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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, Thomas Jordaine

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​CLARKE. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 5.)
Thomas Jordaine Clarke, born 25 Nov. 1813, is son of the late Wm. Stanley Clarke, Esq.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth in Feb. 1827; and embarked, 18 Dec. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Madagascar 76, Capts. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer and Edm. Lyons, on the Mediterranean station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 18 Doc. 1829, and continued to serve, until 1834, on board the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, Ferret 10, Capt. Hon. Edw. Thornton Wodehouse, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Henry Hotham, – by whom he appears to have been lent, for some months in 1832-3, to his old ship the Madagascar. Having passed his examination 11 Feb. 1883, he was promoted, from the Nimrod 20, Capt. John M‘Dougall, to a Lieutenancy in the Action 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, on the South American station, 12 Nov. 1834; after which he joined, 12 Oct. 1835, the Dublin 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and, 14 Nov. 1837, the Melville 74, as Flag-Lieutenant at the Cape of Hope to the Hon. Geo. Elliot. Being advanced to the command, 3 June, 1840, of the Columbine sloop, Capt. Clarke bore an able and conspicuous part, until Oct. 1841, in the ​various operations of the Chinese campaign, including the capture of Chuenpee and Tycocktow, the first and second reduction of Canton, the taking of Amoy and Chinghae, and the re-occupation of Chusan. Since the last-mentioned date – having been advanced to the rank he now holds on 8 of the previous June – he has been unemployed. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, Henry

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​CLARKE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Henry Clarke entered the Navy 16 May, 1832; passed his examination 14 Jan. 1837; was for some time employed in North America and the West Indies, as Mate of the Crocodile 26, Capt. Alex. Milne; and, for his services in the Yang-tse-Kiang river, as Mate of the North Star 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, and on shore at the capture of the batteries of Woosung, was promoted, 23 Dec. 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant. He has been serving, since 18 March, 1843, on board the Hazard 18, Capts. Chas. Bell and Fras. Philip Egerton, on the East India station.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, William Nehemiah

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​CLARKE. (Commander, 1826. f-p., 23; h-p., 28.)
William Nehemiah Clarke was born in July, 1783 or 4.
This officer entered the Navy, early in 1796, on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capts. Fras. Cole and Thos. Twysden; and, among other captures, assisted in taking, on 13 April in that year, after a running fight, the French 36-gun frigate L’Unité. He afterwards, in the same ship, attacked a convoy protected by a strong line of batteries within the Penmacks, accompanied the expedition to Quiberon, and contributed to the capture of a national brig of 16 guns, and of 3 privateers, carrying, in the whole, 60 guns and 543 men. On subsequently proceeding to Sierra Leone, towards the close of 1801, in the Wasp 18, Capt. Chas. Bullen, he was for several weeks most arduously employed on shore in protecting the colony against a powerful combination of the native chiefs; after which he proceeded to the West Indies, and, on his return home, joined, in succession, the Expedition tender, Lieut.-Commander Felix Richardson, Dragon 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, part of Sir Robt. Calder’s fleet in his action of 22 July, 1805, and, as Sub-Lieutenant, the Turbulent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer. Being appointed, 19 Sept. 1806, full Lieutenant of the Sabrina 18, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, he commanded the boats of that vessel, with those of a squadron, in an attack on a Spanish flotilla; and, in conjunction with the boats of La Chiffonne, cut out, on a subsequent occasion, a brig and a schooner from under a battery of 4 guns on the south coast of Spain. While next serving, from May, 1809, to Aug. 1814, on board the Redwing 18, Capts. Edw. Augustus Down and Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Mr. Clarke was twice employed, on 30 March and 2 May, 1813, in demolishing the heavy batteries at Morjean, between Toulon and Marseilles; and, in Aug. following, he participated in a very gallant attack on the batteries of Cassis, and capture of a large convoy in the mole of that place. He was afterwards appointed, as First-Lieutenant – for a few months in 1815, to the Larne 20, Capts. Sir J. G. Sinclair and Abraham Lowe, on the Home station – 21 Feb. 1823, to the Egeria 24, Capt. Sam. Roberts, which vessel took out Commissioner Ward to Mexico, and thence brought home Commissioner Morier – and, in 1824, to the command of the Sir Francis Drake. He acquired his present rank 28 Dec. 1826, but has not since been afloat.
Commander Clarke married, 18 Aug. 1818, Lydia, eldest daughter of the late Thos. Delandre, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for co. Waterford. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, Thomas Pickering

