On the right, with its ruined mosque and conning-tower grey in the morning light, the massive pile of Shivner frowns over the valley, like some dismasted battleship, hurled upwards into sudden petrifaction by the hands of Titans.

Though the conning-dome of a submarine presents a very small target, its appearance above water shows her position and gives warning of her approach.

The Admiral, when told there had been some remark because he had not occupied the conning-house in the action, walked with me to the tower, the entrance to which is so guarded that it resembles a small cavern of steelwith a heavy cap or lid, under which is a circular slit, through which observations are supposed to be made.

One of the incidents in the battle of Manilaall are fresh in the public memoryis that Admiral Dewey did not make use of the conning-towera steel, bomb proof, for the security of the officer in command of the shipthe Captain, of course, and the commander of the fleet, if he will.