myself at
+headquarters.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Sunday, divine service in open air. Visited
+Right Attack and Quarries with Sir Harry Jones;
+dined with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>In the
+batteries
+of Naval
+Brigade,
+July&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Instructions from headquarters to prepare for a
+sortie, and that I had better communicate with the
+General at the Quarries. The day was far advanced:<span class="pagenum" id="Page_285">[285]</span>
+a storm brewing. Had an experienced and good
+officer in Captain Moorsom, who had been in the
+Naval Brigade from the beginning. Of course Moorsom
+opened a sharp fire on the Russian batteries,
+which eventually drew part of their fire off our
+advanced trenches. He knew the bearings of the
+Russian forts on which our batteries could tell best.
+Could not do better than leave him in charge, while
+I went to the quarries for further instruction. Storm
+commencing, shifted into pea-jacket and jack-boots,
+sword and cap. Rain fell heavily. Zig-zags being
+on the slope, I was soon washed out and took to the
+open. Dark, too, came on with the storm; lost my
+way, but knew by descending, and the constant discharge
+of musketry, I must come to our own troops—which
+I did; but no one could hear or attend to me.
+I knew not the way. Took to the right. Came on
+the Guards, whom I knew by their bearskins; they
+were equally busy. It was no use pulling their coats;
+the thunder of guns and muskets rendered one’s
+voice equally useless, so crept on. The storm began
+to break. Laid hold of a soldier’s coat and bellowed
+to him. He bellowed “sergeant,” who bellowed me
+what my name was. When I told him, he said:
+“That lie won’t do. I know Captain Keppel of the
+Grenadiers. You must come to our officer.” I
+pleaded inability to walk further. Another bearskin
+on my left! No alternative. The storm and sortie
+were over.</p>
+
+<p>By the time we reached the officers, they were
+enjoying a little rest as well as refreshment. One of
+them asked the sergeant: “What have you there?”
+“A prisoner, sir.” After a while there was a laugh.
+Most of them knew and had made me out.</p>
+
+<p>With the assistance of grog and a feed I got
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_286">[286]</span>
+back to my tent, but the sun was well up. The
+kind Lord Rokeby pretended to be angry, and
+offered that if I attended the camp, the Brigade
+should march past me; but I don’t think my poor
+father, had he been alive, would have recognised me
+in my trench costume.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Letter to
+M. S.
+July&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Our batteries are getting so close to the enemy’s
+that casualties are frequent, and the Naval Brigade
+gradually reducing, without a chance of recruiting,
+except in officers, whose vacancies are replaced from
+the Fleet. Although they hear, afloat, the jokes played,
+when the time comes they forget. Our chief battery
+on the left is at the foot of a hill, and a favourite mark
+for the enemy’s shells. The fuses burning in the air
+are often heard before the shells are seen. We have
+trained look-out men who know by the sound about
+where the shell was likely to drop. They call out,
+“Right,” “Left,” “Front,” “Rear,” when those
+present rush to any point they fancy, dodge close to
+a gun carriage, or jump through the embrasure, and
+so risk a Russian bullet.</p>
+
+<p>The favourite resort was the magazine passage,
+cut out of the hill with a bend in it. The first
+there, the best chance. The new arrival affords
+the best sport, and is prepared for. The dirtiest
+stretcher, on which some bleeding body had lately
+been carried, is at hand. The shell bursts; the
+new arrival is struck behind the ear by moist clay,
+is immediately seized, laid on the dirty stretcher,
+carried off, without resistance, by bearers to the zig-zag
+cutting and upset into the ditch, which generally
+holds water. Of course he is received with cheers,
+and watches anxiously for the next newcomer.
+Dined yesterday with the Commander-in-Chief at
+headquarters and met our War Minister, the Duke
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_287">[287]</span>
+of Newcastle; I have established a mess-room, where
+we meet at supposed dinner at eight o’clock. Most
+of my time is passed in the batteries.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Left Attack. Found remains of the gallant
+Colonel Norcott’s horse and servant just killed by
+the same shot. He always rode this white charger
+in front of his rifle regiment. Mail in. Letter from
+First Lord, Sir Charles Wood, informing me of my
+having the Good Service Pension. Visited hospital
+in Cossack Bay and Admiral Freemantle.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_288'>[288]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LIX'>CHAPTER LIX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Trenches—Before Sevastopol</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+Aug.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Heavy fall of rain. Whole country as in winter.
+Trenches under water.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Bought a beautiful Arab from an officer going
+home, of 10th Hussars. Lord Rokeby and Bob
+Lindsay to dine at our mess.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>An attempt at a sortie made last night. Russians
+driven back easily. Breakfasted with Hugh Rose,
+French headquarters. Minute inspection of Mamelon
+with Lord Rokeby, troops marching past. Curious
+custom: the French dig large holes as burial-places
+in sight of those going to the trenches.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to Monastery to arrange for Warde’s going
+afloat. Wenny Coke wounded last night in trenches.
+We have advanced our batteries and trenches nearer the
+enemy’s guns without thickening them in proportion.
+A shot has no business to pass through a parapet.
+I had a man turned over yesterday by a round shot; he
+was not killed, as the strength of the shot was expended
+before it got through the parapet. One of the stones
+gave me a clip in the back; but the Russians had been
+riled by our cutting a cart in two just before.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Sunday, muster and divine service. On visiting
+the hospital I found one of my poor fellows
+carving a heart on a ring, part of his own thigh-bone,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_289">[289]</span>
+which had been amputated. On asking him what he
+was going to do with it, he replied, “To send it to
+my girl, sir.” Another was busy securing the sides of
+his hat into the shape of a Greenwich pensioner’s:
+a curtain hung round his jacket to look like a
+long-tailed coat. He had only one leg.</p>
+
+<p>A day or two ago I rode with Lord Rokeby
+to see a division French lines—3000 Chasseurs
+d’Afrique, cream of French cavalry. Saw a Russian
+lady in Sevastopol flying a kite; the wind was
+in the direction of the Mamelon. I pointed it
+out to the French General Linois, who ordered his
+riflemen to fire; they cut the string and down came
+the kite just inside the trenches. He gave it to Lord
+Rokeby, who sent it home. The French general
+raised his cap by way of apologising to the lady, and
+ordered the riflemen to raise theirs on the points of
+their bayonets. A round of Russian grape shot sent
+one cap flying and broke two muskets. A broiling
+day—face burnt cruel.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Lord Rokeby. George Goldsmith up
+to breakfast. Visited Right Attack. Saw, the other
+day, feeding together in the trenches, Wilbraham
+Oates Lennox, Royal Engineers, V.C., Captain
+John Maitland Lennox, R.M.L.I., and Augustus
+Frederick, Captain Royal Artillery, sons of my
+friend Lord George Lennox. Dined with General
+Codrington.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Called on Chief of Artillery. Rode with Lord
+Rokeby to Cossack Bay and hospital to see poor
+D’Aeth, first lieutenant <span class='ships'>Sidon</span>, dying of cholera.
+He was a youngster with me in the <span class='ships'>Dido</span>; a
+more gallant fellow there could not be. He was
+taken ill at one this morning, having been dining at
+Kamiesch, and was given over five hours afterwards.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_290">[290]</span>
+He had a locket containing the miniature of a pretty
+Portuguese girl at Lisbon, and requested it might
+be buried with him. Went on board <span class='ships'>Læander</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Left Attack. Both Admirals up; met at
+headquarters. Stopped to luncheon. While in Right
+Attack trenches received directions from headquarters
+to show the Duke of Newcastle the Quarries.
+His Grace following with attendants, I explained
+the impossibility of such a staff: the feathers alone
+would bring on us the whole Russian fire. We were
+three or four only. Although shot and shell passed
+over our heads we were right enough, until near
+the Quarries, when a shell burst, sending fragments
+close to us: one so near that it almost touched the
+Duke, and lodged in a gabion on my side. His
+Grace expressed a wish to have the piece; a soldier
+dislodged it with his bayonet. I held it out to the
+Duke, but it was so hot that he dropped it. I believe
+it is now at Clumber, with two empty thirteen-inch
+Russian shells picked up close to our Brigade
+batteries. General Barnard and staff dined at naval
+mess.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Threatening, heavy-looking weather, which came
+down in a deluge.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Visited St. George, my Chief of Artillery. Rode
+over to Balaklava to see Freemantle after his fall.
+Wenny Coke and other friends to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Visited all Right Attack with General Jones.
+Wenny Coke, E. Somerset, Curzon, and other friends
+to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Broiling hot. Artillery under orders to be ready
+at daylight following morning in the field.</p>
+
+<p>Enclosed is a specimen of the notices I so often
+received in the batteries, worth all the foolscap that
+could be written:—</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_291">[291]</span></p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+<p><span class="smcap">Dear Uncle Harry</span>—In case you have not been
+warned, I am desired by the General to give you notice
+that an attack from the enemy is expected upon our trenches
+at 3 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> to-morrow. The covering parties in the trenches
+have been doubled, first division in the Right Attack.—Yours
+sincerely,</p>
+
+<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">Robert J. Lindsay</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Poor Hughie Drummond, Adjutant of Scots
+Fusilier Guards, killed in trenches.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Prince Victor, Thomas, and self rode to Balaclava.
+I to see Admiral; they to get material for
+a stable.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>One of my horses, “Vladimir,” was an “ever-lasting.”
+He had been captured on Balaclava
+day from Prince Vladimir’s regiment. He was
+savage, and one foreleg was held up to enable me to
+mount. He would jump anything I asked him.
+Prince Victor often had difficulty in keeping me in
+sight. He shod his own horses, and I think was
+sorry when the war was over.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Battle of
+Tchernaya,
+Aug.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Orders from headquarters to be prepared for a
+sortie, which, not coming off, enabled me to ride with
+Prince Victor to the Tchernaya, where a desperate
+attack was being made by the Russians on the Italians,
+the French going to their assistance. On the high
+ground on our way we met the dead and dying being
+brought up on mules, stretchers, and backs of men,
+then laid out in subdivided areas as most convenient
+for the French and English surgeons to get
+at. We descended to the river; the Russians, who
+had retreated to the high ground, continued to fire
+shot and shell on those who were helping the dying
+and wounded. The Tchernaya is a small river, but
+required a bridge to get over it. One of the painful
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_292">[292]</span>
+sights was the badly wounded trying to drag themselves
+to the river, calling for drink. While contemplating
+the body of a young Russian officer (judging
+from his uniform and spurs), whose upper jaw had
+been shot clean away, the lower had an uninjured
+row of white teeth, heard a voice over my shoulder,
+remarking, “Il ne mange plus.” Further on a
+Russian soldier had his left arm stretched out straight.
+Thought he must be alive and rode up, to find him
+stiff and dead. On a finger was a large ring.
+Without dismounting, drew it off, thinking I had a
+memento of the battle, but finding it was only brass,
+I was very near giving it back.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Notice from headquarters to be prepared for a
+determined assault on our Right Attack batteries.
+On my way met my late shipmate, Lieutenant Oldfield,
+weeping: a round shot had just taken his
+artillery brother’s head off! Our batteries, not
+having been formed at the same time, were somewhat
+irregular, and it had been necessary to prevent the
+men rushing from one battery to the assistance of
+another: a friendly hint was given from headquarters
+that our men should leave their muskets and side arms
+behind! We had a large battery, with three or four
+smaller, on each side. In the main battery I selected
+and made a pile of empty shell cases, forming a platform
+for self to stand on. Returning after final inspection,
+found Captain Hammett in possession of my pile.
+Caused him to dismount, though he seemed to object,
+but having learned which of the Russian batteries
+could bear on our own, I took possession. The
+ball had commenced. After a few minutes I called
+from the position, “Look out, a round shot direct
+for our battery.” Hammett gave the notice to the
+men, who sprang from either side, but did not move
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_294">[294]</span>
+himself. The shot touched the muzzle of the gun,
+and doubled up poor Hammett. There was a
+youngster bending over; I hoped there were not
+two down. Found the poor lad was sick at the
+sight of Hammett’s wounds. My gig’s crew bore
+him to our camp, some three miles off. Some one
+in camp with a telescope, seeing a gold lace cuff from
+under the stretcher borne by the Captain’s gig’s crew,
+announced my end. Total: five killed, nineteen
+wounded.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_293">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_293.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Plan of Sevastopol.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>In Naval
+Brigade,
+Aug.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Continued vigorous bombardment on our side,
+but enemy nearly shut up. Whole day on Right
+Attack. Six men only were wounded on Left
+Attack. Dined with Charlie Windham, the almost
+too plucky Brigadier General of Second Division.
+Met Duke of Newcastle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p><i>Sunday.</i>—Bombardment continuing. Getting
+used to narrow escapes; had two on Left Attack.
+Dog killed on Right Attack in afternoon. Redan
+much cut up, also Malakoff. General Barnard, staff
+and Steele to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Visit from Bob Stopford. Returned to usual
+routine of firing. Visited Left Attack. Sir Thomas
+Pasley and son coming there. Young Pasley just
+made a Commander to take Hammett’s place.
+Generals Barnard and Bentick to dine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Threatened sortie. Troops out. Visited Right
+Attack; fired some long range near the Russian
+three-decker and bridge, etc.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Lord Rokeby to show him our long
+range practice on Right Attack. But little time to
+go elsewhere. Dined with General Sir William Eyre
+to meet the Duke of Newcastle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Introduced Pasley to Right Attack. Not much
+going on. Threw several shot round, if not into
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_295">[295]</span>
+Russian ship. Mail arrived. Wynyard, Wenny,
+Connell, and others to dine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>To headquarters and Balaklava and hospital,
+Cossack Bay. Lieutenant Everett, severe wound in
+battery. General Sir William Eyre to dine.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Turned out at 2.30 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> to meet expected sortie.
+No go. Lord Rokeby and Wenny to dine.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_295">
+  <img class="h100" src="images/i_295.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>Inside the Naval Brigade Battery.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>In batteries at an early hour (3 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>). Billy
+Fyler and Fitzroy to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Grand meeting at headquarters to invest certain
+parties with order of G. and K.C.B. Visited Right
+Attack and demolished new works on the salient of
+Redan.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Lord Rokeby, who was, I might say, “all over
+the place,” had visited the French lines that extended
+from the Malakoff in the direction of Inkerman.
+The officers complained how annoyed they had been
+by a hole made by the Russians at the foot of the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_296">[296]</span>
+Malakoff, through which, on a dark night, they
+managed to creep, and having but the sky for a
+background, themselves unseen, managed to pick off
+the French sentries. Rokeby having spotted where
+the hole was, thought it was within range of our
+Naval Brigade batteries, and having found me, pointed
+out the fresh stopped hole. To make sure, I decided
+on visiting the place myself. Mounted my pony,
+found the French lines and tried to explain in bad
+French what I had come for. They assisted me
+through the stopped embrasure, at right angles with
+the Malakoff. I had not been there more than a
+minute than a “pat, pat” noise struck the bushes.
+It was a noise I had heard before, and thinking I had
+seen quite enough, struggled to get back, but found
+that instead of help, I was detained from within by
+pressure on the <em>soles of my boots</em>. I reserved the best
+French that I could think of until I got back, and
+then let out at my then comrades in the foulest
+French I could muster. They laughed good-humouredly!
+It being late I rode across an open
+space and was as near as possible spotted by a Russian
+round shot. I got back in time to point such guns
+as would bear on the spot; if it had not been for
+the good Rokeby I felt inclined to lay the guns in
+another direction.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_297'>[297]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LX'>CHAPTER LX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The Redan</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+Extract
+from letter
+home,
+Sept.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Our allies are not yet ready for the next and, I
+trust, final assault; their sap appears to touch the
+edge of the Malakoff. We, too, are not ready, being
+in want of ammunition. We are all anxious that
+something should be done, as we know not when to
+prepare for winter quarters. If the Malakoff falls,
+it must naturally be followed by that of the remaining
+works of the enemy. On the south side we shall
+advance somewhat nearer to our work. The Russians,
+too, appear to be preparing for a move. They have
+established a bridge across the harbour and are fast
+removing their goods and chattels. Everything leads
+us to suppose that the winter will not find us in our
+present position. The enemy will contest every inch
+of ground. We do not, on our side, grow wiser from
+experience. The other night our working party on the
+Right Attack was surprised and some taken prisoners
+by a small body of Russians who made a sortie.
+Officers have over and over again been surprised and
+taken prisoners while planting their advanced sentries
+at night by Russians lying concealed in the shrubs
+and grass. A little more care would have prevented
+this. My silly fellows unnecessarily expose themselves
+in spite of warnings and examples.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_298">[298]</span></p>
+
+<p>We have two casualties; besides, an amateur
+youngster from the <span class='ships'>Curaçoa</span> must mount the parapet
+and borrow a sergeant’s musket, to take a shot at a
+Russian. This young Gambier mounted on the top
+of the parapet, had a <span class='ships'>Miniè</span> ball through his thigh in a
+moment. One of my “Rodneys” got shot through
+the head yesterday, having gone outside the embrasure
+to pick up sticks to cook his dinner. Yesterday our
+bluejackets acted a play in the open air. Stage, the
+side of a hill; a ballet dancer did Taglioni to
+perfection. The Duke of Newcastle dined at our
+mess. Never enjoyed better health: lots of excitement
+and plenty to do. In fact I have knocked up
+in succession all my staff, viz. my A.D.C., secretary,
+and the stout Padre, “Thomas.” But I must not
+crow till out of the wood.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Rokeby, meeting John Dugdale
+Astley, Scots Fusilier Guards, returned with wound
+cured, and others. Was going to write a line; an
+unusual rattle of musketry announced a sortie.
+Galloped to our batteries, found them blazing away.
+The attack was on our right on the French, who,
+being well prepared, gave the Russians a dressing. I
+have not heard to what amount.</p>
+
+<p>I must beg allowance of my readers for difference
+of expression in the “Right” and “Left” Attack.
+Naval Brigade batteries faced Sevastopol, while the
+military maps faced inland.</p>
+
+<p>The moon was rising, and the outlines of hills,
+forts, and figures showing. In each trench, standing
+up with musket in hand, were several rows of our
+soldiers ready to jump at a call in support of those
+further in advance, or to attack should the French
+have driven the Russians back in that direction.
