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    Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
    Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
    Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
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    Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life

    By Arthur E. Knights

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life - Arthur E. Knights

      Project Gutenberg's Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life, by Arthur E. Knights

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      Title: Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life

      Author: Arthur E. Knights

      Posting Date: August 24, 2009 [EBook #4673]

      Release Date: November, 2003

      First Posted: February 26, 2002

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES IN A SAILOR'S LIFE ***

      Produced by David Schwan. HTML version by Al Haines.

      Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life

      By

      Captain Arthur E. Knights

      Introduction.

      In 1898 I was in Hongkong on a business affair which gave me much leisure, when Murray Bain, editor of the China Mail, whom I had long known, asked why I did not send him a letter occasionally. This led to my venturing to give him Some Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life.

      These Notes, I considered, could only be of interest locally. But some of my friends have urged me to overcome my diffidence and put them in pamphlet form, which I now do for distribution among my friends, trusting that they will treat leniently the literary efforts of one who is a sailor and not a cleric.

      A.E.K.

      Contents.

      A Quick Passage

      A Record Long Passage

      A Voyage of Misfortune

      Beginning of the German Navy

      An Incident in Hongkong Harbour

      A Singular Meeting

      A Little Railway Experience

      A Good Record in Life-Saving

      Presentation of a Telescope by the British Government

      The Ship Bombay

      Is There a Fatality Attaching to Men or Inanimate Things?

      Chinese Politeness

      A Brazilian Slaver

      Mary Ann Gander

      Hard Times

      Memory For Voices

      An Incident of the Great Taiping Rebellion

      Conclusion

      A Quick Passage.

      To the editor of the China Mail.

      Dear Sir:—I have just read with much pleasure the report of the quick passage made by the sailing-ship Muskoka from Cardiff to this port in ninety-two days. This is really a good trip and the captain and his officers may be complimented on having done so well, for, as you know, the ship is of large tonnage and the complement of men is small. I congratulate the captain and his officers, and wish they may be as successful in all their future voyages.

      Mr. Editor, no doubt you remember the ship Northfleet. I was second officer of her, as you know, in the year 1857. In the spring of that year, we loaded government stores, guns, mortars, and general war materials, with two companies of Royal Artillery, for the war at Canton, in which the French and the British were allies. We sailed from Woolwich on the river Thames, and stopped at Gravesend twelve hours, then made our final start for Hongkong, in which port we anchored in the wonderfully short time of eighty-eight days from Woolwich, which is at least three days' sail farther than Cardiff.

      On the following voyage we did the same in eighty-eight days and a half. These two were record voyages made in the glorious days of teaclippers.

      A. E. Knights.

      Hong Kong, June, 1898.

      A Record Long Passage.

      First Cotton From China to America.

      During the palmy days after the opening of the River Yangtse—when freights were taels 22 per ton from Hankow to Shanghai, a distance of six hundred miles—I was in command of the Neimen, an auxiliary ship-rigged vessel, engaged in this trade until near the end of 1863, and saw some of the exciting times of the Taiping Rebellion in that part of China. By the end of 1862 the steamers Huquang and Firecracker had come from New York round the Cape of Good Hope, and later the Chekiang, Kiu-kiang, and other paddle steamers were put on the river, and the freights were reduced to taels 4 1/2 per ton.

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