TUCKER OFFERED THE COMMAND OF THE PERUVIAN FLEET, WITH THE RANK OF REAR ADMIRAL--ARRIVES IN LIMA--NO PRECEDENT FOR THE RETURN OF MONEY--COMMISSIONED A REAR ADMIRAL IN THE NAVY OF PERU--COMMANDS THE ALLIED FLEETS OF PERU AND CHILE--SPANISH WAR--TUCKER'S PLAN FOR A NAVAL CAMPAIGN; PROJECTED EXPEDITION AGAINST MANILA--CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES--TUCKER RETIRES FROM THE COMMAND OF THE FLEET, AND IS APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE PERUVIAN HYDROGRAPHICAL COMMISSION OF THE AMAZON--CROSSES THE ANDES AND REACHES THE AMAZON--EXPLORES THE YAVARI RIVER--ORDERED TO THE UNITED STATES TO SUPERINTEND THE BUILDING OF AN EXPLORING STEAMER--RETURNS TO THE AMAZON WITH STEAMER _Tambo_. EXPEDITION UP THE UCAYALI AND EXPLORATION OF THE TAMBO RIVER--ORDERED TO THE UNITED STATES TO PROCURE A STEAMER OF LIGHT DRAUGHT OF WATER--RETURNS TO THE AMAZON WITH STEAMER _Mairo_--SECOND EXPEDITION UP THE UCAYALI--CANOE EXPEDITION UP THE PACHITEA AND EXPLORATION OF THE PICHIS RIVER--EXPEDITION UP THE AMAZON AND HUALLAGA RIVERS--ORDERED TO LIMA. ORDERED TO NEW YORK TO SUPERINTEND THE CHARTS MADE BY THE HYDROGRAPHICAL COMMISSION--PUBLICATION OF CHARTS ABANDONED ON ACCOUNT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF PERU--LETTER FROM PRESIDENT PARDO--LETTER FROM MINISTER FREYRE--TUCKER RETIRES TO HIS HOME IN PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA--OCCUPATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS OF OLD AGE--DEATH--CHARACTER AND QUALITIES--CONCLUSION 55 NAVIGATION OF THE UPPER AMAZON 81 CONCLUSION 112 Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker A SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR. JAMES HENRY ROCHELLE, the author of the following pages, and the subject of this sketch, was of French-English and Celtic, or Scotch-Irish, extraction--English through his paternal great-grandmother, who was the daughter of Hinchia Gilliam, and his wife (nee) Harrison; Scotch-Irish through his maternal ancestry. The name itself proclaims its French (Huguenot) origin. It is well known that when Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes many French Protestants, called Huguenots, fled from their homes to escape persecutions worse than death. About forty thousand took refuge in England, and in 1690 William III sent a number of them to America. A party of them made their way up the James river and made a settlement, which they called Mannakintown, or "Manacan," because the lands formerly belonged to the Manacan Indians. Feeling that they no longer had to defend themselves against oppression and cruelty, and that in a free country their religion was no stigma, the characteristics of the race came out. With order and work Manacan became a flourishing town. Among those who had made a temporary home there was John Rochelle, who came with the other Huguenot exiles, and, if Pope be right, he soon enjoyed "All the joys of sense-- _Health, peace and competence._"