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قراءة كتاب In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
IN EASTERN SEAS;
OR,
THE COMMISSION OF
H.M.S. "IRON DUKE,"
Flag-ship in China, 1878-83.
BY
J. J. SMITH, N. S.
Devonport:
Printed and Published by A. H. Swiss, 111 and 112 Fore Street.
1883.
| To my late Shipmates IN H.M.S. "IRON DUKE," The following pages are respectfully inscribed. |
| ——— |
| Those who voyage beyond sea change their climate often, but their affections never. |
PREFACE.
To write something which shall please one's own friends is one thing; to undertake the task of pleasing anybody else is another; and, I take it, a far more difficult one. The writer of the following pages never sought to sail beyond the peaceful and well-marked area of the first, until induced—at the suggestions of his shipmates, though against his better judgment—to venture on the dark and tempest-swept ocean of the second.
The only originality claimed for the narrative is that of introducing such a manifestly inferior production to your notice.
Shipmates, my little bark is frail; deal gently with her, and—let me ask it as a special favor—do not blow too fiercely on her untried sails.
Much depends on the title of a book. Does it convey an adequate idea of the subject-matter? I would claim for mine at least that merit; for is not every sea over which we have voyaged to the eastward of England?
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| 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. | |