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In The Yellow Sea



HENRY FRITH




LONDON

HENRY FROWDE,

HODDER & STOUGHTON



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PREFACE

Perhaps a few words of explanation as regards this volume may be
permitted.  The following extract from a letter, from a relative who
addresses me as "Uncle Harry," will suffice at first.  His letter is
dated "Shanghai, November 1897":--


"Here are all the papers, with manuscript.  Some of the latter is
translated by a friend, and some is newspaper work.  But I daresay you
will be able to work up the matter.  Do it as you like best; but don't
give me away, please.  You will find some additional information in
Vladmir's work, and in the _Mail_, etc. etc.  But I am only sending you
my experiences and adventures.  Call them what you like.

"JULIUS."


Here then is the narrative, in which the writer does not spare himself.
He certainly has had adventures by land and sea, between China and
Japan--"'twixt Jack and <DW61>"--during the late war.  I have used his
papers and extracts in the compilation of the story; with gleanings
from _Heroic Japan_ and newspapers, which I have examined, with
history, for my own benefit, and to verify my "nephew's" account of his
adventures during that stirring time in the Far East.

HENRY FRITH.

UPPER TOOTING, S.W.,
  _March_ 1898.




CONTENTS

  CHAP.

     I. A DISAPPOINTMENT--I ESCAPE MY FORETOLD DESTINY--THE
            _OSPREY_--THE STORM
    II. A TERRIBLE POSITION--A PROPHETIC VISION--SINKING!
   III. THE STEAMER _FENG SHUI_, FOR CHINA--CAPTAIN
            GOLDHEUGH--DISCIPLINE AND A ROPE'S END!
    IV. BOUND TO CHINA--THE VOYAGE AND MY EXPERIENCES--_CASH_ IN HONG
            KONG--RUMOUR OF WAR
     V. A SECRET MISSION--KIDNAPPED!--THE SCHOONER--THE ASSASSIN
    VI. SHANGHAI: ITS IMPRESSIONS--MURDER!--A RESCUE, AND A HAPPY
            ENCOUNTER
   VII. THE _FENG SHUI_ CHANGES HER NAME FOR LUCK--THE TRANSPORT--THE
            JAPANESE MAN-OF-WAR--SURRENDER OF THE _KOWSHING_
  VIII. THE END OF THE _FENG SHUI_--CAPTURED AND PRESSED!
    IX. THE BATTLE IN THE YELLOW SEA--THE EVIL GENIUS OF "FENG SHUI"
     X. A TRANSFORMATION SCENE--I BECOME A "CHINESE"
    XI. CHINESE LANGUAGE--"HELD UP"--BETRAYED!
   XII. ABANDONED!--I FALL AMONG THIEVES, BUT FIND SOME "GOOD
          SAMARITANS"
  XIII. KINCHOW--ARRESTED BY CHINESE SOLDIERS--CAPTURE OF THE CITY
   XIV. THE SACK OF KINCHOW--RELEASED--"CASTLED"--A CHECK
    XV. AN ADVENTURE ON THE HILLS--THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF
          DEATH--TALIEN-W