By the same Author. STRAY LEAVES from an ARCTIC JOURNAL. By Lieutenant SHERARD OSBORN, R.N., Commanding H.M.S.V. Pioneer in the late Expedition, 1850-51, under Capt. Austin, to rescue Sir John Franklin. With Map and 4 coloured Plates.. "Those who with the latest map in hand like to follow the course of the navigators, may learn in what directions a search has been made, and where in all human probability Franklin's expedition is not. But these things are more readily ascertainable from Lieutenant Osborn's book and its companion map. It also brings the daily life of the expedition before us, not only in its details but its Post 8vo. 12s. feelings. The impressions produced by the scenery-the hopes and fears as the ice, that is as the weather, fluctuated-the rivalry of the different squadrons, for four or five expeditions were navigating those seas-the amusements to vary the monotony of the winter-the cordiality, and the enthusiastic feelings that animated the men for the objects of the expedition-are all vividly brought out." Spectator. THE DISCOVERY of the NORTH-WEST PASSAGE by H.M.S. Investigator, Captain R. M'CLURE, 1850-54. Edited by Captain SHERARD OSBORN, C.B., from the Logs and Journals of Capt. M'Clure. With Chart, and coloured Illustrations from Sketches by Commander S. G. Cresswell, R.N. Second Edition, thoroughly revised; with considerable Additions to the Chapter on the Hybernation of Animals in the Arctic Regions, a Geological Paper by Sir Roderick I. Murchison, and a Portrait of Captain M'Clure. ...... 8vo. 15s. "The history of this famous discovery! is well entitled to a special work; and we feel certain that among the numerous volumes descriptive of Arctic enterprise, which have swelled to the proportions of a library, none will rank higher, or be more generally read, than that now published.' Athenæum. "This is one of the books which form part of the nation's title-deeds to greatness. It commemorates the achievement of one of the grandest exploits on record. Sir Robert M'Clure and his crew were the first men who ever passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic." Saturday Review. London: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, and ROBERTS. UNIV. OF QUEDA H. CHAPTER I. India Twenty Years ago.-Singapore in the Month of May. Chinese Junks ready for Sea. Prahus. Boats. Miniature Junks. — Origin of the Form of Junks. Commercial Singapore. - On the 29th of May, 1838, the "Hyacinth," one of Her Majesty's 18-gun ship-rigged corvettes, made her number to the signal-staff over the Governor's residence at Singapore, and, aided by the light airs peculiar to that latitude, flapped, rather than sailed, into the anchorage. Twenty years have made vast improvements in that great emporium of the Eastern Archipelago; B |