In this state of things, to remain at Hong-Kong was worse than useless.

I found myself at Hong-kong, without troops and without competent representatives of our allies (America and France) to concert with; doomed either to aborder the Court of Pekin alone, without the power of acting vigorously if I met a repulse, or to spend three months at Hong-kong doing nothing, and proclaiming to the whole world that I am waiting for the Frenchman; i.e. that England can do nothing without France.

] Hong-Kong.

On the 16th of October the French ambassador reached Hong-kong, having been delayed by the breaking down of an engine, which made it necessary for him to stay at Singapore to refit.

Hong-kong was a barren rock fifteen years ago.

F. by steaming at night from Macao to Hong-Kong caught Reed about an hour before that fixed for his departure for the North.

At Hong-Kong he remained nearly a fortnight, that his ship might be fitted to go to the North: his letter for Pekin being sent on, in the meantime, to Shanghae, by the hands of his secretary, Mr. Oliphant.

After full consideration I have resolved to go at once to Hong-Kong, and take the Canton difficulty in hand.

On returning to Hong-Kong he found that his letter to the Chinese Government had had the effect which he desired and anticipated.

Having resolved on this course, I invited the Hong-Kong merchants to come up with me to Canton, to look at the several factory sites.

I am glad that the time for work is arriving, though I cannot but feel a little nervous anxiety until I know what I shall learn at Hong-Kong respecting our prospects with the Chinese, &c. &c. Arrived at Hong-Kong on the following day, he found letters from his brother Frederick'generous and magnanimous as ever'giving him some hope of there being an opening for diplomacy, and a chance of settling matters speedily.

It lasted only about an hour, when we set off again, passing through a great many little islets all covered with trees, so different from the barren Pulo Sapata and Pulo Condor, which we pass on the route between Singapore and Hong-Kong!

The paper on 'Naval Strategy and Tactics at the Time of Trafalgar' was read at the Institute of Naval Architects, and that on 'The Supply and Communications of a Fleet' at the Hong-Kong United Service Institution.

(Read at the Hong-Kong United Service Institution.)]

CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. FROM HONG-KONG TO SIBERIA

EXAMINING THE USSURIE FRONT BRITISH PARADE AT OMSK RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS "STAFFKA," OMSK BRITISH STAFF AND C.O.'s WAGON ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH AT IRKUTSK ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK WITH THE "DIE-HARDS" IN SIBERIA CHAPTER I FROM HONG-KONG TO SIBERIA

If she had made Hong-Kong in five days, her name would be lost in the memory of countless other steamers, and there would be no tale to tell.

"Thar's been bloody work in the last three or four years in these waterslook at the Legaspi; never a man jack out of her, and sailed from Manila, as we did, for Hong-Kong, and never heard of.

Ye mind Hong-Kong?

The English obtained Hong-Kong from the Chinese at the conclusion of the war in 1842, and founded the port of Victoria, which contains at present a large number of palace-like houses built of stone.

I saw it, however, subsequently, on my return from Canton to Hong-Kong.

The inhabitants are nearly all Roman Catholics, and the archbishop of Goa is primate of the East, having jurisdiction over all Roman Catholics between Cairo and Hong-Kong.

When he reached Constantinople he received a letter from the managers of the Tribune suggesting that he go across Asia to Hong-Kong, China, and join the expedition of Commodore Perry to Japan.

As the expedition would not reach Hong-Kong for some months, however, he had time to visit his German friend and go on to London.

San Francisco and Valparaiso on the E., Hong-Kong and Sydney on the W., are just now the chief centres of trade.