CONTENTS.
J. J. Smith
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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
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?—?Deaths during the Commission
i.
Appendix B
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?—?Table of places visited and distances run during the Commission
iii.
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