It is a personal matter, of no interest except to myself, but I should like to state that the work would have been out much sooner but for a long and serious illness.
DEMETRIUS C. BOULGER
29th August 1896.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME I.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | [BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE] | 1 |
| II. | [THE CRIMEA, DANUBE, AND ARMENIA] | 16 |
| III. | [THE CHINA WAR] | 45 |
| IV. | [THE TAEPING REBELLION] | 61 |
| V. | [THE EVER-VICTORIOUS ARMY] | 78 |
| VI. | [GRAVESEND AND GALATZ] | 127 |
| VII. | [THE FIRST NILE MISSION] | 141 |