+But their attack had been on the Mamelon from the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_299">[299]</span>
+Malakoff. We were expecting and ready to repel a
+similar sortie from the Redan, but none came. When
+I reached the front Captain Pechell, only son of Sir
+George, Bart., R.N., had just been shot down with six
+men of the 77th. It is customary at night for each side
+to throw out sentries in advance directly it is dark
+enough to cover the persons so advancing. Just
+between the foot of the ditch outside the Redan and
+our advanced trenches there is a cave, the mouth of
+which faces towards the works on our right. Directly
+it is dark the object between the Russians and ourselves
+is to try which can first get possession of it.
+We have generally succeeded, but last night the
+officer of the 88th, who went to take possession,
+mistook his way. Pechell, who had been in it before,
+volunteered, but it was then too late, the Russians
+being in possession, and at same time entirely hid by
+the darkness of the cave; they allowed Pechell and his
+six men to approach near enough to make sure, and
+then potted them all.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>A bombardment, in earnest, commenced at 6
+this morning; at 11.30, the usual resting-time of the
+Russians, the French surprised and carried the Malakoff.
+Our attempt on the Redan was to follow the
+hoisting of the French flag on the Malakoff, which
+was too late for any further surprises. We could
+now see clearly what our Naval Brigade had to do.
+Leaving the higher batteries, I went down to our
+extreme left, on the real Right Attack, and found a
+fresh battery had been made during the night by
+engineers, and in charge of a young artillery officer.
+I had already been advised at headquarters that our
+men should leave their small arms behind. General
+Simpson may have heard that on a previous occasion,
+when the Naval Brigade were told off to carry the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_300">[300]</span>
+scaling ladders under the gallant Peel, directly they
+observed the slope of the Redan fortification they
+proposed to drop the ladders, saying they could get
+in better without them. After visiting the main
+batteries, where my most experienced hands were,
+I joined our later, extended battery. We made a
+bad beginning, inasmuch as our magazine was blown
+up, which rendered eight guns less effective.</p>
+
+<p>The rush for the Redan had now commenced, and
+in the excitement our men wanted to draw the stakes
+out of the gabions, and to rush in. I noticed, on
+high ground to my left, the two Generals, Simpson
+and Gascoigne, one wounded in the head. Directly
+opposite, within 300 yards, was a Russian battery
+playing on our men; half the effect of our battery
+was spoilt by being unable to fire, except by dropping
+shots into the Russians opposite. Shortly after an
+A.D.C. came galloping, giving me an order to
+“cease firing.” Our soldiers were being mowed
+down, chiefly by grape shot. The young artillery
+officer had ceased firing. I ran to his small battery
+and inquired the reason. He, too, had received
+orders, same effect. I told him I had received the
+same, but on no account to cease firing, and offered
+to send as many spare hands as he could employ,
+which he accepted. The Russians used grape shot,
+which came hopping along, many of them stopping
+in the ditch in front of our battery. The bombardment
+was kept up till sunset. Augustus Fitzroy,
+whose battery was on our left, on returning to camp
+joined two of our officers who preferred the open.
+Before reaching his tent he was knocked over by a
+bullet, which must have come from the Redan; the
+Russians having returned to that end, which the
+gallant Windham had held.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_301">[301]</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figleft" id="i_301">
+  <img class="v20" src="images/i_301.jpg" alt="">
+  <figcaption>“Redan” Windham.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Windham was one of my oldest friends; we were
+boys together and remained friends till his death,
+February 2, 1870, at the early age of fifty-nine. He
+was properly called the Hero of the Redan, for by
+his gallant bearing on that day he did much to
+retrieve our good name. Dead against the first attack
+himself, its numbers, place, etc. etc., he nevertheless
+led it in the most gallant
+manner, being first in
+the work—and after his
+three messengers had been
+disabled had the <em>moral</em>
+courage to go back himself
+and solicit reinforcements.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Early this morning
+visited Sir Colin Campbell;
+a few Highlanders
+had during the night
+crept into the Redan and
+found it deserted. On
+Sir Colin’s invitation we
+rode into the Redan
+by the salient angle.
+Horrors met us at every step. Two instances
+of faithful, but half-starved dogs were sitting
+on bodies, from which no coaxing could draw
+them. In a small hut on a table, leaning against the
+wall, was a Russian officer, looking smart in his
+uniform; on my speaking to him I found that he
+was dead. In the higher part noticed excavations
+and could trace wires for explosions. Sevastopol had
+been evacuated during the night—magazines blown
+up—town blazing—ships sank—others on fire. The
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_302">[302]</span>
+Russians had put themselves on the safe side of the
+harbour by blowing up the east end of the floating
+bridge. Strolling about I found myself close to the
+ground floor of a hospital. On entering I was
+between two long rows of Russian soldiers, dead and
+dying, on broad wooden stretchers. I will not
+attempt to describe the horrors, but each body was in
+a position as if trying to escape. At the further end
+I found a young English officer in uniform who said
+he had been expecting us some time—he was wandering
+in his mind. A flag of truce was hoisted about
+noon. The Russians sent steamers to remove their
+dead and dying. One, the <span class='ships'>Vladimir</span>, was commanded,
+I think, by Captain Etholin, who had done
+a gallant thing earlier in the war by capturing
+and taking into the harbour an English transport
+that had grounded in sight of our combined fleets.
+While the truce flag was up I moved three guns
+down to the edge of the harbour. When the Russian
+steamers had landed their dead and dying and returned
+to their moorings, in front of where we stood
+in a sort of hostile parade, one of the three Naval
+Brigade guns went off and smashed <span class='ships'>Vladimir’s</span>
+quarter boat. That same night we were building a
+screen, from behind which we could destroy any
+attempt at landing to interfere with our newly
+appointed Governor, Charles Windham. At midnight,
+superintending the work, I observed the
+<span class='ships'>Vladimir</span> make a move in our direction. Not a
+sound from on board. When she got near mid-channel,
+she stopped and gradually turned with her
+head up the harbour. When broadside on I gave
+the order to lie down behind our newly made screen,
+whereupon <span class='ships'>Vladimir</span> quietly settled herself at the
+bottom of the harbour, leaving nothing but the upper
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_303">[303]</span>
+masts. It was from the foremast of that ship that
+all flags of truce and communications were made.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Word was sent to me that poor Augustus Fitzroy’s
+wound was considered mortal. Wrote to
+prepare his father for the sad event, and then to
+receive his last instructions. Poor dear, unlucky,
+gallant fellow. I had known the whole family from
+the time I had landed, as a skeleton boy, at the Cape
+of Good Hope in 1827. In pain I took down the
+items as he wished them to be disposed of: poor boy!
+They were but few. He was buried on Cathcart’s
+Hill with full military honours, in the grave next to
+Sir Robert Newman, which I had made big enough
+to hold two.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>The inspection of the evacuated forts showed how
+destructive had been the fire of our batteries and
+how great a share the Naval Brigade had in the Fall
+of Sevastopol. It is an immense place, but there was
+not a spot where our shot had not penetrated. It
+was a sad spectacle; so precipitate had been the
+Russian retreat that they had cut off the communication
+by their bridge and left some 2000 wounded in
+barracks. Looking at the mastheads of their line-of-battle
+ships, and the still smoking ruins of their
+public buildings, I was in hopes that this would
+bring the war to a conclusion.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>Naval Brigade ordered to prepare for re-embarking.
+Was frequently in the artillery camp arranging details.</p>
+
+<p>One morning, in the Colonel’s marquee, we noticed
+a sailor coming from the town. As he was steering
+wildly, I thought it best to retire into the shade.
+The Colonel asked where he was from: if he had
+any loot. He replied he had not, and added, “To-morrow,
+I intends to ewacuate the Crimea.”</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_304'>[304]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LXI'>CHAPTER LXI</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">After Fall of Sevastopol</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1855.
+Sevastopol,
+Sept.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>The breaking up for embarkation of our Brigade
+was a curious scene. First started off 160 mules,
+with baggage, etc. Such a collection! Then came
+our men, divided into three divisions, according to
+their destinations. I go to the <span class='ships'>Rodney</span> at Kazatch,
+and officers to the different ships at Balaklava. Two
+regiments kindly sent their bands: the 14th, in which
+my brother was at Waterloo, and the 18th Royal
+Irish with ours. The Naval Brigade went with flags
+of all descriptions flying, and no end of cheering—with
+“one more for Captain <em>Kaple</em>.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>The more I visit the Russian works and town of
+Sevastopol, the more wonderful does everything connected
+with the siege appear. One hardly knows
+which is the most extraordinary—the perfect destruction
+of every building in the town by shot and
+shell, or the stupendous works erected by the Russians
+for their defence. The Redan and Malakoff are
+nothing compared to the Flagstaff and Garden
+Batteries. The latter were impregnable, and might
+have held out any length of time. The Malakoff was
+taken by surprise by the French, as they had done the
+Mamelon. Of all, the Redan appeared the least difficult
+to assault—but that is a subject we all try to
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_305">[305]</span>
+forget. Of our generals, Colonel, now Brigadier-General
+Charles Windham, comes out the best. The
+Russians have left vast stores of guns, etc., they could
+not, in their haste, carry away.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Little Harry (Stephenson), with symptoms of fever,
+on board <span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, despatched at once with Thompson
+to Serapia Hospital. Dined with Windham as
+Governor in city of Sevastopol. A shell burst
+within ten yards as I mounted pony to go home.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Visited with General Barnard, La Marmora’s look-out
+houses over the Tchernaya and adjacent country.
+On Saturday pitched my tent near General Barnard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Hugh Rose sent me from French headquarters the
+two last captured Cossack spears. (The last I saw of
+them was at Sir Thomas Whichcote’s, Ashwerby Park,
+to which I afterwards added a link of the chain that
+formed the slings of the main yard of the <i>Twelve
+Apostles</i>.)</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Having exchanged with Moorsom, Connell found
+an artillery waggon for my traps, rode down to
+Balaclava, taking up quarters on board <span class='ships'>Læander</span>. My
+servant, having left Bury’s much-valued clock in tent,
+sent him back.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Like my Admiral, and like having work to do.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Took Washington and his son a ride on to
+Balaclava Plain, and round by headquarters.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Commenced duties as Flag Captain. Dockyard
+affording amusement, especially erection of stables.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Sid Skipwith and I dining with Methven, commanding
+P. and O. <span class='ships'>Colombo</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Busy embarking Royal Marines, the finest body
+of men now in the Crimea.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Embarking troops. Rode in afternoon with the
+Duberlys, 8th Hussars, to Baidar to hear the
+Sardinian Band.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_306">[306]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Cavalry and horse artillery embarking for
+Eupatoria. Lady Paulet on board <span class='ships'>Oscar</span>. Lord
+William Paulet to stay with Admiral.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Put box with poor Augustus Fitzroy’s bequests
+on board <span class='ships'>Ripon</span> for conveyance to his sister, Hon.
+Mrs. Keith Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Rode over to Kazatch to ascertain means for embarkation
+of Highland Brigade.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with the Duberlys, Windham and St. George
+Foley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Dinner at a Kamiesch restaurant—Duberlys,
+Vansittart, St. George Foley, Charlie Windham,
+and Lewis and Earle, A.D.C.’s, Prince Victor and
+Thompson, Sir William Gordon and Lord Dunkellin.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Dined on board <span class='ships'>Belgravia</span> with Lady Paulet,
+Mrs. Mitchell and Lady Manson.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Review of cavalry and horse artillery: none like
+them in the world: near 3000 strong.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Picnic at Baidar—<span class='ships'>Belgravian</span> ladies, Prince Victor,
+T. Duberly, etc. Former lost their way coming back.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Started with Thompson for Kazatch. My “Rajah”
+kicking him in play, had him carried off on stretcher
+to Connell’s camp.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>We formed a cheery party for a ride towards
+Bilbek, consisting of Prince Victor, the Duberlys,
+Mark Kerr, Coleraine, Vansittart, and self, about 13
+miles distant. The country hilly, grassy, and bushy;
+weather perfect. The attendants had arranged our
+picnic on a flat space on a hilly point. We had arranged
+ourselves to feed, when one of our party found we
+had disturbed a cavalry vedette of our own countrymen
+on an adjacent point. A ravine between, they
+could not conveniently get at us.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter" id="i_307">
+  <a href='images/i_307.jpg'><img class="v100" src="images/i_307-t.jpg" alt=""></a>
+  <p>Sketched from life by Hon. Col. W. Colville. 1855.</p>
+  <figcaption>A Vidette of Cossacks.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>While things were getting ready rode to the
+western edge of our selected spot and found we had
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_307">[307]</span>
+likewise disturbed a nest of Cossacks. Our small
+party were not long in packing up this nice little
+picnic. Being well mounted, I waited to take a farewell
+peep, and from my position saw a greasy Cossack,
+about 30 feet below me, looking about with his
+carbine across his saddle, I suppose for something to
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_308">[308]</span>
+eat. Being hungry myself, I overtook our party
+about to picnic a quarter of a mile off, Mark Kerr
+riding, as usual, without his hat.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied Lady Paulet to breakfast with
+Windham. Rode afterwards to Kazatch; dined with
+Beauchamp Seymour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfast with Sir E. Lyons. Transacted business,
+rode back to Balaclava, putting up a large covey of
+partridges by the way.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>8th Hussars embarking. Shall miss them and
+Mrs. Duberly.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>With Wenny Coke to look after covey of partridges
+seen by me. While preparing luncheon, observed
+a French soldier stalking a bird that flew from
+bush to bush. Asked Wenny to shoot the bird for
+him while I prepared luncheon. When he came
+back I asked if the man was pleased. He replied,
+“I don’t know! I have the bird in my pocket.” I
+said “What a brute you are,” when he produced a
+woodcock, which we at once cooked.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>With my Admiral to headquarters. Took leave
+of General Sir James Simpson, also Willy Colville,
+who accompanies him to England. Mark Kerr was
+there. Admiral and I dined with Dupuis.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>A fearful explosion between 3 and 4 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> in
+French Artillery Park, near the Mill. Rode over,
+sad sight. Loaded shells bursting, contents flying
+in a horizontal direction about seven feet from the
+ground, killing almost every horse that was on its legs.
+It being dinner hour most officers escaped. There
+was a large windmill used as a powder magazine. It
+was a sight to see the gallant engineers mounting
+ladders with wet blankets to nail on the outside of
+the Mill, to prevent falling fire igniting powder. I
+got so excited that I found myself letting go the
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_309">[309]</span>
+reins to clasp my hands over my cap, as if that
+could preserve my brain box from falling fragments
+of shell. There was no distinction of nationality.
+It is fortunate that the first horizontal explosion took
+place while officers were dining. I was still looking
+on, when a working party of the 18th Royal Irish
+came rushing and formed up. I asked the sergeant
+what they were waiting for. He answered “Orders.”
+I said, “That was not your form when we were in
+China, and danger in sight.” They were off at
+once, officers and all, into the igniting shells. Nearly
+the last wounded I saw was a young officer carried on
+a stretcher, the boots on his legs heels uppermost.
+I think his name was Dashwood: a more painful
+sight than any fight. Thirty tons of powder lately
+arrived from England were destroyed.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Rode with my Admiral over to Kazatch to visit
+Commander-in-Chief; with him to take last look at
+Sevastopol Docks before destruction. Russians still
+numerous on north side.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of Wenny Coke.—homeward bound.
+Party to dine: Steele and Rose.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Vansittart, taking his departure, leaves me his
+horse to forward to his mother.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Young Dalyell makes his appearance from Constantinople.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>From prisoners that had been exchanged, it appeared
+that the Russians made a difference in their
+treatment of those they took prisoners and those
+who allowed themselves to be taken. They treated
+the latter with great contempt, and used them ill.
+The <cite>Times</cite> paid a just tribute to the manly bearing
+of the officers of the Russian army. The naval
+officers—some of them—were fine fellows.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_310">[310]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Dirty appearance of weather. My Admiral agreeing
+to remain on shore another day, took two
+youngsters, Wellesley and Molyneux, to see steeple
+chase. Weather turning fine. Sport very good.
+Rode back with boys to dine with Sir Edmund
+Lyons.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied my Admiral to headquarters, then
+to Kazatch to stay with Sir E. Lyons, and meet
+Curzon and St. George Foley and Beauchamp
+Seymour. Jolly dinner.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>St. George Foley, Lord Raglan’s A.D.C., died
+whilst Governor of Gibraltar.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Function on board French ships in memory of
+Admiral Bruat, <span class='ships'>Royal Albert</span> firing 59 guns.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Visit from Cecil Rice—6 feet 2.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to front. Young Willy Barnard ill. Mail
+in. Sir E. Lyons a full Admiral: am so glad.
+Confidential despatch summoning him to a conference
+in Paris, also Pellissier and La Marmora.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Accompanied my Admiral to headquarters.
+Admiral and I dined with Hardinge, meeting
+Generals Barnard and Dupuis.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>My Admiral, Prince Victor, and self to Kazatch,
+on a visit to Sir E. Lyons. Brigadier Spencer and
+large party to dinner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Across to Kaimesch to see Inglefield’s sketches
+and walk with him. Hugh Rose joined dinner
+party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Snow and frost, slippery riding. Returned to
+Balaklava.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Thousands upon thousands of that beautiful bird
+the bustard (there are two sorts, one much larger),
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_311">[311]</span>
+continually passing over to the northward. Several
+of them shot from the heights in time for Christmas.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to headquarters. George Cadogan and I
+to Kazatch on visit to Beauchamp Seymour. Found
+Fitz Berkeley. We making jolly quartette on board
+<span class='ships'>Meteor</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Ate my Christmas dinner with Charlie Windham:
+jolly party. Letter from Sir Charles Wood, offering
+me division of gunboats: the thing of all others I
+most coveted! Took passage in <span class='ships'>Orinoco</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Rode up with my Admiral to headquarters to take
+leave: uncommon good luncheon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Mail in from England. My name in papers as
+Commodore!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of my kind chief and Seymour, the
+latter agreeing to go as my captain in case of my
+being a real Commodore. Embarked on board
+<span class='ships'>Orinoco</span> at 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> from Balaklava.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Came to, in afternoon, in the entrance to the
+Golden Horn. Dined with Borlase on board <span class='ships'>Melapus</span>,
+42, to meet the Admiral, Sir Houston-Stewart.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Constantinople,
+Dec.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>No end of friends going both ways. Misseri’s
+full; H. de Bathe on way to Crimea. At Embassy
+found Lady George Paget; Lady Powlett at
+Misseri’s. Dined with Admiral on board <span class='ships'>Hannibal</span>.
