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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kennedy, Alexander (a)

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​KENNEDY. (Commander, 1809. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
Alexander Kennedy (a) entered the Navy, 24 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Magnanime frigate, Capt. Hon. Mich. De Courcy, with whom he served on the Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman of the Canada 74, until April, 1800. Removing then to the Thames 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he witnessed Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 July, 1801, in the Gut of Gibraltar, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the cutting out of a gun-boat and convoy from the Bay of Estapona. The Thames being paid off in Jan. 1803, he next, in the following April, joined the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, under whom he assisted at the capture of Le Courier de Terre Neuve privateer of 16 guns and 60 men, and L’Atalante, a beautiful corvette of 22 guns and 120 men. In 1804 we find Mr. Kennedy sailing in the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, for the East Indies, where, after an attachment of a short period to the Concorde 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 2 April, 1806, in the Sceptre 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham; which ship, on 11 of the ensuing Nov., made a dash, with the Cornwallis 50, into St. Paul’s Bay, Ile de Bourbon, and opened a fire upon the shipping there at anchor, consisting of the Semillante French frigate, three armed ships, and 12 sail of merchantmen, the whole protected by seven batteries, mounting upwards of 100 pieces of cannon. On his return home in 1808, Lieut. Kennedy was appointed to the Captain 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and ordered to the West Indies; on his arrival on which station he was invested with the acting-command, on 28 Oct. in the same year, of the Port d’Espagne sloop, in which, we understand, he contributed to the reduction of Martinique. At the period of his official promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 2 June, 1809, our officer had charge of the St. Pierre sloop. In the course of 1810 he obtained successive command of the Pelorus, Surinam, and Forester, all on the Halifax station; where, and again in the West Indies, he served until April, 1814. He has since been unemployed. The Forester, on 5 May, 1813, assisted, in company with the Sapphire sloop, in capturing the Mary Ann American privateer of 2 guns and 30 men. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kennedy, Alexander (b)

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​KENNEDY. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 15; h-p., 30.)
Alexander Kennedy (b) entered the Navy in Nov. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, employed off the coast of Spain; and in 1804, on that officer hoisting his flag in the Culloden 74, sailed with him for the East Indies. In Dec. 1805 he became Midshipman of the Concorde 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, but, rejoining the Culloden in Dec. 1806, was afforded an opportunity of witnessing the destruction, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard ​and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. Between Jan. 1808 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 July, 1811, Mr. Kennedy served in various ships, principally on the Home station; after which we find him, until 1815, employed in the Mediterranean, on board the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. White, Rainbow 26, Capts. Gardiner Henry Guion and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, Boyne 98, flagship of Lord Exmouth, and Aboukir 74, Capt. Norborne Thompson. When in the Rainbow he took command of her boats, and captured, off the island of Corsica, a lateen-rigged vessel, laden with oak-planks. On 24 May, 1819, he assumed charge of the Hound Revenue-cruizer, as he also did, for some time, in 1821, of the Sylvia, a similar vessel. He attained his present rank 9 Oct. 1822, and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Kennedy married, 2 Feb. 1821, Elizabeth Rolleston, niece of A. Boyd, Esq., of Gostler, co. Donegal. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kennedy, Charles Doyle Buckley

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​KENNEDY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Charles Doyle Buckley Kennedy passed his examination 28 July, 1841; and served, as Mate, in the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, Hecate steam-vessel, Capt. Jas. Hamilton Ward, St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, Daring 12, Capt. Henry Jas. Matson, and Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander Henry Eden, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 2 June, 1846, and has been since employed as First-Lieutenant of the Ceylon receiving-ship at Malta, Capt. Thos. Graves.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kennedy, Andrew

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​KENNEDY. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
Andrew Kennedy was born 24 Aug. 1787, at Devonport. His father was 55 years in the Service.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Penelope 36, Capt. John Dick, under whom he served, as Midshipman, at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809. Until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1815, he was further actively employed on the Halifax and Newfoundland stations, chiefly as Master’s Mate, in the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, and Bellerophon 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats. Between April and Sept. of the latter year we find him doing duty at Portsmouth in the Prince 98, bearing the successive flags of Sir Rich. Bickerton and Sir Edw. Thornbrough. He next, from June, 1824, until July, 1827, served on the North American and West India stations, as First of the Niemen 28, Capts. Wallis, Canning, and Simeon. He was subsequently appointed to the command – in Sept. 1828, of the African, the first Government steamer stationed between Corfu and Ancona, in which he was employed in carrying despatches relative to the war between Turkey and Russia, and also in communicating with the Pacha of Egypt on the subject of steam with India – 24 June, 1830, of the Hermes, another steam-vessel, also stationed in the Mediterranean – 27 Nov. 1832, and 4 June, 1834, of the Alban and Spitfire Falmouth packets – and, 27 Nov. 1838, of the Acheron steamer. In the Alban, the first steam-vessel that returned to England from the West Indies, Lieut. Kennedy went 208 miles up the river Orinoco, as far as Angostura, where no British man-of-war had ever before been. He proved, in the Spitfire, what had been before doubted, namely, the ability on the part of a steamer to resist the effects of a hurricane; and when in the Acheron, in which vessel he remained until Dec. 1841, he conveyed to Sir Robt. Stopford the despatches directing the attack upon St. Jean d’Acre, and afforded a passage to the British ambassador from Constantinople to Malta, and thence to Naples. He was advanced to his present rank 27 May, 1842, but has not been since employed.
Commander Kennedy married Maria, daughter of Dennis Pinnock, Esq., of the island of Jamaica, by whom he has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kennedy, Arthur

