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HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOVERE (1827).
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W. CLARK RUSSELL
(Authur ́"The Wreck of the Grosvenor,”": Overdue, &c.)
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 1904.
The weather continued to vary in this fashion. * When my reason returned, I found myself in Sometimes the wind blew favourably and please room. I was lying on mat upon the floor, mutly and drove us as I hoped and prayed closer, and my head was supported by a little wooden and yet clower to some friendly shore where, i pillow, the same that is used by the Kanakan or though no other good should cums of our visit, ratives of the South Sea Islands. A fall man we should be able to fill up with fresh water |¦ and a girl stood by looking down on me. It which every day. I may say every hour, grow was night. The room was illuminated by lamps more previous with us as the quantity dimin- of count oil, but in addition to these, the girl ished.
wus surveying bu by the light of a native taper We were still four men in that open boat, in a composed of a mazaber of small-korneis of nuts boundle unknown sea, with a white hat man upon long elastic cocoa fibre: the top one is overhoud day, no certainty of seeing laud at bghted, and Imrus, and when it is consumed it any hour, since we know not where we were und kindles the next to it, and so on. These natural Synorels of Instalments I to IV apert de la could not know that the nearest island might lamps bura at the rate of ten minutes a kernel. The room I was in had few features familiar Tomelte is second mate on one of a fleet of convict be five hundrest miles distant in le direction slaps, leaving England for a distant contry. Among opposite to which we stoered. The horrors of to us in England or Europe. The outer wall the women prisoners is u yourg und beautiful girl, the open boat it sen have often been related consisted of timber pillus about nine fect dis. but what her same is, or for what she is being Humanity knows many forms of suffering, but tant from each other. These pillars were Irished, be one 26. Vind only a few dignons worse than thirst in a boat, shono upon by sheathed with matting. Close to my head was soa thần girl houpa overboard, and la Touche iúmes diately dives after her, but thoughs preened and taken
the sultry y eye of heaven that blows bubbles in a screen of loug nuts, and this screen or wall, if on board again she dien altuest at once; and is buried the paint work and sots the steam arising, you please to call it so, was the division between at sen. The voyage now besomes prentful in the sx-
the room I lay in and another. The little com twa. Saveral of the sails and convicts declare
partment was furnished with chairs, a tablo, a that the ghost of the dead girl has appeared to firem,
wooden tray or two, stools and other trifling strange hark angezing scenes frighten the crew, nad even the captain is awodruck by the right of a strange
watter. I do not say that my mind collected white port not marked on the cart, but which
these objects at once. turns out to be an apparition. When within a few ley sail of their desi nution a three-masted schooner in distress in sighted, which signs to thene for a anjgdy of fresh water. A boat is at one lowered, and la Tonele and four sailors pronend to the vessel. The captain invites la oathe into his cabin, and nder the pretence of bringing wh goes out, locking the door bahind him The ship now starter
The first to give way was Tuckett. His mind went on the third day after our water gave out, on the night of the tenth day of our loving the schooner. It was alwut wine o'clook that night when I was awakened from a sort of sleep that was more a fit than a shumber by a loud hullosing and the laughter of a maniac. It was Tackett who was shouting out in the most extravagant language, bidding as know that he was God, and none other than God! and his laugh was so dreadful that it almost stopped the beating of one's heart to hear it. He sprong to the gunwale before I had fairly collecte my
then at her, to let them know that I was will. ing to go to sloop if I could. On which they extinguished the oil lamps, and went out by way of the soreen, the man bidding me good. night, the girl in silence, and I was left in darkness.
My exhaustion must have been very great, for I searco recollect any interral of thought bo twixt their going and my falling asleep. When I awoke it was broad daylight, and I judged by my posture that I had slept without motion of my body right through the night. A por tion of the matting abreast of my bed which formed the wall of the house had been raised. os you would lift a Vazetion blind, and I won- dered that the brillianes of the sunshine with out land not sooner disturbed me. I lay quiet, looking about, greatly marvelling. was in a chamber of native construction. High above mo was the ridge tree which supported the roof that slopod down to the timber pillars where the mutting was. The ground that was raised shout a foot, as I was afterwards told, had first been covered with cocoa-nut leaves and dry grass, over which was laid a bleached matting, made of the young leaves of the cocon tree. observed that all the reus formed of long muts could be raised so as to convert the aper tures into windows.
