[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOUCH"
(1825).
BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL.
Author of “The Wreck of the Grosvenor,” "Overdue" &c.)
CHAPTER-XIV.
HE MURDER.
It continued to blow a pleasant, allant breezo all the evening, and when I woke in the night I heard the wind fresh and steady in the trees, I slept well. In truth I was weary through not having closed my oyes on the previous sight, and the day's labour in helping the man to get away had been heavy in the sun. I woke 29 I say in the night, and heard the wind in the trees, and found Lil awake. I asked if she was watching. Slis said she could not help lookfug and listening, and thinking; she could not sleep she did not wish to watch. I bado her close her eyes and stoop as there was nothing
to fear.
Last night Mr. Cotton lay dose beside those mats, but this night a wide space of sen separatos us, and hark to the wind among the boughs Every hour speads him fur hor."
Thus saying I fell asleop again, and when I awoke the light of the morning was shining brightly through the open windows, and Eulalie had risen and was clothing herself.
All that day nothing happened proper to enter here. I seemed to find something pensive in Balalie's manner. She was not quick with her smilos, she launched seldom, and then not with that rich, child-like heartiness which made her laughter melody. I put this manner in her down to the loss of the boot, which I thought she would not complain of, as she knew my views, but folt as a removal of the one chanes that remained to us to roseus ourselves if no ship came. I had talked to her so much of London, and of the cities I had visited, and of noh gnieties as I could read, the dresses of the quality, fashion. able gatherings in the parks, bunds of music and dances by the light of coloured lanterns, that there had naturally grown in her a great wistfulness and plaintive yearning to soo, as it were, behind the back of the glass of life, where the plate reflected human existence and things In ton years her maiden's heart was weary of the voice of the surf and the cataract, and the view of the volcano and the valley, and I had come to teach her love, to make her know that she was beautiful, and to sigh in vain for those realities of civilised life which I had again and again figurod for her.
It was two mornings after the departure of Mr. Cotton from our island, that I went down
to catch fish from some racks on the north side of the month of the creek. I was so used to see ing the boat in the crook that I missed her with something like a sigh and a pang of heart when I looked at the old cation floating alone. Whilst I hshed I happened to send a glance into the north east recess, and saw what I su veritably
"It may be," says I. “that a canoe arrived in the night. Did you see only one wian ?"
"Only one," aho answered.
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| little forest above. Here were no gullies nor jumped round, and so revolving, drove his
creeks, nor did I expect to see any, but I knife into her breast. that if a pian was arrived in this island he must alve come in a boat of some sort, and if that boat was not on the west side, nor on the aust, as I now perceived, where was sho? Unless in deed the gleam of canvas I had caught sight of the day before was the sail of something, caixa, boat or ship, that, as in the case of Cotton, but this time at night, had left a men on the island.
I now told her that I had onaght sight of distout sail which had disappeared, and that it might have been the sail of a canoe whiold quitted the island in the night, leaving one ne more men behind. I was greatly excited by this ows, and as much at a loss how to act as when Cotton was ashore. I had markets and pistols in plenty, but no powder nor ball. If the man that my wife saw was a savage, and if he had companions for why should one savage be suf ashore on this island --I might suppose they would be armed according to thò custom of their country, that is with spears and bows and ar- rows, in which case, even though there should
but one. I must ho ut a heavy disadvantage as having no weapon I could use at a distance, For the bows and arrows which hung up in one dining-room ware of no more good to me than had they been children's toys, and I was cor- tainly no match with a savage at barling a spear. Our little house was no ditado! in which we could fortify ourselves. It was a shed, and when the mats, which made the windows, were raised it looked one.
My second exploration satisfied me that Eu lalie had be deceived, and that the island hield no other inhabitants than ourselves. I came back mighty weary and half roasted.
Have you seen anything move whilst I have bean sway I naked, the bour then being
about noon.
No, she had con nothing. "But have you lookeit. Lil ?"
