Excerpt from The Two Americas; An Account of Sport and Travel: With Notes on Men and Manners in North, and South America
On Sunday, the 4th of October, 1874, I took up my quarters on board H.M.S. Rocket, a double-screw composite gun-vessel, 464 tons, and 120 horse-power, bound for the Pacific station, where she was to relieve H.M.S. Boxer, then stationed at Esquimault, a small harbour containing a dockyard, in Vancouver Island.
Lieut. H., who commanded her, had been with me in Beauchamp Seymour's "Flying Squadron," where he was first lieutenant of the Volage, after F. got promoted; and very kindly offering me half his accommodation - a cabin opposite his own - prevailed on me to sail with him for the cruise.
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