its opportunities for
sight-seeing, but for study and receiving instruction. As earnest in
carrying out his idea in the latter as well as the former, he has made a
lecture-room of the deck of the vessel.

The physical geography of the regions passed through is considered, as
well as the history; and as the ship is in the vicinity of the kingdoms
of the ancient world, the professor has something to say to his audience
about Assyria, Babylonia, Arabia, the Caliphate, and gives an epitome of
the life of Mohammed, and the rise and progress of Islamism.

In the last chapters the story, which has been extended through several
volumes, appears to be brought to a conclusion in a manner that may
astonish the reader. However that may be, the termination points to an
enlarged field of operations in the future for the party as they visit
the vast empires where blow the Asiatic breezes.

WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

DORCHESTER, MASS., September 30, 1894.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. PAGE
PREPARING TO OUTWIT THE ENEMY 1

CHAPTER II.
HARMONY DISTURBED, BUT HAPPILY RESTORED 11

CHAPTER III.
A MOMENTOUS SECRET REVEALED 21

CHAPTER IV.
THE POSITION OF THE THREE STEAMERS 31

CHAPTER V.
LOUIS BELGRAVE HAS SOME MISGIVINGS 41

CHAPTER VI.
A STORMY NIGHT RUN TO CAPE ARNAUTI 51

CHAPTER VII.
THE BELLIGERENT COMMANDER OF THE MAUD 61

CHAPTER VIII.
THE LECTURE ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS 71

CHAPTER IX.
A MOST IMPUDENT PROPOSITION 81

CHAPTER X.
"JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER" 91

CHAPTER XI.
AN EXPEDIENT TO ESCAPE THE ENEMY 101

CHAPTER XII.
THE BATTLE FOUGHT, THE VICTORY WON 111

CHAPTER XIII.
THE CATASTROPHE TO THE FATIME 121

CHAPTER XIV.
THE CONSULTATION IN THE PILOT-HOUSE 131

CHAPTER XV.
THE ARRIVAL OF THE GUARDIAN-MOTHER 141

CHAPTER XVI.
THE REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF KHRYSOKO 151

CHAPTER XVII.
THE INSIDE HISTORY OF THE VOYAGE 161

CHAPTER XVIII.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SUEZ CANAL 171

CHAPTER XIX.
THE JOURNEY OF THE CHILDR