Yos, again and again," she replied. And you are now satisfied, as I am, that we are alone
"I wish I could feel suro," she exclaimes. --but I am not."
I could do nothing but watch her, fan her, kiss her, weap such salding tours as visit men's eyes, put water to her lips, and watch_my_dar. ug die. She grow delirious, she ceased to know me, and she passed away in unconsciousness, at which hour the dawn had broken, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and I knelt alone by my dad island princess.
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The sequel to this simple but romantic and tragic story must he briefly related. With a
broken heart de la Touche sot about the sad und
solemn task of burying the remains of a girl who picture, with its hundred subtleties of mood, natural passica, arch humour, incompar- able beanty in form, gesture and motion, and so on, demands snod: äkill in the artist as shall not be found in these pages.
En that elite interment must needs he swift: he toilet all day, nud by the evening, and before the moon again shone, Ealalie was sleeping in her grave, alongside her father's. And now there were three where there had been This apprehension I put down to nervousness which I knew would presently wear off when but one on le Touche's coming; and whilst the nothing more should ingot her eye to betaken a lonely man stood looking down upon his work, humun presence But though he had slopt but and thinking of the jewel that had been ruth little in toe night, she did not go to her bowerlessly tora from the eusker of his heart, Captain for her afternoon nap as was her custom. A Scott's passionato clinging to the island for the spirit of restlessness was upon her. She was too love of her who rested in it grew intelligible to perfectly natural in character to cenereal it. If him; ho scarcely regarded it as a madness; his For were within doors I would observe her sond-heart was buried in the grave he had made, and he would leave it ther when he quitted the ing unwouted glances through the windows ou
island. wither hand, and when out of doors her eyes were ceaselessly exploring the present.
Another evening came, another night. I had It would have been idle to explorede ap my mind to dismiss all alarmo, parstad- for him in that island, for there were a thous and secret places in which a man could hideed that if a stratigor had come inte this island himself as socurely as though he refe bariot.
Therefore if we had enemies to fear in the island we had no house to which to barricade ourselves, and iudcod, after our experience of Mr. Cotton, scarce know which to dread most the arrival of a white man or a visit from savagce.
All that morning. I kept a look-out with a pyglass, und Eulalie often came to my side to help me with her panstrating gaze. But neither of us saw the least signs of anything resembling
a mau
She
I asked Eulalie with passionate earnestness if Her she was sure that what she saw was a man, love, lur desire unt to increase my anxiety, made her reluctant; but she could not say no. painted again as vividly as she could the image of the moving thing sho behold. Then said I. "I'll take a club and go along the coast and boat come dore, and find out if there is any meanwhile keep you a light look-ent here, for if I meet with nothing, and you see nothing moving throughout the day. I shall conclude you were deceived and that we are alone."
ho would havo arrive at the house or shown Limself in some part of the land during the long day. We sat in the garden in the evening and 1 smoked my pipe and talked with Lil. The young moon was now making a stronger light. This ocean lay in a magic calu. I could scarce hear a ripple apon the beach. Never a sigh of wind passed through the trees, and he only noise that broke into this majestic peace was the hooting of a night bird, which Eulalie described as a sort of owl.
He denied decent interment to the corpses of the murderer. Ho took a rope and attached it to the body and dragged the thing, villainous even in death, with its scowl of brow and its tusk of tooth, to the edge of the cliff, and Irled it over to lie and roi,
His Imsiness was then to find out where the boat was hidden. Guessing that Cotton had come ushore on the southern side of the 'isiand, he made his way in that direction. -and found a little crank in the south-west corner, opposite the place where the scouudról had been mar- coned. This creek was so richly sheltered and hidden by palms, cocoa tress and and a tall uniter, growth of luxuriant vegetation, that the boat Our concersation this evening was coloured lay as it were in a sort of green tunnel, and it insensibly by melancholy. The delicate moon was merely by the accident of detecting the shine gave us a sight of the graves, uue Igleam of water through the trees that he dis- covered the creek and the boat in her. He spoke of Captain Scott, and Lil of her mother. and she tol me some tore tales of her child brought the bout reand to the other creek where the cunce was. She contained the cask of water which he had helped Cotton to put into her. Iu her too were the masked and ball the fellow had been put ashore with. She was ready for sea La Touche had but to wild to the stack of provi. sions; which br. did.
