The North Pacific _A Story of the Russo-Japanese War_ _By_ Willis Boyd Allen Author of "Navy Blue" and "Cleared for Action" [Illustration] _New York_ E. P. Dutton & Company 31 West Twenty-third Street 1905 TO MY FRIEND COMMANDER WILLIAM H. H. SOUTHERLAND, U. S. N. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED [Illustration: "MAN OVERBOARD!"] COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY E. P. DUTTON & CO. Published, September, 1905 The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE. As in the preparation of _Navy Blue_ and _Cleared for Action_, the author has taken great pains to verify the main facts of the present story, so far as they are concerned with the incidents of the great struggle still in progress between the empires of the East and the West. He acknowledges most gratefully the assistance received from the office of the Secretary of the Navy, from ex-Secretary John D. Long, and from Commander W. H. H. Southerland, now commanding the U. S. Cruiser _Cleveland_, Commander Austin M. Knight, President of the Board on Naval Ordnance, and Chief Engineer Edward Farmer, retired. W. B. A. BOSTON, June, 1905. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE TRIAL OF THE "RETVIZAN" 1 II. MAN OVERBOARD! 16 III. SEALED ORDERS 29 IV. UNCLE SAM'S PACKING 43 V. OTO'S STRANGE VISIT 53 VI. A SCRAP IN MALTA 67 VII. O-HANA-SAN'S PARTY 84 VIII. A BATCH OF LETTERS 93 IX. AT THE CZAR'S COMMAND 102 X. THE FIRST BLOW 114 XI. IN THE MIKADO'S CAPITAL 125 XII. BETWEEN TWO FIRES 137 XIII. WYNNIE MAKES A BLUNDER 146 XIV. THE ATTACK OF THE "OCTOPUS" 156 XV. UNDER THE RED CROSS 165 XVI. THE LAST TRAIN FROM PORT ARTHUR 175 XVII. DICK SCUPP'S ADVENTURE 184 XVIII. OSHIMA GOES A-FISHING 202 XIX. AMONG THE CLOUDS 218 XX. THE DOGGER BANK AFFAIR 235 XXI. THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR 248 XXII. ON BOARD THE "KUSHIRO" 260 XXIII. TRAPPED IN MANCHURIA 274 XXIV. THE LITTLE FATHER 286 XXV. LARKIN RETIRES FROM BUSINESS 297 XXVI. "THE DESTINY OF AN EMPIRE" 308 XXVII. ORDERED HOME 319 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "MAN OVERBOARD!" _Frontispiece_ 24 "OTO CLIMBED THE RAIL LIKE A MONKEY" 64 IN STRANGE WATERS 82 PICKED UP BY THE SEARCHLIGHT 119 THE SINKING OF THE "PETROPAVLOVSK" 164 THE END OF THE TRAITOR 231 ON THE DOGGER BANK 244 THE OSAKA BABIES 253 THE NORTH PACIFIC. CHAPTER I. THE TRIAL OF THE "RETVIZAN."