ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES OF BETERT DE LA TOUCHE
(1825)
BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL, an
Author of The Wreck of the Grosvenor, ** Overdue / Be.)
CHAPTER XII
BILAN CUTTON.
Now that Captain Secti was dead, I could think of nothing but how to get away with Eulalie from the island. My desire throughont my waking hours was to sea my wife restored to civilisation and myself rescued from the miser. able monotony of the days that were passing ever our heads. Indeed. Eulalio's case wa still as grave as it ever had been: 'twas a quen tiou no longer of if her father died what would become of her: if I died what would she do?
In Captain Seatt's time I never thought of looking out for a ship, but now when I was abroad my eyes were rarely off the horizon. It was indent a helpless quest on which to send the gaze. Never did I eatch sight of a sad on the blue line that girdled our little principality. Did no whaler ever poss, no ship surveying or exploring would no vessel bound from Now Holland for Europe come this way? Our only chanes lay in the boat in which I had arrived on the island. But I shrunk, not from adventur. ing my own, but Bulalie's life, in her, and she too trembled at the scheme when I talked of leaving the island in that tiny ark and going away God knows whither in search of an island where we should find a ship. She re- membered the stories of my sufferings in that hoat; she recalled my appearance. how nearly dead I was when she saw me lolling over the
bows.
"Ion't that a fun walking there P"
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1904.
I sprang for the glass and levelled it in the direction sho indicated, but saw nothing save
trees, and where the savanna lay open there was A man!" oried 1, "ars you sure it was a
no sign of a man.
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Something was moving that looked like a man," says she, "when I called out. But," again straining her eyes, it has gone, whatever it was."
You would not be able to see a man all that distance," I exclaimed, for the place ha indicat ed lay between two said three miles away.
However, the mere iden of there being a man in the island made me feel uneasy. For if there was ous there might be more. and what kind of mea would they be? What ship was that which had set thera ashore? And for what And why had she. purpose had they landed sailed away and loft them?
I continued to ply my glass in the direction my wife had called my attention to, but for some time to no purpose, when all ou a sudden the lenses brought into view the figure of a man coming out of a little wood down at the foot of the volcano.
ok which he got from his teeth and black brows I asked him to alt and ho come to the table.
"Well." says he, "I don't think the sight of this would do my skipper's sore eyes good. He is Captain John Lister, mark yon, and I knooked
him down, medam," said he, addressing himself to Eulalie, with my 6st, because he used a word to me which no gentlenus employs to BR other norsuffers himself to be insulted by, though the offender were God Almighty Himself."
His eyes flashed, his brow blackened, his face looked as force as a wolf's.
Cotton proceeded. They put mo in irons quite right! Then called a council of the captain and lieutenants and they decided to mizoou que, to wat me ashore upon a desolate uninhabitel island, where the captain hoped I would miserably perish in a south, and this is how the rascal's wish is fulfilled!"
Ho dashed a look aromuud him. It was om- bracing, but so rapid that it seemed to rest on nothing. I was willing to beliore his story, Striking a captain is an enormous offence on board ship, and this man had owned to this crime, though he need not have done so.
I saw hini glance from time to time at Eulalic. Eulalie was thou gone in- but in an idle, headless manner, and be direct doors. I breathed short and fast whilst Ied many swift looks ut me too, but these gazed. I could see only one man, though, I
were commonly critical. Is fed very heartily scare the entrance of the woods for others. and said that after a long coarse of salt food
his shoulder and a
"there" dishes of" cocoa-ants, plantains and the Ho carried a innskot bundle in his hand and advanced very slowly, like sank through and through him in delicious apparently directing his steps by the smoke I. coolness and refreshment In the middle of the lind made, and then, when lie had come to the repast he picked up his bundle from the floor age of the cliff about a mile from the creek and put it on the table, and exposed about where the run of the coast lay open, he sat twenty ship's biscuits, a large piece of salt junk. down to rest in the shelter of a little knot of
a choose, and one or two other articles of food which I forget. cocoa-nut trops.
I was greatly perplexed by his being armed, which kept me scrutinising the country round about him for some true for others. It is strange that the truth did not immediately striku upon me. He was undoubtedly alone, and as he remained sented I went into the house to arm myself with a stont native club, with which I should not be afraid of him at close untos though his shoulders were loaded with nnuskets and his girlle bristled with pistols, I told was who had come ashore, and sut forth briskly in his direction. When he saw mo coming he got up and advance to meet me.
