CONTENTS.

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Chapter I.
We Commission our Ship?—?Visit Portsmouth?—?Prepare to Sail 1
Chapter II.
Good-by to Albion?—?Southward Ho!?—?Gibraltar 12
Chapter III.
Up the Mediterranean?—?Malta 26
Chapter IV.
Port Said?—?The Suez Canal?—?Voyage down the Red Sea?—?Aden 39
Chapter V.
Across the Indian Ocean?—?Ceylon?—?Singapore?—?A Cruise in the Straits of Malacca 47
Chapter VI.
Sarawak?—?Labuan?—?Manilla?—?Heavy weather 62
Chapter VII.
Hong Kong?—?Some Chinese manners and customs 71
Chapter VIII.
Preparations for the North?—?Amoy?—?Wosung, and what befell us there 83
Chapter IX.
Arrival at Nagasaki?—?Something about Japan?—?A run through the Town?—?Visit to a Sintoo Temple 94
Chapter X.
The Inland Sea?—?KobÉ?—?Fusi-Yama?—?Yokohama?—?Visit to Tokio 113
Chapter XI.
Northward?—?Hakodadi?—?Dui?—?Castries Bay?—?Barracouta?—?Vladivostock 131
Chapter XII.
Chefoo?—?Nagasaki en route?—?Japan revisited?—?KobÉ?—?Yokohama 146
Chapter XIII.
We attempt an overland route, with the result of the trial 159
Chapter XIV.
The new regime?—?Something about Saigon?—?The First Cruise of the China Squadron?—?An Alarm of Fire!?—?Arrival of Flying Squadron 181
Chapter XV.
Second Cruise of the China Squadron?—?Principally concerning a Visit to the Loo-Choo Isles and Corea?—?Welcome news from home?—?Conclusion 210
Appendix A.?—?Deaths during the Commission i.
Appendix B.?—?Table of places visited and distances run during the Commission iii.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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