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Title: Sketches From My Life
By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
Author: Hobart Pasha
Release Date: July 15, 2005 [EBook #16296]
Language: English
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SKETCHES
FROM
MY LIFE
BY THE LATE
ADMIRAL HOBART PASHA
_WITH A PORTRAIT_
THIRD EDITION
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1887
_All rights reserved_
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
PREFACE.
These pages were the last ever written by the brave and true-hearted
sailor of whose life they are a simple record.
A few months before his death, some of his friends made the fortunate
suggestion that he should put on paper a detailed account of his
sporting adventures, and this idea gradually developed itself until the
work took the present form of an autobiography, written roughly, it is
true, and put together without much method, part of it being dictated at
the Riviera during the last days of the author's fatal illness. Such as
it is, however, we are convinced that the many devoted friends of
Hobart Pasha who now lament his death will be glad to recall in these
'Sketches' the adventures and sports which some of them shared with him,
and the genial disposition and manly qualities which endeared him to
them all.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A ROUGH START IN LIFE 1
II. PERILS BY SEA AND LAND 14
III. A TRAGICAL AFFAIR 27
IV. RIO DE JANEIRO 36
V. SLAVER HUNTING 43
VI. SLAVER HUNTING (_continued_) 53
VII. LOVE AND MURDER 62
VIII. THE QUEEN'S YACHT 71
IX. IN THE BALTIC 78
X. BLOCKADE-RUNNING 87
XI. EXCITING ADVENTURES 103
XII. A VISIT TO CHARLESTON 120
XIII. NEVER CAUGHT! 133
XIV. LAST DAYS ON THE 'D----N' 147
CHAPTER PAGE
XV. RICHMOND DURING THE SIEGE 159
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