With that I took down a small native club, and clapping a wile straw but on my head, ind holding the telescope, I set out in the sun and
her father in his schooner. But we were bol marched away to the cost on the west, for everhood-in Lina, and the voyages she took with gazing vigilantly inland as I went, to guard
weary, and a little before nine we went to rest. against a suprise,
As on the night before. so now, the mats in the windows of our room were raised, and the sene of black, rising grove wood lay outside with the stars over it. Two of the mats betwixt our room and the dining room were also raised, and the oil lamp made a little light, for now what lustre the moon shed was in front of the house. and by this hour she was sailing over the sULL,
"I went down on the beach whors the tract was long and level. I paced to the end of this tract where some rocks on which the men was breaking preventod me from going further. This brought me to a bend which furnished a view of the coast for wear a mile. But I saw noth- ing nothing I mean to alarm me. The heat was excessive. the distance great, and I was got back to the house. fairly exhausted when The east side of the island remained to his ex- plored, but I could not attempt it on fout that day, nor would I venture it in the canoe, not being used to the handling of that sort of craft.
Eulalie had seen nothing.
The afternoon was now fur advanced, and in
We both lay arined, Eulalie with the daguer, and I with my club. The room was so pro- teated, as indeed was the whole house, that of doors, unless the window mits were lowered, sleeping in it was the same thing as lying ont but these were a sort of shutters that cozoned the sight only they might serve against the
believed to be the gleam of a sail that I sprang all the hours since the early morning no. signs driving wet, but could not keep out a man.
to my feet and stood at gaze like one in France. My eyes were low-seated, and the hori- of a man had been visible. I could not imagino zon therefore was brought close, and the distant that if a boat's crew of sauvages or white men fragment of white hovered and came and wont had come ashore, or even one man, whether in a muner so exasperating to my imagination black or white, they would remain in hiding all that flinging down the line, I ran to the house day. They could not fail to see the horse, and for the glass, and discovered, sureenough, by the as they would find no inhabitants in that part of stoudiness with which it posted on the sea that the island where Eulalie had seen the figure the white speck was a sail" But it way to prove moving, they would naturally make for the of no use to us, for in about a quarter of an hour house. For though my fears had painter the figura that Eulalie saw as an enemy, there was
it melted out.
no reason why he should prove uns. Nay, if the fire was not a phantasy of my wife's sight he might be some poor forlorn creature like to the wretel whose dead body had been found in the canoe, thankful to fall in with strangers and hospitality..
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Eulalic rested very quiet: she breathed so been lying down half an hour, I thought I board regularly that I fancied sho slept. After I had the noise of a footstep, and rising and taking up my club went to one of the spaces that looked into the dining room, and watched and heark- end. Eulalie ay quiet with her eyes closed. I was sure she slept.
