. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. ery fatal to the natives. More than half the popu-lation of the island had vanished already. I heard wonder-ful stories of a great volcano to be seen in operation in theinterior, but had not time enough to visit it. I have sinceread accounts of eruptions on a grand scale on Mauna Loaand Kilauea, and regret the more my inability to see themat the tim
. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. ery fatal to the natives. More than half the popu-lation of the island had vanished already. I heard wonder-ful stories of a great volcano to be seen in operation in theinterior, but had not time enough to visit it. I have sinceread accounts of eruptions on a grand scale on Mauna Loaand Kilauea, and regret the more my inability to see themat the time of my visit to the islands. From Honolulu we steered for China, and as the souwestmonsoon was in season and blowing up the China Sea, we, inapproaching the Asiatic coast and China,were obliged to makea land fall somewhere to the southard of the PhilippineIslands, and thence hauling to the northard and westard geta weather-gauge in the China Sea, and making a leadingwind out of the souwest monsoon, but making a detour ofnearly two thousand two hundred miles out of our came to Hong Kong roads after a passage of sixty-threedays from San Francisco, with light but favorable winds. At Hong Kong, as is usual and necessary I suppose, we. HONG KONG. 377 remained nearly a week waiting for a permit for a pilot anda chop to proceed up to Whampoa. We beguiled our timewatch and watch in going ashore and doing the one occasion, when ashore, I was edified by the sightof seeing ten Chinamen being flogged by right and left-handed lascars with wiry rattans, giving the blows alternately,cutting into the flesh at every stroke in a horrible manner,
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