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THE SEA. 



A TI.MHER WHARF AT SAN FRANCISCO. 



CHAPTER X. 



ROUND THE WORLD ON A MAN-OF-WAR (continue T) > 



THE PACIFIC STATION. 



Across the Pacific Approach to the Golden Gate The Bay of San Francisco The City First Dinner Ashore Cheap 

 Luxury San Francisco by Night The Land of Gold, Grain, and Grapes Incidents of the Early Days Expensive 

 Papers -A Lucky Sailor Chances for English Girls The Baby at the Play A capital Port for Seamen Hospitality 

 of Californians Victoria, Vancouver Island The Naval Station at Esquimalt A Delightful Place Advice to In- 

 tending Emigrants British Columbian Indians Their fine Canoes Experiences of the Writer The Island on Fire 

 The Chinook Jargon -Indian " Pigeon-English "North to Alaska The Purchase of Russian America by the 

 United States Results Life at Si tka Grand Volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands The Great Yukon River- 

 American Trading Posts round Bering Sea. 



A COMMON course for a vessel crossing the Pacific would be from Australia or New- 

 Zealand to San Francisco,, California. The mail -steamers follow this route, touching at 

 the Fiji and Hawaiian groups of islands; and the sailor in the Royal Navy is as likely 

 to find this route the orders of his commander as any other. If the writer, in describing the 

 country he knows better than any other, be found somewhat enthusiastic and gushing, he 

 will at least give reasons for his warmth. On this subject, above all others, he writes 



