ugh, as
it turned out, he did not put in an appearance.

July 3rd.--General Grant arrived this morning in the corvette
"Richmond," and escorted by a Japanese man-of-war. All ships, except the
English and German, dressed in honour of the American flag, which the
corvette flew at her main. The two nationalities I have mentioned seem
to have offered a marked discourtesy to the general, the German
especially so, for just as the "Richmond" was about to anchor the "Prinz
Adalbert" broke the German royal standard at her royal mast head, which,
as it were, blew the charges out of guns already loaded for the
American. The "Adalbert" has Prince Heinrich, the second son of our
Princess Royal, on board as a midshipman; hence the standard.

It would appear that the slight passed on Jonathan did not go entirely
unnoticed by him, for in the evening, at sunset, when, as is customary
with that nation, her band played her colours down and then the national
anthems, it was noticed that the English and German tunes were
studiously omitted.

But the "Richmond" had taken up a bad billet to anchor in, and to find a
more secure one she steamed out to the entrance of the harbour and made
a wide sweep before returning. Some of our jocular shipmates had quite a
different view of this proceeding, for, if we are to believe them, the
American went out to take the turn out of her flags, or to allow her
ship's company to bathe, the waters of the harbour being too shallow for
the latter purpose!

Unwillingly my pen has once again to trace the lines which are to record
the death of another of our poor fellows, Frederick Smyth, a stoker.
Returning from leave in one of the open, dangerous, shallow boats of the
place, and perhaps slightly the worse for liquor, the unfortunate man
fell overboard, his body not being recovered until some days after the
sad event.

July 22nd.--Up anchor once more! Onward is our motto, nor are we
particularly sorry to be on the move, for I think everybody is surfeited
with Yokohama, and perhaps the fact that everybody's money is all gone,
has something to do with our eagerness to be off. So, boys, "We'll go to
sea for more," as the old tars did. Just as the anchor was a-trip two
royal personages came on board, the Princes Arisugawa--father and son;
the father being the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army; the son a
"midshipmite" in the Imperial navy. They were attended by their suite
and Sir Harry Parkes, the British