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How we were boarded by Chinese and dispersed them 371 Chinese Visiting Cards 377 Pearl River 379 Bogue Forts 381 Chinese Pagoda and Boats 382 The French Consulate, Canton 389 Chinese Foot and Boot 398 Maharajah of Johore's House 414 The Pet Manis 417 Malacca 419 How the Journal was written 423 Peacock Mountain, Ceylon 439 Soumali Indian, Aden 451 Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb 457 Beating up the Red Sea 462 Homeward Bound 473 Faldetta, Malta 475 Armoury in the Governor's Palace, Valetta 477 Tangier 482 Vasco da Gama 484 Belem Cloister Gardens 485 Our Welcome back off Hastings 487 Home at Last 488

 

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NOTE.

I have to thank Mr. W. Simpson, author of 'Meeting the Sun,' for the passages given on pages 341 to 343 referring to the Japanese temples and their priesthood.

The vessel which has carried us so rapidly and safely round the globe claims a brief description. She was designed by Mr. St. Clare Byrne, of Liverpool and may be technically defined as a screw composite three-masted topsail-yard schooner. The engines, by Messrs. Laird, are of 70 nominal or 350 indicated horse-power, and developed a speed of 10.13 knots at the measured mile. The bunkers contain 80 tons of coal. The average daily consumption is 4 tons, and the speed 8 knots in fine weather. The principal dimensions of the hull are—length for tonnage, 157 ft.; beam extreme, 27 ft. 6 in.; displacement tonnage, 531 tons; area of midship section, 202 sq. ft.

A. B.

 

 

 

A VOYAGE IN THE 'SUNBEAM'.

 

CHAPTER I.

FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND.

At noon on July 1st, 1876, we said good-bye to the friends who had come to Chatham to see us off, and began the first stage of our voyage by steaming down to Sheerness, saluting our old friend the 'Duncan,' Admiral Chads's flagship, and passing through a perfect fleet of craft of all kinds. There was a fresh contrary wind, and the Channel was as disagreeable as usual under the circumstances. Next afternoon we were off Hastings, where we had intended to stop and dine and meet some friends; but, unfortunately the weather was not sufficiently favourable for us to land; so we made a long tack out to sea, and,