This morning we got into communication by wireless with the _Svietlana_, which is ahead of the fleet, while she was in communication with the squadron at Nosi Be. It appears that our cruisers _Aurora_, _Donskoi_, and _Nachimoff_ are lying there. Yesterday it was supposed that the ships seen in line ahead were these cruisers and the _Kuban_, which joined them from Diego Suarez. Now this supposition falls to the ground. We are going by a spot seldom explored and not sounded. Occasionally shallow places are shown on the chart, and the fairway along which we are steaming is very narrow; the depth is unknown--it has not been measured. We may go aground. To-day I finished writing those reports about the battleships _Borodino_, _Orel_, _Imperator Alexander III._, and _Kniaz Suvaroff_, which I began long ago. I must touch them up a little and send them to Petersburg. Many will be dissatisfied with them, and probably I shall make enemies for myself. No matter. Having once decided on it, I must carry it out--the more so as it appears to me the remarks will be very useful. At seven o'clock the torpedo-boat _Buiny_ (Boisterous) approached, coming from Nosi Be. All is well there. The torpedo-boat offered to escort the hospital-ship _Orel_ to the anchorage. At present our fleet is thirty miles from the anchorage. Owing to the dangerous entrance, we shall remain at sea all night, and go in to-morrow morning. Tossing on the sea all night with the transports is not without danger. _December 27th._--The fleet is steaming slowly, turning constantly in order not to be too far off Nosi Be. At 2 p.m. the _Roland_ hoisted a signal, "The crew have mutinied." The torpedo-boat _Biedovy_ was ordered to reduce the mutineers to submission, and if necessary to shoot them. The torpedo-boat, with such full powers, soon re-established order. It appeared that the stokers did not wish to take the place of two sick comrades, and hence the whole story. I hardly slept all night. Went to bed at four and got up at seven. We are approaching our anchorage. What news awaits us? After the destruction of the fleet and the fall of Port Arthur, affairs are radically changed. There is now no need for haste. There are three courses open to our fleet--either to continue the voyage to the East, to remain for an indefinite time in some place in the expectation that its presence will be necessary on the coast of Japan, or to return to Russia. If we are obliged to remain somewhere and wait, will the admiral remain in the fleet? And if he goes, what fate may his staff expect?