+Met there the Turkish Admiral, our Adolphus Slade.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_312'>[312]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LXII'>CHAPTER LXII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Arrival from Crimea—Thence in <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>—Shore
+Time</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1856.
+Jan.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Constantinople.—Put up at Misseri’s Hotel, when
+Dalrymple Hay, of Flagship, announced that <span class='ships'>Orinoco</span>
+only waited for Captain Keppel. Adieu to Constantinople.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Malta,
+Jan.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived early in Malta. Found Lady Talbot,
+Lady Victoria looking beautiful, but, I fear, not long
+for this world. Charlie Talbot dining with me. To
+opera, and re-embarked.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Steamed at an early hour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>England,
+Jan.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Passed through the Needles passage a little before
+8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> Landed at Southampton and started for
+London by train. Dined with Stephenson, felt there
+was “no place like home.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Jan.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>First visit to the Admiralty; well received.
+Found myself appointed to <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> and division
+of gunboats. Relieving old schoolfellow,
+Captain Robinson. Dined with Sir Maurice
+Berkeley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Business at Admiralty, carpet-bag full of letters,
+no rest. Dined with First Lord; Lords Lansdowne
+and Stanley there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>By ’bus to visit Dowager Lady Albemarle at
+Twickenham; met Edwards, her trainer.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_313">[313]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Georgie Kennedy at Northbank. Jolly
+family dinner at Stephenson’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Called on Lady Fremantle and Lady William
+Paget, Arundels and Sir Edmund Lyons. By rail to
+Portsmouth. Lodgings at Chambers on the Hard.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth,
+Jan.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>No uniform to hand, nevertheless visited privately
+Admiral Sir George Seymour and Admiral-Superintendent
+W. F. Martin. On board <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> and
+<span class='ships'>Rodney</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Took up commission for <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>. Seven gunboats
+defective. Dined with Admiral-Superintendent.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Got through two courts-martial on engineer and
+assistant-paymaster, both pleading guilty, thereby
+saving our time, but not their sentences. D’Eyncourt,
+Bowyear, Moorsom, and Clifford taking chop with
+me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Early telegraph from Lord Arundel, that Sir E.
+Lyons dined at home. But post brought order to
+dine with Her Majesty at Windsor! Just saved my
+bacon, buying a pair of shoes as I passed through
+London.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Windsor
+Castle,
+Feb.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Invited by H.R.H. Prince Albert to shoot.
+Borrowed coat of Colonel Bowater. Shooting perfect.
+Back by 2 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> Visited Duchess of Kent at
+Frogmore. Went over Castle armoury, etc. Took
+Mrs. Phipps into dinner. Prince Albert taking
+leave over night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>By 10 o’clock train to London. Attended John
+Robb’s wedding and breakfast.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Long chat with Sir James Graham. At Harry
+Stephenson’s, another family gathering. Leicester
+and his brothers there. Edward Coke and wife,
+Archie Macdonald and wife, all jolly and happy.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Feb.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Duke of Cambridge. All Crimean
+men. Have seldom seen a meeting of twelve men so
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_314">[314]</span>
+well satisfied with their dinner as well as with one
+another.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Baldwin Walker.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Feb.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Ascertained by this day’s <cite>Gazette</cite> that I was to
+have the C.B.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>By 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> train to Portsmouth. In same carriage
+as George Lennox; dined with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth,
+Feb.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Handsome mention made of me by Sir Charles
+Wood in house last night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Saturday,
+Feb.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>By train to London.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with First Lord.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>I must now take my readers back fourteen years,
+when the decorations on the conclusion of the China
+war came out. My good father, not understanding
+the rules of the Service, seeing that I was the only
+captain not to receive the C.B., wrote privately to
+the then First Lord, Lord Haddington. A correspondence
+ensued admitting the hardness of my case,
+Lord Haddington informing my father that I should
+have the first vacancy. On my arrival from the
+East Indian Station (which then included China) in
+1845, my father gave me this correspondence. On
+leaving England in the <span class='ships'>Mæander</span> for the same
+station, without keeping any copy, I respectfully
+enclosed the letters to Lord Auckland, and have no
+doubt they were transferred to the Private Secretary’s
+Clerk’s office, and may be there now.</p>
+
+<p>But to return to the present. My predecessor in
+command of the Naval Brigade in the Crimea, on his
+promotion, received the K.C.B. and returned to
+England. Sir Edmund Lyons appointed me to
+succeed Lushington. I felt that my command of
+the Brigade having terminated successfully I might
+receive a similar distinction.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_315">[315]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Early to see my friend Berkeley at the Admiralty,
+who, having well considered the case, took me into
+the presence of the First Lord, Sir Charles Wood.
+With him was his brother-in-law Sir Frederick Grey.
+Admiral Berkeley having clearly stated my case, the
+First Lord, rather excited, addressed me.</p>
+
+<p>“Perhaps, Captain Keppel, you would like me to
+explain to Her Majesty that you would rather decline
+the C.B.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “Exactly, sir, I feel more distinguished
+as I am.”</p>
+
+<p>Admiral Berkeley here interfered, saying, “Keppel,
+we are old friends. The order comes so directly
+from Her Majesty that you cannot decline it without
+offence.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “Many thanks, sir, that is the last thing
+I would do.” Made my bow and retired.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Attended levee. Dined with De Cliffords. Dance
+at Lady John Russell’s. Evening party at Lady
+Mary Woods: everybody there!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Feb.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Attended Installation of the Order of the Bath
+at Buckingham Palace; was decorated with the
+Companionship by Her Majesty!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Mar.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with brother George to meet my new,
+pretty niece Sophy Bury.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>By train to Portsmouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Inspected gunboats at Motherbank. Dined with
+Fred Pelham to meet Admiral Hon. Sir R. Dundas.
+Getting <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> cabin ready. Mid-day visit to
+Motherbank.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth,
+Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>On usual morning attendance on the Commander-in-Chief.
+Sir George, looking unusually serious, said:
+“I am afraid I must address you as ‘Captain Keppel.’
+I have repeatedly spoken about the carelessness of
+officers in command of gunboats, and now I find
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_316">[316]</span>
+that one of your Division has been trying to break
+through Ryde Pier. Now the damage done by
+them, chiefly at night, averages £85 per week.” I
+was sorry, and ventured to ask how he knew the
+culprit belonged to my Division? He replied, “By
+the number on the bow.” To which I said, “I beg
+your pardon, sir, the most mischievous of these young
+scamps, when going at night where they ought not,
+carry spare boards with any number on them but their
+own.” He rang the bell and sent for the board,
+which luckily proved to be that of the only gunboat
+that was, and had been fitting alongside the <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>!
+I think the Admiral was as pleased as myself at the
+mistake. Clifford and I dined with Hope to meet
+Sir Richard Dundas, now our Baltic Chief.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>On a visit to my kinsman H. H. Lindsay at
+West Dean, a charming place in Sussex.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Palm Sunday. Afternoon walked to Goodwood,
+Duke and Duchess out. Lady Cecilia looking lovely;
+Lady William Paget charming. Got drenched
+walking back.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Early train, <i lang='la'>via</i> Chichester, to Portsmouth. Of
+course, plenty to attend to. <span class='ships'>Pelter</span>, commanded by
+Lieutenant H. Round, my gunboat for the week.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Shifted shore quarters to Portland Hotel. Dined
+with Commander-in-Chief.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>To the Motherbank. Got Division under weigh
+round the Nab. Some successful manœuvring.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>By afternoon train to Chichester. Met at station
+by George Lennox. With him to Goodwood. So
+kindly received. Most enjoyable.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Goodwood,
+Mar.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Easter Sunday. To morning service. Walk after
+church to West Dean to luncheon. Walked back,
+having taken another pleasanter walk with the excellent
+Duchess.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_317">[317]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1856.
+Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Lords March and George Lennox returning with
+me for a cruise in gunboats. Flotilla under weigh.
+They much pleased. Dined with Commander-in-Chief.
+First Lord and Admiral Berkeley there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Admiralty Lords in <span class='ships'>Black Eagle</span>. <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> and
+gunboats under weigh by signal, and proceeded in
+company to Portland. Lord Mulgrave, H. Corry,
+and party on board. Dined on board <span class='ships'>Black Eagle</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portland,
+Mar.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfasted on board <span class='ships'>Black Eagle</span>. Inspected
+with First Lord the works in progress. Easterly
+wind, too strong for gunboats to return with <i>Black
+Eagle</i>. Dined with Lord Mulgrave on board
+<span class='ships'>Titania</span> yacht. Slept where I dined.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>On board <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> to breakfast.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Luncheon with Lady Hastings. Montagu
+Thomas taking me to Dorchester. By rail to
+Southampton and Portsmouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Portsmouth.</div>
+
+<p>Luncheon with Cousin Cecilia Yorke. <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>
+with gunboats arriving in afternoon from Portland.
+Reported them and self to Admiral.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Peace proclaimed at Paris; great illuminations and
+rejoicings.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Took up quarters on board <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> in harbour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Stanley Graham joined ship and dined with me.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>My White Division giving a ball at Ryde. The
+best that had been given, so they all said!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Slept at Ryde Pier Hotel for a few hours. Went
+to Lady Hastings with cousin Cecilia.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Conqueror</span>, <span class='ships'>Exmouth</span>, and <span class='ships'>Dee</span>. Commander-in-Chief
+came out in <span class='ships'>Fire Queen</span>, and
+inspected position of gunboats.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Spithead,
+Apr.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>11 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed, and proceeded to Spithead to
+take station in line with the fleet in Port Division.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Imperieuse</span> and <span class='ships'>Desperate</span> arrived and took
+station.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_318">[318]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Euryalus</span> and <span class='ships'>Falcon</span>. Division of gunboats
+under weigh exercising.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived <span class='ships'>Pylades</span>, <span class='ships'>Amphion</span>, and <span class='ships'>Centurion</span>. 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Fleet
+weighed to exercise. Sir George Seymour’s flag
+flying in <span class='ships'>Arrogant</span>. Stood round pivot-ship, and
+returned to station in line at Spithead.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Rodney</span> and <span class='ships'>London</span>, took station as pivot-ships off
+the Nab.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Sea-horse</span> arrived. Gunboats arriving daily.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Spithead,
+Apr.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Grand Review of the whole Fleet. Noon, fired
+Royal Salute as Her Majesty passed up between the
+two lines, followed by the four Divisions of gunboats.
+First and Second Division leading with two gunboats
+each, making four abreast. As soon as the gunboats
+had passed through and divided to starboard and
+port round the headmost ships of the Line, the whole
+Fleet weighed and stood to the southward, and so
+round the pivot-ships. The gunboats having taken
+position in front of Southsea beach afterwards opened
+fire on a signal from Royal Yacht. Her Majesty
+returned into harbour under a second Royal Salute
+from the whole Fleet, the ships coming to an anchor
+in prescribed order. 9 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—The whole Fleet
+illuminated and burnt rockets.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>4.30 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed with the White Division, ran
+down to Spithead for orders. 5.30.—Proceeded to
+eastward.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Apr.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Communicated in gunboats with Dover. 10.40.—Rounded
+to in the Downs and received pilot. Ran
+through Princes Channel. 8.10.—Came to off the
+Little Nore. White Division in company.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>6.20 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Weighed with White Division.
+Saluted flag of Rear-Admiral Honourable William
+Gordon, and proceeded into harbour. Moored
+on north side. Proceeded by permission to London.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_319">[319]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Boulogne,
+May&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>The proclamation of peace affected movements of
+Division of gunboats, which had been destined to
+take part in operations in the Baltic. After breakfast
+to Admiralty. Offer of Broad Pennant in
+India. Would a duck like a swim! By steamer to
+Boulogne. Friend Admiral Julien de Gravière on
+board. We lunched on board Sir John Bayley’s
+yacht <span class='ships'>Nymph</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> steamer to Folkestone. By train to Shoreditch,
+so to Romford; met by Mark Wood, with
+him to his place, Bishop’s Hall, and his charming
+wife, Miss Williams that was. Lady Thorold too,
+from Lincolnshire, so sorry could not stay longer.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>To Sheerness, dined with the Vice-Admiral, Sir
+William Gordon, a dear steady old gentleman: at
+table, good for five hours. He had invited Frank
+Scott and Henry Yorke to dinner. Usual routine
+with division of gunboats.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>On arriving at St. George’s Place, Harry Stephenson
+informed me that <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> had sailed for Crimea.
+At Admiralty, ascertained that <span class='ships'>Royal George</span> and
+<span class='ships'>Colossus</span> had passed the Downs. I being on leave,
+Captain Robinson had been reappointed to <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>.
+Telegraphed to detain <span class='ships'>Centurion</span> or <span class='ships'>Royal George</span> for
+me at Plymouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>By 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> train, arriving 2 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> at Morshead’s,
+Plymouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Daylight brought in <span class='ships'>Royal George</span>, <span class='ships'>Colossus</span> having
+passed on. Found that my telegraph to Torquay had
+effected what I wanted. At 8 sailed in <span class='ships'>Royal George</span>
+from Plymouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>At Sea,
+June&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Making a fine weather passage. An idler I.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Once more the Rock of Gibraltar in sight.
+9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Came to in the Bay. Went on shore to the
+good George Greys, 10 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—<span class='ships'>Colossus</span> arrived.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_320">[320]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Stewart Paget coming on board for a cruise. 7
+<span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed and steamed out of the Bay.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Malta,
+June&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived in Malta. Ship coaled and ready before
+dark, but a little rest for stokers necessary.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Cast off from buoy, 4 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Once again in the Archipelago, having passed
+Cape St. Angelo in middle watch. Should have
+been at Queen’s Ball to-night “if not otherwise
+engaged.”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Entered the Dardanelles. Met <span class='ships'>Queen</span> full of
+troops in tow of <span class='ships'>Terrible</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>In the Sea of Marmora. 1 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Anchored in
+the Golden Horn.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Weighed; ordered by Rear-Admiral Sir
+F. Grey to tow transport up the Bosphorus!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Crimea,
+June&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored off Kazatch. In Comber’s steamer
+<span class='ships'>Viper</span> to Sevastopol Harbour. Visited north side,
+from maintop of <span class='ships'>Twelve Apostles</span>, brought away
+slings of main yard. Went over fortifications,
+docks, Malakoff and Redan. Rode to Cathcart’s
+Hill. Visited graves of my two friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Luncheon at headquarters. With Charlie Windham
+to Balaclava. Dined with Freemantle, and
+slept on board <span class='ships'>Leander</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Colossus</span> off the harbour by 7.30. Embarked
+754 officers and men of the 44th Regiment. Old
+friend Colonel Charles Stanley in command. Out
+and away at 10.30. Percy Herbert and Romaine on
+board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Ran past Constantinople during the afternoon,
+telegraphing to Flag, without stopping, the regiment
+and number of troops on board. Clear away without
+a trooper in tow!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Centurion</span> full of fuel, and with a clean bottom,
+steamed past us this morning in an unpleasant
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_321">[321]</span>
+manner. Clear of Dardanelles. Found a slashing
+north-easter blowing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>I have often thought how easy it would have
+been with our united fleets to have stopped up
+the mouth of Sevastopol Harbour between Forts
+Nicholas and St. Michael. We had material enough
+in useless old ships to block the entrance assisted
+by the débris from the aforesaid Forts, where during
+the winter months, mud washed down from the rivers
+and adjacent streams would have formed a lake, to
+be continually renewed until it became arable, and in
+some future time the farmer’s plough might strike
+the <span class='ships'>Vladimir’s</span> funnel or remove the head of the
+<span class='ships'>Twelve Apostles</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>June&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Passed through the Doro passage in middle watch
+and rounded Cape St. Angelo.</p>
+
+<p>Fuel falling short: obliged to economize, always
+a bore! Was in too great a hurry passing Constantinople.
+Divine Service to troops and seamen.</p>
+
+<p>4 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Fell in with a collier consigned to French
+Government, she not knowing of her whereabouts
+eased her of fifty tons.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Malta,
+July&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived at Malta before 8 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> Admiral the
+Hon. Sir Montague Stopford in command. Coaled,
+and off by 4 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Rounded Cape Bon. Impatient I!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>6 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>—Anchored at Gibraltar. While coaling
+passed time pleasantly enough between George Grey
+and Pagets. Dined with the General. Got everybody
+on board by 11 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> Weighed at midnight.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Spithead,
+July&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>At daylight passed the Needles, and at an early
+hour anchored at Spithead, within two hours of
+<span class='ships'>Centurion</span>. George Lennox dined with me on board,
+returned his binoculars. Her Majesty passing
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_322">[322]</span>
+through Spithead came close by <span class='ships'>Colossus</span>. Great
+cheering.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Spithead,
+July&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Disembarked troops. No men could have behaved
+better than our 44th throughout the voyage.
+Dined with the good Admiral, Sir George Seymour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Colossus</span> coming into harbour, accompanied
+Admiral and family to Cowes. Wrote my name in
+lodge-book at Osborne.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>By 2.30 train to London; put up with Harry
+Stephenson. To Haymarket, by appointment with
+Lord William Paget.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Edward Eyre to breakfast. Hack cab to
+Twickenham to dine with Dowager Lady Albemarle.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Letter from Sir Charles Wood announcing his
+intention of giving me a broad pennant in India.
+Started by train for Chichester. Thomas and I to
+Goodwood Races. Sent traps to West Dean, walked
+there from races.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Goodwood,
+July&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>To Goodwood Races. Met many friends: George
+Payne, Admiral Rous, T. Whichcote, Crosbie, Joseph
+Hawley, Colonel Vansittart, etc. Dined at Goodwood.
+Found General Barnard on return to West
+Dean.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>July&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Cup Day. Sent traps to Goodwood and took up
+quarters which had been vacated by H.R.H. Duke
+of Cambridge. Dinner for sixty each day.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Another splendid day. After races went to West
+Dean to take leave. Duchess and party to Chichester
+Ball.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>To Drayton Station by 8.30 train to London.
+Lost portmanteau. To club; met General Barnard.
+At Antrobus with Romaine to Jack Templer, and
+arranged the foundation of a reconciliation between
+Brooke and the Eastern Archipelago Company—a
+most desirable event. Back to London Bridge Station—no
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_323">[323]</span>
+tidings of lost portmanteau—horrid bore!