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​CLARKE. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p. 15; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Pickering Clarke entered the Navy, 22 April, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board L’Immorlalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, in which frigate, while cruizing off Bordeaux, he witnessed the capture, 26 Oct. following, of Le Diable à Quatre privateer, of 16 guns and 150 men. From 16 Oct. 1801, until March, 1813, he next served, under Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Lieutenant (commission dated 28 April, 1807), in the Nemesis 28, Immortalité 36, Clyde 38, and Inconstant 36; and, during that period, shared in the bombardment of Dieppe, St. Valery en Caux, and Boulogne, was present in several smart skirmishes with the French flotilla, and attended, in the Clyde, the expedition to Flushing in Aug. 1809. On leaving the Inconstant, Mr. Clarke joined the Mariner armed ship, Capt. Robt. Russell, employed on rocket service in North America, whence he returned home in 1813 on board the Shannon 88, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke. After serving for a short time in the Monmouth 64, bearing the flag in the Downs of Vice- Admiral Thos. Foley, he became attached to the Superb 74, flag-ship on the coasts of America and France of the Hon. Sir Henry Hotham. Commander Clarke, who has been on half-pay since 7 Sept. 1815, assumed his present rank 17 Jan. 1843.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Clarke, George Henry

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​CLARKE. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
George Henry Clarke, born 20 May, 1816, is youngest son of the late Rich. Clarke, Esq., of Welton Place, co. Northampton, an officer in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, by Philippa, daughter and heir of the Rev. Geo. Tymms, M.A., Rector of Harpole, and Vicar of Dallington.
This officer entered the Navy 27 June, 1828; passed his examination 3 June, 1835; served in North America and the West Indies, as Mate of the Hydra steam-vessel, Capt. Alex. Murray; attained the rank he now holds 26 Jan. 1843; joined, 15 May following, the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir. Thos. Hastings; and, since 11 Oct. 1843, has been employed in the Stromboli steam-sloop, Capt. Thos. Fisher, on particular service.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/A Dream of Mountaineering

A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING
Written when he was over seventy
At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain,
Going out alone with my staff of holly-wood.
A thousand crags, a hundred hundred valleys —
In my dream-journey none were unexplored
And all the while my feet never grew tired
And my step was as strong as in my young days.
Can it be that when the mind travels backward
The body also returns to its old state?
And can it be, as between body and soul.
That the body may languish, while the soul is still strong?
Soul and body — both are vanities:
Dreaming and waking — both alike unreal.
In the day my feet are palsied and tottering;
In the night my steps go striding over the hills.
As day and night are divided in equal parts —
Between the two, I get as much as I lose.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/After Lunch

AFTER LUNCH
After lunch — one short nap:
On waking up — two cups of tea. Raising my head, I see the sun's light
Once again slanting to the south-west. Those who are happy regret the shortness of the day;
Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth. But those whose hearts are devoid of joy or sadness
Just go on living, regardless of "short" or "long."
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHINESE POEMS
TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR WALEY
NEW YORK ALFRED • A • KNOPF MCMXXII
PRELIMINARY NOTE
In making this book I have tried to avoid poems which have been translated before. A hundred and forty of those I have chosen have not been translated by any one else. The remaining thirty odd I have included in many cases because the previous versions were full of mistakes; in others, because the works in which they appeared are no longer procurable. Moreover, they are mostly in German, a language with which my readers may not all be acquainted.
With some hesitation I have included literal versions of six poems (three of the "Seventeen Old Poems," "Autumn Wind," "Li Fu jēn," and "On the Death of his Father") already skilfully rhymed by Professor Giles in "Chinese Poetry in English Verse." They were too typical to omit; and a comparison of the two renderings may be of interest. Some of these translations have appeared in the "Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies," in the "New Statesman," in the "Little Review" (Chicago), and in "Poetry" (Chicago).
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# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/"Old Poem"

"OLD POEM"
At fifteen I went with the army,
At fourscore I came home. On the way I met a man from the village,
I asked him who there was at home. "That over there is your house,
All covered over with trees and bushes." Rabbits had run in at the dog-hole,
Pheasants flew down from the beams of the roof. In the courtyard was growing some wild grain;
And by the well, some wild mallows. I'll boil the grain and make porridge,
I'll pluck the mallows and make soup. Soup and porridge are both cooked, But there is no one to eat them with. I went out and looked towards the east, While tears fell and wetted my clothes.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/A Gentle Wind