I had never before thought thus #gurehead which had decorated the prow of the New Zea- land canoo, in a hideous presentment of a man's head. looked more grini and ghostly than par
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stared down in that dim light from where it was hog. It seemed to mop and mow up there as though it was alive. To satisfy myself crossed the room, and passed out of doors. The night scene was a picture of heavenly tran-
Eudalie was indoors, and I had no Ecart to disappoint her by reporting a sail that was no orod than the Phantom Ship. So I went back to the rock and fell a-fishing again, musing and marvelling over this second instance of a sil appearing in sight of the island within a
So, though I mennt not to relax my vigilance couple of days or 0. For I could not Int re- member that Captain Scott had assured me, and that night, I dismissed my fears, and did myquility, the moon was sparkling in the midst of I fully believed him, that in ten years he had best to reassure Eulalie, who, however, cantia the stars, and the ocean lay as smooth as a But I was weary of only seen three or four vessels, and of these two uel very pensive and watchful, often stepping shield of polished steel. wero hull down. The sight of the mail, however, out to send a look over the land, and wh n sit this sort of vigil, and heartily tired withal, and quickered my spirits: I could not conceive that ting out with me, darting such searching, tire returning to the bedroom lay me down by Eu less glauces in all directions as very well per alie, who still seemed to slop, and in about these seas, which tesmed with fruitful islands, should sloop your after year unvisited. I felt suaded me without further assurance from har ten minutes' time, exhausted by the heat of the convinced that a day would come, and more
that the conviction of her hourt wis that what day, and the lack of sleep the night before. I
suk into a profound slumber. spordily than I dared allow myself to hope, shy saw was a man, when I should look and bahold a vessel hove to We kept watch and walch that night. Eu- off the island, with a bont making for the shore,talie's dagger was at her hand, and I had my And such was the poignancy and vividness of native fruneha . My short slumbers were this day-dream, that it determined me to stack broken. I was constantly starting up and lis ever in readiness a mass of stuff that would tening, and asking Eulalie what soise that was. send up a great smoke, and I also resolved to The murmur of the wind in the trees gounded occupy some coming daye in stitching pieces of something like the cranching of deal leaves un- white and coloured cloth into flags, and fixing der stealthy naked feet: my brave girl's rest them to trees, where they would blow clear, on was equally disturbed. Once she started into a sitting posture, sprang from the bad, and grasp- hold and conspicuous parts of the coast.
Having caught as many fish as I needed, and ing ber dagger stood breathing hard with her they happened to be a mall, sweet, white fish weapon in her hand poised as if to stab, as like our whiting, but bigger, I strang them and though she saw man. The reflection of the departed for the house. As I approached I saw oil lamp in the dining-room came through the Eulalie standing in the garden in a posture of uprights where the mats were raised, and we expectancy, as though she awaited me. And in could see easily. I was so amazed and alarmed deed when she saw the leaving the tress, sheby her sudden action, and her posture was so to comes running to me, and somewhat breathless
cries:
the life like that of confronting and defying an enemy, that I believed the saw a man, and taking a good grasp of my club I made a step "Rupert, there is a man in this island.”
Where?" says I, standing stock still, for into the window towards which she looked, which an instant I auderstood it was ridiculous to BN- was black with the trees beyond, though the sociate that distant ship, whose glimmer of can- vas had molted out, with the arrival of another
Jana.
Come to the garden," says abr," and I will show you where I saw him.
When we came near the graves she stopped, and pointed into the south-west. There was a considerable growth of trees there, which wont some distance from the east coast into the mid- dio of the island, whore the land lay somewhat open. But still trees abounded, and only in one or two places could you catch sight of a cleur
savouna.
I have said thất my wife's eyesight was four- vellously searching and far-seeking. I might liken it to an eagle's. It was nature's gift and scarce reconcilable with the dewy, languid soft ness of the pupils. She had seen Mr. Cotton when I could only make him out with a glass,
and now when she told me that there was a wint
on the island I was willing to listen and belove, though I confess I was vastly astonished. She asked me if I observed such and such a group of trees. I told her "yes,”
“Look a little to the left. half way between that clump of trees and the hillock where the coconut trees are. I saw the figure of a man pass through that place."
"When "says I.
About twenty minutes ago," she answered. I entered the house, put down the tleh, aud returned with the glass,
"It seems to me upossible." said I, that you can see the figure of a man all that distance
uff".
She pouted, and said she was sure she was not mistaken,
stars shone above them.
What is it, Li!" I exclaimed in a loud whisper.
grasped the dagger fell to her side, and with
She turned her head slowly, the hand that sigh and a shudder she said, "It was a dream." 'Twas one of those dreams which make the sleeper gliad when the sun awakes him.
