| CHAPTER I. |
| My Birth and Parentage—Early Tastes and Travels—Marriage, and Widowhood | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. |
| Struggles for Life—The Cholera in Jamaica—I leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama—Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun—Life in Panama—Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces | 6 |
| CHAPTER III. |
| My Reception at the Independent Hotel—A Cruces Table d’HÔte—Life in Cruces—Amusements of the Crowds—A Novel Four-post Bed | 17 |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| An Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces—The Cholera—Success of the Yellow Doctress—Fearful Scene at the Mule-owner’s—The Burying Parties—The Cholera attacks me | 23 |
| CHAPTER V. |
| American Sympathy—I take an Hotel in Cruces—My Customers—Lola Montes—Miss Hayes and the Bishop—Gambling in Cruces—Quarrels amongst the Travellers—New Granadan Military—The Thieves of Cruces—A Narrow Escape | 34 |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Migration to Gorgona—Farewell Dinners and Speeches—A Building Speculation—Life in Gorgona—Sympathy with American Slaves—Dr. Casey in Trouble—Floods and Fires—Yankee Independence and Freedom | 46 |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| The Yellow Fever in Jamaica—My Experience of Death-bed Scenes—I leave again for Navy Bay, and open a Store there—I am attacked with the Gold Fever, and start for Escribanos—Life in the Interior of the Republic of New Granada—A Revolutionary Conspiracy on a small scale—The Dinner Delicacies of Escribanos—Journey up the Palmilla River—A Few Words on the Present Aspect of Affairs on the Isthmus of Panama | 59 |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| I long to join the British Army before Sebastopol—My Wanderings about London for that purpose—How I failed—Establishment of the Firm of “Day and Martin”—I Embark for Turkey | 73 |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| Voyage to Constantinople—Malta—Gibraltar—Constantinople, and what I thought of it—Visit to Scutari Hospital—Miss Nightingale | 82 |
| CHAPTER X. |
| “Jew Johnny”—I Start for Balaclava—Kindness of my old Friends—On Board the “Medora”—My Life on Shore—The Sick Wharf | 92 |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| Alarms in the Harbour—Getting the Stores on Shore—Robbery by Night and Day—The Predatory Tribes of Balaclava—Activity of the Authorities—We obtain leave to erect our Store, and fix upon Spring Hill as its Site—The Turkish Pacha—The Flood—Our Carpenters—I become an English Schoolmistress Abroad | 102 |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| The British Hotel—Domestic Difficulties—Our Enemies—The Russian Rats—Adventures in Search of a Cat—Light-fingered Zouaves—Crimean Thieves—Powdering a Horse | 113 |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| My Work in the Crimea | 124 |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| My Customers at the British Hotel | 135 |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| My First Glimpse of War—Advance of my Turkish Friends on Kamara—Visitors to the Camp—Miss Nightingale—Mons. Soyer and the Cholera—Summer in the Crimea—“Thirsty Souls”—Death busy in the Trenches | 146 |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| Under Fire on the fatal 18th of June—Before the Redan—At the Cemetery—The Armistice—Deaths at Head-quarters—Depression in the Camp—Plenty in the Crimea—The Plague of Flies—Under Fire at the Battle of the Tchernaya—Work on the Field—My Patients | 154 |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| Inside Sebastopol—The Last Bombardment of Sebastopol—On Cathcart’s Hill—Rumours in the Camp—The Attack on the Malakhoff—The Old Work again—A Sunday Excursion—Inside “Our” City—I am taken for a Spy, and thereat lose my Temper—I Visit the Redan, etc.—My Share of the Plunder | 167 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| Holiday in the Camp—A New Enemy, Time—Amusements in the Crimea—My share in them—Dinner at Spring Hill—At the Races—Christmas-Day in the British Hotel—New Year’s Day in the Hospital | 177 |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| New Year in the Crimea—Good News—The Armistice—Barter with the Russians—War and Peace—Tidings of Peace—Excursions into the Interior of the Crimea—To Simpheropol, Baktchiserai, etc.—The Troops begin to leave the Crimea—Friends’ Farewells—The Cemeteries—We remove from Spring Hill to Balaclava—Alarming Sacrifice of our Stock—A last Glimpse of Sebastopol—Home! | 188 |
| Conclusion | ADVENTURES OF MRS. SEACOLE
IN MANY LANDS.
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