back to his prisoner, and tells him that he and his wits. with both hands lifted and face upturned, / so he will drink ravenously and hurt himself," gay with colour could the heart of man, weary
voyage, the efforts of the convict fleet to come up with her hang unavailing,. At last the captain gro estaguions have been taken in order to help him to navigato ship to the South Sea Islands, sama of his chan having slied. In Tache knows that benint anea is low, so he promises to net si mata on this extraordinary voyugo,” A fer days later, during tho mid-night watch, the schooner strikes a roof, and becomes 20 Bruly wedged on the rocks that hope of getting her off again in abandoned. Daybreak dis. closes unother slapaian stranded, but a short distance away. The captain naks la Touche to ga and inspect her, which de doen. The only discoveries he taken are the dead body of a man, and a chest containing valable stones and silver articles, some of which ho taken away with bin. On his returs ho finds that the captain has been murdered by one of his crew, while other are engaged in breaking open the run marks. Leaving them to their fate, la Touche, and four men launch a bont and sut sail, hoping to arrive atum island. Another strange vesel in sighted bat though signaled to thee not respond and suddenly disappears altogether.
CHAPTER V.
THE SWIMMER.
The passing of that strange, silent ship with- out giving any heed to our cries, or discovering the faintest sign of life on board--for we did not see a sigle figare meving on her, except that tho milor Jim said that he su mon standing aft motionloss, with his arra round a mizzen backstay, but none of the others of as behold him I say the passing of that ghostly ship saunk our spirits ie the last degree. I did then, as I do now, most solemnly believe that she was the dreaded spectre of the sea, the Phantom Ship, to sight which is to know death, and what may be worse than death.
She had not been five minutes sunk out of
sight in the moonshire, or vanished in souce visionary fashion, which I am unable to explain, when the sailor Jim, who was standing of the thwart sank down and fell into the bottom of the beat with a groan.
I imagined a tit had seized him, and bidding Tuckett grusp the tiller I passed over the thwarts to where the man lay. But on holding his wrist and making other examinations I found hina dead. I tried him with a sap of rum, but the liquor flowed out of his mouth."
-Ho'k heen uiling for a long time," said Harry. He was always complaining of his heart.
It was de ship, not his heart," said the negro.
He saw de man. Nobuddy else saw him. It was de ship dat killed him."
At daybreak I took another view of the body, and poresived that the max was certainly dead. As he is but a melancholy text for our thoughts to run upon, I bade the others put the remains over the side. We were now four men. The day had broken very calra. I gazed Eagerly about for any shadow of land, but saw zone. All day long did this calm last. The swell of the sea sank and lifted as the white breasts of a woman rise and fail, softly, purely, with no life of wind on its surface.
It was just before the sun went down this day that we made a terrible discovery. Harry, who was sitting on the thwart over against the stern sheets, his eye fastened for a space on the bottom of the boat. stooped, and lifting one of the bottom boards which decked the well cried-a
I thought Fheard it, Mr.. la Toueko. The boat's leaking.
Balo her out," said 1, "and tiny we must see how fast she's taking it in and where it comes through."
shoutings. I sulus. I ect!" spinng into the
ses, and the fire flashed as he struck the water.
I seized the bont-look and stood up ready, thinking he might rise close, eured of his mad- ness by his leop, but could catch no sigus of him whatever. I nover again saw him, though I stood gazing about me for at least a quarter of an hour.
On the afternoon of the day following that on which Tuckett perished, whilst the boat was steering herself, fauned slowly by a gentlo mo- tion of the air, chancing to direct my eyes over the bows I thought I saw a streak of violent shadow, the shadow indeed of lansi. I con.
I was immediately sensible when I awoke of a derperuto burning thirst in my throat, but also felt that my mouth had been cooled by water. The first word I uttered was "water," on which the man said in English with a Scotch arcent: **Give me that taper, Lily, and pour out a ttle water, which you must hold to his lips, I watch her pour from an earthen pitcher a little water into the half of a polished cocon- out shell, with which she comes my side, and kneels down, the man holding the taper over us so as to make a good light. I tried to raise my head, but could not, whereon the man bade her help me as it would be impossible for ane to swallow in that posture. She put her arms ander my neck and raised my heart, placed the edge of the cocoa-nut to my lips, and I drank.
