ale 82

CHAPTER X.

"Jew Johnny"--I Start for Balaclava--Kindness of my old
Friends--On Board the "Medora"--My Life on Shore--The
Sick Wharf 92

CHAPTER XI.

Alarms in the Harbour--Getting the Stores on Shore--Robbery
by Night and Day--The Predatory Tribes of Balaclava--Activity
of the Authorities--We obtain leave to erect our
Store, and fix upon Spring Hill as its Site--The Turkish
Pacha--The Flood--Our Carpenters--I become an English
Schoolmistress Abroad 102

CHAPTER XII.

The British Hotel--Domestic Difficulties--Our Enemies--The
Russian Rats--Adventures in Search of a Cat--Light-fingered
Zouaves--Crimean Thieves--Powdering a Horse 113

CHAPTER XIII.

My Work in the Crimea 124

CHAPTER XIV.

My Customers at the British Hotel 135

CHAPTER XV.

My First Glimpse of War--Advance of my Turkish Friends on
Kamara--Visitors to the Camp--Miss Nightingale--Mons.
Soyer and the Cholera--Summer in the Crimea--"Thirsty
Souls"--Death busy in the Trenches 146

CHAPTER XVI.

Under Fire on the fatal 18th of June--Before the
Redan--At the Cemetery--The Armistice--Deaths at
Head-quarters--Depression in the Camp--Plenty in the
Crimea--The Plague of Flies--Under Fire at the Battle
of the Tchernaya--Work on the Field--My Patients 154

CHAPTER XVII.

Inside Sebastopol--The Last Bombardment of Sebastopol--On
Cathcart's Hill--Rumours in the Camp--The Attack on the
Malakhoff--The Old Work again--A Sunday Excursion--Inside
"Our" City--I am taken for a Spy, and thereat lose my
Temper--I Visit the Redan, etc.--My Share of the Plunder 167

CHAPTER XVIII.

Holiday in the Camp--A New Enemy, Time--Amusements in
the Crimea--My share in them--Dinner at Spring Hill--At
the Races--Christmas Day in the British Hotel--New
Year's Day in the Hospital 177

CHAPTER XIX.

New Year in the Crimea--Good News--The Armistice--Barter
with the Russians--War and Peace--Tidings of Peace--Excursions
into the Interior of the Crimea--To Simpheropol,
Baktchiserai, etc.--The Troops begin to leave the
Crimea--Friends' Farewells--The Cemeteries--We remove
from Spring Hill to