A SAILOR’S LIFE [Illustration: MacMillan and Co. Printer’s Mark.] [Illustration: _Photographed by Her Highness the Râni of Sarawak_ _A Hadji._] A SAILOR’S LIFE UNDER FOUR SOVEREIGNS BY ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET THE HON. SIR HENRY KEPPEL G.C.B., D.C.L. VOL. II London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1899 _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS CHAPTER XXXII PAGE _Dido_ 1 CHAPTER XXXIII _Dido_: Second Expedition 10 CHAPTER XXXIV _Dido_ 22 CHAPTER XXXV England 30 CHAPTER XXXVI Shore Time--Study Steam 38 CHAPTER XXXVII Shore Time 50 CHAPTER XXXVIII The _Mæander_ 65 CHAPTER XXXIX _Mæander_--Cruising 92 CHAPTER XL _Mæander_--Cruising in the Sulu Sea 106 CHAPTER XLI _Mæander_--Hong Kong 115 CHAPTER XLII In Eastern Seas 124 CHAPTER XLIII _Mæander_ 144 CHAPTER XLIV _En route_ to Sydney 151 CHAPTER XLV Sydney to Hobart Town 153 CHAPTER XLVI Sydney 164 CHAPTER XLVII _Mæander_ 190 CHAPTER XLVIII At Home 201 CHAPTER XLIX Shore Time 205 CHAPTER L _St. Jean d’ Acre_ 208 CHAPTER LI _St. Jean d’ Acre_--Cruising 215 CHAPTER LII The Baltic Fleet 223 CHAPTER LIII The Bombardment of Bomarsund 233 CHAPTER LIV _St. Jean d’ Acre_ 238 CHAPTER LV The Crimea 245 CHAPTER LVI _St. Jean d’ Acre_ 261 CHAPTER LVII Second Expedition to Kertch 270 CHAPTER LVIII Naval Brigade 276 CHAPTER LIX Trenches--Before Sevastopol 288 CHAPTER LX The Redan 297 CHAPTER LXI After Fall of Sevastopol 304 CHAPTER LXII Arrival from Crimea--Thence in _Colossus_--Shore Time 312