A Sailor-Boy's Log-Book from Portsmouth to the Peiho by Walter White

A few Words to Boys who want to go to Sea -- Characteristics -- Talk about Books -- Swallowing a Johnson -- Sneaking from Church -- Seamen's Prayer -- Disreputable Officers -- The Servants not the Service -- Man the Ropes -- The Lieutenant's Dog -- Craft on the Creeks -- The Tax-boat -- Canoes and Capers -- Rambles in Canton -- Deities for Sale -- False Tails -- Street Gamblers -- A Sing-song -- The Temple of Five Hundred Gods -- The City Wall and Scenes beheld therefrom -- French Head-quarters -- Yeh's Park -- A threatened Flogging -- Our Chaplain.

Some of my young readers may now be ready to exclaim, Why! you are only a fresh-water sailor. There's nothing in your book about shipwrecks and terrible storms. Have patience, boys, it is not my fault that the _Highflyer_ was kept for three years in fresh-water idleness; and perhaps if we had been wrecked you would not have had this book to read. I have told you how we visited some wrecks, and of an escape that we had; and of the hurricane of battle, which was a great deal more terrible than the hurricane we fell in with on our voyage home, of which you will have notice by-and-by.