Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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--...

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 FLIE...

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, BAKTCHIS...

I remained at Cruces until the rainy months came to an end, and the river grew too shallow to be navigable by the boats higher up than Gorgona; and then we all made preparations...

When it became known that their "yellow doctress" had the cholera, I must do the people of Cruces the justice to say that they gave her plenty of sympathy, and would have shown...

I shall proceed in this chapter to make the reader acquainted with some of the customers of the British Hotel, who came there for its creature comforts as well as its hostess's...

I do not think I have ever known what it is to despair, or even to despond (if such were my inclination, I have had some opportunities recently), and it was not long before I be...

Summer was fairly advanced before the British Hotel was anything like finished; indeed, it never was completed, and when we left the Hill, a year later, it still wanted shutters...

ALARMS 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,...

I had one other great grief to master--the loss of my mother, and then I was left alone to battle with the world as best I might. The struggles which it cost me to succeed in li...

Well, the great work was accomplished--Sebastopol was taken. The Russians had retired sullenly to their stronghold on the north side of the harbour, from which, every now and th...

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"...

I hope the reader will give me credit for the assertion that I am about to make, viz., that I enter upon the particulars of this chapter with great reluctance; but I cannot omit...

I am not going to risk the danger of wearying the reader with a long account of the voyage to Constantinople, already worn threadbare by book-making tourists. It was a very inte...

During my stay in Constantinople, I was accustomed to employ, as a guide, a young Greek Jew, whose name it is no use my attempting to spell, but whom I called by the one common...

Before I left Jamaica for Navy Bay, as narrated in the last chapter, war had been declared against Russia, and we were all anxiously expecting news of a descent upon the Crimea....

In the last three chapters, I have attempted, without any consideration of dates, to give my readers some idea of my life in the Crimea. I am fully aware that I have jumbled up...

The sympathising reader, who very likely has been laughing heartily at my late troubles, can fancy that I was looking forward with no little pleasurable anticipation to reaching...

I was born in the town of Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, some time in the present century. As a female, and a widow, I may be well excused giving the precise date of this i...

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--...

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, Baktchis...

Alarms 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,...

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"...

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 Flie...

My First Glimpse of War--Advance of my Turkish Friends on Kamara--Visitors to the Camp--Miss Nightingale--Mons. Soyer and the Cholera--Summer in the Crimea--"Thirsty Souls"--Dea...