+By 4.30 train to Snodlands and Leyburn Grange.
+Found Georgie and Sara Hawley, Coleraine and
+Diana coming afterwards. A love of a place this
+Grange. Everything in good taste and perfect
+order.</p>
+
+<p>Interesting inspection of Hawley’s extensive
+paddocks. Dinner and cooking in keeping with
+everything else in this cheery spot.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Commander-in-Chief. Dined with Cashers.
+Portmanteau recovered by the good “Thomas”<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> at
+Drayton Station.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;8.</div>
+
+<p>To Cowes Regatta Ball with Lady Montagu and
+Miss Leeds. Good ball.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Started for Portsmouth. Went on board <i>Royal
+George</i>. Found Henry Yorke in sick bay with
+sprained ankle. Brought him on shore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>“Thomas” and I by steamer to Cowes Regatta.
+Sailed in Frankland’s <span class='ships'>Stella</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Visited Admiral, who gave me his likeness.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>With Admiral in <span class='ships'>Fire Queen</span> to Spithead, he
+visiting Sardinian and Dutch frigates. To an afternoon
+<i lang='fr'>déjeûner</i> at Lord and Lady Downes at beautiful
+Binstead.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Made calls with Henry Seymour. Dined with
+Admiral Sir George Seymour to meet Dutch officers,
+he taking us all to Southsea rooms. Dancing!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Admiral. Letter from Torquay deciding
+that Henry Yorke’s health will prevent his
+going to India.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Hired a fourwheeler and got kicked out, but
+succeeded in getting to Northlands before dinner was
+over.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Osborne,
+Aug.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Prince Victor and self were to dine at Osborne, he
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_324">[324]</span>
+having a room there. We crossed early. Strolling by
+self in afternoon, came suddenly on Her Majesty and
+the Prince Consort. Tried to get behind a bush—too
+late! Was beckoned to by Her Majesty, who appeared
+in the best of spirits. The Queen asked me how I
+liked the change of uniform. Replied, “I like it
+very much, your Majesty, but this morning I was
+taken for a railway official.” At this Her Majesty
+laughed heartily, giving His Royal Highness a little
+nudge, and added: “Have they not taken away your
+epaulettes?” Unfortunately I did not then know the
+improvement was His Royal Highness’s idea. Took
+in Lady Caroline Barrington to dinner. Concert
+afterwards, it being Prince Albert’s birthday; and
+a dance in servants’ hall, which was attended by
+charming Lady Churchill, Miss Cathcart and household.
+English country dance, Roger de Coverley,
+etc.: great fun! Slept at Osborne.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Her Majesty and family off at 10 for London.
+Returned by 5 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> boat to Portsmouth.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Called on Sir George and Lady Seymour. Off
+Slaughter House Pier Thomas tried Francis’ patent
+iron lifeboat, and was nearly drowned. We dined
+with George Lennox.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Board of Admiralty arrived.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Sir Charles Wood informed me that he had
+decided on my hoisting the broad pennant in the
+<span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> for East Indies.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Aug.&nbsp;31.</div>
+
+<p>Went over <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> with Turnour: a magnificent
+frigate. Last of the sailers.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_325'>[325]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LXIII'>CHAPTER LXIII</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1856.
+Sept.&nbsp;1.</div>
+
+<p>Portsmouth.—Dined with Admiral-Superintendent
+to meet First Lord and Board.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Morning’s post brought letters for the Commodore!
+Dined with Sir Charles Wood and Board
+of Admiralty at George Hotel; jolly on the
+whole.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Admiralty Board off to town.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>Took up commission for <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>. Pennant
+hoisted by boatswain’s wife—good-looking woman,
+ought to bring luck!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Sept.&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>No end of business at Admiralty getting officers
+appointed, etc.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Chichester,
+Sept.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfast and shot with Sir Maurice Berkeley;
+11½ brace between us. Dined and slept there.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Started on parting visits. By 8 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span> train from
+Euston Station for Aberdeen. Travelling all night,
+and still whirling along.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Gordon
+Castle,
+Sept.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>From Aberdeen by train to Huntly. Picked up
+there by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar in britzska
+and conveyed to Gordon Castle; cordial welcome by
+everybody to this delightful place.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Drove with Duke and Duchess to the Sea. Lord
+and Lady Churchill arrived. Deer-shooting party
+going some distance, was allowed with keeper to
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_326">[326]</span>
+shoot in park; made capital shot at a buck. Time
+passing only too quickly.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Walk to bridge to see swollen Spey.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Shot another buck, cleverly too! Took leave of
+kind Duchess and friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Posted to Huntly; train to Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
+Put up at Graham’s Hotel; oyster supper.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>By train to Carlisle 9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span> Met Isteads, Horrocks,
+and Campbell. Posted to Netherby. Kind
+and hearty welcome by Sir James and Lady Graham.
+Bishop of Oxford here.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Forenoon service at Longtown, sermon by Bishop:
+an excellent and forcible preacher as well as a most
+agreeable man.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Sept.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Went out shooting with young Graham; 20 brace
+partridges.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Ashwarby
+Park,
+Sept.&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Early fly to Carlisle. Train to Newcastle, York,
+and Grantham. Posted to Ashwarby Park. Whichcote
+away shooting, not having received my letter.
+Lady Whichcote at home, three Miss Yorkes, and
+Mrs. Turner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;2.</div>
+
+<p>Rode to Syston; found Cecilia Yorke and Mrs.
+Broke Turner. Lady Thorold very nice; men shooting.
+After luncheon with ladies to Grantham. I to
+Newark and Lincoln by train and dogcart—joined
+Whichcote’s party—shooting over pointers: turnips,
+holding water by bucketsful. George Fitzroy,
+Freke, G. Bentinck. Party bagged 80½ brace. After
+dinner in dogcart to Lincoln. Slept at Great
+Northern.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Norfolk,
+Oct.&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>By 7 train to Peterborough; on to Ely. Saw
+Cathedral. On by train to Harling Road. Met by
+Eyre and family—my best friends.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;4.</div>
+
+<p>After luncheon conveyed to Quidenham. Susan
+and girls, George, Mrs. and Miss Trotter, Miss
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_327">[327]</span>
+Hamilton, Mrs. Holford. Dear girls, my nieces.
+Am again under the paternal roof. Slept in the
+room brother Francis died in. To forenoon church,
+brother Edward performing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>By train to London. Business at Admiralty.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>By express to Portsmouth. <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> progressing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir
+George Seymour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Before 10 superintended paying off <span class='ships'>Cæsar</span>. Remained
+till 6 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Presented with handsome sword by much-esteemed
+young friend Henry Seymour. [By permission, have
+since worn no other.]</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Commander-in-Chief Martin, Lady
+Elizabeth Smith, and Sir Charles Ogle, a fine old salt!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Dined on board <span class='ships'>Nymph</span> with Sir John and Lady
+Bayley.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Admiral to meet Oglanders.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Glad to find “Thomas” at lodgings. Harry
+Stephenson coming in afternoon.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Oct.&nbsp;27.</div>
+
+<p>Ship alongside hulk.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>London,
+Nov.&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Lindsay up from West Dean. Took him to
+dine with Stephenson. Meeting Albemarle and
+Bury.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>As Commodore, left the fitting-out much to old
+shipmate, Commander Turnour!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Wife and I by train to Portsmouth, where we
+put up at the comfortable Quebec Hotel. Joined
+by friends Rev. E. Eyre and wife.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Attended Admiral at a meeting at the Sailor’s
+Home; had to propose a resolution.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>It was the kind Commander-in-Chief’s intention
+to give me a parting dinner on sailing of <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>.
+But to make clear a small <i lang='fr'>contretemps</i>, I must
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_328">[328]</span>
+explain. Among the Wardroom officers of the
+<span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> was my old friend the Rev. Josias Thompson.
+He had been with me many years, and, as is usual
+among old shipmates, had established the nickname
+of “Thomas.” Many knew him, as did the kind
+Chief, by no other. The morning for our leaving
+the regular Admiralty pilot, whose name was
+Thomas, was on board. Two steam tugs ordered
+from Dockyard in attendance; the wind being fair,
+had no idea, in a sailing frigate, of being towed.
+Took charge, and was in the act of making sail,
+when the dear Chief, who had been to Haslar to
+attend the funeral of an old shipmate, suddenly
+appeared on board, and turning to me said, “Don’t
+let me interfere, but is Mr. Thomas on board?” I
+said he was. “Where is he?” “Forward on the
+starboard side, standing on a gun carriage.” I was
+too busy making sail to go with him—the tide
+was rising. On inquiring who had attended the
+Commander-in-Chief, I found that he had gone
+forward, and making a bow to the pilot, stated that,
+as the Commodore was going to take a parting dinner,
+he hoped to have the pleasure of Mr. Thomas’s company.
+The ship ran out like the beauty she was,
+saluting Admiral’s flag before coming to anchor.</p>
+
+<p>Near dinner-time wife and self were among early
+arrivals. We noticed a gentleman standing on the rug
+by the fire with a white choker and new suit of clothes;
+no one seemed to know him. Dinner announced, the
+Admiral took in my wife, I, Lady Seymour. The
+turtle soup had been served, when the Admiral
+addressed our strange friend with, “Mr. Thomas,
+will you have the goodness to say grace?” The poor
+Pilot’s neighbour whispered to him, “Say ‘Thank
+God.’” Dinner over, the dear Admiral nudged my
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_329">[329]</span>
+wife, saying, “That’s a queer parson of yours.”
+And then, in a louder voice, called out, “Mr.
+Thomas, have the goodness to return thanks.” I at the
+same time asking Lady Seymour “who Mr. Thomas
+was?” Lady Seymour turned to the butler and
+sent him to tell the Admiral that Captain Keppel had
+never seen that man before. At this moment some
+of the senior captains spotted our friend the pilot!
+He never afterwards met his friends in Portsmouth
+that they did not ask him to say grace.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'><span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>,
+Nov.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Took leave of the clinker-built Quebec, the most
+comfortable hotel in Portsmouth. Brother Tom and
+I dining in gunroom.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Inspected by Commander-in-Chief Sir George
+Seymour.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Paid farewell visits. “Thomas” and I dined
+with George Lennox. Friend Edward Eyre arrived;
+embarked him and Lennox. After men’s dinner
+weighed and ran out by St. Helen’s. Brother Tom,
+in ill-health, going with me as far as the Cape of
+Good Hope.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_330'>[330]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LXIV'>CHAPTER LXIV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">The <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1856.
+<span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>,
+Nov.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>A fine frigate has ever been the favourite class of
+ship with seamen as well as officers, and I venture to
+state a finer crew never left a port.</p>
+
+<p>List of officers:—</p>
+
+<ul class='no-bullet'>
+<li><em>Commander</em>—Edward W. Turnour.</li>
+<li><em>Secretary</em>—Matless G. Autey.</li>
+<li><em>Lieutenants</em>—James G. Goodenough, Viscount
+    Gilford, H.R.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, James
+    S. Graham, W.&nbsp;F. Johnson.</li>
+<li><em>Master</em>—William H. Williams.</li>
+<li><em>Captain of Marines</em>—Thomas Magin.</li>
+<li><em>Second Lieutenant of Marines</em>—Charles L. Owen.</li>
+<li><em>Chaplain</em>—Josiah Thompson.</li>
+<li><em>Surgeon</em>—John T. Crawford.</li>
+<li><em>Paymaster</em>—James G.&nbsp;G. Simmonds.</li>
+<li><em>Naval Instructor</em>—John L. Laverty.</li>
+<li><em>Assistant-Surgeon</em>—J.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;T. Forbes.</li>
+<li><em>Midshipmen</em>—Lord Charles Scott, Hon. Victor
+    A. Montagu, Hon. F.&nbsp;G. Crofton, Henry F. Stephenson,
+    A. E. Dupuis, F.&nbsp;R. Foster, Hugh B. Hammersley,
+    Edward Pilkington, A. Paget, Hardy M‘Hardy.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<div class='sidenote'>At Sea,
+Nov.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>Friends Henry Seymour, Eyre, and George
+Lennox enjoying themselves.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_331">[331]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Late in the evening before we came to Plymouth
+Sound.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Saluted Sir William Parker’s flag at 9 <span class="allsmcap">A.M.</span>
+Called on Newmans at Royal Hotel, where I took a
+room. Visited Hartmans at Saltram, where I found
+my cousins Mrs. Yorke and daughter. Dined with
+Sam Truscott—a character.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Breakfasted with Caroline and Louisa Newman.
+In afternoon Prince Victor, Graham, Lord Charles
+Scott, Harry Stephenson, and I to Saltram to dine
+and sleep.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Returned after breakfast to Plymouth. Took
+Cecilia Yorke and Miss Coryton on board <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Was allowed to see Lord Mount-Edgecumbe;
+cruel wreck of a handsome and intellectual man.
+Too down to dine anywhere. Tea with Newman
+girls.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Nov.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed at 11 and ran out of the Sound. What
+may not happen before I again land in England!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Madeira,
+Dec.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>Anchored before 1 in Funchal Roads. Kindly
+received by friend Stoddard, putting up brother Tom
+and four youngsters. Hired for the time a horse
+Miss O’Rorke used to ride.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;10.</div>
+
+<p>Drove Miss Stoddard in pony carriage. Before
+leaving my brother-in-law, Harry Stephenson, commissioned
+me to bring home a pipe of the best
+Madeira. I applied to my friend of many years,
+now Consul, Mr. Stoddard. He had ceased to be a
+wine merchant, and the remaining pipes of the best
+were put aside as part of the marriage portion of his
+charming daughters; he left it to me to make
+interest with them to obtain a couple of pipes of this
+precious wine. I had the pipes encased in extra
+casks and stowed in the hold of the <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>. (It is
+well I did so.)</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_332">[332]</span></p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>Prince Victor, good fellow! wishing another day
+in Madeira, consented to remain over Friday. Rio
+given up. Rode with Miss Lund. Evening at
+Stoddard’s.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>“Thomas” and I rode over to the Beans. Same
+hospitable couple I had sojourned with in 1824.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed early. Everybody pleased with their
+visit to Madeira.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>At Sea,
+Dec.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>A marine fell overboard, and was saved by a
+gallant fellow of the name of Moodie, second-class
+ordinary. The night was dark, and the two life-buoys
+let go by a marine, stationed for the purpose,
+without first pulling the igniting trigger, were lost.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Christmas Day. All the youngsters and warrant
+officers, including Turnour, Autey, Thompson, and
+brother Tom, to dine—sixteen in all. How many of
+us will meet next Christmas! “Qui en sabe?”</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Dec.&nbsp;26.</div>
+
+<p>Neptune came on board and performed the usual
+ceremonies.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr class='chap x-ebookmaker-drop'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+<p><span class='pagenum' id='Page_333'>[333]</span></p>
+<h2 class='nobreak' id='CHAPTER_LXV'>CHAPTER LXV</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='chap-title'><span class="smcap">Cape to China</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='sidenote'>1857.</div>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Simon’s
+Bay,
+Jan.&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>9 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>—Arrived in Simon’s Bay, just five weeks
+from Madeira, and the fastest passage by a sailing
+ship on record.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>This cape always brings happy recollections of
+bygone days, when I was free as the air and without
+a care or thought beyond the present.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Hired a two-wheel pair-horse cart and drove
+brother Tom, three youngsters, and Thompson to
+Cape Town. Parke’s hotel. Called with Tom on
+Mrs. Stoll, Longmores, and the Lorentzs. At
+Lorentz’s met their daughter Louisa, whom I had last
+seen as a pretty child, riding like a boy on a goat.
+She was now a widow; the handsome mother of six
+children.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>A regular Cape north-easter blowing. Nothing
+to be done afloat. Tom and I breakfasting with the
+Stolls. Dined at <i lang='fr'>table d’hôte</i>—a large party.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>To Sans Souci to call. Tea at Lorentz’s, meeting
+Stolls.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Landed £50,000 in gold; sent £300 in copper
+to <span class='ships'>Penelope</span>. Governor kindly lending his eight-horse
+waggon, started for Simon’s Bay, calling at
+Sans Souci and on the Bishop.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Jan.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Dined to-day with the midshipmen. We sat down
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_334">[334]</span>
+twenty-four. Not only was their mess good and
+comfortable, with everything clean and in good taste,
+but one could not have met a nicer set of lads. They
+appeared in clean white waistcoats. Felt proud of
+my boys!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;9.</div>
+
+<p>At last we have rounded Acheen Head and passed
+through the “Surat” passage into the Malacca
+Straits.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;11.</div>
+
+<p>In a calm let go first anchor in India. From this
+date our <i lang='hi'>batta</i> commences.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Came to in Penang Roads; was saluted. On
+landing took up my quarters with friend Lewis. Old
+Jack Rodyk here. With Lewis, two daughters, one
+just from England, and a Miss Neubrouner.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Penang,
+Mar.&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Ship taking in water and otherwise getting ready,
+but contrary to my religion to start on a Friday.
+Dined with Campbell, late of Singapore.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed before daylight.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p>Came up with the barque on board of which were
+Miss Blundell and Amy Neubrouner. Serenaded
+them in passing.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+Mar.&nbsp;19.</div>
+
+<p>Arrived in New Harbour; so altered and improved.
+Called on Governor, who lodged me on the hill.