Enough," says the nan
The girl let my head sink gently,
You shall have another draught presently," says the ma, "It as I see you are half dead of thirst it would be wrong to lot you drink as
you feel you want."
I got up and found myself strong enough to stand and walk, aud going to the window, I took a view of the score outside. The prospect was enchanting. No picture more brilliant and of the sea, desire. The land sloped to a low cliff, boyoud which the ocean went up into the sky to a horizon whose altitude made me judge that this house was high peroited. I know by the man that I was looking castwards. The sea was a sheet of blue silver gently trembling. On either side the mouth of a creek was a shoal, and the water played and foamed in the sun upon the rocks. In front of the hones, some little distance down, stretched a garden, the outline of which was marked by pieces of coral. This garden contained several beda full of flowers, but what immediately took my eye wasi central bed which was undoubtedly a grave; it was not only very richly garnished with flowers, but there reposed upon the little mound intermingled with brilliantly coloured shells,
trived by an vecasional feeble movement of tho mach siri's dark, asking oyes in the a fine large cross of pink and white coral, choicely
arm to keep the beat's head pointed at the shadow which grow apace, so that before sun down there lay upon the horizon the outline of a little island.
But a most dreadful thing was to happen he fore the darkness calne, A sudden heare of well such us does often occur in calms caused the bout to reel, and the mat Hurry who hud been sitting rigid against the mast fell between the thwarts desd." The noise of his fall dia- turbed the negro, who lifting his head looked at him. He continued to look at him stealfust- ly for the space of two minutes, whilst his thick lips slowly widened and exposed his teeth in a most horrible cannibal grin.“
With spring he fell upon the dead mass, and buried bie tooth in the throat, The awful ectacle overhedral me and I finded.
I met
strange light of the taper, and tried to smile, meaning to thank her by that look, but my features were as rigid as my neck. I managed nevertheless to say:
But in ocean-wear ied eye was most delighted by the trees, plauts and flowers. Of course I could not naine all I then saw. Where I stood Where am I?"
I commanded a squce of shout two miles right "You shall hear in good time," says the tail and left. I saw clumps of the bread-fruit tree, Den in
a grave, dignified way, and serious tone lofty and patriarchal, with brond lace-odgel of voice.
leaves; trees of the cloth plant; the pale They continued to watch me by the light of green, broad-leafed foliage of the banana, and the taper and the little oil lamps, whilst I lay the palm tree soaring in graceful majesty, motionless and silent with my eyes open. My springing like a shaft into the air, some an understanding had returned in fal force. I hundred feet high, and their summits spreading remembered what had passed, and how that girl, their rich, fringe-like leaves into a canopy as whose beautiful dark face was looking down wile as the floor of a ball room. I saw trees upon me, swam to the boat, and towed me in, large and spreading grondly, with yellow apples and the impression her figure produced upon growing in bunches apon them; likewise trees my mind, which in the best was too weak to with milk-white Bowers which brought you a When I came to my senses it was night, but conter the inscription to the brain, was now delicate smell like famine, and other trees boar the moon was shinin,, and ahead I could plots revenied to me as fully as though I beheld hering a light yellow flower of wonderful beauty, ly see the land gleaming like silver on the sea, when, seizing hold of the gunwale, she drew and very rich in fragrance. The land likewise I could not imagine how long I had been a herself out of the water and sprang into the yielded ferns and plants which were gandy with conscious, but on looking for the negro I did not heat. She was then a perfect figure of a maiden large, sweet-smelling white flowers, and the su see him. The dead man hay us he had faith. of about sixteen or seventeen, clothed in shine was rendered quick and prismatic by the but the negro had vanished. That he had gone awimming garb as I gathered: a tight fitting flight of parroquets, tropic birds, bine and white mad, after taking the dend it's throut in his vestment of the native cloth or tappa, which herons, and men of war birds, with coal black teeth, and leapt overboard I could not doubt. left bare ber arms, much of her neck, and her feathers. Maybe he was mud when he committed the hor legs to above her knees. That had been ker rid dood. But what signifies speculation? He figure when she entered the boat. She was now was gone, and I was along with the dead.