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​KENNEDY. (Lieut„ 1838. f-p., 22; h-p., 1.)
Arthur Kennedy was born in March, 1811. This officer entered the Navy, 28 June, 1824, on board the Jaseur 18, Capt. Thos. Martin, and was soon afterwards severely hurt by a fall from aloft while on duty. The Jaseur being ordered to South America, he was afforded an opportunity of there witnessing the revolutionary proceedings in Brazil, Chili, and Peru. In 1828, on his arrival in the Mediterranean in the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, he was present, it appears, at the reduction of the Morea Castle. In the course of 1830 Mr. Kennedy successively joined the Donegal 76, Capt. Sir Jahleel Brenton, and Cordelia 10, Capt. Chas. Hotham, of which latter vessel, on his return to the Mediterranean, after having visited the West Indies and North America, he was created, in 1831, an Acting-Lieutenant by Sir Henry Hotham – the last appointment of the kind ever conferred by that Admiral. During this second sojourn in the Mediterranean, we find Mr. Kennedy affording protection to the trade against the pirates of Smyrna, and employed in the boats in cruizing against those in the neighbourhood of Grabusa. The Cordelia being paid off in 1834, he was at once appointed to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings. He next, in 1835, proceeded to South America in the Blonde 46, Commodore Fras. Mason, who, upon the death of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Michael Seymour, again gave him an order, as a reward for his services and conduct, to act as Lieutenant, although at the time there were 11 Mates on the station senior to him. About this period Mr. Kennedy was often engaged on shore with a party of men for the protection of British property during the civil commotions in Peru and Chili. He continued to serve in South America on board the Satellite 18, Capt. Robt. Smart, and again in the Blonde, until the return of the latter ship to England in 1837, when he immediately joined the Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Chas. Durham. His appointments since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 6 Sept. 1838, have been – 26 June, 1839, to the Stag 46, Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan, on the South American station – 25 Sept. 1839, to the Clio 16, Capt. Stephen Grenville Fremantle, employed in cruizing for slaves off Rio de Janeiro and other places – 28 April, 1841, to the Acorn 16, Capt. John Adams, on the coast of Africa, where, among a host of other captures, he assisted in taking, at the close of a running fight of nine hours, the pirartical slave-brig Gabriel, a vessel 10 feet longer than the Acorn, noted for its injury to commerce and the frequency of its insults to the British flag; as also, after a boat-chase of seven hours, the Minerva, having 550 slaves on board – and, 27 May, 1842 (four months after his health had obliged him to invalid), to the command of a station in the Coast Guard, which he still retains.
Lieut. Kennedy married, 25 Dec. 1840, Miss C. Jenkins, only daughter of A. Jenkins, Esq., of Navany, co. Donegal, by whom he has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Red Cockatoo

THE RED COCKATOO
Sent as a present from Annam — A red cockatoo. Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men. And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent. They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Red Hills

THE RED HILLS
By Pao Chao
Red hills lie athwart us as a menace in the west, And fiery mountains glare terrible in the south.
The body burns, the head aches and throbs:
If a bird light here, its soul forthwith departs.
Warm springs
Pour from cloudy pools
And hot smoke issues between the rocks.
The sun and moon are perpetually obscured:
The rain and dew never stay dry.
There are red serpents a hundred feet long, And black snakes ten girths round.
The sand-spitters shoot their poison at the sunbeams:
The flying insects are ill with the shifting glare.
The hungry monkeys dare not come down to eat:
The morning birds dare not set out to fly.
At the Ching river many die of poison:
Crossing the Lu one is lucky if one is only ill.
Our living feet walk on dead ground:
Our high wills surmount the snares of Fate.
The Spear-boat General got but little honour:
The Wave-subduer met with scant reward. If our Prince still grudges the things that are easy to give, Can he hope that his soldiers will give what is hardest to give?
* ↑ Hou Yen (first century B. C.).
* ↑ Ma Yüan (first century A. D.).
* ↑ Rewards and titles.
* ↑ Life.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Ruins of Lo-yang