+Dined with Biddle at Adelphi; met Anabassim: the
+rogue still alive.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;20.</div>
+
+<p>The saddest news of a treacherous and murderous
+attack made by Chinese on my noble friend, James
+Brooke, at Sarawak. Dear and noble Rajah, would
+that I could rush to his assistance.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Singapore,
+Mar.&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Received a “welcome back” in an address signed
+by most of the residents. Dined with Sir William
+Hoste on board <span class='ships'>Spartan</span>.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;22.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with friend Davidson in his new capacity of
+married man.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;23.</div>
+
+<p>Dined with Napier and his wife, meeting Mrs.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_335">[335]</span>
+Earle with a ten-year-old child, a most promising
+filly! (Met her again as Mrs. Alt.)</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Spartan</span>, Sir William Hoste, starting in tow of
+steamer to the assistance of Brooke, taking Prince
+Victor with him, to rejoin us at Hong-Kong. Delayed
+departure until after dark. Dined with Governor
+Blundell.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>Weighed in the night.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Poor Laverty departed this life at 2. Yesterday
+week overtook him and Owen walking up from new
+harbour to Singapore in the heat of the day, and
+admonished them for their rashness. They have
+since been delirious with fever, which in Laverty’s
+case ended fatally.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Mar.&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Committed the remains of poor Laverty to the
+deep. How preferable such a burial and grave to a
+shore funeral!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>During the forenoon passed through bamboo
+fishing buoys, too numerous to be avoided, but we did
+them no injury, the bamboo floating perpendicularly
+some six or eight feet out of the water, and distinguished
+by a small flag or rag on the top.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Early, we made the land to the southward of
+Macao. Shortly after noon, running through the
+usual passage between the islands—guns loaded to
+salute the flag—I had just signed the usual returns,
+when we felt as if the ship had struck some heavy
+floating timber: the leadsman calling “By the
+mark, seven,” at the same time reports from the lower
+deck that daylight could be seen through the rent in
+the ship’s side. We beat to quarters: an unusual
+event during the men’s dinner hour! I knew we
+were nearly equidistant from Hong-Kong and
+Macao. I took a second view from below. With
+the easterly wind we might fetch Hong-Kong, but
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_336">[336]</span>
+for Macao, we should have to run before it. We
+bore up. My trusty Turnour repeated orders clearly
+and distinctly. I took charge of the conning of the
+ship, the men working cheerfully. My object was to
+ground in shoal water. While running we passed so
+close to more than one small island that a man might
+have dropped on shore from the rigging. After a
+while, from the hammock-netting where I stood, a
+ship at anchor off Macao was seen. With a glass we
+made her out to be a frigate flying the French
+Admiral’s flag. The first lieutenant was directed to
+lower fore royal, hoist French flag and fire a salute.
+The foremost main-deck guns had been run aft to
+prevent the ship from settling forward; they were
+already loaded for our own flag. Most of our after-ports
+had more than one muzzle protruding. A boat
+was seen coming from the French ship, but there was
+nothing to show that we were in distress beyond our
+ensign at the peak, hoisted Union Jack downwards,
+which could not be seen from Macao on account of
+studding sails. It was a few minutes after this, I felt
+we were nearing the bottom. By feeling the bow
+rise ever so gently I knew we had touched the mud-bank
+between the Roko and Typa Islands. The
+French boat was alongside before we knew that we
+were no longer forging ahead.</p>
+
+<p>The officer was quickly informed what had
+happened. The frigate was the <span class='ships'>Virginie</span>, carrying the
+flag of Rear-Admiral Guérin, who came himself to see
+how he could help us. His officer met him at the gangway
+and without delay explained what had happened.
+The gallant Guérin no longer thought of nationalities.
+He embraced and kissed me, exclaiming, “C’est magnifique!
+C’est magnifique!” A British frigate
+saluting the French flag while sinking! If we had
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_337">[337]</span>
+been French we could not have received more kind
+assistance. In the meantime marines with their
+officers were landed to clear the island of Chinese,
+and select a suitable place for our encampment.
+When the ship stopped in the mud at 3 <span class="allsmcap">P.M.</span>, she
+had ten feet of water in the hold. By eight o’clock
+she had eighteen. With the assistance of our allies,
+the ship’s company’s hammocks and bags, goods and
+chattels, as well as ship’s sails, had been landed. On
+the way out we had built a bridge across before the
+mizen-mast, and over the wheel. On this I remained,
+the kind Frenchmen sending me food and some
+uncommon good claret. The French Admiral had
+despatched the <span class='ships'>Catinat</span> with Lieutenant Goodenough
+to Hong-Kong.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;15.</div>
+
+<p><span class='ships'>Bittern</span>, Lieutenant Butler, arrived.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;16.</div>
+
+<p>The Admiral, Sir Michael Seymour, who had
+been absent, came himself. The ship settled down
+in her soft bed as if she intended never to rise again.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;17.</div>
+
+<p>Captain Keith Stewart, <span class='ships'>Nankin</span>, 50, and <span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>
+arrived; we really did not require them.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb">
+
+<p>The Commander-in-Chief was now busy preparing
+for the destruction of the China Fleet, which, being
+up rivers and creeks, our men were more useful in
+boats than on board ship.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April 20.</div>
+
+<p>My broad pennant was hoisted on board the
+<span class='ships'>Alligator</span>, hospital ship. With the <span class='ships'>Raleigh’s</span> crew
+alone we dismantled and cleared the ship even to the
+ballast. It was something to get lower masts out,
+and with the assistance of our spars only. The bowsprit
+was the most difficult. Clearing the holds was
+disagreeable. After a while the bilge water began to
+smell. My two pipes of Madeira, fortunately double-cased,
+were not affected. After the ship’s stores we
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_338">[338]</span>
+looked out for ourselves. Chronometers, etc., were
+removed to my cabin, under sentry’s charge—from
+there, with a trustworthy crew of five men and a
+coxswain, to the <span class='ships'>Alligator</span>. Later, my steward, no
+more trusty man in the ship except my coxswain,
+Spurrier, came to me with sad face to state that Lord
+Gilford’s pet chronometer watch, which was kept and
+used with those of the Government, was missing!
+Search was made in vain, poor White offering £10
+reward.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Macao.</div>
+
+<p>Those princely merchants, Dent and Co., as well
+as Mathieson, kept open house. They lived in
+palaces. I had apartments at the Dents’ bungalow at
+Hong Kong as well as rooms at Macao—passenger
+steamers running daily. On a late occasion the
+Chinese passengers had risen, took possession,
+murdered the Europeans. A ship’s captain, Cleverly
+by name, as well as by nature, jumped overboard.
+He was badly wounded while swimming, but was
+picked up and had rooms at Dent’s Macao house. I
+need not say that after this Chinese passengers were
+accommodated in an iron cage, where they enjoyed
+their opium.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;24.</div>
+
+<p>Lieutenants Prince Victor and Johnson, who had
+gone with Hoste in <span class='ships'>Spartan</span> from Singapore to visit
+Rajah Brooke at Sarawak, rejoined us.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hong
+Kong,
+April&nbsp;25.</div>
+
+<p>The dockyard at Hong Kong full of <span class='ships'>Raleigh’s</span>
+stores, guns, anchors, cables, shot, etc.—sails spread
+out to dry.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;28.</div>
+
+<p>Excellent dinner at French Minister’s. Madame
+Bourboulon charming. Smokes regalias only.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;29.</div>
+
+<p>Renewed acquaintance with pretty Mrs. Endicott
+and Mrs. Parkes.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>April&nbsp;30.</div>
+
+<p>Mail arrived. Ministers beaten on China question.
+Parliament to be dissolved: nevertheless,
+
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_339">[339]</span>
+Plenipo and troops coming out. Inspection held
+on my <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>. My boys, Victor Montagu and
+Harry Stephenson, on shore.</p>
+
+<p><i>Macao,
+May 1.</i></p>
+
+<p>Letter from Turnour’s brother asking me to break
+to that good-hearted fellow the death of his father.
+Went on board in Gibb’s yacht, the <span class='ships'>Zouave</span>. Dined
+with him.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;3.</div>
+
+<p>Hope my <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> will be got up. Doubts
+whether Admiral will attempt it.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>Hong
+Kong,
+May&nbsp;5.</div>
+
+<p>Met Admiral and large party at dinner at Dent’s.
+Judge Hulm fine old fellow.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;6.</div>
+
+<p>Gilford and I to dine with Pereira and William
+Dent. Excellent dinner and everything to match.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;7.</div>
+
+<p>Business with my worthy chief about <span class='ships'>Calcutta</span>;
+transferred youngsters to that ship.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;12.</div>
+
+<p>Great and good feed at friend Cane’s, now Lieutenant-Governor.
+Dinner to meet me. Some six-and-twenty
+sat down.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;13.</div>
+
+<p>Arrival of <span class='ships'>Highflyer</span> and gunboats. With Admiral
+in <span class='ships'>Coromandel</span> to visit vessels in Canton River. Came
+to near <span class='ships'>Sybille</span> below second fort.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;14.</div>
+
+<p>Went on as far as Macao Fort. Left <span class='ships'>Raleigh’s</span>
+band there. All the vessels, as well as their commanders,
+ready for work. Came to near <span class='ships'>Niger</span>.
+Mandarin junks’ masts in sight.</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;18.</div>
+
+<p>Tenders for raising <span class='ships'>Raleigh</span> not such as the
+Admiral could accept. Alas! my poor ship—now
+to be considered <em>lost</em>; she must be sold where she is,
+and I to be tried by court-martial!</p>
+
+<div class='sidenote'>May&nbsp;21.</div>
+
+<p>Laid up the last three days, attended by kind
+Doctor Anderson.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter footnotes">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="FOOTNOTES">FOOTNOTES</h2>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> See O’Byrne’s <cite>Naval Biographies</cite>, 1848.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> Lord Dangan, Coldstream Guards.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> The Rev. Josias Thompson.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="INDEX">INDEX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<ul class="index">
+  <li class="ifrst">Abercorn, the Duke of, iii. 333</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Accra, i. 214, 221, 232, 238, 242; iii. 72</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Adam, General Sir Frederick, i. 148</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_46'>46</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Adeane, Lieutenant, iii. 55</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Adelaide, Queen, i. 121, 160, 246</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Aden, iii. 118, 119</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Admiralty Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_150'>150</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Adventure</span>, iii. 174, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Africa</span>, i. 7, 12, 13</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Agar-Ellis, Miss, ii. <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ailesbury, Lady, iii. 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ainos, the, iii. 199</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Aitkin, Lieutenant, iii. 235</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Alabama</span>, iii. 83</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Åland Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_232'>232</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Albany, ii. <a href='#Page_142'>142</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Albatross</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Albemarle'>Albemarle, George, 3rd Earl, i. 59</li>
+  <li class="isub1">William Charles, 4th Earl, i. 4, 5, 7, 67, 102, 160,
+    248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254,
+    256; ii. <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Augustus Frederick, 5th Earl; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_Au'>Keppel</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">George Thomas, 6th Earl; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_GT'>Keppel</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lord, i. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Consort, i. 250, 251; ii. <a href='#Page_313'>313</a>, <a href='#Page_324'>324</a>; iii. 38, 39, 78,
+    80</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Alcock, Sir Rutherford, iii. 143, 171, 192, 194, 236, 237,
+    259</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Alexandria, i. 170, 178; iii. 18, 117</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Alfred, Prince; <i>see</i> <a href='#Edinburgh'>Edinburgh, Duke of</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Algerine</span>, iii. 224</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Algoa Bay, iii. 46</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ali, Pangeran Oman, ii. <a href='#Page_84'>84</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ali, Patingi, ii. <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>; iii. 125</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Alicante, i. 187, 188, 190</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Allen, R. C., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Alligator</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_337'>337</a>; iii. 2, 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Allison, William, ii. <a href='#Page_160'>160</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Alma, the, ii. <a href='#Page_240'>240</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Amaral, Don Joao Maria Farriera do, ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Amazon</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_115'>115</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Amboyna, ii. <a href='#Page_147'>147</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>America</span> yacht, ii. <a href='#Page_203'>203</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Amoor River, iii. 192, 210</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Amoy, iii. 138, 139, 220</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Amphion</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Amping, iii. 224</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Andover, Lord and Lady, i. 7, 255</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Andrade, Count Manuel Carvalho Pas de, i. 40, 41, 42</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Anjer, ii. <a href='#Page_129'>129</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Anson, Eliza, Lady Waterpark, i. 8, 12</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Thomas, i. 7, 163</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Hon. William, i. 8, 22</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Armitage, Whaley, i. 85, 87, 264, 273</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ascension, i. 90, 243, 244; iii. 69</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ashantis, the, i. 214, 218, 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Astley, Sir Jacob, i. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Auckland, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Auckland, N.Z., ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Auckland</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Aurora</span>, i. 14, 43, 44, 61</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Australia, ii. <a href='#Page_132'>132</a>, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_152'>152</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Australia</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Bahia; <i>see</i> <a href='#San_Salvador'>San Salvador</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Baker, Sir Samuel, iii. 320</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Thomas, i. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Balaclava, ii. <a href='#Page_252'>252</a>, <a href='#Page_255'>255</a>, <a href='#Page_258'>258</a>, <a href='#Page_262'>262</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Balambangan, ii. <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Balfour, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 81</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bali Island, ii. <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Baltic, the, ii. <a href='#Page_220'>220</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Banda Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_146'>146</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bankok, iii. 229</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bannerman, Mr., i. 221, 243</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barbadoes, i. 56, 108</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barcelona, i. 188, 189, 191, 195-197, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Baring, Admiral Sir Francis, ii. <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barnard, General, ii. <a href='#Page_246'>246</a>, <a href='#Page_279'>279</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barösund, ii. <a href='#Page_226'>226</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barrington, Commander Hon. George, i. 51</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Barton, A., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Basilisk</span>, iii. 192</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Batang Lupar River, i. 311; ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Batavia, i. 147, 216; ii. <a href='#Page_129'>129</a>, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bathurst, iii. 72</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bay of Islands, N.Z., ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Beatrice, H.R.H. Princess, iii. 36</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Beaufort, Sir Francis, ii. <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bedford, Mr. D. B., i. 136, 139</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Beefsteak Club, the, i. 96, 97</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Beith, R., surgeon, ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Belcher, Captain Sir Edward, ii. <a href='#Page_18'>18</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Belem, ii. <a href='#Page_213'>213</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bell, Admiral, iii. 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Belleisle</span>, i. 261, 264, 269, 272, 275, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Bellerophon</span>, i. 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bentinck, Lord George, ii. <a href='#Page_326'>326</a>; iii. 101, 109;</li>
+  <li class="isub1"><i>see</i> <a href='#Cavendish'>Cavendish-Bentinck</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Beresford, Lord James, i. 187</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir John de la Poer, i. 121</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Berkeley, Admiral Hon. Sir George, i. 163</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady Georgina Mary, i. 163</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Maurice, ii. <a href='#Page_244'>244</a>; iii. 29</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bessani; <i>see</i> <a href='#Grand_Bessani'>Grand Bessani</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">“Bishop of Bond Street, the,” ii. <a href='#Page_70'>70</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Bittern</span>, iii. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Black Sea, ii. <a href='#Page_251'>251</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bladen-Capel, Admiral Hon. Sir T., ii. <a href='#Page_199'>199</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Blake, Lieutenant, i. 42, 44</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Colonel, i. 75, 84, 88</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Blakiston, Captain, iii. 238</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Blanckley, Commander Edward, i. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bogue Forts, ii. <a href='#Page_54'>54</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bomarsund, ii. <a href='#Page_231'>231</a>, <a href='#Page_233'>233</a>, <a href='#Page_238'>238</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bombay, iii. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bonard, Commodore, ii. <a href='#Page_177'>177</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bonham, George, i. 147, 263, 288</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Borneo, i. 290, 292; ii. <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>; iii. 127</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Botany Bay, ii. <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Boto Fogo, i. 36</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bouchier, Captain, i. 273, 278</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Bouncer</span>, iii. 234</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bourbon, i. 85</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bouverie, Admiral Hon. Duncombe, i. 244</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bowles, Admiral, iii. 281</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bowyear, Captain George Leger, ii. <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_158'>158</a>, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Boxer, Admiral, ii. <a href='#Page_251'>251</a>, <a href='#Page_262'>262</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Boyd, Benjamin, ii. <a href='#Page_157'>157</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bozin, Prince, iii. 180, 181</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bradshaw, Commander Manser, ii. <a href='#Page_227'>227</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Braybroke, Lord and Lady, i. 162</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Brazen</span>, i. 41, 42, 97</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bremer, Captain Sir J. G., ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brierly, Sir Oswald, ii. <a href='#Page_156'>156</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>, <a href='#Page_203'>203</a>, <a href='#Page_210'>210</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Briggs, Admiral Sir Thomas, i. 168</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Brisk</span>, iii. 45</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brooke, Brooke, iii. 11</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Rajah, i. 288-296, 298, 299, 302, 306, 308,
+    312, 313, 317, 319, 333, 339;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_84'>84</a>, <a href='#Page_85'>85</a>, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_87'>87</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>-<a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_322'>322</a>, <a href='#Page_334'>334</a>; iii. 11, 13, 29, 96, 115,
+    123, 220</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brooker, Commander, iii. 194, 260</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brougham, Henry (Lord High Chancellor), i. 97</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lord, i. 11, 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brougham and Vaux, Lady, iii. 25</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Broughton, Lord, i. 97</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Browne, Sir Samuel, ii. <a href='#Page_45'>45</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Brunei, ii. <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>; iii. 126</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buccleuch, Duchess of, iii. 326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buckland, Francis Trevelyan, iii. 82</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buckley, Commander, V.C., iii. 40</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Budrudeen, Pangeran, i. 306; ii. <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_84'>84</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buffalo River, iii. 46</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buffon Bay, i. 209, 210</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bulkeley, Sir Richard, i. 93, 98; ii. <a href='#Page_42'>42</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bullen, Admiral Sir Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_55'>55</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bulman, Mr., i. 257, 262, 263</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bunting, ii. <a href='#Page_21'>21</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Buonaparte; <i>see</i> <a href='#Napoleon'>Napoleon</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Burdett, Sir Francis, i. 8, 9, 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Burdett-Coutts, Miss, iii. 115, 124</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Burlton, Lieutenant, iii. 56</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Burnaby, Mr., ii. <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Burton, Judge, and Mrs., i. 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bury, Viscount, i. 254</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Bush, Commander, iii. 221</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Mr., ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Butterworth, Colonel, ii. <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Byng, H., ii. <a href='#Page_48'>48</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Byron, Captain Lord, i. 43</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Cabrera, General, i. 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cagayan Sulu, ii. <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cairo, iii. 18</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Calcutta, i. 150, 152, 333, 334</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Calcutta</span>, iii. 3</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Calderon, Don, i. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Caledonia</span>, i. 168, 170, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Calverley, S., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cambrian</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_46'>46</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, i. 251; ii. <a href='#Page_249'>249</a>; iii. 25, 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Campbell_C'>Campbell, Colonel Sir Colin, i. 262, 269, 272; ii. <a href='#Page_80'>80</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_301'>301</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Patrick, C.B., i. 55, 244</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Canning, George, i. 25</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Canopus</span>, i. 169, 170, 171, 176</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Canrobert, Marshal, ii. <a href='#Page_267'>267</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Canton, i. 281, 325; ii. <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>; iii. 132, 231</li>
+  <li class="isub1">River, ii. <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>; iii. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cape Coast, i. 214, 216, 217, 221</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cape de Verd Islands, i. 33, 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cape of Good Hope, i. 68, 69, 71, 72, 77, 87,
+    159, 202, 262</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cape Town, iii. 67</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Caroline, Queen, i. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Carteret, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_152'>152</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Carthagena, i. 59, 198</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Casher, E., ii. <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_199'>199</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Castries Bay, iii. 214</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Cavendish'>Cavendish-Bentinck, Lord William, i. 84, 153</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cavite, i. 331; ii. <a href='#Page_125'>125</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Celebes Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_108'>108</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ceram Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_146'>146</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chads, Commodore Henry D., i. 338, 339</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Challier, Commodore, iii. 274</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Charlotte, Princess, i. 6</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chefoo, iii. 172, 192, 264</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chernaze, ii. <a href='#Page_263'>263</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chersonese; <i>see</i> <a href='#Khersonese'>Khersonese</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chesterfield, Lord, iii. 328</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chiang Kiang-Fu, i. 270, 271</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Childers</span>, i. 68, 164, 165, 174, 175, 193,