A GENTLE WIND
By Fu Hsüan [died A. D. 278]
A gentle wind fans the calm night:
A bright moon shines on the high tower.
A voice whispers, but no one answers when I call:
A shadow stirs, but no one comes when I beckon,
The kitchen-man brings in a dish of lentils:
Wine is there, but I do not fill my cup.
Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift:
Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.
Though gold and gems by the world are sought and prized,
To me they seem no more than weeds or chaff.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch'ien Fu

A PROTEST IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF CH'IEN FU [A. D. 879]
By Ts'ao Sung [flourished circa A. D. 870–920]
The hills and rivers of the lowland country You have made our battle-ground. How do you suppose the people who live there Will procure "firewood and hay"? Do not let me hear you talking together About titles and promotions; For a single general's reputation Is made out of ten thousand corpses.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/A Seventeenth-century Chinese Poem

A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHINESE POEM
Ch'ēn Tzŭ-lung was born in 1607. He became a soldier, and in 1637 defeated the rebel, Hsü Tu. After the suicide of the last Ming emperor, he offered his services to the Ming princes who were still opposing the Manchus. In 1647 he headed a conspiracy to place the Ming prince Lu on the throne. His plans were discovered and he was arrested by Manchu troops. Escaping their vigilance for a moment, he leapt into a river and was drowned.
The following song describes the flight of a husband and wife from a town menaced by the advancing Manchus. They find the whole country-side deserted.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/A Vision

A VISION
By Ts'ao Chih
In the Nine Provinces there is not room enough: I want to soar high among the clouds, And, far beyond the Eight Limits of the compass, Cast my gaze across the unmeasured void. I will wear as my gown the red mists of sunrise, And as my skirt the white fringes of the clouds: My canopy — the dim lustre of Space: My chariot — six dragons mounting heavenward: And before the light of Time has shifted a pace Suddenly stand upon the World's blue rim. The doors of Heaven swing open, The double gates shine with a red light. I roam and linger in the palace of Wēn-ch'ang, I climb up to the hall of T'ai-wei. The Lord God lies at his western lattice: And the lesser Spirits are together in the eastern gallery. They wash me in a bath of rainbow-spray And gird me with a belt of jasper and rubies. I wander at my ease gathering divine herbs: I bend down and touch the scented flowers. Wang-tzŭ gives me drugs of long-life And Hsien-mēn hands me strange potions. By the partaking of food I evade the rites of Death: My span is extended to the enjoyment of life everlasting.
* ↑ Stars.
* ↑ Immortals.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/After getting Drunk, becoming Sober in the Night

AFTER GETTING DRUNK, BECOMING SOBER IN THE NIGHT
Our party scattered at yellow dusk and I came home to bed;
I woke at midnight and went for a walk, leaning heavily on a friend. As I lay on my pillow my vinous complexion, soothed by sleep, grew sober;
In front of the tower the ocean moon, accompanying the tide, had risen. The swallows, about to return to the beams, went back to roost again;
The candle at my window, just going out, suddenly revived its light. All the time till dawn came, still my thoughts were muddled;
And in my ears something sounded like the music of flutes and strings.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Alarm at first entering the Yang-tze Gorges

ALARM AT FIRST ENTERING THE YANG-TZE GORGES
Written in 818, when he was being towed up the rapids to Chung-chou.
Above, a mountain ten thousand feet high:
Below, a river a thousand fathoms deep. A strip of green, walled by cliffs of stone:
Wide enough for the passage of a single reed. At Chü-t'ang a straight cleft yawns:
At Yen-yü islands block the stream. Long before night the walls are black with dusk;
Without wind white waves rise. The big rocks are like a flat sword:
The little rocks resemble ivory tusks.
How much the less, three hundred miles?
Frail and slender, the twisted-bamboo rope:
Weak, the dangerous hold of the towers' feet. A single slip — the whole convoy lost:
And my life hangs on this thread! I have heard a saying "He that has an upright heart
Shall walk scathless through the lands of Man and Mo."
How can I believe that since the world began In every shipwreck none have drowned but rogues? And how can I, born in evil days And fresh from failure, ask a kindness of Fate? Often I fear that these un-talented limbs Will be laid at last in an un-named grave!
* ↑ See Odes, v. 7.
* ↑ The distance to Chung-chou.
* ↑ Dangerous savages.
* ↑ Of civil war.
* ↑ Alluding to his renewed banishment.
# A Description of Greenland/Dedication