"This is what we live upon at soa, madam." said he, laging his hand upon a biscuit. Ob surve! it crawls with rermin, and this meat would make a good block for a butcher to chop his carcases of
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Is that the cabin faro?" says I.
Ay, between ports, ho answered. We may look in for a stock of fresh mout, green' and otherwise, now and again, and then we do middling well. But for the cloven moons in up a biscuit and striking the beef with it.
We walked through the house without seeing Eulalie, and I stood at the door and watched him as ho stopped with a sailor's rolling guit through the garden, stopping at the graves for a moment or two to inspect the crosses, and then proceeding. When he was hidden among tho trees I re-entered the house and called to Enlalie, who came from car sloping-room. She looked carefully about her in search of the man.
"Were you hiding from him?" I asked. "I don't like him," she answered. "I am afraid of him. I wish he would go, or that he had never come. Where is he now "
Gone down to the creek to view the boat in which be means to fetch help for us."
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Alacrity, despatch-boat, 1700 tons, 10 guns
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QREMAN. Busard, orniser, 1857 tons, 13 guns, 3900 h,p..
Comdr. Huss, —— Fatherland, oruiser, tons, gana,
b.pix Captain von Buslow, Shanghai' Furst Bismarck, (flagship), T1,000 tons, 36 guns, 14,000 h.p, Captain Prove, Shanghai Geier, cruiser, 1776 tous, 15 gans, 2960 b.p..
Comdr, von Stadnitz, Shanghai Hanso, oruisor, 6230 tons, 34 gnos, 10,000 h.p.,
Captain Schroeder, Tsingtan Hertha, craiser, 6560 Leus, 37 gans, 10,000 h.p., Capt. Baron Schimmelmann, Tsingtau
guntent, 1000 tour, 10 gass, 1300 b.p.,. Comdr. Baron von M, Hallesson, Hongkong
3,000 h.p., Comdr. 0. Do Brook, en route Hongkong Albion, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 gana, Capt.
Fremantle, Weihaiwei, Algerine, sloop. 1,050 tons, 6 guns, 1,100 b.p..
omdr. Rowland Nagent, Bebring Sea. Amphitrite, lat class cruiser. 11,000 tons, 18,000
b.p. Capt. Charles Windham, C.V.O..Titis, Weihaiwoi.
Ommannay, Weihaiwei
"Do you think we shall ever see him again Andromedia, craiser, 12,500 tons, Capt. Nalson Jagmar, gunboat, 900 tons, 10 guns, 1900 h.p.. after he has gone?" she asked,
"I hope we shan't unless he comes with Astraen.. 2nd class erniser, 4,36) tons, 10 gaos, Luchs, gunboat, 850 tons, 10 guna, 1844 b.p.,
others in a ship," said I.
"But if my takes our heat and does not
return wo shall lose her," she exclaimed,
These thoughts have passed through my head. Eulalie," I said.
I was passionately anxious to got rid of this fellow, and saw no other way of doing so timu by the boat. Our outlook, it is trus, would be most forlorn if we were to wait for a passing ship. But the arrival of this man had made it either that, or our going away with him in the boat, or of our leaving him in the island, which he was not likely to suffer, and having formed a vasoln- tion, I told Eulalio I should abide by it.
In about an hour and a half Mr. Cotton re- He flung himself upon a chair and turned. threw his but on the table with a fiery planto under his black brows at Eulalie, who was at work on some dish for the mid-day meal.
Your boat is sound enoughs, Mr. in Touche," he said. "She carries all that is needful. She is tight might be the bottor for a coat of paint. but she can do without it. She lacks nothing for voyage but water and provisions. To that we'll see to-morrow, sir, with your permission, and to if my scheme is acceptable to you I propose leave the island at sundown in the evening "To-morrow evening?" cries Eulalie.
Ay, madam." he rays out with his fierce smile. You would not have me go aleat x once? This is a delicious island to take a day's
7,000 .b.p., Captain Lionel G. Tufnell Singapore. Bramble, gunboat, 710 tons, 6 guns, 1,300 h.p.,
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Lieut. Comdr. Thos. D. Pratt, Weihaiwai Centurion, battleship, 10,50 tons, Capt. Fogen,
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Captain Bovas Ricci, Singapore Marco Polo, cruiser, 3009 tous, gung-b.p..
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EGASIAN,
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Thus insensibly the days glided past whilst we only talked of gotting away..
