_Despatch_, the, 17, 30 breakdown of, 19, 20 cargo on, 17, 19 condemned, 28 in quarantine, 30 reaches Nassau, 20 release of, 32 seizure of, 31 start of, 19 yellow fever on board, 30 Dinner bill, a, 139 Dixie, 58 Doering, Mr. Arthur, 88, 89, 94, 96 _Don_, the, 90 Erskine, chief engineer, 42, 77, 78, 81, 82 _Eugénie_, the, 76 _Falcon_, the, 124, 128 Farragut, Admiral, 8 Fastnet, the, 35 Federal Navy, inadequacy of the, 8 _Florida_, the, 7 Fort Caswell, 111, 112 Fort Fisher, 46, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 67, 73, 99, 103, 113, 114, 116, 140, 141, 163 Fort Lafayette, 85 Fraser, Trenholm and Co., 26 Freight charges, 18 Funchal Bay, 38 Galveston, 25, 44, 111, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 157, 159, 160, 163 Galveston Bay, 157 Game-cock, a, 100 Georgia, 137 _Georgia_, the, 7 Grace Church, 57 _Great Eastern_, the, 59 Greenough or Greenhow, Mrs. Rose, 60, 128 Gulf-stream, action of the, 169 Halifax, 115 Halpin, Captain, 59, 76, 77 Hamilton, 116 Hampton Roads, 7 Harper, Captain John, 63 Harper's Ferry, 57 Havana, 25, 145, 146, 148, 149, 154, 162, 164 Heiliger, Mr., 97, 133 Hewett, Captain, afterwards Admiral, V.C., 59, 89, 91, 124, 125 Hicks Pasha, 89 Hobart Pasha, 59, 89, 90 Mrs., 87, 89 Hoke, General, 134 Holcombe, Professor, 60 Houston, 158, 159, 160 Hurst, Mr. Frank, 88, 90, 115, 148, 154, 158, 161, 165 Infernal machine, an, 129 International Exhibition, the, 9 Irishman, a resourceful, 121 James _Adger_, the, 78, 80, 84 James river, the, 135, 136 John Brown raid, the, 57 Joint Stock Companies, establishment of, 93 Lafitte, Mr. J. B., 26 Lamb, Col. William, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 67, 75, 99, 104, 118, 125, 137, 163 Mrs., 56, 57 Lawley, Hon. Francis, 59 Lee, General, 135, 137 army of, 137, 139, 163 Lincoln, President, 2, 3, 8 Liquidation, a disastrous, 164 Liverpool, 33 confederate vessel in, 17 feeling in, 3, 10 Loading, reckless, 66 Look-out man, pay of the, 48 Madeira, 36 Maffitt, Captain, 42 Magruder, General, 157 May, Mr., 126 _Merrimac_, the, 7, 8 Mexico, Gulf of, 149, 162 _Minnesota_, the, 67 Mississippi, the, 159 Mobile, 7, 8, 25 _Monitor_, the, 7 Murray-Aynsley, Admiral, 59, 79, 81, 83, 90, 92, 165 Mrs., 87, 89 Nassau, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47, 69, 80, 82, 101, 109, 114, 115, 129, 131, 133, 140, 141, 145, 146, 147, 149, 160, 162, 163, 165, 174 agencies at, 24 freight charges at, 18 life at, 86-100 yellow fever at, 96, 97 National character, 175 New Orleans, 25 New Providence, 20 New York, 30 _Night Hawk_, the, 59, 116, 117, 118, 126, 162, 164 boarded by Northerners, 120 on fire, 121, 122, 123 _Niphon_, the, 74 Norfolk Navy Yard, 5, 7 Norfolk, surrender of, 57 North Breaker shoal, the, 54, 73, 119 North, policy of the, 29 "Norther," a, 149, 150, 154