+    198, 244, 272, 274</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chin-kiang, iii. 221, 238</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Christmas Island, ii. <a href='#Page_75'>75</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Church, Thomas, ii. <a href='#Page_77'>77</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Churchill, Captain Lord John, i. 66, 73, 77, 82, 110, 249,
+    280</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Chusan, i. 266, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ciervo Island, ii. <a href='#Page_188'>188</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Clarence, William, Duke of, i. 68</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Clarendon, Lord, iii. 265</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Clark, John, surgeon, ii. <a href='#Page_143'>143</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Clifford, Sir Augustus, i. 67, 84</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady de, i. 52</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Clio</span>, i. 190, 191, 272</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Clyde, Lord; <i>see</i> <a href='#Campbell_C'>Campbell, Sir Colin</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Coaker, Jonas, i. 69, 83, 165, 249; ii. <a href='#Page_53'>53</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Coburg Peninsula, ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cochrane, Hon. A. J., i. 27</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Thomas; <i>see</i> <a href='#Dundonald'>Dundonald (“Young”)</a>, iii. 4</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cockchafer</span>, iii. 187, 233</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward, i. 68</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Colonel, ii. <a href='#Page_46'>46</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Coghlan, Colonel, iii. 118</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Coke, Edward, ii. <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Henry (“Wenny”), i. 249, 264; ii. <a href='#Page_256'>256</a>, <a href='#Page_281'>281</a>; iii. 19</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Coke_T'>Thomas William (Earl of Leicester), i. 7, 8, 14, 15, 47,
+    278</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cole, General Sir Lowry, i. 77, 78, 81, 82, 83</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady Frances, i. 78</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Collier, Captain Sir Francis, i. 108, 109, 112, 249, 251;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Collingwood, Admiral, i. 13</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Colombo</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_270'>270</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Colonna, the Marquis de, i. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Colossus</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_312'>312</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Columbine</span>, i. 170, 176, 180, 231, 232, 278;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Colville, Admiral Lord, i. 29, 48</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir Charles, i. 77, 85, 87</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Comba Island, ii. <a href='#Page_132'>132</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Comber, Lieutenant Henry W., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Commerell, Admiral of the Fleet Sir J. E., ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Conolly, Mr., iii. 143, 192</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Constantinople, i. 175, 176; ii. <a href='#Page_251'>251</a>, <a href='#Page_312'>312</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Conti, General, i. 189</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cook, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_153'>153</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cooke, T. P., i. 97, 105</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cook’s Straits, ii. <a href='#Page_169'>169</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cork, i. 29, 30, 48, 49</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cormorant</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_199'>199</a>; iii. 139</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cornwallis</span>, i. 264, 269, 272, 273, 331</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Corromanli, Ali, i. 172</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Youssuf, i. 171</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Corry, Admiral Sir A. Lowry, ii. <a href='#Page_210'>210</a>, <a href='#Page_224'>224</a>, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Corve'>Corvé Bay, iii. 173, 191</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cotton, Lieutenant Alexander, i. 101, 105</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Courtenay, Captain, iii. 198</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cracroft, Commander Peter, ii. <a href='#Page_208'>208</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Creighton, Captain, iii. 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Crimea, the, ii. <a href='#Page_218'>218</a>, <a href='#Page_244'>244</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Croker, Rt. Hon. John Wilson, i. 105</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Crosbie, Catherine; <i>see</i> <a href='#Lady_Keppel'>Lady Keppel</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">General Sir John, i. 92, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251,
+    253, 255; ii. 27</li>
+  <li class="isub1">“Dob,” iii. 145</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant John, i. 89, 91, 92, 251</li>
+  <li class="isub1">William, ii. <a href='#Page_55'>55</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cumberland</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_235'>235</a>; iii. 115</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Cumming, Captain Arthur, iii. 76</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Cygnet</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">D’Aeth, E. H. H., i. 276; ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dalarö Channel, ii. <a href='#Page_224'>224</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dalkeith, Lord, iii. 326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Daniell, Commander, ii. <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Darby, G. S., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dardanelles, the, i. 176; ii. <a href='#Page_249'>249</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Dauntless</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_230'>230</a>, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Davis, Sir John, ii. <a href='#Page_111'>111</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">de Grey, Lord, iii. 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">de Horsey, Captain Algernon, iii. 44, 45, 55</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Delagoa Bay, iii. 46</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">De Lesseps, M. Ferdinand, iii. 118</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Delmé, George, i. 81</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Denison, Sir William, ii. <a href='#Page_158'>158</a>, <a href='#Page_163'>163</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dent, John, and Co., iii. 143</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Deschenes'>Deschênes, Admiral A. F. Parseval, ii. <a href='#Page_226'>226</a>-<a href='#Page_228'>228</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">D’Eyncourt, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Dido</span>, i. 255, 256, 257, 262, 270, 272,
+    277, 319, 326, 332, 340; ii. <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_30'>30</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Digby, Lord, i. 12</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Edward, i. 12, 98</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Henry, i. 7, 12, 13, 14; ii. <a href='#Page_219'>219</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Hon. R., i. 12</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">D’Israeli, Isaac, iii. 230</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dixcove, i. 213-215</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">D’Orsay, Count, i. 163.</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Douglas, Bloomfield, i. 302, 304</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dover, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Drake, Sir Frederick, ii. <a href='#Page_185'>185</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Droxford, i. 249, 253; ii. <a href='#Page_28'>28</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Drummond, Edward, ii. <a href='#Page_26'>26</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Duè, iii. 215</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dundas, Hon. Admiral George, i. 97, 119</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral J. W. Deans, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Richard Deans, i. 55, 244</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dundee, iii. 111</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Dundonald'>Dundonald, Earl, i. 14, 36, 38, 39-42, 163, 256,
+    278, 280, 322, 331; ii. <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_212'>212</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dunkin, Captain Thomas, i. 77</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Dupleix</span>, iii. 186, 187, 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Dupplin, Lord, iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Eager, John, ii. <a href='#Page_7'>7</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eastern Archipelago, ii. <a href='#Page_115'>115</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eastern Archipelago Company, ii. <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">East London, Port of, iii. 46</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eden, Commander Henry, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Edinburgh'>Edinburgh, H.R.H. the Duke of, iii. 40, 278, 284-315</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Edinburgh</span>, i. 169, 170</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Elgin, Lord, iii. 10, 241</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ellesmere, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_191'>191</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ellice, Robert, ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ellis, Commander Henry, i. 127</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ellis and Co., iii. 223</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Elphinstone, Lord, iii. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Emhammud, i. 172</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Emmanuel, Emmanuel, iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Emot, Captain, iii. 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Endymion</span>, i. 168, 180, 183, 184, 266, 274,
+    278</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Enslie, Consul, iii. 298</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Erskine, Captain J. E., ii. <a href='#Page_164'>164</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Esche, Mr., iii. 194, 202</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Espoir</span>, i. 68, 69, 77, 86</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Essington, Port, ii. <a href='#Page_132'>132</a>, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Etholin, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_302'>302</a>; iii. 218</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eupatoria, ii. <a href='#Page_261'>261</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Europa Island, iii. 50</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eyre, Captain, i. 74, 260</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Eyres, Captain Henry, i. 242, 278</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Fairfax-Moresby, Admiral, ii. <a href='#Page_195'>195</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Farquhar, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Fatshan Creek, iii. 2</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Fernando Po, i. 223, 224</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ferraz, Captain-General Valentine, i. 187, 188, 225</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Figueroa, Don Cayetano de, ii. <a href='#Page_107'>107</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Firebrand</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Firm</span>, iii. 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Firmee</span>, iii. 9</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Fitzroy, Colonel, i. 71, 72, 87</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Commander Arthur, ii. <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>; iii. 70</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Augustus, ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>, <a href='#Page_303'>303</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">George, ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>; iii. 192, 205</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Fitzroy_M'>Mary, ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Flowers, Consul, iii. 301</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Foley, St. George, ii. <a href='#Page_310'>310</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir George, iii. 9</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Foochow, iii. 236</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ford, Captain, i. 148</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Formosa, iii. 222, 223</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Forte</span>, iii. 39, 41, 65, 77</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Fukevitche, Captain, iii. 206</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Funchal_Roads'>Funchal Roads, i. 30; ii. <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>, <a href='#Page_214'>214</a>; iii. 41</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Furnhjelm, Admiral Jean, iii. 194, 195, 206, 208, 212</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Fury</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Gage, Admiral Sir William Hall, i. 55, 81, 184; ii. <a href='#Page_52'>52</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Galatea</span>, i. 100, 101, 103, 105; iii. 284, 299,
+    302</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Galle; <i>see</i> <a href='#Point'>Point de Galle</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gambia River, iii. 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Garibaldi, iii. 83</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Garnier, George, i. 16, 19</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Henry, i. 148, 159</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant Keppel, iii. 190, 231</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Thomas (Dean), i. 15, 16, 25, 103</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Thomas, iii. 324</li>
+  <li class="isub1">William, i. 15</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Gazelle</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_185'>185</a>, <a href='#Page_187'>187</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Geisinger, Commodore, ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">George IV., King, i. 74, 102</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gibraltar, i. 168, 184, 189, 194, 196, 200,
+    201; ii. <a href='#Page_217'>217</a>, <a href='#Page_248'>248</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gibson, Consul, iii. 224, 226</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gilford, Lieutenant Lord, iii. 1, 20</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Glanville, Mr., i. 74, 85, 86, 103, 104</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gleichen, Count, iii. 25</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Goldsmith, Captain George, i. 68, 165, 174, 203, 206, 208,
+    222, 249; ii. <a href='#Page_68'>68</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Goodwood, ii. <a href='#Page_55'>55</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gordon, Sir James, ii. <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">General C. G., iii. 245</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Goschen, Mr., iii. 326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gough, General Sir Hugh, i. 264, 266, 272, 273</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gouldisborough, iii. 182</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gower, Consul, iii. 299</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Graham, Captain Charles, i. 331; ii. <a href='#Page_59'>59</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir James, i. 119, 164; ii. <a href='#Page_210'>210</a>, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant Stanley, ii. <a href='#Page_230'>230</a>; iii. 1, 3</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Grancy, Comte G. F. E. de, iii. 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Grand_Bessani'>Grand Bessani, i. 212</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Grant, Captain James Augustus, iii. 41, 46</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Charles, iii. 11</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant Hope, i. 98, 332, 333</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Greville, Commander Henry F., i. 68, 69, 77</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Grey, Admiral Sir Frederick, i. 266, 273, 278; ii. <a href='#Page_216'>216</a>, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a>; iii. 45, 78</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir George, iii. 40, 41, 45, 78, 79</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Hon. Sir George, i. 22</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Hon. George, i. 22, 201; ii. <a href='#Page_249'>249</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gurdon, Lieutenant, iii. 224, 225, 226</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Guyamas, ii. <a href='#Page_190'>190</a>, <a href='#Page_191'>191</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Gye, Frederick, iii. 25</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant Herbert, iii. 235</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Haddington, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hakodadi, iii. 159, 161, 219</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hall, Captain J., i. 271, 278; iii. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Halstead, Admiral Sir Lawrence, i. 57</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hamilton, Lord Claud, iii. 327</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Kerr Baillie, i. 82</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hankow, iii. 243, 249</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hara-Kari, ceremony of the, iii. 182</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hardinge, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 81</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hardy, Sir Thomas, i. 69, 119, 164</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Harlequin</span>, i. 60, 61, 184, 197, 200, 264,
+    274, 322, 333</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Harris, Commander Sir W., ii. <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>; iii. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Hartford</span>, iii. 183</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hartington, Lord, iii. 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Harvey, Admiral Edward, iii. 40</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hastie, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Hastings</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_128'>128</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hathorn, John, i. 43, 44</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Havana, i. 59, 60, 64, 65, 118</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hawley, Sir Joseph, i. 248, 249</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady; <i>see</i> Sara Crosbie</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hay, Commander John Dalrymple, ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hayti, i. 61</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Heki Hone, ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Henderson, Commander Thomas, i. 231, 232</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Heneage, Admiral, i. 102</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Algernon C. F., iii. 70, 115, 222, 223, 316</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Henessey, Pope, iii. 230</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Herbert, Sir Thomas, i. 264</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hewitt, Captain, iii. 192, 283</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hickley, Captain, iii. 174</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Highflyer</span>, iii. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hill, Colonel, i. 66</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Dr., iii. 192, 231</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Sir John, i. 107, 110, 255, 257, 258</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant, i. 228, 232</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady Georgina; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_G'>Keppel</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hilliers, General Barraguay d’, ii. <a href='#Page_231'>231</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hillyar, Lady, ii. <a href='#Page_68'>68</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Hind</span>, i. 168, 176, 180, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hiogo, iii. 173, 174, 180, 187, 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hirado Strait, iii. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hislop, James, i. 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hobart Town, ii. <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>, <a href='#Page_160'>160</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hobhouse, Sir John Cam, i. 97; ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hockham, ii. <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hodgson, General, iii. 119</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hogarth, i. 96</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Holkham, i. 8, 15, 161, 248, 251; iii. 18</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Holland, H.M. the Queen of, iii. 85</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Henry, Lord, i. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Holman, Joseph, i. 85</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Holyoake, Mr., i. 126, 129</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Home, Captain Sir Everard, i. 275, 276, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Honeywood, W. P., i. 97</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hong Kong, i. 264, 278, 280, 322, 325-327, 331,
+    337; ii. <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>-<a href='#Page_115'>115</a>; iii. 9, 113, 129, 172, 180, 186,
+    220, 231, 234, 311</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Hong-Kong</span>, iii. 1, 2, 4, 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hooghly River, i. 155</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hook, Theodore, i. 121</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hope, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hornby, Sir E., iii. 296</li>
+  <li class="isub1">James G. P., i. 22</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Phipps, ii. <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_195'>195</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Horsey, Captain Algernon de, iii. 44, 45-55</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Horton, Captain Frederick Wilmot, i. 274, 276, 294, 296, 297, 312-316,
+    325; ii. <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hoste, Admiral Sir William, i. 15, 22; ii. <a href='#Page_42'>42</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Howard, Commander Hon. Edward, i. 199</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Howden, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hughes, Colonel, i. 93</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hume, David, ii. <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hunn, Captain Frederick, i. 25, 26, 33, 36, 55, 65,
+    168</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hunt, Captain James, i. 304; ii. <a href='#Page_239'>239</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Huntingfield, Lord, iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hussein, Seriff, ii. <a href='#Page_95'>95</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Hutton, Lieutenant Frederick, i. 119, 124, 136, 157, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Hydra</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_65'>65</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Ibbetson, Robert, i. 147</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Icarus</span>, iii. 170, 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ichaboa Island, iii. 68</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Illanuns, the, i. 294</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Inconstant</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_181'>181</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">India, ii. <a href='#Page_62'>62</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Inflexible</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_115'>115</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ingestre, Captain Lord, i. 169, 176, 177, 187</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady Sarah, i. 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Inglefield, Admiral, ii. <a href='#Page_76'>76</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Inglis, Bishop J., i. 52, 53</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Inkerman, ii. <a href='#Page_259'>259</a>, <a href='#Page_280'>280</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Jaffer, Seriff, i. 311, 317; ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jago, Commissary-General, i. 79</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Java, ii. <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jenkins, Lieutenant Robert, i. 333; ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jephson, Dr., i. 253</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jerdan, Mr., ii. <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">“John Company,” i. 133, 134</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Johnson, C., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant W. F., iii. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Johore, the Tumongong of, iii. 122</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Joinville, Prince de, i. 201</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jones, Sir Harry, ii. <a href='#Page_284'>284</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jones, Commodore Oliver, iii. 129, 220</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Jonos, the, iii. 165</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Kaga, Prince, iii. 169</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kalamanta Bay, i. 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kapiti Island, ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Karabonu, Cape, i. 168, 176</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Karangan, ii. <a href='#Page_16'>16</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kazatch, ii. <a href='#Page_262'>262</a>, <a href='#Page_266'>266</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kearney, Major, iii. 2</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Kearsage</span>, iii. 83</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kellett, Admiral Sir H., iii. 310</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kempt, General Sir James, i. 54</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, iii. 36</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Keppel'>KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR HENRY:—</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Birth, i. 1</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Christening, i. 1</li>
+  <li class="isub1">School-days, i. 2-5</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Choice of a career, i. 7</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Preparation for the Navy, i. 14</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Enters the Royal Naval College, Gosport, i. 16</li>
+  <li class="isub1">First voyage, i. 27</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Marries Catherine, daughter of Sir George Crosbie, i. 249</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Marries Jane Elizabeth West, iii. 80</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Appointments in H.M. Navy—</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Midshipman, i. 25</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Mate, i. 79</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Lieutenant, i. 86</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Commander, i. 158</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Commodore, ii. <a href='#Page_322'>322</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2">Admiral, iii. 15</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Ships:—</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Childers</span>, i. 164</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Colossus</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_312'>312</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Cumberland</span>, iii. 115</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Dido</span>, i. 255</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Forte</span>, iii. 39</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Galatea</span>, i. 100</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Magicienne</span>, i. 119</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_58'>58</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Manilla</span>, iii. 143</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Pearl</span>, iii. 135</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Pelorus</span>, iii. 144</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Princess Charlotte</span>, iii. 130, 172</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_324'>324</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Rattler</span>, iii. 143</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_276'>276</a>; iii. 173</li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_208'>208</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2"><span class='ships'>Tweed</span>, i. 25, 66</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Naval stations commanded by:—</li>