attired in long white petticoat of cloth, and a The sight of land, the nearness of land, had kind of vest or curselet of white cloth close up put some life into me, and as I dreaded the pro- under the urine covering her breast. Her bluck Bence of the dead, after having behold the detion
lair was coiled upon her head in plaits, and her of the negro, not knowing what I might he feet were shed in sandale, formed, as I after tempted to do in the passion and madness of wards got to know, of pieces of tappa gummed thirst. I staggered and stumbled over the together and held by tapes of the cloth, thwarts to the body which, by superhuman They let me lie for another ten minutes, and effort, I got on the gunwale, und it slipped I heard them talking, but did not follow their away from my hands into the water. Thon, words. I felt extremely work and ill, but yet utterly exhausted, not doubting that I should had strength enough of understanding to keep be dead before the morning came, I reeled into my eyes on the girl, with a sick wonderment the head of the bout and sank upon the bow and all superstitions fear, believing that she with my face over the water, and thus lay,was the spirit of the convict girl returned to life incapable of the least exertion, al without or that I was in another world, and had met her power of mind enough to put up a prayer to looking as though she was in the flesh, though God to direct the boat to shore.
in verity we were all three of us, and the room itself and everything in it, essences or sinal scrums. This was an awful haunting idea, as fourful as though I was dead, and thinking, thongh dead.
What followed I could no more tell than a man who has been ill and out of his mind could relata in succession the events that fell betwixt his first frenzy or delirium and his retura to his senses. When I recall that time. I caunot but think that I viewed things with dying eyes, and that every presentment, thonga real and substantial, took from my discolonzed mind the visionary form that attends appearances before death. I was without fear, and over and over again said to myself that if I could but quench my intolerable thirst I would gladly give up the ghost, and be at peace the instant after the sweet draught had cooled out the cruel fever in my turout.
Give him some moro water," says the man. The girl again half-filled the cocon-nut shell, knelt, raised my hend, and I drank, this time
somewhat deeply, the man not hindering me, The cold delicious draught seemed to alido a new pirit and life into the most secret pro- cesse of my being. I said, an the girl let my head ink, "O, how good you are!"
uld you take some fool P" asked the man, alwrs in the same grand, lofty, lordly way, aslough he was a great chief or king. I was conscious throughout the hours dark answered yes, I felt hungry. He spoke to
the girl, who left the room, quitting it by part very faint Lght wind towards the hund, and arising the screen near my head. She returned in I suppose I understood by houring the sound of a little while with Ends cocoa-nut shell in her the sarf slowly grow..
hand and a spoon.
He took the half cocon shell that, with a stick for a landle, made a baler, und fell to scooping out the water, and--oh, my God! now, oven now, after all there years, my blood runs coldness that the boat continued to be wafted by whilst I sit and write it and smell again that hat stink of paint, and see the man by the ex. piring light of the sun throwing overboard what was more precious than the drops in our veins. He baled fast, and gained upon the water. I
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It must be trifling. She'll tighten as she Heaks."
As though stung by a fear Tackett ories. "Give me that balor." And scooping up as muchas made him a sap he puts it to his mouth,
tastes and swallows it.
"Mr. la Touche," says he in a dreadful voice. This water is fresh, though a bit brackish by being seasoned with the salt in the plauk. "Tis the scuttle litt that's leaking."
The man said: "You must feed him, Lily. he is too weak to sit up."
Just when the darkness was beginning tò dis- solve by the inflow of the dawn, something foll into the boat; it seemed to tumble from a height. As before when giving me water, so now, she Had I had all my senses, even though I should knelt, and bringing the little natural bowl close not have been able to turn my head to look, I to my face fed in. I swallowed hungrily with should have supposed that it was some great ru-hearty enjoyment of the dalieuey she had pro bird thut haul struck the mast in its pussage or alighted; but I did not then know, nor till long afterwards, that the noise was made by the part jag of the halliards which held the yard of the Ing at this mastheal. The sail came down with a run, and the boat rocked naked, as I afterwards understuest. But I knew nothing then. There is but cue thing to be done," says I. Day broke, and I found my languishing eyes We must throw away or rum and preserve fastened upon sa island within about a mile, what
renatus of the freak water in the demi-The roar of the surf was very clear. I took no johns."
