_Dido_ moving up. Native war-boats collecting to assist in the intended attack on Seriff Sahib. While at a midnight council with Rajah Muda Hassim, a report was brought me that _Dido_ was high and dry. While warping up the Sarawak River the previous evening she came to an anchor at sunset, in a narrow passage short of the town. I had cautioned the Master that the flood came up with a rush, and recommended additional hawsers from the port quarter to be secured to the larger trees on shore. I had been up before, but the Master was older than I was, and as I had not given a positive order, I suppose he did not see the necessity. He was a good fellow, and fully saw where he was wrong. When I got there _Dido_ was on her beam ends--royal yards across. Nothing could be done till the rise of the tide. I took this opportunity for ascertaining the truth of the warrant officers’ report to the Commander-in-Chief on 17th June last. _Dido’s_ keel was uninjured, although some bits of copper had been torn off her bottom. I took charge and went on the forecastle, where foothold was difficult. Outside on the starboard bow lay the gun that had been hoisted outside, but as it still clung to the ship, the standing part of the tackle was left in the rigging, with the fall on the forecastle. It was on the edge of this fall that I had got my footing. The tide had risen over the port hammock netting; and just as I was giving the order to cut away, the forecastle gun slipped overboard, taking the tackle with it, on the fall of which I was standing. It caused me to perform an unwilling somersault in the air. [Sidenote: Aug. 1.] _Dido_ arrived at her old berth off Kuching, and saluted Rajah Muda Hassim. [Sidenote: Aug. 2.] Visited neat and pretty bungalows lately built by Williamson and Steward, the latter a Norfolk man. INDEX Abercorn, the Duke of, iii. 333 Accra, i. 214, 221, 232, 238, 242; iii. 72 Adam, General Sir Frederick, i. 148 Sir Charles, ii. 46 Adeane, Lieutenant, iii. 55 Adelaide, Queen, i. 121, 160, 246 Aden, iii. 118, 119 Admiralty Islands, ii. 150 _Adventure_, iii. 174, 180 _Africa_, i. 7, 12, 13 Agar-Ellis, Miss, ii. 201 Ailesbury, Lady, iii. 322 Ainos, the, iii. 199 Aitkin, Lieutenant, iii. 235 _Alabama_, iii. 83 Åland Islands, ii. 232 Albany, ii. 142 _Albatross_, ii. 81, 127 Albemarle, George, 3rd Earl, i. 59 William Charles, 4th Earl, i. 4, 5, 7, 67, 102, 160, 248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 256; ii. 41, 43, 46, 58 Augustus Frederick, 5th Earl; _see_ Keppel George Thomas, 6th Earl; _see_ Keppel Lord, i. 14 Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Consort, i. 250, 251; ii. 313, 324; iii. 38, 39, 78, 80 Alcock, Sir Rutherford, iii. 143, 171, 192, 194, 236, 237, 259 Alexandria, i. 170, 178; iii. 18, 117 Alfred, Prince; _see_ Edinburgh, Duke of _Algerine_, iii. 224 Algoa Bay, iii. 46 Ali, Pangeran Oman, ii. 84 Ali, Patingi, ii. 7; iii. 125