+  <li class="isub2">The Cape, iii. 39</li>
+  <li class="isub2">China, iii. 113</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Crimea, Naval Brigade, ii. <a href='#Page_284'>284</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2">Devonport, iii. 330</li>
+  <li class="isub2">S.E. America, iii. 71</li>
+  <li class="isub2">Straits Settlements, ii. <a href='#Page_77'>77</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Honours:—</li>
+  <li class="isub2">C.B., ii. <a href='#Page_314'>314</a></li>
+  <li class="isub2">K.C.B., iii. 15</li>
+  <li class="isub2">G.C.B., iii. 326</li>
+  <li class="isub2">D.C.L. Oxford, iii. 324-326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Lady_Keppel'><span class="smcap">Keppel</span>, Lady (Catherine Crosbie), i. 249, 251, 253; ii. <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a>, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a>, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a>, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a>;
+    iii. 18, 35</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Keppel_J'><span class="smcap">Keppel</span>, Lady (Jane West), iii. 80, 95, 114, 230</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Keppel_A'>Anne, i. 47, 67, 247, 249; ii. <a href='#Page_23'>23</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Augustus, Admiral Lord, i. 8, 59, 326</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Keppel_Au'>Augustus Frederick, i. 254</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Hon. Colin Richard, iii. 80, 95, 116, 230, 231,
+    273</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Rev. Edward, i. 67, 203; ii. <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>; iii. 19</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Frances, i. 254</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Keppel_GT'>George Thomas, i. 1, 5, 6, 85, 251, 253;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Keppel_G'>Georgina, i. 66</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Leicester, ii. <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_69'>69</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Maria Walpole, iii. 98, 230, 275</li>
+  <li class="isub1" id='Keppel_M'>Mary, i. 1, 66, 93</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sophia, i. 4</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Thomas Robert, i. 2, 4, 7, 22, 46, 47, 67,
+    81, 86; ii. <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>, <a href='#Page_81'>81</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">William, General, i. 59</li>
+  <li class="isub1">family of, i. 7</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class="smcap">Keppel</span>; <i>see</i> <a href='#Albemarle'>Albemarle</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kertch, ii. <a href='#Page_267'>267</a>, <a href='#Page_270'>270</a>-<a href='#Page_272'>272</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Khersonese'>Khersonese, ii. <a href='#Page_258'>258</a>, <a href='#Page_263'>263</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Khoulalonkorn, King, iii. 229</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kiel Harbour, ii. <a href='#Page_240'>240</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">King, Admiral Sir Durnford, ii. <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral George, ii. <a href='#Page_276'>276</a>; iii. 113, 114, 121</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Philip, ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kingsley, Charles, iii. 114</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kingston, Jamaica, i. 60</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kinmel, i. 93, 162</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kissang River, i. 135</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Knollys, Sir Francis, iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Knox, Lieutenant Thomas Owen, i. 119, 120, 124</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kobe, iii. 298</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Korbé; <i>see</i> <a href='#Corve'>Corvé</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Korea, iii. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kororareka (Russell), N.Z., ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Korsakof, General, iii. 195, 208</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kronstadt, ii. <a href='#Page_230'>230</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kuching; <i>see</i> <a href='#Sarawak'>Sarawak</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Kung, the Prince of, iii. 226</li>
+
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Labuan, ii. <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>; iii. 126, 230</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lagos, i. 238, 241, 242</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lahon, Cape, i. 210, 211</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lake, Admiral W. T., i. 54</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lambrick, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_144'>144</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth, i. 221</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lansdowne, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_59'>59</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lante Bay, i. 170</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>La Place</span>, iii. 162, 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lawrence, Captain, i. 182</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Leicester, Earl of; <i>see</i> <a href='#Coke_T'>Coke, Thomas William</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Countess of; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_A'>Hon. Anne Keppel</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Leighton, Vice-Chancellor, iii. 324</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Leithbridge, Misses, ii. <a href='#Page_55'>55</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Le Marchant, Major, i. 75</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lennard, Sir Thomas, ii. <a href='#Page_45'>45</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Leopold, H.R.H. Prince, i. 53; iii. 36</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lescanca, Brigadier, i. 189</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lesseps, Ferdinand de, iii. 118</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Leven</span>, iii. 234</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lexham Hall, i. 7</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lichfield, Thomas, Lord, i. 7, 162</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Li Hung Chang, iii. 245</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lima, General, i. 41</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Linga River, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lingghi River, i. 135</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Linn, Mandarin, i. 264</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lisbon, i. 103, 184</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lissa, i. 22</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Livingstone, Dr. David, iii. 67</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lloyd, Mr., i. 125</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant, iii. 235</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Loch, Captain Granville, i. 260, 261, 262, 263, 270,
+    272</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lockyer, Commander Nicholas, C.B., i. 167; ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>London</span>, iii. 110</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Loring, Captain John Wentworth, i. 16, 17</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Louis Philippe, King, ii. <a href='#Page_76'>76</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Louise, H.R.H. Princess, iii. 38</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Low, Hugh, ii. <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lowe, Robert, iii. 325</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lukin, Admiral, i. 7, 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lupar River, ii. <a href='#Page_6'>6</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lushington, Rt. Hon. Stephen, i. 148</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lyall, Sir Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_215'>215</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lyemoon Pass, iii. 182</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lynedoch, Lord, i. 54</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Lyons, Admiral Sir Edmund, ii. <a href='#Page_211'>211</a>, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a>, <a href='#Page_267'>267</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Macao, i. 264, 327; ii. <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>; iii. 1, 8, 9, 130, 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">M‘Arthur, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_132'>132</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">M‘Clure, Sir Robert, iii. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Macdonald, Sir James, i. 4; iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">MacDonnell, Sir Richard, iii. 129, 231</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mackenzie, Consul, i. 61</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Macota, ii. <a href='#Page_20'>20</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Madagascar</span>, i. 165, 170</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Madeira; <i>see</i> <a href='#Funchal_Roads'>Funchal Roads</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Madras, i. 133, 134, 148, 150, 157, 158</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Madrid, i. 186</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Madura, ii. <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Mæander</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_200'>200</a>, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Magellan, Straits of, ii. <a href='#Page_195'>195</a>-<a href='#Page_199'>199</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Magicienne</span>, i. 118, 119, 133, 153, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Magin, Captain, iii. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mahé, Port, iii. 63</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mahébourg, iii. 63</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maitland, Admiral Sir F. L., K.C.B., i. 165, 167</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Malabar</span>, i. 169, 171, 183, 184</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malacca, i. 134, 135, 137, 150, 157; ii. <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_334'>334</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malaga, i. 185, 186, 188, 190, 196</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malakoff, ii. <a href='#Page_274'>274</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malanga, ii. <a href='#Page_172'>172</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maldanado Roads, i. 43</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mallewali, ii. <a href='#Page_96'>96</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malone, Lieutenant, i. 17</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Malta, i. 75, 168, 184, 200; ii. <a href='#Page_249'>249</a>; iii. 117</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mambahennan, ii. <a href='#Page_100'>100</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mamelon, ii. <a href='#Page_273'>273</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Manao, iii. 169</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Manchester, Duke and Duchess of, i. 57; iii. 322, 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Manila, i. 327; ii. <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>; iii. 230</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maratabu River, ii. <a href='#Page_23'>23</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Mariner</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_77'>77</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Marjoribanks, Dr., i. 326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Marmora, Sea of, ii. <a href='#Page_249'>249</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Marseilles, i. 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Martin, Admiral, ii. <a href='#Page_239'>239</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain George, i. 169</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Surgeon William, i. 75</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Matapan, Cape, i. 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mataxa, Count, iii. 99</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mathieson, Commander, ii. <a href='#Page_78'>78</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maul, Fox; <i>see</i> <a href='#Panmure'>Panmure, Lord</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mauritius, i. 85, 260; iii. 63</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maxwell, Sir Benson, iii. 317</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maxwell, Rev. Dr., iii. 223</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mayatchni Island, iii. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Maynard family, the, i. 164</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mazatlan, ii. <a href='#Page_185'>185</a>, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Medea</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Medhurst, Sir Walter, iii. 221, 239</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Medusa</span>, i. 266, 274</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Melville Island, ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Menai Suspension Bridge, i. 94</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Menschikoff, Admiral Prince, ii. <a href='#Page_240'>240</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mexico, city of, i. 56, 64</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Gulf of, i. 57</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Meyerbeer, iii. 25</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Miako, iii. 174, 175, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Michi, Mr., iii. 238</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mikado, the, iii. 190, 290</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Millett family, the, i. 253</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Milo, i. 68, 176</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mina, Captain-General, i. 188, 196</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Doña, i. 196</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ming Tombs, the, iii. 172</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Minorca, i. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Minto, Lord, i. 255</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Minwaji-no-Mia, Prince, iii. 286</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mitford, Bertram, iii. 268, 286, 290</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Modeste</span>, i. 243, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Moluccas Islands, ii. <a href='#Page_147'>147</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Montagu, Oliver, iii. 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Montague, Admiral Sir William, i. 169, 171, 184; ii. <a href='#Page_205'>205</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Montenegro, the Marquis of, i. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Moore, Admiral Sir Graham, G.C.B., i. 260</li>
+  <li class="isub1">General Sir John, i. 260</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Moorsom, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_285'>285</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Moowar, the Rajah of, i. 136, 137, 139-146</li>
+  <li class="isub1">River, i. 135; ii. <a href='#Page_24'>24</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Moriataba River, i. 295</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mozambique Harbour, iii. 55</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Muda Hassim, Rajah, i. 299, 300, 301, 306, 307, 319,
+    339; ii. <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_84'>84</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mulla, Seriff, i. 312; ii. <a href='#Page_6'>6</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Mundy, Captain, i. 157, 172</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Murrundum Island, i. 294</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Musemberg, i. 73</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Nagasaki, iii. 144, 145, 170, 191, 192, 220,
+    300</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Najassi, iii. 201</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nakoda Bahar, ii. <a href='#Page_6'>6</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nanbu Harbour, iii. 158</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nancowry Harbour, i. 134, 285</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nanking, i. 270, 271; iii. 239</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nankow, iii. 172</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nanning, i. 134, 135</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Napier, Admiral Sir Charles John, K.C.B., i. 101, 102, 107, 117, 167,
+    247; ii. <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_226'>226</a>, <a href='#Page_228'>228</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">William, i. 288; ii. <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_64'>64</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Napoleon'>Napoleon, i. 1, 86, 90, 253</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Napper, Surgeon James, i. 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nash, Lieutenant Charles, i. 70</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Natunas, i. 294, 296, 297</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Navarino, i. 68</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nelson, Rev. Edmund, i. 15</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lord, i. 13, 15, 24; ii. <a href='#Page_267'>267</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">New Guinea, ii. <a href='#Page_148'>148</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Newman, Sir Robert, ii. <a href='#Page_276'>276</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">New Spain, i. 64</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">New Zealand, ii. <a href='#Page_152'>152</a>, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nicholai, iii. 192, 206</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nicholas I., Czar, ii. <a href='#Page_258'>258</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nicholson, Port, ii. <a href='#Page_169'>169</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nicobar Islands, i. 134, 284</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nigata, iii. 167</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nightingale, Miss Florence, ii. <a href='#Page_251'>251</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ning Po, i. 279</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Noad, Lieutenant Arthur, i. 113, 203, 257</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nogueras, General, i. 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Norfolk Island, ii. <a href='#Page_165'>165</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Norman, Colonel, iii. 296</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Norris, Sir William, i. 285, 289</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Northumberland, Duke of, i. 49</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Norton, Mrs., i. 260</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nova Scotia, i. 52</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Novogorod Harbour, iii. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Nwajima, Prince, iii. 293</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst"><span class='ships'>Ocean</span>, iii. 179, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">O’Donnell, Colonel, i. 192</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ohier, Admiral Marie Gustave, iii. 180, 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Oldfield, Lieutenant R. Brice, ii. <a href='#Page_59'>59</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ommaney, Admiral Sir John, ii. <a href='#Page_209'>209</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Onrust Island, ii. <a href='#Page_130'>130</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ord, Sir Henry, iii. 316</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Orestes</span>, i. 180, 197, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Orizaba Mountain, i. 62</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Osaka, iii. 174, 179, 180, 186, 190, 220,
+    298</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Osmond, John, i. 84</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Otho, King of Greece, i. 179</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ou-teng-foi, iii. 235, 236</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Owen, Admiral Sir E. W., i. 127, 128</li>
+
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Paddi, town, i. 317</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Paget, Commander Charles, i. 94</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Clarence, ii. <a href='#Page_264'>264</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pakington, Sir John, iii. 113</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pakoo, i. 318</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Palmas, Cape, i. 211</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Palmerston, Lord, i. 185; ii. <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a>; iii. 28, 29, 32,
+    100</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Panmure'>Panmure, Lord, i. 162; iii. 15-17</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Papua, ii. <a href='#Page_148'>148</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Parker, Rev. Dr., i. 281</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir William Hyde, i. 191, 193, 195, 198, 254, 264,
+    266, 271, 272, 273, 278, 325;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Parkes, Sir Henry, i. 264, 278; iii. 148, 150, 168, 169, 174,
+    179, 181, 187, 188, 273, 297,
+    328</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Paros, i. 179</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Parseval Deschênes; <i>see</i> <a href='#Deschenes'>Deschênes</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Partridge, family, i. 5; ii. <a href='#Page_49'>49</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Partridge, C., ii. <a href='#Page_61'>61</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Paterson, Mr., i. 66, 67</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Patingi, Ali, ii. <a href='#Page_7'>7</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Patterson, Admiral, i. 52</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Charles, i. 52</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Patusen, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pechell, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_299'>299</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Peck, Henry and George, i. 73</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pedro, Don, i. 40</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Peel, Sir Lawrence, i. 335</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Peiho River, iii. 171</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Peking, i. 81; iii. 144, 171, 259</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pelham, Dudley, i. 166</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Pelican</span>, i. 226, 231, 242, 277</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pell, Sir Watkin, ii. <a href='#Page_43'>43</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pelorus, ii. <a href='#Page_144'>144</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Penang, i. 146, 149, 282, 333, 337; ii. <a href='#Page_334'>334</a>; iii. 14, 120,
+    229, 318</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Penelope</span>, iii. 283</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Penguin Island, i. 203, 208</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Percy, Admiral Hon. Josceline, ii. <a href='#Page_199'>199</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Percy, Captain Joseph, i. 169, 176</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Perim, iii. 118, 119</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pernambuco, i. 41, 42</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Perote, i. 64</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Perry, Dare and Co., Messrs., i. 135</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Perseus</span>, iii. 234</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Petropaulovski, i. 178; iii. 208</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pettigrew, Dr., i. 100</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pfingsten, Major, iii. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Phlegethon</span>, i. 278; ii. <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>, <a href='#Page_84'>84</a>, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Piraeus</span>, the, i. 178</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Plampin, Admiral, i. 48</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Plumridge, Admiral J. H., i. 119, 121, 135; ii. <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a>; iii. 130</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Plymouth</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_121'>121</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Point'>Point de Galle, iii. 14, 119, 318</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Po-leng, iii. 235</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Polkinghorne, Commander James, i. 79</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pomony, iii. 56</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pontranini, ii. <a href='#Page_20'>20</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Poore, Sir E., ii. <a href='#Page_41'>41</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Popham, Commander Brunswick, i. 226, 231, 232, 242, 243</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Popoe, Little, i. 235, 236</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Porchester Castle, i. 52</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Porirua, Cape, ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port-au-Prince, i. 61</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Portendick, i. 202</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Porter, Captain, i. 98</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port Jackson, ii. <a href='#Page_152'>152</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Portland</span>, i. 178, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port Louis, i. 77, 79, 85</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port Mahon, i. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port Nicholson, ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Porto Praya, i. 69, 204</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Port Royal, Jamaica, i. 57, 60, 62, 112, 113</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Posietta Bay, iii. 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Potoo, i. 278</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pottinger, Sir Henry, i. 264, 271, 272, 273, 278, 322</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Major, i. 327</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Price, Captain David, i. 178</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Prince Edward’s Island, ii. <a href='#Page_73'>73</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Princess Charlotte</span>, i. 52; iii. 129, 130, 220</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Prince’s Island, i. 224, 225, 229, 237, 244</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='PrincessRoyal'>Princess Royal, the, i. 253; iii. 114, 121</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Province Wellesley, i. 283</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Pulo Sabu, i. 288</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Queensberry, Marquis of, iii. 40</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Quidenham, i. 1, 8, 9, 93; ii. <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Quin, Captain Michael, ii. <a href='#Page_23'>23</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Quitta, i. 235, 240</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Raffles, Sir Stamford, i. 285; ii. <a href='#Page_76'>76</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Raffles Bay, ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Raglan, Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_256'>256</a>, <a href='#Page_264'>264</a>, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Raleigh</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_324'>324</a>, <a href='#Page_336'>336</a>; iii. 2, 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ramsay, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_235'>235</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Ranee</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_86'>86</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ranelagh, Lord, i. 196</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Rattler</span>, iii. 190, 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Rattlesnake</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_153'>153</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Read, Lieutenant Charles B., ii. <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_72'>72</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">W. H., i. 289; iii. 317</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant (U.S.N.), iii. 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Redan, the, ii. <a href='#Page_274'>274</a>, <a href='#Page_299'>299</a>-<a href='#Page_304'>304</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Revenge</span>, i. 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Reynolds, Admiral Barrington, ii. <a href='#Page_199'>199</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rice, Edward, i. 169, 248, 260, 264, 274, 277</li>
