PREFACE.
Reading edition
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
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I.—A ROUGH START IN LIFE
CHAPTER II.—PERILS BY SEA AND LAND
CHAPTER III.—A TRAGICAL AFFAIR
CHAPTER IV.—RIO DE JANEIRO
CHAPTER V.—SLAVER HUNTING
CHAPTER VI.—SLAVER HUNTING (continued)
CHAPTER VII.—LOVE AND MURDER
CHAPTER VIII.—THE QUEEN'S YACHT
CHAPTER IX.—IN THE BALTIC
CHAPTER X.—BLOCKADE-RUNNING
CHAPTER XI.—EXCITING ADVENTURES
CHAPTER XII.—A VISIT TO CHARLESTON
CHAPTER XIII.—NEVER CAUGHT!
CHAPTER XIV.—LAST DAYS ON THE 'D——N'
CHAPTER XV.—RICHMOND DURING THE SIEGE
CHAPTER XVI.—THE LAND BLOCKADE
CHAPTER XVII.—I ENTER THE TURKISH NAVY
CHAPTER XVIII.—THE WAR WITH RUSSIA
CHAPTER XIX.—THE TURKISH FLEET DURING THE WAR
CHAPTER XX.—SPORT IN TURKEY
CHAPTER XXI.—SPORT AND SOCIETY
EXTRACT FROM THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH,'