note of features of te land. beyond perceiving There was light enough to enable us to dip that in some places the shore was green and in inte the butt, but awful was our cousternation others grey, and that the salt brine curled at its when we found we could not get more water foot. That was all. But the life in me teased out of the cask than filled one demijohn.
and pined sad moaned in a dying way to get In dor near left in dah bottom of dal boat ashore and to drink water to drink cold water. says Jonah
About two hours after sunrise (and the time I afterwards got to hear). I looked a little dis- tance ahead at the blue tranquil surface, and I greedily drained the contents of the polished saw a girl swimming to me. She was so close black shell, which my beautiful, strange, y when I first caught sight of her that her features were distinct. I could not be mistaken. With head most tenderly before doing so, and viewing sterious young narse put to my lips, lifting my
Ay, but it's almost as salt as the staff over the side," answered Tuckett.
I cursed the rufinus of the "Lady Penbryn" who had hindered us from properly provision ing and watering our boat, and liartily trusted they haut met with a just fate by being blown
Whilst I stood gazing at this enchanting prospect, and ravished by it. I saw the tell man who had stood over me the night before advanc ing. I was greatly struck by his appearance. He looked between forty and fifty years of He had large, languid brown eyes, a rather lasy nose, and small delicate hands. Hy wore brown moustaches, and a spade-shaped board, but his cheeks wero shaved. he was, as I have said, tall, balso slender and very graceful, He was dred in white cloth trousers, a round jacket made of the same staff, and thin cloth shirt. His head was protected by a hat of Brass plaited into sennit.
I gave him a low bow, and he raised his hat. almost sweeping the earth with it.
"I hope you feel stronger," he said, approach- ing me close, and viewing as intently with an expression of eye which I immediately found remarkable but presently understood.
"Much stronger, I thank you, sir," I answered.
Did you sleep well!
"Right through the night, and without a stir, I may suppose.”“”
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you needed," said he, always speaking very gravely, in an inexpressibly sweet, low voice, and with the same commanding, kingly air, which I had taken notice of in him the previous night.
I thanked him with fervour for the preserva- tion of my life, and whilst I spoke I looked about me for the girl that I might thank her
to for her deliverance of me, and for the amaz- ing way in which she had managed it. He seemed to read my thoughts, for he says:
"You'll need to break your fast. My daugh. ter is in the dining-room, and will presently attend to you."
I put my band to my cheek, and knew myself to look grim with many days growth. This gesture e interpreted, and asking me to stay there, he went away, and returned in a few minutes with a razor, a looking-glass and a jar. aye he; you will have comfortably with it, Ilub the stuff in this jar on your beard," You'll find a stream of fresh water yonder.
vided. What it was I could no more have told you than I could have explained how I came into this house and whose it was. But I afterwards
Whilst I shaved I wondered who the au heart that it was a delicious and nourishing was, if he was a governor or head of this island, preparation called heti, which is produced by
the founder of a little colony, in this way going pouring cocoa-nut milk into a bowl, then scrap ahead of our country in settling lands in these Beas. I was sure he was something over and ing out the kernel with a shell; gee root is braised into the milk and left until it has flay above what he seemed to be. How came these sured it; it is then removed, and the kernel European conveniences, such as razors, the look: mixed up with the milk, and this compounding-glass, the chairs and other points my eyes yields one of the very richest messer I ever fasted.. took note of, how came they I say in this island, I ate heartily, and indeed did not stop till the unless it was colonised by people who had brought girl did, nor did she until the shell was empty the commodities they would need? She then says, smiling and a little bashfully,
*Would you like some more?" "No." exclaimed the man: I consider he has had enough for a beginning. He may drink a little more water.
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I looked a very differont man-my old self, indeed when I was shaved, and walked down to the little brook or stream. I now observed that the island was volanie. About a mile south of me on the eastern side was a voleunie hill, about twelve inuadred feet high. Steam rese out of it in places. Another hill, but not volcanic, stock in the northward part of the island to wards the middle, A noble cascade of water
river which entered the creek, where I now per- which I afterwards learnt was the ine I bud come ashore in. The river was not the stream. the tall mun directed me to.