+  <li class="isub1">family, the, i. 248</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rich, Henry, i. 96</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Richmond, Duke of, i. 72, 253</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Duchess of, i. 72</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rigby, Colonel, iii. 62, 63</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Rinaldo</span>, iii. 187, 221, 222, 234</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rio de Janeiro, i. 36, 42, 43, 123; ii. <a href='#Page_72'>72</a>, <a href='#Page_198'>198</a>;
+    iii. 42, 75</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rio de la Plata, i. 43</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Risk, W. B., iii. 145</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rivers, Lieutenant, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Roberts, Captain Sir Samuel, i. 168, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Robinson, Commander, iii. 221</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Sir Hercules, iii. 319</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Roches, M., iii. 174, 180, 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Rodney</span>, i. 191, 192, 193, 196, 197, 200;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_276'>276</a>, <a href='#Page_304'>304</a>; iii. 173, 177, 180, 222, 247, 276,
+    323, 324</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rodyk, Jack, iii. 318</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Roe, Sir Frederick and Lady, ii. <a href='#Page_45'>45</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rokeby, General Lord, ii. <a href='#Page_246'>246</a>, <a href='#Page_255'>255</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Romney family, the, i. 257</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rose, Sir Hugh, iii. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rosebery, Lord, i. 7</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rouen, Baron de Forth, ii. <a href='#Page_117'>117</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rougemont, Lieutenant, iii. 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rous, Admiral Hon. Henry, i. 87, 90; iii. 20</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rowley, Sir Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_27'>27</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Josias, i. 168, 180, 182, 183, 185, 201,
+    247; ii. <a href='#Page_39'>39</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Josias (junior), i. 261</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Samuel, ii. <a href='#Page_32'>32</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Roy, Captain, iii. 186</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Rubielo, i. 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Ryder, Captain A. P., ii. <a href='#Page_230'>230</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Sacrificios, i. 114</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sadong River, i. 311; ii. <a href='#Page_85'>85</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Saghalien Island, iii. 194, 198</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sahib, Seriff, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Saigon, iii. 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Angelo, Cape, i. 178</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Barbara River, i. 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">San Domingo, i. 16, 61, 163</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Helena, i. 90</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Jago de Cuba, i. 33, 61, 69, 204, 261</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>St. Jean d’Acre</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_208'>208</a>, <a href='#Page_233'>233</a>, <a href='#Page_243'>243</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. John, Sir Spenser, ii. <a href='#Page_69'>69</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Juan d’Ulloa, i. 62</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Paul’s, Cape, i. 235, 238</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Island, i. 123</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Roads, i. 85</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='San_Salvador'>San Salvador, i. 38, 39, 40; iii. 77, 78</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Thomas Island, i. 229; iii. 73</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">St. Vincent, i. 97, 107</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sakai, iii. 186, 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Salamanca, i. 82</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Salamis, Bay of, i. 179</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Salamis</span>, iii. 115, 120, 122, 145, 173, 180,
+    192, 198, 234, 237</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Salisbury, Lord, i. 177; iii. 324</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Saltoun, General Lord, i. 252, 264, 327, 332</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Samarang</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_18'>18</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sambas River, i. 292</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sandilands, Commander A. A., i. 129</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sandringham, iii. 92, 93, 260</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sandwich Islands, i. 43; ii. <a href='#Page_151'>151</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Santobong, ii. <a href='#Page_112'>112</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Saracen</span>, i. 203, 223, 228, 231, 232, 239,
+    240</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Sarawak'>Sarawak, i. 294, 296, 304, 319, 339; ii. <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>; iii. 11, 124, 229</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sarebas, the, ii. <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">River, i. 311</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Satellite</span>, iii. 122</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Satsuma, Prince, iii. 174, 175, 178, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Saumarez, Sir James, i. 69</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain, i. 326</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Saxe-Weimar, Duke Bernard of, ii. <a href='#Page_131'>131</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Prince Edward of, ii. <a href='#Page_253'>253</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Schomberg, Commodore, i. 85, 87</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Scott, Captain Lord Charles, iii. 170, 222</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain Frank, i. 103, 190; ii. <a href='#Page_7'>7</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Scout</span>, i. 167, 170, 225, 231, 232, 240,
+    242</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sebastopol; <i>see</i> <a href='#Sevastopol'>Sevastopol</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Seboo, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sekarran, country, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">River, i. 312; ii. <a href='#Page_6'>6</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sekarrans, the, ii. <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Senegal, i. 238</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Serapis</span>, iii. 332</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Seriff Jaffer, ii. <a href='#Page_2'>2</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Seton, Sir Henry, i. 335</li>
+
+  <li class="indx" id='Sevastopol'>Sevastopol, ii. <a href='#Page_240'>240</a>, <a href='#Page_254'>254</a>, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a>, <a href='#Page_264'>264</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Seymour family, the, i. 253</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir George, i. 163, 198, 258; ii. <a href='#Page_327'>327</a>; iii. 321</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral G. Henry, i. 198, 200, 275, 277, 278, 322,
+    333; ii. <a href='#Page_235'>235</a>; iii. 283, 321</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Lord Hugh, i. 16, 17</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Michael, i. 55; ii. <a href='#Page_209'>209</a>, <a href='#Page_238'>238</a>, <a href='#Page_337'>337</a>; iii. 1, 9</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Michael (junior), iii. 3</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lord William, ii. <a href='#Page_235'>235</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shakotan Bay, iii. 227</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shanghai, i. 266, 277; iii. 142, 172, 180, 220, 237</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shaw, Whitehead and Co., i. 288</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shepherd, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_182'>182</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Quartermaster John, ii. <a href='#Page_274'>274</a>, <a href='#Page_282'>282</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sheridan, Charles, i. 260</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Francis, i. 260, 261, 262</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sheriff, Admiral, ii. <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shrewsbury, Lord, i. 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Shunski, Ito, iii. 183</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Siefukigi Temple, iii. 183</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sierra Leone, i. 202, 203, 233; iii. 70</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Simmons, Mr., purser, ii. <a href='#Page_80'>80</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Simoneseki Straits, iii. 146, 265</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Simon’s Bay, i. 71, 74, 75, 77, 83, 86, 261;
+    iii. 45, 67, 74</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Simpson, Arthur Bridgman, i. 70, 71</li>
+  <li class="isub1">General, i. 81; ii. <a href='#Page_279'>279</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Dr., i. 271, 319, 322, 323</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sinclair, Major, i. 291</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Singapore, i. 147, 157, 263, 281, 285, 288,
+    322, 333, 338; ii. <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>,
+    <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a>; iii. 9, 13, 115, 120,
+    121, 122, 230</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Sir Charles Forbes</span>, iii. 1</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Skipsey, Commodore, i. 76</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Skipwith family, the, i. 253; ii. <a href='#Page_48'>48</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant Grey, i. 165, 191, 193, 252, 264, 272,
+    273, 278, 279, 291; ii. <a href='#Page_65'>65</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Smith, Lieutenant Christopher, i. 63, 71</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Smyrna, i. 168, 175, 176</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sober Island, i. 127</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Somerset, the Duke of, iii. 79, 265</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lord Charles Fitzroy, i. 72</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Soult, Marshal, i. 247</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Spalding, John, i. 98</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Spartan</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_41'>41</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Speke, Captain John Hanning, iii. 41, 46, 57, 91</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Spencer, Earl, i. 102, 103, 253</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Sphynx</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_52'>52</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Spurrier, Mr., iii. 4, 20</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stanhope, Captain, iii. 179, 181, 186, 187</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Elizabeth, i. 8</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Spencer, i. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stanley, Captain Owen, i. 291; ii. <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Stanley</span>, iii. 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Staveley, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>-<a href='#Page_123'>123</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">General, ii. <a href='#Page_117'>117</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stephenson, Augustus, ii. <a href='#Page_240'>240</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Commander Henry Frederick, i. 66, 93, 96, 97, 119, 164;
+    ii. <a href='#Page_219'>219</a>; iii. 15-17, 19, 27, 107, 115, 190, 205</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Henry (junior), ii. <a href='#Page_219'>219</a>, <a href='#Page_233'>233</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lady Mary; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_M'>Keppel</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Steward, Mr., ii. 7</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stewart, Mrs. Keith; <i>see</i> <a href='#Fitzroy_M'>Fitzroy, Mary</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stoddard, Consul, ii. <a href='#Page_70'>70</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Stopford, Admiral Sir Robert, i. 201; ii. <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Straits Settlements, the, iii. 121, 316</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Strongiolo Bay, i. 179</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Suckling, i. 20, 24</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Suez, iii. 18, 118</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Suffield, Lord and Lady, i. 162</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Suffolk, Earl of, i. 97</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sullivan, Sir Charles, Bart., i. 59</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sulu, the Sultan of, ii. 104</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sumatra, i. 149</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Summers, Mr., ii. <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>-<a href='#Page_123'>123</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sunda, Straits of, i. 147, 263; ii. <a href='#Page_75'>75</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Surtees family, i. 5</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sussex, H.R.H. Augustus, Duke of, i. 9, 11, 66, 93, 97, 160,
+    161, 246, 247, 249, 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Suttie, Captain Francis, iii. 115</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Swan, Commander John, iii. 190</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Swansen, Mr., i. 214, 215, 216, 219-221</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Swatow, iii. 136, 233, 235</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Swinhoe, Consul, iii. 237</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Sybille</span>, iii. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Sydney, ii. 152, 153, 154, 164</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Symonds, Sir William, i. 169; ii. <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Syra, i. 180</li>
+
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Tagus, River, ii. <a href='#Page_213'>213</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tahiti, ii. <a href='#Page_177'>177</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tai-wan-foo, iii. 224</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Taki Zingaburo, iii. 183, 184</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Taku Forts, iii. 171, 264, 303, 310</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Talavera</span>, i. 169, 171</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Talbot, Captain Charles, i. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Talleyrand, Prince, i. 162, 247</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tambilan Islands, i. 292, 338</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tampico, i. 58, 64, 65, 113</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tangiers, i. 168</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tang-Tau, iii. 234, 235</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tanjong Datu, i. 294; ii. <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>; iii. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tanjong Po, i. 295; ii. <a href='#Page_83'>83</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tarragona, i. 189, 196</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tartary, Gulf of, iii. 192</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tasmania, ii. <a href='#Page_157'>157</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Taylor, pilot, i. 257</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tchung-How, iii. 263</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Templer, John, ii. <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">J. L. B., ii. <a href='#Page_43'>43</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Termination Island, iii. 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Thackeray, William Makepeace, iii. 82</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Thistlethwaite, Mr., i. 251</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Thompson, Deas, ii. <a href='#Page_157'>157</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Thompson, Rev. Josias, ii. <a href='#Page_328'>328</a>; iii. 9</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Thours, Captain Du Petit, iii. 187, 227, 271</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Thunderer</span>, i. 121, 169, 170, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Tien Chi</span>, iii. 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tientsin, iii. 303</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tillenadin, Conanyaga Modr, i. 128</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tomari, iii. 163</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tombeaux Bay, iii. 65</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tonga Tabu, ii. <a href='#Page_172'>172</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Toolyan Island, ii. <a href='#Page_106'>106</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Torres, Captain de, i. 36</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Torres Straits, ii. <a href='#Page_142'>142</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tortoza, i. 188</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tosa, Prince, iii. 170</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tottenham, Lieutenant, i. 258, 285; ii. <a href='#Page_81'>81</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Townshend, Captain Lord James, i. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tracey, Commander, iii. 177</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Trade Town, i. 203, 206</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Trafalgar, i. 7, 12</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Tribune</span>, i. 169, 175, 183, 189; iii. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Trincomalee, i. 125, 128, 147, 157</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tripoli, i. 171, 178</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tristan d’Achuna, i. 123</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Trollope, Commander, iii. 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Trowbridge, Captain Sir Thomas, i. 257, 272; ii. <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Troy, i. 178</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tseng Kuo-fau, iii. 222</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Tumongong of Singapore, the, ii. <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Turnour, Captain Edward W., i. 333; ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>-<a href='#Page_7'>7</a>, <a href='#Page_336'>336</a>; iii. 1, 4, 39, 45</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Twanai, iii. 163</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Tweed</span>, i. 19, 25, 46, 65, 66, 67,
+    85</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Twofold Bay, ii. <a href='#Page_157'>157</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Tyne</span>, i. 169, 176, 187, 189, 200</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst"><span class='ships'>Undaunted</span>, i. 67, 84</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Undop, ii. <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Valencia, i. 187, 191, 195</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Valparaiso, ii. <a href='#Page_195'>195</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Venus</span>, iii. 186</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vera Cruz, i. 57, 58, 62, 65</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vernon, Lord, i. 184</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Vernon</span>, i. 169, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Victor of Hohenlohe, Prince, ii. <a href='#Page_235'>235</a>; iii. 1, 2, 9, 25</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Victoria, Queen, i. 247, 250, 251; ii. <a href='#Page_218'>218</a>, <a href='#Page_313'>313</a>, <a href='#Page_324'>324</a>; iii. 19, 41,
+    116, 322, 329</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Princess; <i>see</i> <a href='#PrincessRoyal'>Princess Royal</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Victory</span>, i. 53</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Villa Nueva, i. 200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vizeu, Francisco Nunes Sweezer, i. 2, 103</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Vladimir</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_302'>302</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vladivostock, iii. 198, 218</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vlangali, A., iii. 192, 194</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Volage</span>, i. 169, 180</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Von Brockhausen, Baron, i. 191</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Vourla, i. 168, 170, 171, 173</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Wade, Sir Thomas, i. 81</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Colonel, i. 81</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Lieutenant C. F., ii. <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Waitemata Harbour, ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wales, H.R.H. the Prince of, i. 96, 257; iii. 81, 92, 93, 105, 113,
+    115, 322, 328, 329, 332, 333</li>
+  <li class="isub1">H.R.H. the Princess of, iii. 81, 93, 105, 322, 333</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Walker, Captain Sir Baldwin, i. 201; ii. <a href='#Page_208'>208</a>; iii. 74</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Walpole-Keppel, family of, i. 7</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Wanderer</span>, i. 275, 333</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Waring, Mr., i. 187</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Warren, Admiral, i. 121; iii. 75</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Warrington, Colonel, i. 172</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Waterford, Lord, i. 246</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Waterloo, Battle of, i. 1, 72, 86</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Waterpark, Eliza, Lady, i. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Waterwitch</span>, i. 223, 227, 228</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Watson, Captain, i. 274, 277, 278</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wellesley, Captain George, iii. 14</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Wellesley</span>, ii. <a href='#Page_68'>68</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wellington, Duke of, i. 82, 86, 247, 256; ii. <a href='#Page_206'>206</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wellington, N.Z., ii. <a href='#Page_171'>171</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wemyss and March, Earl of, i. 8</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Frederica, Countess of, i. 8</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">West, Green, i. 71</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Jane; <i>see</i> <a href='#Keppel_J'>Keppel, Lady</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Rev. Richard, iii. 80</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whampoa, i. 323; ii. <a href='#Page_80'>80</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>; iii. 14, 232, 317</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whichcote, Sir Thomas, iii. 27</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">White, Admiral Sir John, ii. <a href='#Page_29'>29</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whitehead, Mr., i. 322</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whitshed, Admiral Sir James Hawkins, i. 27</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whydah, i. 237, 239</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Whytock, Colonel, ii. <a href='#Page_60'>60</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wildman, Colonel, i. 11</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">William IV., King, i. 102, 120, 121, 160, 161, 163,
+    200</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Williams, Sir John, i. 94</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Admiral Sir Thomas, G.C.B., i. 94, 165</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Williamson, Mr., i. 302; ii. <a href='#Page_7'>7</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Willoughby, James, iii. 117</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wilson, Lieutenant A. K., iii. 178</li>
+  <li class="isub1">family, the, i. 51</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Windham, General Charles, ii. <a href='#Page_260'>260</a>, <a href='#Page_300'>300</a>, <a href='#Page_301'>301</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Mr., ii. <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Windsor, iii. 115, 116</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wise, Henry, ii. <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a></li>
+  <li class="isub1">Captain W., i. 169</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wodehouse, George, i. 103</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Wolverine</span>, i. 199, 200, 281; ii. <a href='#Page_24'>24</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wood, Sir Charles, iii. 9</li>
+  <li class="isub1">Rev. James, i. 2, 4</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Woosung, i. 266-269, 275; iii. 180, 220</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Würtemburg, the Prince of, i. 115</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Wynberg, i. 71</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Xalapa, i. 57, 63, 64</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Xavier, St. Francis, i. 150</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Xeres, i. 184</li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Yang-tse-kiang River, i. 268, 269; iii. 237</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yarborough, Lord, i. 166</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yates, Mr., i. 66</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yedo, iii. 148, 179, 180, 265</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yeh, Admiral, iii. 6</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yeng Cheow, iii. 223</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yesso, iii. 164</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yo-chow, iii. 250</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yokohama, iii. 148, 150, 151, 162, 174, 177,
+    179, 180, 191, 192, 220, 295</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yokosha, iii. 191</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">York, Cape, ii. <a href='#Page_142'>142</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Young, Captain, ii. <a href='#Page_79'>79</a></li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Yule, Lieutenant, ii. <a href='#Page_165'>165</a></li>
+
+  <li class="ifrst">Zante, i. 180, 182</li>
+
+  <li class="indx">Zanzibar, iii. 57</li>
+  <li class="isub1">the Sultan of, iii. 62</li>
+
+  <li class="indx"><span class='ships'>Zebra</span>, iii. 222</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<p class='center mt2'>END OF VOL. II</p>
+
+
+<p class='center mt2 fs80'><em>Printed by</em> <span class="smcap">R. &amp; R. Clark, Limited</span>, <em>Edinburgh</em></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="transnote">
+<h2 id="Transcribers_Notes">Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Images relocated close to related content.
+</li>
+<li>Sidenotes relocated close to related content.
+</li>
+<li>The original has a sidenote at the start of every page to indicate
+   the current year and sometimes a reminder of the current location.
+   Where the year and location are clear from the text and previous
+   sidenotes, these page-top notes have been omitted.
+</li>
+<li>Footnotes have been renumbered consecutively and relocated to
+   the end of the text.
+</li>
+<li>Punctuation and other obvious typographic inaccuracies were silently
+   corrected.
+</li>
+<li>Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
+</li>
+<li>Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
+</li>
+<li>The index that appears in volume III has been replicated into
+   volumes I and II.  Only those page numbers pertaining to this volume
+   have been linked.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76809 ***</div>
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