An Hotel at Shanghai. — Arrival of the Novara. 415 



which, despite our exhaustion, utterly precluded sleep. With 

 unspeakable longing we watched for the dawn of the morn- 

 ing, and, thanks to the hosj^itality of our new friends, we were 

 in the course of the day fortunate enough to be released from 

 this hideous abode. 



The Novara did not remain long behind us. A few days 

 later, on 29th July, she sailed gallantly up in an hour and a 

 half, from Wusung, on the top of a spring-tide, and with 

 favourable breezes, and on reaching Shanghai was welcomed 

 with pride and delight by the German residents here — the 

 first ship-of-war of a first-class German power that had ever 

 been seen in the river Wusung. 



