THE CHINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1804—95. 616 of tlae midship torpedo tube,and once through tlae bow. These hits were from 3-pounder and 6-pounder guns. There were besides many marks ofrifle bullets,but nopenetrations. One of the shots had hit the steam-pipe in the boiler-room,and evidently scalded all the men there to death. Three bodies were in the stokehold, and another, that of an engineer with only half her little crew able to do anything. Then No. 19 ranup alongside of her and took her in tow, trying to get her out of the harbour ; but, according to the Japanese account followed by Mr.Wilson,she sank in the harbour. It seems much more likely,however, that she remained afloat, though, her tow rope having broken, the crew of No. 19 thought she WEI-HAI-WEI AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.

had sunk when she disappeared in the darkness. It is certain that next day a disabled Japanese torpedo boat waspicked up by the Chinese in the harbour. She must have been No. 9, as all the others are easy to account for. Admiral Ting'sBritish officer examinedher, and thought she was the boat that had been engaged with the flagship ; but, as we have seen, that boat got away. He thus describes the wreck of No. 9:— officer, on deck, but also scalded. On deck there was some(but not much) evidence, in the form of blood, of men having been hit. We heard afterwards, but Iknow not with what amount of truth, that the remainder of this boat's crew were frozen to death. Of the other shots, the one through the bow wrecked the forecabin. By a rather curious coincidence,the Chinese officer who was with me when Iwas examining the boat found three articles which had been lootedfrom his house at Port Arthur : a pair of dumbbells, a scroll,and a chair. The boat was scrupulously clean in the cabins,and in the wrecked forecabin was a heterogeneous " The torpedo boat which sunk us was found floating about the harbour at daylight. She had been hit six times, twice in the boiler-room, twice through tlae funnel,once through the nose