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Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life - Arthur E. Knights
Arthur E. Knights
Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
EAN 8596547042150
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
Introduction.
A Quick Passage.
A Record Long Passage.
A Voyage of Misfortune.
Beginning of the German Navy.
An Incident in Hongkong Harbour.
A Singular Meeting.
A Little Railway Experience.
A Good Record in Life-Saving.
Presentation of a Telescope by the British Government.
The Ship Bombay.
Is There a Fatality Attaching to Men or Inanimate Things?
Chinese Politeness.
A Brazilian Slaver.
Mary Ann Gander.
Hard Times.
Memory For Voices.
An Incident of the Great Taiping Rebellion.
Conclusion.
Introduction.
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In 1898 I was in Hongkong on a business affair which gave me much leisure, when Murray Bain, editor of the China Mail, whom I had long known, asked why I did not send him a letter occasionally. This led to my venturing to give him Some Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life.
These Notes, I considered, could only be of interest locally. But some of my friends have urged me to overcome my diffidence and put them in pamphlet form, which I now do for distribution among my friends, trusting that they will treat leniently the literary efforts of one who is a sailor and not a cleric.
A.E.K.
A Quick Passage.
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To the editor of the China Mail.
Dear Sir:—I have just read with much pleasure the report of the quick passage made by the sailing-ship Muskoka
from Cardiff to this port in ninety-two days. This is really a good trip and the captain and his officers may be complimented on having done so well, for, as you know, the ship is of large tonnage and the complement of men is small. I congratulate the captain and his officers, and wish they may be as successful in all their future voyages.
Mr. Editor, no doubt you remember the ship Northfleet.
I was second officer of her, as you know, in the year 1857. In the spring of that year, we loaded government stores, guns, mortars, and general war materials, with two companies of Royal Artillery, for the war at Canton, in which the French and the British were allies. We sailed from Woolwich on the river Thames, and stopped at Gravesend twelve hours, then made our final start for Hongkong, in which port we anchored in the wonderfully short time of eighty-eight days from Woolwich, which is at least three days' sail farther than Cardiff.
On the following voyage we did the same in eighty-eight days and a half. These two were record voyages made in the glorious days of teaclippers.
A. E. Knights.
Hong Kong, June, 1898.
A Record Long Passage.
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First Cotton From China to America.
During the palmy days after the opening of the River Yangtse—when freights were taels 22 per ton from Hankow to Shanghai, a distance of six hundred