Wo wont one afternoon when it was cool down to the greek to look at the boat. It lay por. fently safe, and looked a hearty, likely enough boat alongside the canoe. She needed but little overhauling to render her as stuudi as at thomab-raised-his-hat-and I returned his salutowas much shrunk since the captain had pre- hour of her birth.
Eninio that I was going to see who the man the twelve, that's it madam." said he, taking rest in. Are. not your dishes inviting trough Leviathan, cruiser, 14,100 tous, Cupt. Hon, W. Askold, crniser, 6030 tons, 27 gaus, 24,800 h.p.,
"I nerer beloved," said Eulalio, "that ele was so small a boat,"
Figure hor." said I. in mil-ocean with no land that I know of within houndless leagues. What a speck! and wo two in her. How could I endure to see you suffering as I have seen others suffer, as I have myself suffer ed, betwixt those gunnels."
I would rather remain with you and die with you here," says she, looking at the boat, and her eyes seemed larg with fears and thoughts which filled hom with light and meaning.
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We will neither live here, nor die here," says 1, "if we can help it. But we have not only our lives to consider. If we go away in that boat, we must take the property contained in your chest, the Spanish and English picees of silver and gold in dollars, and the jewellery that was your mother's, and the little sack of diamonds and rubies. I am's poor man. I am worth nothing. Your little estate is all we hure, but it means a very great deal to us who are Jeggars without it. For how do we know but that those diamonds, may not prove of great Talue? And what I mean to say is that by com- mitting our property as well as our lives to that little bout we shall greatly multiply the reasons why we should deliberate long before we deter mine to sail away.
I am willing to do anything that is right to be done." said my wife.
"You see.
says If a ship would only heave to off this island we could improve our fortune by embarking in her the cargo which your father saved from the schonner. A portion of that cargo would handsomely pay our passage, and for the remainder we should find good parchasers Twake no doubt. “
But ships over do come here," said Eulalie, This I biltorly understood, though I desired not to believe it.
Well," said I, after some further talk, rising, and Eulalie rose with me, we will give the ship that may come a chance by waiting a little longer, and meanwhile I believe that the boat may be made more it for the sea than she is by heightening her sides and half-decking her for ward and raising her abaft by fixing upon her what I will call a stern board, so that if we should be forced to run before-a-hollow following sea, the story board will shoulder off the chasing water, and perhaps 2850 the boat from being swamped. I am a bed carpenter." says I, look- ing at the boat, but there are plenty of tools in the out-house, and timber is onsily found even if it should come to our knocking that okl eunoe to pieces and using bor staves. At all events," says "if no ship leaves into sight within the noxt month I will go to work on that boat, and we must make up our minds to leave the island in her and put our trust in God, Who loves you and will not abandon yon."
Thus saying I kissed her and passed my arm through hers, and to ether we slowly made our way towards the house.
I
By this hour the ship had disappeared. The
and he says:
When I saw that smoke I knew it wasn't volcanic. I am vastly glad to find myself on an inhabited islaud."
**Pray, sir," says I, "wha ure you, and what ship was that. and what are you doing here?" and I looked at his musket and the bundle bebe hold
"Oh," says he, the vessel that put me usbore is the Lady Hobart, a whater and letter of turque, and I was bor second-lieu- tenant. Our commission was to take what wo could from the enemise of our country and fail- ing booty to fish for whales."
But why are you ashe says I. seeing him stop and look at the sea.
Whon Eulalie rose, be coolly asks me for a pipe of tobacco. I supplied him with what he needed, but with great reluctance. for my stock
sunted it to me. He pulls a pipe from his jacket pocket, plugs it, lights it with his tinder box, then, seated sideways at the table. crosses his legs and leans his houd upon his acri, all as cool as though the house belonged to him, and puffs with as placid and resigned a face as can imagined, whilst ho fastons his eyes on me. "If you have any disliko." says he, of risk. ing your wife's life by taking her in that boat and searching for a ship or an island, then I'll tell you what I'll do. with your permission. Give me that boat and I'll go alone for Tahiti, and return in any vessol I can find there. For no doubt, says he, looking about him, the waster of a small ves-cl would find his account here in taking you and your wife off. And mind you," says he earnestly, "I don't mean to say you would do w. 1l in trusting your young wife to the sea in an open boat, when by wait-
Why he answers, in a careless sort of way. the captain, a fellow named Lister, owed me a grudge ever since we left Eurland in con- sequence of a quarrel over a girl at Portsmouthing a ship may take you off. Some days ago it came to such high words bo- tween us Buit I knocked him down und so the regno, conceiving this to be an uninhabited island, elaps me ashore alone with this musket! and powder flask, and a week's provisions”.
