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Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.

NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BA . LAKLAVA .

( Continued from page 246 . ) September 2 nd . — Was called ~ at an unheard-of hour this morning , in order to reach the camp in time for prayers . We assembled in pretty good order to an early breakfast . The ladies , as usual , giving us the go-by , in all matters of enterprise .

The quay , as we landed , showed , to our inexperienced eye , a fearful confusion—dromedaries , ammunition-carts , ambulances , bearing sick and wounded from the trenches ; store-sheds , rows of barrels and heavy-looking sacks ; commissaries , military fatigue-parties , men of the naval brigade , tourists in wide-awake hats ; staff officers and araba drivers . But I am told the order now existing is perfect and irreproachable ; nevertheless , we were glad to pick our way clear of it .

The town appears to be a terribly tattered concern , with a couple of tumble-down churches . Having procured some mules , and two arabas , which are simply baskets on wheels , without springs , and drawn by a brace of bullocks , we commenced our long-anticipated journey to " The camp before Sebastopol . " The way led up a beautiful ravine , behind the town ; here we beheld mountains of rock , rent by some volcanic convulsion , and in their fissures are seen growing innumerable rare and beautiful trees , in all their luxuriant and variously-coloured

foliage . The ladies were laughing gaily as they reclined on some straw at the bottom of their basket , jolting unmercifully over the rough ascent . The little German , his keen grey optics hidden under a pair of blue goggles , bestrode a wretched mule ; Sir Arthur and I shared another araba ; while the colonel flourished about on a troophorse , lent him by some staff friend ; and Charles Fitzurse had a mule , of which he could make nothing : such was our cavalcade .

We soon mounted to higher ground , and were able to glance at the country . It presented an undulating appearance , rising into bold hills behind us ; but in front , broken into dells and ravines , clothed with a kind of scrub , and otherwise not unlike the face of a highland landscape . Our progress was slow , and , to our eager fancy , unnecessarily tedious , when we found ourselves more than an hour and a half doing six miles . At last we reached the outposts , and there remained , while the colonel rode on to obtain the desired order of admission . Nothing more barren and dreary than the country in which the camp is pitched can be imagined . Though really a high table-land , it is so extensive that it gives the idea of an undulating plain . The

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TOADYISM. Article 1
MASONIC SONGS.-NO. 6. Article 5
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 6
THREE STEPS IN FREEMASONRY. Article 12
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH. Article 14
THE SALT-MINES OF HALEIK Article 19
WHAT IS FREE! Article 22
AN OLD MASONIC LEGEND. Article 23
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 24
INDIAN LODGES. Article 25
THE LATE PROCEEDINGS IN GRAND LODGE. Article 26
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 28
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 29
METROPOLITAN. Article 29
PROVINCIAL. Article 37
ROYAL ARCH. Article 54
THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 56
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 56
SCOTLAND. Article 58
ROYAL ARCH. Article 59
IRELAND. Article 61
INDIA. Article 61
CHINA. Article 62
AMERICA. Article 63
SWITZERLAND. Article 64
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR APRIL. Article 65
Obituary Article 67
NOTICE. Article 68
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 68
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Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.

NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BA . LAKLAVA .

( Continued from page 246 . ) September 2 nd . — Was called ~ at an unheard-of hour this morning , in order to reach the camp in time for prayers . We assembled in pretty good order to an early breakfast . The ladies , as usual , giving us the go-by , in all matters of enterprise .

The quay , as we landed , showed , to our inexperienced eye , a fearful confusion—dromedaries , ammunition-carts , ambulances , bearing sick and wounded from the trenches ; store-sheds , rows of barrels and heavy-looking sacks ; commissaries , military fatigue-parties , men of the naval brigade , tourists in wide-awake hats ; staff officers and araba drivers . But I am told the order now existing is perfect and irreproachable ; nevertheless , we were glad to pick our way clear of it .

The town appears to be a terribly tattered concern , with a couple of tumble-down churches . Having procured some mules , and two arabas , which are simply baskets on wheels , without springs , and drawn by a brace of bullocks , we commenced our long-anticipated journey to " The camp before Sebastopol . " The way led up a beautiful ravine , behind the town ; here we beheld mountains of rock , rent by some volcanic convulsion , and in their fissures are seen growing innumerable rare and beautiful trees , in all their luxuriant and variously-coloured

foliage . The ladies were laughing gaily as they reclined on some straw at the bottom of their basket , jolting unmercifully over the rough ascent . The little German , his keen grey optics hidden under a pair of blue goggles , bestrode a wretched mule ; Sir Arthur and I shared another araba ; while the colonel flourished about on a troophorse , lent him by some staff friend ; and Charles Fitzurse had a mule , of which he could make nothing : such was our cavalcade .

We soon mounted to higher ground , and were able to glance at the country . It presented an undulating appearance , rising into bold hills behind us ; but in front , broken into dells and ravines , clothed with a kind of scrub , and otherwise not unlike the face of a highland landscape . Our progress was slow , and , to our eager fancy , unnecessarily tedious , when we found ourselves more than an hour and a half doing six miles . At last we reached the outposts , and there remained , while the colonel rode on to obtain the desired order of admission . Nothing more barren and dreary than the country in which the camp is pitched can be imagined . Though really a high table-land , it is so extensive that it gives the idea of an undulating plain . The

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