"A moal is prepared for you," said he waiting to talk before he took me into the house, “and I don't doubt you'll be the better for it. Pray, sir, may I enquire your name P'!
"Rupert de la Touche."
"A very good. ummme,” says he. He pro nounced it twice with relish. Your family is Irish P
My father was Irich," I answered. "Ho was a colonel in the French Army."
This seemed to please him; he sailed, and looking very graciously, he says, "the de la Tonches are nobly connected.”,
I
was not going to say "no" to this, though the conversation "was a little unseasonable to a fasting stomach, and then again I was extreme. by anxious to meet the girl. He was about to fend the way into the hense when I said:
Will you allow me to ask to whom I am indebted for the proservation of my life, and for this generous hospitality P
Ho stopped, turned fall upon me, looked me steadily in the face, and with much sweetnes of reice and great majesty of demeanour exclaimed:
"I am the king of Great Britain."
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3rd August.-Bangkok 28th July, Hice and Wood. Butterfield & Swire. YaDDO, British str., 2,974, Baird, 21st July,- Barry 15th May and Singapors 15th July, Cost-Dodwell & Co.
ZWEENA, British s'r., 980, J. Nesbitt, 4th Aug.,-Rangoon via Singapore 29th July, Kerosene O-Chinese,
BAILING SHIPS.
E. B. SUTTON, American barque, 1,248, Jolin son, 19th July,-Chafco 23th June, Ballast,
Order.
ECLIPS, British ship, 2,978, J. McBryde, 10th May, New York 10th Decaraber, 1903, Caso Oil-Standard Oil Co.
KENTMARE, British barque, 2,334, Burch, 14th June, New York 20th January, Korosine.
Standard Oil Co.
MARIA, Italian barque, 1,118, D. Ura, 9th April-Fremantle 7th Fab., Bandalwood, -Order,
SOKOTO, British 4-a. barque, 2,193, William Bourke, Now York 3rd April, Patroleum. -Standard Oil Co.
TRONGATE, British barque, 910, A. Hutton,
28th May, Fremantle 3rd March, Sandal wood,-Gilman & Co.
BRITISH WARSHIPS,
CHERUR, water tank and tag. ECLIPSE, Cruiser, Capt. Stokes HANDY, torpedo bout destroyer. HART, torpedo boat destroyer. LEVIATHAS, cruiser, Capt. Stopford. OTTER, torpedo bost destroyer, Lieut. E. H
Jollend. TAKU, torpedo-boat destroyer. TAMAR, receiving ship, Commodore C. G.
Dicken. VIRACO, torpelo-boat destroyer.
FOREIGN WARSHIPS,
GENERAL ÁLAVA, Americau transport, Captain
Whitton. TITANIA, Germas oruiser, Capt. Schanke.
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS
IN THE CHINA SQUADRON. Alacrity, despatch-boat, 1,700 tons, 10 guns
3,000 h.p. Comdr. O. De Brook, Weihai- Albion, battleship, 14,950 tons, 18 guas, Capt.
Fremantle, Weihaiwei.
woj.
Algerine, sloop, 1,050 tons. 6. gune, 1,100 b.p.. Comdr. Rowland Nugent, Roaring Sea Amphitrite, let class oraiser 11,000 tons, 18,000 hp, Capt. Charles Windham, CV.O., Weihaiwei.
Andromedia, craisor, 12,500 tons, Capt. Nelson
Ommanuey, Weibniwei
Bramble, gonboat, 710 tons, 6 guns, 1,300 b.p..
Lieat. Comdr. O. M. Makins, Welbaiwel Britomart, gunbcat, 710 tons, & guns, 1,800 h.p.,
Lieut.-Comdr. Thos. D. Pratt, Yongtsza Conturion, battleship, 10,50 tons, Capt. Feren,
Woibziwei.
Cressy, cruiser, 12,000 tons, 14 guns, 21,000 b.p., Capt. Hours M. T. Tudor, Weihaiwei, Eclipse, araiser, 5,600 tons, 11 guns, Captain
Stokes, Hongkong
Espiegio, gunboat, 1,070 tons, 10 guns, Condr,
Ernest G. Barton, Chin-wan-tao Fame, torpedo boat destroyer, 360 tons, 6 guns, 5.700 h.p., Lieut.-C. mdr. C. Asser, Wei- haiweś
Fearless, gunboat, 443 tons, 12 guns, Comdr.