When the morning come we found that the alarms of the night were of our imagining, and that nothing worse bad happened than Eulalio's dream. But I could not help thinking as I stopped forth with my spy-glass that life would become perfectly intolerable on this island if we were to be visited and haunted and worried and held sleepless by such fours us had come to us first with Mr. Cotton, and next the thing which lalie believed she saw glide from the body of the trees to the hillock where the cocoa-nut trees stood. I said to Eulalie that I would rather take my chanca with her in that old eance than go ou enduring such a stato of life, hearing an assassin in every wilight rustle of leaves that sounded like a footfall.
I pointed the glass with diligent scrutiny inte every part of the island, and Eulalie also dir. acted her keep gaze everywhere, but no hint of
human life was revealed to us.
now?"
"Well, dear," says I. "what do you think
I may have been mistak, she auswered. "If there is a man why should ke bide ?"
I afterwards came to know that it was about three o'clock in the morning, when I was awakened by a 'cry or deep groan, and the sound of a heavy fall. I sprang up and saw the body of a man stretched upon the floor, and Enhlfo in the act of reeling and fulling. I saught her in my arms as she was sinking, crying in my bewilderment and horror, "Oh my God, what is this! and laid har upon the bed. She breathed fast and spoke brokenly:
"I was sure he was in the island--I have killed him--he has stabbed me--I am dying. Rupert."
I now perceived that the white tappa that she wore as bed attire was dark with blood over and about the right bosora. I sprang like a randman into the dining room for the oil lamp, and them both in and set them down, and by their snatching at another, lighted it, and brought illumination I saw that the mar who Iny upou the floor, evidently stabbed to the heart, was Silas Cottan.
I was so thunderstruck that for ai instaut I stood as one petrified, for I had supposed this won to be hundreds of leagues away from the island by this time, instead of which the villain must havo aneaked back in the midnight dark- nass, and moored his boat in some secret cresk. waiting till we should be off our guard to steal to the house and murder me and seize my wife and our properly.
broke from the wild fit of amazement that trausfixed me, and knelt by Eulalie. She had been stabbed through the breast and the lung, and it was manifest, that slie bled internally and was dying. I have no words to express the agony of my mind, the language to acquaint you with the awful, desolate sense of loneliness. end helplessness that crashed, my heart as I knelt by ay lying princess, my queen. yet gain the preserver of my life, this time at o scrifice of her own precious blood, with the misoreant Cotton's corpse stretched along the Boor behind me.
She whispered with falloring breath; sho asked for water, for cold water, and begged me to fan her. Oh, the misery of it was that I could uot staunch the bleeding, that I knew not what to do, that there was no help, though even thon I felt as I looked upon her face that had the first surgeon in the world. been in that room he would pronounce her past all human aid.
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What he had done with his boat, he went to the bonse, and made a little purcel of his wifeo's
property; the diamonds. the Spanish pieces in gold, the twenty-eight gaineas, the silver del- lars, the gold crucifix, the watch and chain and ear rings, but the wedding ring was on his wife's finger. As he looked at these things the tears ran down his cheeks. Surely, a cruel, needless murder: She was a young, so fresh, so fitted for the life he had hoped to carry her to. Four times had she preserved him from death. Why had it not 1000 God's will that He should have requited her by uverting the blow of the assassin?
Before he quitted the island, he constructed on his wife's grave such another cross us lay on the other two. Halikewise planted the mound rilily with flowers. When his task was ended. he removed his hat, and stooped and kissed the grave, and hade Eulalie farewell, nitering the words aloud, even as Captain Scott used to speak aloud to his wife, though In Toucbe was no midnnn.. He then went down to the crack. entered the bout, heister the sail, and put unt to seu.
