![]() New Year in the Crimea – Good News – The Armistice – Barter with the Russians – War and Peace – Tidings of Peace – Excursions into the Interior of the Crimea – To Simpheropol, Baktchiserai, etc. Holiday in the Camp – A New Enemy, Time – Amusements in the Crimea – My share in them – Dinner at Spring Hill – At the Races – Christmas Day in the British Hotel – New Year's Day in the Hospital 177 Inside Sebastopol – The Last Bombardment of Sebastopol – On Cathcart's Hill – Rumours in the Camp – The Attack on the Malakhoff – The Old Work again – A Sunday Excursion – Inside "Our" City – I am taken for a Spy, and thereat lose my Temper – I Visit the Redan, etc. Under Fire on the fatal 18th of June – Before the Redan – At the Cemetery – The Armistice – Deaths at Head-quarters – Depression in the Camp – Plenty in the Crimea – The Plague of Flies – Under Fire at the Battle of the Tchernaya – Work on the Field – My Patients 154 Soyer and the Cholera – Summer in the Crimea – "Thirsty Souls" – Death busy in the Trenches 146 My First Glimpse of War – Advance of my Turkish Friends on Kamara – Visitors to the Camp – Miss Nightingale – Mons. The British Hotel – Domestic Difficulties – Our Enemies – The Russian Rats – Adventures in Search of a Cat – Light-fingered Zouaves – Crimean Thieves – Powdering a Horse 113 "Jew Johnny" – I Start for Balaclava – Kindness of my old Friends – On Board the "Medora" – My Life on Shore – The Sick Wharf 92Īlarms in the Harbour – getting the Stores on Shore – Robbery by Night and Day – The Predatory Tribes of Balaclava – Activity of the Authorities – We obtain leave to erect our Store, and fix upon Spring Hill as its Site – The Turkish Pacha – The Flood – Our Carpenters – I become an English Schoolmistress Abroad 102 Voyage to Constantinople – Malta – Gibraltar – Constantinople, and what I thought of it – Visit to Scutari Hospital – Miss Nightingale 82 I long to join the British Army before Sebastopol – My Wanderings about London for that purpose – How I failed – Establishment of the Firm of "Day and Martin" – I Embark for Turkey 73 The Yellow Fever in Jamaica – My Experience of Death-bed Scenes – I leave again for Navy Bay, and open a Store there – I am attacked with the Gold Fever, and start for Escribanos – Life in the Interior of the Republic of New Granada – A Revolutionary Conspiracy on a small scale – The Dinner Delicacies of Escribanos – Journey up the Palmilla River – A Few Words on the Present Aspect of Affairs on the Isthmus of Panama 59 Casey in Trouble – Floods and Fires – Yankee Independence and Freedom 46 Migration to Gorgona – Farewell Dinners and Speeches – A Building Speculation – Life in Gorgona – Sympathy with American Slaves – Dr. My Reception at the Independent Hotel – A Cruces Table d'Hôte – Life in Cruces – Amusements of the Crowds – A Novel Four-post Bed 17Īn Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces – The Cholera – Success of the Yellow Doctress – Fearful Scene at the Mule-owner's – The Burying Parties – The Cholera attacks me 23Īmerican Sympathy – I take an Hotel in Cruces – My Customers – Lola Montes – Miss Hayes and the Bishop – Gambling in Cruces – Quarrels amongst the Travellers – New Granadan Military – The Thieves of Cruces – A Narrow Escape 34 Struggles for Life – The Cholera in Jamaica – I leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama – Chagres, Navy Day, and Gatun – Life in Panama – Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces 6 My Birth and Parentage – Early Tastes and Travels – Marriage, and Widowhood 1 She is the first who has redeemed the name of "sutler" from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead. I have witnessed her devotion and her courage I have already borne testimony to her services to all who needed them. She is no Anna Comnena, who presents us with a verbose history, but a plain truth-speaking woman, who has lived an adventurous life amid scenes which have never yet found a historian among the actors on the stage where they passed. If singleness of heart, true charity, and Christian works if trials and sufferings, dangers and perils, encountered boldly by a helpless woman on her errand of mercy in the camp and in the battle-field, can excite sympathy or move curiosity, Mary Seacole will have many friends and many readers. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in literature. I SHOULD have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. THOMAS HARRILD, PRINTER, 11, SALISBURY SQUARE, London: James Blackwood Paternoster Row, 1857. Seacole in Many Landsīy Mary Seacole (1805-1881). ![]()
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