THE RUINS OF LO-YANG
By Ts'ao Chih [A. D. 192–233], third son of Ts'ao Ts'ao. He was a great favourite with his father till he made a mistake in a campaign. In this poem he returns to look at the ruins of Lo-yang, where he used to live. It had been sacked by Tung Cho.
I climb to the ridge of Pei Mang Mountain
And look down on the city of Lo-yang.
In Lo-yang how still it is!
Palaces and houses all burnt to ashes.
Walls and fences all broken and gaping,
Thorns and brambles shooting up to the sky.
I do not see the old old-men:
I only see the new young men.
I turn aside, for the straight road is lost:
The fields are overgrown and will never be ploughed again.
I have been away such a long time
That I do not know which street is which.
How sad and ugly the empty moors are!
A thousand miles without the smoke of a chimney.
I think of the house I lived in all those years:
I am heart-tied and cannot speak.
"Wondrous was the wall-stone, Weirdly broken;
Burgh-steads bursten, Giants' work tumbleth.
Roofs are wrenched.
Towers totter.
Bereft of rune-gates.
Smoke is on the plaster, Scarred the shower-burghs, Shorn and shattered, By eld under-eaten. Earth's grip haveth
Wealders and workmen."
* ↑ By Fate.
* ↑ Rulers.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Scholar in the Narrow Street

THE SCHOLAR IN THE NARROW STREET
By Tso Ssŭ
Flap, flap, the captive bird in the cage
Beating its wings against the four corners.
Depressed, depressed the scholar in the narrow street:
Clasping a shadow, he dwells in an empty house.
When he goes out, there is nowhere for him to go:
Bunches and brambles block up his path.
He composes a memorial, but it is rejected and unread, He is left stranded, like a fish in a dry pond.
Without — he has not a single farthing of salary:
Within — there is not a peck of grain in his larder.
His relations upbraid him for his lack of success:
His friends and callers daily decrease in number.
Su Ch'in used to go preaching in the North
And Li Ssŭ sent a memorandum to the West.
I once hoped to pluck the fruits of life:
But now alas, they are all withered and dry.
Though one drinks at a river, one cannot drink more than a bellyful; Enough is good, but there is no use in satiety. The bird in a forest can perch but on one bough,
And this should be the wise man's pattern.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Philosophers

THE PHILOSOPHERS
Lao-tzŭ
"Those who speak know nothing;
Those who know are silent."
These words, as I am told.
Were spoken by Lao-tzŭ.
If we are to believe that Lao-tzŭ
Was himself one who knew, How comes it that he wrote a book
Of five thousand words?
Chuang-tzŭ, the Monist
Chuang-tzŭ levels all things And reduces them to the same Monad.
But I say that even in their sameness
Difference may be found. Although in following the promptings of their nature
They display the same tendency,
Yet it seems to me that in some ways
A phœnix is superior to a reptile!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Politician

THE POLITICIAN
I was going to the City to sell the herbs I had plucked;
On the way I rested by some trees at the Blue Gate. Along the road there came a horseman riding;
Whose face was pale with a strange look of dread. Friends and relations, waiting to say good-bye,
Pressed at his side, but he did not dare to pause. I, in wonder, asked the people about me
Who he was and what had happened to him. They told me this was a Privy Councillor
Whose grave duties were like the pivot of State. His food allowance was ten thousand cash;
Three times a day the Emperor came to his house. Yesterday he was called to a meeting of Heroes:
To-day he is banished to the country of Yai-chou. So always, the Counsellors of Kings;
Favour and ruin changed between dawn and dusk! Green, green,— the grass of the Eastern Suburb;
And amid the grass, a road that leads to the hills. Resting in peace among the white clouds. At last he has made a "coup" that cannot fail!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Sick Wife

THE SICK WIFE
She had been ill for years and years;
She sent for me to say something.
She couldn't say what she wanted
Because of the tears that kept coming of themselves.
"I have burdened you with orphan children,
With orphan children two or three.
Don't let our children go hungry or cold;
If they do wrong, don't slap or beat them.
When you take out the baby, rock it in your arms.
Don't forget to do that."
Last she said,
"When I carried them in my arms they had no clothes
And now their jackets have no linings."[She dies.
I shut the doors and barred the windows
And left the motherless children.
When I got to the market and met my friends, I wept.
I sat down and could not go with them.
I asked them to buy some cakes for my children.
In the presence of my friends I sobbed and cried.
I tried not to grieve, but sorrow would not cease.
I felt in my pocket and gave my friends some money.
When I got home I found my children
Calling to be taken into their mother's arms.
I walked up and down in the empty room
This way and that a long while.
Then I went away from it and said to myself,
"I will forget and never speak of her again."
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Rejected Wife