He's marooned you, then." sail I.
-But
Ay, that's it." is answivel wedding. I'll out-weather him yet, if he was the devil himself," says he, with a fierce scowl at the gea whore the ship lad vanished.
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I got up and said: Will you step this way, please?"
But the follow must first lounge to the little oil lamp to light his pipe, as though the horror of being marooned, and joy at hiding hirasett
extricated from a hideous situation weighe nó more with him than the amoke ho set forth from his lips.
I took him to the out-house, which was indeed a large shed, protected at the sides by mats,
Here." says I you can see for yourself the quality and nature of the cargo rescued from the nehocuer."
He ran his eye with great velocity over the exhibition, but I saw, nevertheless, that he took in everything with as keen a perception as though he was there to make me an offer of money for the lot.
I did not like his looks. So far from being rejoiced at the apparition of a fellow country: man, a sailor to help me who was the only man in the island. I felt so much uneasiness on viewing bin that my sensations lead the keen. ness of alarm, He was tall and well-built, of a very pale olive complexion: his features were regular; he had brilliant dark oyes which took a tercer light than mature designed from his habit of bringing bis hoovy black aythrows to
This is a choice stock," said he, “just the gother in a frown or seawl. His brow was low stuff a small trader would make hasto to fetch and defaced by an old sear that in its day had if he knew of it, for here is everything that is been an ugly wound. His hair was dark and wanted by the islanders. He again ran hisuye ahmadart, and tid in a queue down his back.
over the cozamodities, and in a low voice maut He was dressed in a blue jacket with metal buttered particulars of them as he collected their tons, striped flowing trousers, shoes, a low- crowned round hat. a hoary black silk handl- kerebisi, tied round a large loose collar, and a belt with a massive silver lmckle.
I took this measure of him whilst he scowled at the sea after speaking, and then he says turning his eyes round about:
Is there ever a village in this island?" "No," I answered. "I and my wife are the only two inhabitants, and we should have been mighty glad had our smoke signalled your ship to our rescue."
Oh then," says he "you aren't settled here. Maybe you are shipwrecked"
I know it must come to my inviting him to the house, which I did, thonih vory ill at ease, and as we walked I briefly related my story.
You have a boat, thon." cries he, with his eyes glistening, for re were now near the house aud commanded a view of the cresk whore the boat and eanoe lay platu. -If I was you I should have been off and away long ago."
Have you any knowledge of these sens?"
said 1.
Some," he answered, in a devil-may-care way, as if whatever befell was all ons to him.
character:
Axes, scissors, knives, looking glasses, nails, combs cast-iron pots, beads of all colours, and I see," said he, plenty of muskets and tome. hawks and bales of blue cloth and calico. Why, is, you have some hundreds of dollars worth fying here.'
Well." Sare
saya I." I Bu so eager to get away, but so unwilling to risk my wife's life in that open boat in a sea, with the navigation of which I su utterly unacquainted, that the half of those goods is very ranch at your gorvies if you will fetch as help, and out of the sale of the other half 1 will reward the man who delivers us."
He took stock again of the goods and said:
am perfectly agreeable, but with your leave I will take a day or two's rest. Have you nover a book treating of this ocean?"
None," I answered. No books but such as are religious"
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No charts of any sort Nothing to help me to make out a plan of travel "he enquired.
No chart of any sort," I answered. Got pencil and paper?". "Ay, yon shall have them."
Very early one morning I walked forth into the garden to breathe the air, and as usual, to look about me for a ship. Eulalie was rising and would presently be busy preparing break- fast. To my amazement on looking towards the south-east part of the sea I spied a skip about two and a half to three miles distant. I rushed into the house for the spe-pluss, shout- find help. "I mean the nearest island." I And then he asked me if I know what tho
Tahiti is your island," anys ke. "I'll steer
Well then," says he, "I will take a day or two's rest and think out this problem of navi gation."
course the
to detain a man whose fare has been the bread and meat I showed you awhile gone?"
"Beside," said I. Mr. Cotton wants time to prepare a chart for his own instructions.
I will thank you, Mr. iu Touche, for paper and the loan of a pencil."
