rs that the lobes of those organs touched her shoulders.

November 1st.--At 9 a.m. the long-expected "Audacious" hove in sight,
flying the flag of Admiral Hillyar at the main. How we already envy her
fortunate crew!

November 8th, off to Penang. The pipe "up anchor" this morning was
hailed with delight. Anything to change the dull monotony of the last
few weeks. We started with an overcast and rainy sky, and by the next
morning had reached Malacca, a small British settlement, essentially
Malay, more a village than a town. It lies very low and close to the
water's edge, the houses of the natives being all constructed on piles
driven into the mud, and embowered in a dense framework of cocoa palms.
In the distance rises the high cone-shaped peak of Ophir, now a lovely
sight because of the misty covering which envelopes it to near its
summit. Bananas are very plentiful; so, too, are monkeys and the canes
so highly prized at home.

November 9th.--To-day, our own admiral came in, in the mail steamer, and
glad are we that he has arrived, that we may be again on the move, for
you know there are happier states and more comfortable, than a forcible
detention in a red-hot ironclad.

Sunday, November 13th.--I see in my "journal" that I have noted what,
under ordinary conditions, would call for no remark, that a lady was
present at our service to-day. None but those who are banished the
softening and refreshing influence of woman's society can form any idea
how pleasant it is to see an English woman in this land of yellow
bellies and sable skins.

November 15th.--Now we are really the Flag Ship, for this morning the
"Audacious," with a parting cheer, bade us good-bye, and started for
home.

November 21st.--By early morning we discovered the island of Din Ding
right a-head.

Nothing can exceed the wonderful beauty of this tiny island. From the
sea it has so much the appearance of the bosky slopes of Mount Edgcumbe,
that, were it not for the characteristic palm, one could well imagine
one's self looking at a bit of our own dear England.

A stretch of sandy beach, white and glistening as silver, with the
graceful waving plumes of the cocoanut tree close to the water's edge,
and behind, the pile dwellings of the Malays, nestling at the foot of a
wooded eminence, capped to its very summit with a dense and varied
growth; such is the picture viewed from the anchorage. Din Ding, or Ding
Ding--as sailors, by a system of alliteratio