THE REJECTED WIFE
By Yüan-ti [508–554]. See page 29.
Entering the Hall, she meets the new wife:
Leaving the gate, she runs into her former husband. Words stick: she does not manage to say anything:
She presses her hands together and hesitates. Agitates moon-like fan — sheds pearl-like tears —
Realizes she loves him just as much as ever:
That her present pain will never come to an end.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The Scholar Recruit

THE SCHOLAR RECRUIT
By Pao Chao [died A. D. 466]
Now late
I follow Time's Necessity: Mounting a barricade I pacify remote tribes.
Discarding my sash I don a coat of rhinoceros-skin:
Rolling up my skirts I shoulder a black bow.
Even at the very start my strength fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
# A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia

A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia.
A
JOURNEY IN KHORASSAN
AND
CENTRAL ASIA.
March and April, 1890.
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.
LONDON:
HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.
1890.
CONTENTS.
* CHAPTER I.
* PAGE
* TEHRAN TO MESHED ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* CHAPTER II.
* TRANSCASPIA AND TURKESTAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................48
* CHAPTER III.
* THE CASPIAN AND MAZANDERAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................87
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Addington, William Wells

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​ADDINGTON. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
The Honourable William Wells Addington, born 25 March, 1824, is second son of the present Viscount Sidmouth, by Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Young; and grandson of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, who, on resigning the office of Prime Minister, was elevated to the peerage as first Viscount Sidmouth.
This officer passed his examination 20 July, 1843; was appointed Mate, 4 July, 1845, of the Hibernia 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Wm. Parker; and obtained his commission 8 June, 1846. He has not since been employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Adams, Charles James

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​ADAMS. (Lieut., 1815 f-p., 7; h-p., 33.)
Charles James Adams is cousin of Capt. John Adams, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 8 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol. on board the Porcupine 24, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, with whom he continued to serve in the Mercury 28, and Imperieuse 38, on the Mediterranean station, until the conclusion of hostilities in 1814. During his attachment to the Porcupine, Mr. Adams was instrumental to the cutting out, on the night of 10 July, 1808, of a large polacre ship of 8 guns and upwards of 20 men, moored close to the beach on the coast of Romania, within pistol-shot distance of two batteries and a tower, and of three heavy gun-boats, to whose conjoined fire, as well as that of a body of troops, he was for a considerable time exposed. He subsequently, when in the Mercury, in the spring of 1809, assisted at the capture of Capo d’Istria, a town near Trieste, and in an attack made in company with the Spartan 38, on Pesaro and Ceseratico, where the fortifications were destroyed, and 25 sail of merchantmen taken. While in the Imperieuse, Mr. Adams further participated in the gallant capture and destruction, 2 Nov. 1811, in conjunction with the Thames 32, of 10 gun-boats and 22 richly-laden feluccas, defended by a strong tower and two batteries in the harbour of Palinuro, on the coast of Calabria, at which place the British were opposed by a land force of 700 men. He next contributed, 27 June, 1812, to the destruction of a French convoy, and of the batteries at Languelia and Alassio – was also present, on 17 Aug. in the same year, in a spirited skirmish with a powerful Neapolitan squadron in the Bay of Naples – and, in 1813-14, witnessed the capture of Port D’Anzo, and the operations against Leghorn and Genoa. He then returned home on board the Apollo 38, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, and since his promotion, 6 March, 1815, has been unemployed. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Adams, George Curtis

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​ADAMS. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
George Curtis Adams, born in 1807, is second son of the late Henry Cadwallader Adams Esq., of Anstey Hall, co. Warwick, by Emma, eldest daughter of the late Alderman Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart., M.P.; brother of Henry Wm. Adams, now of Anstey, Lieut.-Colonel of the 49th foot, and of Capt. Frank Adams of the 28th; nephew of the present Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart.; and cousin of Lieut. A. J. Curtis, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1830, and obtained his commission 21 Feb. 1837. His appointments have since been – 16 April, 1838, to the Madagascar 44, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis on the North America and West India station – 24 Feb. 1840, to the Magicienne 24, Capts. Wm. Burnett, Fred. Thos. Michell, and Rich. Laird Warren, in the Mediterranean – 9 Nov. 1843, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nich. Lockyer, employed for some time off Lisbon – and, 2 Feb. 1846, to the St. Vincent 120, bearing the broad pendant in the Channel of Sir Francis Augustus Collier. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.