I eat over against his chair and watched him whilst he worked out his chart. I had no mind nor intention to leave him alone with Eulali not even for a few minutes if I could help it. He frowned at the paper: his eyes seemed to Baue under their flainder-clond of brow as he dartel them aloft. then at his diagram, then around stimulating memory in this war.
"What's the latitude of this island to you ay said he
Tave it to him to the best of my knowledge. In about half an hour. after much ruling of the paper and flourishing of his pencil, whilst his frown socmed to deepen as he neared the end of his labours, he threw the paper in his careless, dare-devil way, across to me, saying:
"Shall I find my roul by that. think ye?" Eulalie came and looked down at it over my shoulder. The chart was very well traced. He had put down the names of more islands that I was acquainted with. Westwards of Looboo he placed the Fiji, wuth-east Cock's Island on the parallel of the Fijis the island of Otahite and ine south the Tongs islands.
don't
But I ર્ડ મળ
All these places exist," said he.
su-y I am right in tay bearings. pretty air of my latitude. "It is the longitude which keeps me adrift."
be
This sect as good a chart as a imagined," said I. I know nothing of these
HODS,
"Oh," said he, with one of his koor glauces at Bulalie, "there are plenty of islanda to make, but what we want is inhabited land where
shall find a vessel, whose master, on my report,
shall be willing to come with me to this island and take you and your property off. But he adda with a smile at my wife, you'll not think a false if I seen to delay."
Not we" says 1. who liked him so little that nothing would have pleased me better than for him to have gone that moment and never rooppoured.
I answered it
We talked awhile of this chart and then he folds it up sad puts it in his pocket and asks if I think the compass correct. was. I also told him how the fresh water had leaked out of the scuttle-butt and caused the death of all of us but one. That cash, I said, wus" no good, but some casks which had bə- longed to the schooner and had been used for fresh wator lay in the out-house, and I pro- posed that we should coll one of them down to the little river and fill it, and so test it. He consonte.
Well." says he, swinging round in his chair, when he had fed as heartily as ever I saw a man, and taking out his pipe and loading it. “I have a long-host voyage before me and a lonely one, and the doyil knows how the venture may end. You'll not think yourself betrayed if you, don't hear of me again after I am gone, for I may be at the bottom of the son or entombed in the bellies of fishes when you aro cursing me to your wife for a villain for not coming back to your succour after the kindness and hospitality you have shown me."
These were fair words and I gave him a bow.
but I was so sure that in that man dwelt the
spirit of a scoundrel, indeed a fiend, behind a mask which, however fierce and formidable it showed, was meek und sweet compared with the
His saying this rallied my pirits a little. wake time at what island we might expect to ing to Eulalie "There is a ship! There is a said, "for the bout is small. I don't choose to latitude and longitude of this island were, and character it concealed, that even as I spoke. I ship!" and speeding out again pointed the risk ay wife's life in her when, by waiting, he fell into a fit of musing with his sparkling found myself deploring that he had not rosolved glass with hands which vibrated with excito-ship may puss hero," want. The glass revealed her a stout, tall brig,
you fixed on me, after he had spoken of the to sail that evening, and that I should have to Lady Houset" had shaped, the undergo the anxiety of passing a night with bluck in ball. „Isaw the muzzles of some can- you right away for that place. There was a time she had continued it, or place of departure him under the same roof. non in her port holes.
French aan-of-war and two American vessels
(To be continued) and a whaler there when we looked in. Have and so forth, and then he says:
I beliore I.shall be able to make out a you a compass
pretty correct chart from my head. Tahiti should be within four days' sail providing you head straight for it and the breeze favours you. *** Yon will have to allow me a month or six
It was indeed blowing with some weight ont at set, and the brig was sailing fast, and, which was frightful to perceive, speeding away from the island. I dashed down the spy glass. Enlaliame fanning out..
"There she is," I gied, willy pointing. →→ Would to God I had had the good wease to
collect some stuff ready for a sanoke !”
"Ay."
"What's your name?" "Rupert de la Touche. And yours??? "Silas Cotton.
Here we gained the house. He cast a frown ing look at the two gravesend ran his eyes with Iouriosity over the building.
weeks, perhaps longer, for I may hiss my island or have to linger till something comes that is willing to fetch you. Could you give me some tobacco for my pocket? and I'll fake
look round,"
"Will you come down and have a look at that boat of yours?" says he
hat I might lose no chance, however, aweed to the back calling to Eulalie to come
Eulalia came to the door, dressed in her and help me, and a very short time we col- ordinary Kanaks attire and a wide straw hat.