Vaughan Loves, Weilaivai,“ Glory, belivship, 12,950 tons, 16 gaus, 13,500
b.p., Captian A: W. Carter, Weihaiwei. Handy, torpode-boat destroyer, 260 tons, 6 guns,
4.000 h.p., in reserve Hart, torpedo-boat destroyer, 280 tons, 6 gans,
4,000 b.p., Hongkong
Humber, storostup, 1,610 tons, Comdr. Johu D.
Daintros, en route Weihaihei
Iphigenia, Sad class cruiser, 3,600 tons, Capt.
Fawckner, Shanghai.
Janus, torpedo-boat destroyer, 280 tɔas, & guns, 3,900 h.p., Lieut.-Comtr. J. A. Gregory, Webwiwoi
Kinsha, rivar ganhost, 331 tons, Lieut. Comdr.
Christopher P. Metoult, ou Yongtsze Lariathun, cruiser, 14,100 tons, Capt. Hon, W.
G. Stopford, Hongkong Moorhou, river gunboat. 180 tons, 2 guns,
Lient-Comdr. G. G. Wobster, West River O.ean, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,500
1. p., Captain Greet, U.M.C., Weihaiwe Otter, torpedo-beat destroyer, 350 tons, in
reserve
Phoenix, sloop, 1,015 tons, 6 guns, 1,400 h.p.,
Comdr. J. Nicholas, Yengtas Rambler, surveying-ship,583 tons, Comdr.
Chs. E. Monro, Amoy Rinaldo, sloop, 980 tons, & guns, Comdr. D. 8.
Aubyn Wake, Singapore Robin, river gunboat. 3 tons, & runs. 240
b.p., Liont-Comdr. Vaughan, West Rivar Rosario, sloop, 980 tons, 6 gans, 11.400 k.p.,
Comdr. Thus, Jackson Yangtaze
+
August-foo 26th July, General-Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tous, 3 runs, 210 Dodwell & Co.
b.p., Lieut.-Comdr. L. W.Joues, West River Sirius, 2nd class craiser. 3,600 tons, Capt. C. H.
H. Moore, Straits Divisou Snipe, river gun-boat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 hp.. Liant.-Comdr. Ernest W. G. Davidson, on Yonglsze Taku, torpedo-boat destroyer, 250 tons, 6 guns
в 5,600 h.p., in Reserve Tamar, receiving ship. 4,600 to € guns,
Commodore C. G. Dicken, at Hongkong
July, Callao via Panama and Yekohama 24th May, General-Order. LAIANG, British sir, 2,224, Tadd, 1st Angost, aleata via straits 16th July, General, Jardine, Matheson & Co.
up with the schoouer, if that great flash we every strong sweep of her white arias her head me as I conil easily see by the clear if somewhat sparkled and trumpetod down it, and made & LOTHIAN, British str., 3,22, J. C. Williamson, Tesl, river guabeat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Lient.
saw was the explosion of her.
Again I looked for land, and again I saw none. I had but a most imperfect idea of my reckoning. We were in known seas and the very shores we might heave into sight would be without names: perhups they had never been discovered, and we shoull be viewed by the natives as visitors from u ștur.
and commiseration
rose a little, and then it was that I thought I mystic light given out by the native busps and was dying, that I was in the delirium which taper, with eyes which seemed to swim with pityceived lay a canoe and also a European boat. immediately precedes death, and that the appros ohing figure was that of the beautiful convict girl I had rasened from drowning only to die on Board afterwards.
"Now," says the man, "if you feel as if you. can sleep you had better de so You have been insensible all day. See hours of natural gest will greatly restore yon. It is now about nine o'clock."
