The torpedo-boat _Biedovy_ reported that in the morning a sailor was found lying motionless on deck. It was concluded that he was dead. They asked permission to bury him at once. The staff delayed the answer. Suddenly it was discovered that he was alive. A nice thing if they had thrown him alive into the sea! One of the officers in the _Suvaroff_ was playing with the dog yesterday. The dog grew very tired, and suddenly began to bark furiously, rushed on deck, and bit the other dogs. They poured water over it, but to no purpose. It jumped into the stern gallery, and then overboard, and was drowned. The two dogs which were bitten were tied up, as they may possibly go mad. We have been some time in the straits of Malacca, but up to the present have not met a single steamer. At night sometimes lights are visible, and once by day smoke was seen on the horizon. It was hardly perceptible. Before the storm there is calm. It may be so now. A signal has been made that at night officers are not to sleep away from the guns they command. The crew have been sleeping at their guns for some time past. Every precaution is taken against a night attack of torpedo-boats. We have begun to meet several steamers. They very wisely get out of their way in good time. A heavy squall has just gone by. Until then the sea was as calm as a mirror. The officers are distributing pots with powders for extinguishing fires, and bags containing bandages. I do not believe in fire-extinguishing powders. The sailor about whose death there was a misunderstanding has been buried. Some one in the torpedo-boat read the appointed prayers, our priest with his cross blessed the deceased from afar, and the body was launched into the sea. How simple! After dinner I spent three hours on the bridge with the captain. I had tea there. I asked him about Vladivostok and the life there, etc. At noon to-day there were 2,100 more versts to Kamranh, which we can do in about seven days if there is no fight or other hindrance. _March 25th_ (day).--We met steamers all night, but they went aside out of our course. The Hull incident has had its advantages. Last night we met several steamers. The searchlights were turned on them. Admiral Enquist states that he, the captain, officers, and crew clearly saw a steamer, behind which twelve torpedo-boats were following. This can hardly be true. The Japanese are not so foolish as to show their torpedo-boats by day to an enemy's fleet. The _Isumrud_ reported that she saw a steamer followed by porpoises. She hesitates to say that they are submarines, but thinks they are.