As it was very evident he was not going to lected materials enough for a rust smoke to He took off his hat and hold it whilst he viewed stay I did not begrudge him the luxury he arcend from the front of the house,which would her, and whilst she stared at him with a light asked. I went to one of the remaining parcels be a visible part of the island from the rig, of alarm in her eyes, as though like e doc or of tobacco and with a jack knife cat off a lump, whose people I dreaded mit ht confuse the gazelle or some beautiful timid creature, she which he wrapped in a piece of cloth and put smoke with some salky volcanic display. I fired would start and fly in an instant.
into his pocket with a gaare, frowning air of That is Lieutenant Cotton, Enlalie," says satisfaction. the heap, but meanwhile the brig was vreeping away into toy-like dimensions, and by the time I "of the privateer Lady Hobart," who has a large tide of smoke was speeding from the been set ushure here with a musket and a week's garden over the sea, the vessel had shrunk into provisions for knocking down his captain." "a mere square of white, that glimmered like I saw by the reception of the blunt intre. duction that she liked his appearance as little My heart weighed in me like a stone. I as I. know that she was gone and lost to us,' aid that "Ay, Mr. la Touche," says he laughing, "that's mouths, perhaps years, might pass before a ship all right us for as it goes. But son wife don't looked in so close again. I was nearly crazy with know yet why I knocked the fellow down.". despair and stood gaping at the white gleam on Stop in," says I and ease your shoulder of the sea-line like an idiot whilst the fire othed that musket." and bisand to the strong fanning of the wind. and the smoke poured away fill the tail of it seerned to vanish behind the remote edge of the sea.
mother-of-pearl in the airy blue distance.
Eulalie, whose was extraordinarily piercing, now cries with a flash of her pointing haro arm, as she speaks
:
We walked into the dining room. Eulalie had laid the cloth and seme breakfast. Cotton, as coolly as though he was an old occupant of the house, leans his musket in a carner, sets his bag down at its butt end, and then starts looking shont him, half frowning and with that sinister
I desired to speak with Eulalia. Moreover it was extremely hot outside. My looking at the boat with him would serve no end, and if he stole hor, which was not likely, and went away, so much the better. It would be an eusy
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. Stapford, Weihaiwe Moorhau, rives gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns,
Lient Comdr. G. G. Webster, West River Ocean, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,5
reserve
i.hp., Captain Greet, U.M.G., Weihaiwei Otter, torpedo boat destroyer, 350 tons, 1 Phonix, stoop, 1.015 tons, 6 guus, 1,400 b.p..
Corad. J. Nichols, Chenalpo Rambler, surveying ship, 3 tons, Comdr.
Cha. E. Monro, Labuan
Rinaldo, sloop, 9 tous, 6 guns, Comdr. D. S.
Aubyn Wako, Singapore Robin, river gazhout 85 tons, 2 guns, 2
hp... Lieut. Comdr. Vaaghan, Weat River Rosario, sloop, 980 tona, 15 guns, 11,400 h.p.,
Comdr. Thos. Jackson, Hongkong Sadpiper, river gunbat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 20 b.p., Lieut. Comdr, L. W. Jones, Wost River Sirius, 2nd class cruiser, 3,600 tons, Cupt. C. H.
H. Moore, Hongkong Snipe, river_gun-boot, £5 tous, 2 guns, 200 hp.. Livut.-Comdr. Ernest W. G. Davidson, on
Yang sza
Taku, torpedy-beat destroyer, 250 Cous, 6 gaus
5,800 mp., Weihaiwei
6 guns, Tamar, receiving ship, 4,600 tour
Commodore C. G. Diskor, at Hongkong Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Lient.
Comdr. E. F, E. Dugmore, on Yangtze Thelis, cruiser, 3,400 tons, Capt. J. C. A.
Wilkinson, Weihaiwei Tweed, gaabout, 362 tous, 3 guns, 200 hp,
Lient-Comdr, R. H. Keate, on Yang taas Vengeance, battleship, 12,950 tone, 1 guns, 13,500 i.b.p., Capt. L. C. Stuart C.M.G., Weibai wei.
Comdr Staart. St. f. Farquhar, Yangtz Vestal, stoop, 980 tons, 10 guns, 1.400 hp, Virgo, tirpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tour,
in reserve
Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 450 Lh.p..