I refreshed myself by washing my face and bands, but would not batbe, as I did not care to pat my strength to the proof, not having par taken of food since last evening, which was ull
out to take I had had for some days. Having washed I
The girl swam with wonderful swiftness shooting through the water in such wise us to ruise a little foam about her throat, and in a few We took a careful measurement of our precious minutes she was under the bow of the bout. She
"Have I been insensible ull day ?" said I. stock of water, and put ourselves afor an al- looked up and spoke to me. I moved my lips, ten this morning, and it is now nine o'clock," We found you unconscious in the boat at
further view of the island. I lowance, which unhappily was not to be oked but no sounds left them, though the 'motion of said the mau in his kingly way.
could see no human being moring upon it. It ont by the remainder of the rum, for it was
With an
I longed to ask who the girl was. I felt no looked as empty as the island on which Cruses possible to assuage thirst with a little drink of my month told her I was not dead.
wag east. I judged it to he about five miķa long pare cold water by holding it in the mouth and agility that in any other temper of mind would curiosity about the man, at all events at that have made me believe her to be a spirit of the letting the palate souk before swallowing, but doep, sue laid hold of the gunwale of the boat, in my brain with memories of the sweet unfor
tirue. But the appearance of the girl mingled and four miles wide. It was beautiful with verdure, noble with trees and woods, with many if we mingled ran the dranght instead of ap
leapt in close to where I lay, so that I held her tanate young creature of the convict ship, and breaks in the land crowded with growths of peasing became a torment, the blood was fired
in "night, though I was too weak to turn my my mind was sufficiently distompered to soo
a 1 sorts. and the inside dried ap, and the whole system end, and catching up the end of the boat's things a little unhealthily. But first a satural! Whilst I stood, the man came out of his house sot craving for more.
We made little progress that day, for the painter she sprong overbeard with it and fell to politeness stopped me from any expression of and beckoned to me. I went to him, gazing wind scanted before noon, and afterwards all swimming and towing the boat to the island. curiosity, and next oven the few words that I anxiously about for his daughter, whom I wa the time first-there was daylight we never spied blackness as of death rashed down.
At this moment my senses forsook me, and a bad uttered had taxed my powers and proved eager to thank again for her deliverance of me
me unequal to speech. So I smiled at him, and from a dreadful death.
1
so much as a catspaw.
4th August,Salina Cruz 30th June- MATHILDA, Norwegian str. 2,230, H. Tarvig,
China Commercial 8. 8. Co.
21st July, Kutchinotza 15th July, Ccal. -Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. MAGALLANES, Aur. str., 83, Adolfo Trezabal, 31st July, Manila 28th July, Lumber,... Order.
MEDAN, German str. 476, O. Stolberg, 2nd July-Caroline Island, Copra and General. ---Hiemsson & Co. NANYANG, German atr., 1,060, Cornand, And
Aug.,--Canton 1st Ang., General
Chinese. PURNEA, British str. 2127, J. B. Pearson, R.N.R., 4th August,-Rangoon and Straits, General-Jurdine, Matheson & Co. RUBI, British str., 1,611, R. W. Almond, 1st August, Monils 30th July, General- Bhewan, Tomes & Co.
SIKH, British str., 3,216. James Rowley, 5th
July, New York 4th May, General Dodwell & Co.
Comdr. E. F. E. Dugmore, on Yungtsso Thetis, oruiser, 3,400 tons, Capt. J. C. A.
Wilkinson, Shanghai Tweed, gunboat, 362 tons, 3 guns, 200 h.p..
Lieut-Comdr. B. H. Koate, on Yangtaze Vengeance, battlady, 12,936 tons, 12 guns, 13,500 Lb.p., Capt. L. C. Sinart C.MG., Weibaiwei.
in roserve
Vestal, stoop, 980 tons, 10 guns, 1,400 bp,
Comdr. Stuart St. J. Farquhar, Shanghai Virago, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tours, Watervitel, surveying-ship, 620 tons, 450 i.b.p.,
Comdr. E. C. Hardy, at Welhalwei Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer. 360 tons, 6 guns, 5,900 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. Wells, Weikeiwei
Wiveru.coast defence ship, armoured, 2,750 tona,
1,000 b n., in roserve, at ilongkong Woodcock, gasboal, 150 tons, 2 guus. 550 lp.,
Lieut. Com. Hugh Somerville, Yangtze Wrodlark, gunboat, 150 tons. 2 gape, 559 h.p.,
Lieut. Com, Wason, Yangtze