Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States
CHAPTER LI.
The Alabama crosses the Bay of Bengal--The Pilgrims to Mecca, and how they received her Boarding-Officer--The Burning of the Emma Jane--The Town of Anjenga, and the Hindoos--The Great Deserts of Central Asia, and the Cotton Crop of Hindoston--The Alabama crosses the Arabian Sea--The Animalculae of the Sea--The Comoro Islands--Johanna, and its Arab Population--The Alabama passes through the Mozambique Channel--Arrives at the Cape of Good Hope 722