This was on the third day after the murder. and the hour of his sailing was about seven in the evening. He loaded north-east and con- tinued to steer that course, and for three days was without a sight of land. Ou the morning of the fourth day after leaving the island, when day broke, on looking over the bow he saw u ship right ahead. He signalled to her and was seen, and she backed her topsail to enable bim to approach. She proved the whaler. "Jolianna." bound to Valparaiso, at which port Mr. de la Tonchie was landed. It does not appear that be
made any attempt to recover the rest of the property consisting of the cargo of the wreck left on the island.
Those brief particulars are collected from his notes, but five times the length of this tale would not contain his adventures after his arrival at Valparaiso
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GERMAN.
Bussard, eraiser, 1857 tons, 15 guns, 2900 b.p..
Comdr. Husse Fatherland, craitor, tons, guns, h.p.,
Captain, von Buelow, Shanghai Furst Bismarck, (flagship), 11,003 tons, 36 guns, 14,000 h.p., Captain Prowe, Shanghai Geier, cruiser, 1776 tons, 15 guns, 2060 h.p.,
Comdr, van Studnitz, Shanghai Hansa, eraider, 6230 tons, 34 guns, 10,600 &.p.,
Captain Subrooder, Tsingtan Hertha, cruiser, 6500 tons, 37 guas, 10, 00 h.p., Capt. Barou Schimmelmann, Teing tau Iltis, gun ont, 1000 tons, 10 gavs, 1300 h.p.,
Comdr. Baron vou M. Hullessom, anton Jaguar, gaubost, 900 tons, 10gues, 1300 b.p..
Comander Wilbrandt, Shanghai Lachs, gunboat, 850 tons, 10 guns, 1344 h.p..
Commandor Kroonoke, Shanghai Mose, gunboat, 1009 tong, 8 gaus, 875 h.p.,
Commander von Grumbkow, Manila Seeadler, cruiser, 1640 tons, t5 guns, 800 hp..
Commander Persins, Tsingtan Thelis, cruiser, 2660 tons, 24 guns, 8000 h.p..
Captain Voit, Shanghai Tiger, gunboat, 900 tons, 10 guns, 1300 h.p..
Commander Deinling, Amoy Tsingtau, guabost, 170 ton, 5 guns, 1800 h.p..
Commander Giebber, Canton Vorwarts, gunboat, tons, 3 guns, 500 h.p..
Lieat. Scharf, Shanghai,
<ITALIAN.
Elba, gruiser, 2300 tons, 10 gune, 7471 h.p.,
Captain Boran Ricci, Haiphong Marco Polo, oraiser, 3609 tous, guns, h.p.,
Captain Presbitero, Shanghai Paglia, cruiser, 2400 tons, 20 runs, 7000 h:p..
Captain Pescutte, Chomulpo
PORTUGUESE.
Adamastor, cruiser, 1960 tons, 14 guns, 4000
b.p.. Captain d'Antas Bibeiro, Shanghui Dio, ganbout, 720 tons, 6 gaus, 700 h p, Capt.
Continho, Macao
Vasco de Gama, cruiser, 3020 tous, 20 guns. 600 .p., Capt. Manuel Vasco de Carvalho, Shanghai
RUSSIAN.
Amour, oruisor, 26.0 tons, guos, 4700 b.p..
Commando Genmatchiokeff, Port Arthur Askokl, orniser, 6000 tons. 27 ans, 24,000 h.p..
Captain Reitzenschtein, Shanghai vasteck
Sevastopol, battleship, 10,960 tous, 50 guns,
10,600 b.p., Captain Serobrennikoff, Port Arthur
Siwoutch, gunboat, 950 tons, 2 guos, 1125 b.p.
Liont-Comdr. Ivanoff, Port Arthur. Tsesarovitch, battleship, 12,110 tons, 68 guna, 16.300 hp, Capt. Ñ. Dabitch, Port Arthar Zabiyaka, cruiser, 1930 tons, 15 guns, 1194 h.p.,
Commander Abrauuff, Port Arthur
UNITED STATES.
Albany, cruiser, 376 tons, 25 guns, 7500 h.p..