Comdr. E. C. Hardy, at Weibaiwei Whiting, torpedo-bout destroyer, 360 tons, 6 guas, 5,900 h.p., Lieut. Comdr. Wells, Woilojwel
Wivers, coast defence ship, armoured, 2,750 tons,
1,000 bin, in reserve, at Hongkoug Woodcock, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 guns 550 h.p..
Lieut-Cora. Hugh Somerville, Yungtsso Woudlark, gaubost, 150 tona, 2 guns, 550 k.p.,
Licut-Cot. Wason, Yangtze
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Aspera, erniser, 2437 tons, 20 guns, 7800 b.p..
Capt. Friedrich Grinsenberger, Shanghai Kaiserin Elisabeth, cruiser, 4100 tons, 23 gu 8,
8000 k.p., Captain Mirti, Japan
FRENCH.
Acheron, armoured gasboat, 1796 tons, 10 guns,
1700 h.p., Comdr. Laferriere, Saigon Alouette, gunboat, 300 tons, 7 guns, 400 h.p.,
Lieut. A. Varvey, Baiguu Argus, gunboat, 123 tous, guns, 500 h.p.
Lieut. Crespin, Canton Aspic, ganboar, 475 tons, 3 guns, 450 h.p.,
Lieul Journet, Suigon Avalanche, gunboat, 140 tour, 5 guns, 150 h.p.
Haiphong
Bengali, gunboat, 580 tons, 6 guns, 400 h.p.,
Tourane Casso-tote, gunboat, 140 tons, 5 guns, 150 hp..
Saigon
Chataronaut, cruiser (flagship), 5018 tons, 18 guns. 17,000 h.p., Capt. V. Poidione, Saigon Cométe, gunboal, 525 tons, 4 guns, 438 L.p. D'Asens, cruiser, 4000 tons, 81 gues, 9500 hp.
Saigon
Conde. Louzi, Haiphong
Decidos, gunboat, 6-15 toas, 10 guns, 1,000 h.p.,
Commander L'East, Shanghai
Estoe, gunboat, tans, ~gous,
Capt -, Haiphong
gupe,
b.p.,
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Fronde, destroyer, 330 tons, 7 guns. 303 h.p..
Lieut. Jebeone, Shanghai Gusydon, craiser, 9376 tors, 36 guns, 20,200
h.p., Commander Goadot, Amoy Henri Riviere, guabost, tons,
h.p., Capt., Haiphong Javoline, destroyer, 307 tous, 7 gang, 300 h.p.,
27 Lieut. Comdr. Beaussant, Shanghai Kersaint, gunboat, 1250 tops, 6 guns, 2200 b.p.,
Comdr. Le Gotlour, Shanghai Montcalm, cruisor (Vico-Admiral's flagship), 9700 tons, 12 guds, 39,800 b.p., Capt. Cros, Amoy
Olry, gaboat, -- tons, — guns, —- b.p., Capt.
Hourst, Yangtse
Pascal, cruiser, 4015 tous, 27 gars, 8500 h.p,
Comdr, Chevalier, Shangbai Redoutable, cruisor, 9437 tous, 8 guns, 6071 h.p.,
Captain
Siligen
Styr, oraiser, 1796 tons, 10 guns, 1700 b.p.,
Captain Vincent, Saigon
Sally, seniser, 10,014 tora, 38 guns, 20,000 b.p...
Captala Guibertsan, Amoy
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Captain Raitzeuschtein, Shangbai Bayan, eruiser, 7800 tuns, 10 guos, 16,500 h.p..
Captain, Port Arthur Bogatyr, cruiser; 6540 tons, 12 guns, 19,560.p
Captain, j
Boyaria, cruiser, 3210 tons, 39, guna, 18,000 Lip,
Commander Saratchell, Port Arthur Diaos, cruiser, 6731 tons, 6 guns, 8000 h.p.,
Captain, Saigon
Djigit, gunboat. 1456 tons, 3 guns, 1700 bp,
Captain Nasarossby, Port Arthur Gaideniok, gunhwat, 300 tons, 9 guns, 3500 h.p.,
Commander Yourieff. Port Arthite Gremiastohy, guubout, 1400 tons, 6 guns, 2000
b.p, Commander Zagaransky, Gronobui, cruiser, 12,364 tons. 44 guns, 14,509
hp, Captain Jesser, Vladivostock Guiliak, gunboat, 1000 tons, ú guós, 1000 h.p.,
Commander Showoff,
Mandjour, guukat, 1224 tous, 7 guns, 14 0hp..
