ler" from the suspicion of worthlessness,
mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not
forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and
succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her
illustrious dead.

W. H. RUSSELL.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

My Birth and Parentage--Early Tastes and Travels--Marriage,
and Widowhood 1

CHAPTER II.

Struggles for Life--The Cholera in Jamaica--I leave Kingston
for the Isthmus of Panama--Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun--Life
in Panama--Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces 6

CHAPTER III.

My Reception at the Independent Hotel--A Cruces Table
d'Hote--Life in Cruces--Amusements of the Crowds--A Novel
Four-post Bed 17

CHAPTER IV.

An Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces--The Cholera--Success of the
Yellow Doctress--Fearful Scene at the Mule-owner's--The
Burying Parties--The Cholera attacks me 23

CHAPTER V.

American Sympathy--I take an Hotel in Cruces--My
Customers--Lola Montes--Miss Hayes and the Bishop--Gambling
in Cruces--Quarrels amongst the Travellers--New Granadan
Military--The Thieves of Cruces--A Narrow Escape 34

CHAPTER VI.

Migration to Gorgona--Farewell Dinners and Speeches--A
Building Speculation--Life in Gorgona--Sympathy with
American Slaves--Dr. Casey in Trouble--Floods and
Fires--Yankee Independence and Freedom 46

CHAPTER VII.

The Yellow Fever in Jamaica--My Experience of Death-bed
Scenes--I leave again for Navy Bay, and open a Store
there--I am attacked with the Gold Fever, and start for
Escribanos--Life in the Interior of the Republic of New
Granada--A Revolutionary Conspiracy on a small scale--The
Dinner Delicacies of Escribanos--Journey up the Palmilla
River--A Few Words on the Present Aspect of Affairs on the
Isthmus of Panama 59

CHAPTER VIII.

I long to join the British Army before Sebastopol--My
Wanderings about London for that purpose--How I
failed--Establishment of the Firm of "Day and Martin"--I
Embark for Turkey 73

CHAPTER IX.

Voyage to Constantinople--Malta--Gibraltar--Constantinople,
and what I thought of it--Visit to Scutari Hospital--Miss
Nighting