Captain Dyer, Cavite Annapolis, gaaboat, 1000 tons, 12 guns, 1227
b.p.. Captain Rohror, Shanghai Bainbridge, tied., 420 tons, 7 guns, 8000 h.p,
Tient G. Williams, Hongkong Barry, bd 49 tons, 7 guns, 8010
h.p Lieut, Irwin, Ho rkong
Callao, gunboat, 208 tons, 10 gaus, 600 h;p.,
Lieut. Dismaker, Canton Channcey, t-b-d, 420 tons, 7 gaus, 2000 h.p.,.
Lient, E. P. Joarop, Hongkeng Cincinnati, cruiser, 3213 tons, 19 gums, 7:00
hp., Captain G. B. Harbor, Dale. t.-b.-d... 42) tous, 7 guns, 8000 h.p., Lízart.
Garness, doogkong
Decantur, t-b-d., 120 lous, 7 guns, 8000 h.p..
Lient, A. W. Knox, Hongkong Bayan, cruisor, 7800 tons, 10 unus. 16,500 h.p..
Captain, Port Arther Bogaris, cruiser, 3210 tons, 19 gaus, 18,000 h.p..
Commander Saintsbeff, Port Arthur Diana, craiser. 6731 tons, 6 gans, 8900 h.p..
Capitalu, Saigon
Djigit, gunboat, 1456 tons, 3 guns, 1700 h.p.,
Captain Nesarowsky, Port Artkar Gaidamak, guabeat, 500 tons, 9 guna, $500 h.p.,
Commander Yurieff, Port Arthur Gremiasteby, guaboat, 1490) tank, 6 guns, 2000
b.p. Comauder Zagarausky, Gromobcí, ernizer, 12,364 tons. 44 guns, 14,509
h.p., Captain Jissen, Vladivostock Galliak, gunboat, 1000 tons, 6 gans, 1000 hp..
Commander Sunwoff,
Mandjoar, geaboat, 1224 toss, 7 gaus, 14 h...
Commander Crown, Shanghai Otrajny, gunbont, 1490 toas, 6 gnus, 2000 b.p., Pallado, cruiser, 66:30 tons, 34 guns, 11,610 h.p.,
Commander Vasilieff, Port Artanr
Peresviet, battleship. 12,674 tons, 60 guns, 14,500
Captain Kossowitch, Port Arthar
b.p., Captain Korolff, Port Arthur Pobeda, lattiessip, 12.674 tous, 60 gaus, 14,500 b.p., Cap'ain Zatzaroieng, Port Arthur Peltara, battleship, 10,060 tons, 50, uns, 10,600
h.p., Captain Oseroff, Port Arthur Raskeinik, craiser, (training ship, 1331 tons, 10 gans, 1786 h.p., Commander Livos, Port Arthur Aspic, gaabost, 475 tons, 3 guns, 450 hp,tetrizan, battleship, 12,302 Loos, 62 guns, 16,000
Argus, gunboat, 323 tons, guos, 500 hp..
Lieut. Jeanel, Canton
Lieut. Mdéart, Saigon Avalanche, gunboat, 140 tona, 5 guns, 150 bp.
Haiphong
Balounette, gunboat, Lient Laferre, Saigon Bengali, gunboat, 580 tofs, 6 gube, 400 h.p.,
Lieut. M. da Vignanx. Touranc Caronade, gunboat, Lient. Hue. Saigon Casse-tate, gunboat, 140 tons, 5 guns, 150 hp
Saigon Chateaurenant, craiser (flagship), 8018 tons, 18 guns. 17,000 h... Captain A. M. Puidlotte, Saigon Cométe, gaoboat, 525 tone, i guns, 438 h.p.,
Camdr. Louel. Haiphong D'A saa, oruis or, 1000 tons, 31 guns, 9500 h.p.,
Saigon
Decidéo, guuboat, 645 tone, 10 guts, 1,000 h.p.,
Lieut. Comdr. L'Eost, Shanghai Estoe. gunboat, tons, guns, ~~b.p.,
Lieut. Mère, Haiphong
Fronde, destroyer, 350 tons, 7 guns. 309.h.p.,
Lieut. Jebeone, Hongkong
Possia, protected cruiser, 12,200 tons, 68 gans.
