FROM SAIL TO STEAM

RECOLLECTIONS OF NAVAL LIFE

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Published October, 1907.

CHAP.		PAGE
	Preface	v
	Introducing Myself	ix
I.	Naval Conditions Before the War of Secession—the Officers and Seamen	3
II.	Naval Conditions Before the War of Secession—the Vessels	25
III.	The Naval Academy in its Relation to the Navy at Large	45
IV.	The Naval Academy in its Interior Workings—Practice Cruises	70
V.	My First Cruise after Graduation—Nautical Characters	103
VI.	My First Cruise After Graduation—Nautical Scenes and Scenery—the Approach of Disunion	127
VII.	Incidents of War and Blockade Service	156
VIII.	Incidents of War and Blockade Service—Continued	179
IX.	A Roundabout Road to China	196
X.	China and Japan	229
XI.	The Turning of a Long Lane—Historical, Naval, and Personal	266
XII.	Experiences of Authorship	302

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