Commander Crown, Shongbai Otvo jug, gunboat, 1490 tour 6 guns, 2000 b.p.,
Commander Vasilio, Port Arthur Pallada, oruiser, 6630 tons, 34 guns, 11,010 h.p.,
Captain Kossowites, Port Arthur Peresviot, battleship, 12,674 tone, 60 guns, 14,500
b.p., Captain Koroleff, Port Arthur Pobeds, battleship, 12,674 sons, 60 guns, 14,500
b.p, Captain Zalzurcieng, Port Arturor" Poltava, battleship, 10,960 tons, 50 guns, 10,600
h.p., Captain Oseroff, Port Arthur Hasboldik, cruiser, (training ship), 1331 tone,
10 guns, 1786 b.p., Commander Livon, Fort Arthur
Retvizan, battleship, 12,102 tons, 62 guns, 16,000
h.p., Captain
Rossiu, protected cruiser, 12,200 tons, Gib guns 17,000 h.p, Captain depoireauipoff, Vladi vostock
Sevastopol, batticship, 10,960 tone, ai guus, 19,600 h.p., Captain Serebrenikoff, Port Arthur
Siwoutch, gunboal, 250 tone, 2 guns, 1125 h.p.,
Lien Conr. Ivanviïí, Port Actbur, Tsesareviteb, battleship, 1,110 tour, 68 guns,
16,300 hp., Capt. N. Dabitch, Puri Arthur Zabiyaka, cruiser, 125 tous, 15 guns, 1194 h.p:
Commander Abramoff, Port Arthur
UNITED STATES, Albany, cruiser, 3769 tous, 25 guns, 7500 h p..
Captain Dyer, Cavite
Annapolis, gurloat. 1000 tons, 1 gaus. 1997
.p. Captain Rohrer, Shanghai Bainbridge. d., 420 tone, 7 guss, 860) b.p
Lieu G. Williams, Shanghai Barry, t-b-d, 420 toar, 7 guns, 800 h.p..
Lient, irwin, Sboughai
Callao, gunbow, 209 tons, 10 guns, 600 h.p.,
Lieut. Dismaker, Canton Channony, t. bd., 420 tons, 7 gaps, 8000 b.p.,
Lieat. E. P. fes-op, Shanghai Cincinnati, ruiser, 3213 tons. 19 guna, 7500
h.p., Captain G. B. Harber, Dale, tb, di tons, 7 guos,
00hp., Lient.
H. E. Arnold, Shanghai Decantur, t-bd., 420 tons, 7 gugs, 8000 L.p.,
Lival. A. W. Knox, Shanghai Elcano, gunboat, 550 tons, 10 guns, 6000 h.p,
Lieut.-Comdr. J. Hood, Shangbai Helena, gunboat, 1392 fors, 8 guns, 1988 h.p.
Commander P. B. Sauger, Canton Monadnock, monitor, 1990 tons, guns, 3000
h.p., Captain Makan, thongliai Monterey, monitor, 1084 tone, guns, 5244 h.p.
Commander J. B. Milhon, Cavity
New Orloans, cruiser, 3437 tous, 20 gone, 7500
h.p., Cominunter, Shurghai Oregon, cruiser, 10,288 tous, 45 gabe, 11,111
b.p.. Captain Burwell, Shangbai Pampanga, gunboat, 201 tons, 3 gons, 250 h.F.,
Easiga J. E. Baga, Cavite
Paragna, gunboat, 201 tons, 3 guns, 25) b.p.,
Captain Bennett, Cavilo
Rainoow, craiser, 4000 tons, 14 guas, — h.p.,
Captain J. B. Collins, Manila
Raleigh, cruiser, 3813 tons, 18 guns, 7500 h.p..
Commander Marshall, Chemaipo San Francisco, craiser, 4098 tons, 27 guns, 9913
b.p.. Captais Very, Hongkong Vicksburg, oraiser, 10 tons, 13 guns, 1118-
b.p, Commander Marshall, Shaughoi Villalobos, genboat, 347 tons, 3 gaus, 500 hp,
Lieut. H. A. Wiley, Shoghai Wilmington, gunboat, 1307 tons, 8 guns, 1894 h.p., Commander A. W. Dodd, Manila. Wisconsin, flugship, 12,000 tons, 50 gans, 12,609.
b.p., Captain Clover, Shanghai
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