b.p.. Captain
17,000 b.p., Captain Sepelreunipoff, Vladi. Eleano, gunboat, 560 tons, 10 guns, 6060 hp.,
Liont.-Comtr. J. Hood, Shanghai Helena, gunboat, 1593 tous, & guns, 1988 h.p.,
Commander P, E. Sanyer, Canton
Monadnock, monitor. 3990 tons, 6 guns, 3000
hp., Captain Malan, Shanghai
Monterey, monitor, 4084 tons. 4 guns, 5244 hp..
Commander J. B. Milher, Cavite
New Orleans, craiser, 3137 tous, 20 gans, 7500
h.p., Commander, Shanghai Oregon, cruiser, 10,288 tons, 45 guns, 11.III
b.p. Captain Brewell, Shanghai Pampanga, ruuboat, 201 tons, 3 guns, 20 b.p..
Bosign J. E. Bass, Cavite
Paragus, gunboat, 201 tous, 3 guns, 250 b.p...
Captain Bennett, Cavite
Rainbow, craiser, 4000 tons, 14 guns, -- h.p.,
Captain J. B. Collins, Manila
Gueydon, craiser, 9376 for 8, 36 guns, 20,200 Raleigh, oraiser, 3213 tons, 18 gans, 7500 b.p..
b.p., Captain Gondot, Saigon
Heari Riviere, gunboat. - tous, guns,
h.p., Lient. Blaise, Haiphong Jacquin, ganbaat, Lieut. Corloner, Haiphong [2277 Javeline, destroyer. 307 tous, 7 guus, 300 h.p.
Lieut. Comdr. Beaussant, Hongkong Kersaint, gauboat, 1250 tons, 6 guns, 2200 h.p.,
Comdr. Le Colleur. Shanghai Montonimo, cruiser (Vice-Admiral's dagship, 9700 tona, 12 guns, 19,800 b.p., Capt. Cros, Hongkong
37, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG. From the University of Pennsylvania, USA,
(2161 Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904
CARTRIDGES.
Mousquet, destroyer, Lieut. Prat, Hongkong Olry, ga boat, tons, guns,h.p., Lient.
Audemard, Yangtse
Pascal, crnizer, 4015 tons. 27 gans, 8500 h.p.,
Comdr. Chevalier, Haiphong Paibo, gunboat, Lieut. Lavissière; Tongku Fintolat, destroyer, Lieut. de Reinach-Werth,
Hongkong
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was keeping watch for him. She saw him come into the room sized with a long knife which side of the island."
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Redoutable, cruiser, 9437 tons, 8 guns, 6071 h.p., Commodore C. P. M. Poidlowe, Saigon Styx, cruiser. 1796 tons, 10 guns, 1700 b.p..
Comdr. T. de Balincourt, Saigon
Captain Guibertean, Hoihow Sully, cruiser, 10,014 tons, 38 gans, 20,000 h.-,
Lieut. Bogue, Shanghai
Takiang, gunboat, tons, guns,, - h.p,,
Lieut.
Yangtze
Commander Blarshell, Chemulpo Sen Francisco, cruiser, 4098 tons, 27 guns, 9913
.p., Captain Very, Manila Vicksburg, oraiser, 100 tons, 13 guns, 1118 bp Commander Marshall, Shanghai-
Villalobos, ganboat, 347 tons, 3 gnus, 500 h.p..
Lieut. H. A. Wiley, Shanghai Wilmington, gunboat, 1897 tons, 8 guns, 1894 h.p., Commander A. W. Deda, Mauila Wisconsin, flagship, 12.000 tons, 50 gims, 12,609
hp., Captain Clovor, Shanghai
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