[Pg vii] [Pg vii] CONTENTS A Matter of Business Gilbert Learns Something Detained by the Russians Troublesome Days in Port Arthur The First Naval Battle An Escape and a Fight Among Japanese Friends At the German Hotel Gilbert Leaves Port Arthur At Sea in a Snow Squall An Order to Lay-to In the Land of the Morning Calm Old Comrades in Arms On Board the “Columbia” Joining the Japanese Army On time Way to Ping-Yang Surprised by the Cossacks