To His Most Serene
ROYAL HIGHNESS
FRIDERICK,
Hereditary PRINCE, Successor to the Crown of
Denmark and Norway.
As I took the Freedom most humbly to address to the King Your Royal ​Father an Account of the Greenland Mission's Beginning and Propagation, which his Majesty with so glorious a Zeal protects and encourages; so likewise, with the same most humble Submission, I presume to offer to Your most Serene Royal Highness this present Survey, or Natural History of Greenland; endeavouring by this means to insinuate and recommend to Your Royal Highness's Favour and Protection, so pious an Under​taking; because the poor Greenlanders have a Right to claim your Protection, as well as the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway; and are in Hopes of enjoying, one Day, the greatest Blessings under Your happy Reign.
This little Work cannot fail of a gracious Reception from Your Royal Highness, as it aims only at, and is calculated for, the Honour of God, and Your Royal Family's Exaltation. The last of which ​wholly depends on, and necessarily follows the first; for when the poor Greenlanders shall have learned to know and worship God, as their Creator and Redeemer, then they will likewise learn to acknowledge and honour a Christian Sovereign as their King and Ruler, through whose most Christian Care and Beneficience they have been brought to the Knowledge of Salvation.
May the Kingdom of God ​daily encrease, and be spread far and wide, under the Government of Your Royal House! May the Word of God run swiftly, under the Sway of its Scepter, as it doth in the East, so also now in the coldest North. That it may please Almighty God to make Your Royal Highness's Name as the Name of the great and mighty Ones upon Earth; that he may establish, and powerfully support the Royal Hereditary Throne, and place You as a Blessing before ​his Face to all Eternity, are the hearty Wishes and Prayers of,
HANS EGEDE.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Andoe, James Hilary

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​ANDOE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
James Hilary Andoe entered the Navy, 12 Dee. 1804, as Second-cl. Vol., on board the Greyhound 32, Capt. Chas. Elphinstone, off Havre de Grace; proceeded to the East Indies towards the close of 1806, as Midshipman of the Macassar 36, Capt. Wm. Wilbraham; there served, from Sept. 1807, until July, 1812, the last three years as Master’s Mate, on board the Russel and Minden 74’s, flag-ships of Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury; was then successively appointed, in a similar capacity, to the Mulgrave and Swiftsure 74’s, Capts. Thos. Jas. Maling and Wm. Henry Webley, on the Home, Mediterranean, and West India stations; and on 4 Feb. , was promoted to his present rank. He has not since been employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Andrew, Zaccheus

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​ANDREW. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Zaccheus Andrew was born 25 June, 1811.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 April, 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, and served the whole of his time in that ship, the Surly 10, Capt. Joseph Chappel Woolnough, Sappho 28, Capt. Henry Dundas, Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Manley Dixon, on the Baltic, Lisbon, South America, and Home stations. Having passed his examination, 8 Dec. 1832, he next officiated as Mate, in the West Indies and oiff Lisbon, of the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, and Hastings 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Hall Gage. As Lieutenant, a rank he attained 28 June, 1838, Mr. Andrew’s appointments were on the South America and Mediterranean stations – 28 Nov. in that year, to the Grecian 16, Capt. Wm. Smyth, and, 8 June, 1841, to the Vernon 90, Capt. Wm. Walpole. He has not since been employed. He married, 3 Oct. 1840, Jane, only daughter of Jas. Harvey, Esq., and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Andrew, John William

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​ANDREW, C.B. (Rear-Admiral,, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
John William Andrew is the son of a clergyman.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1798, as A.B., on board the Foudroyant 80, Capt. Sir Thos. Byard. After witnessing the capture, in the following October, of a squadron of French ships under Commodore Bompart, destined for the invasion of Ireland, he removed, as Midshipman, to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport in the Channel, where, and on the Mediterranean and East and West India stations, he subsequently served in the Seahorse 38, Capt. Edw. Jas. Foote, Blanche 36, Capt. Zachary Mudge, and Conqueror, Leopard, and Canopus, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral Sir Thos.) Louis. While under the latter officer, he served in the Leopard’s boats in the celebrated catamaran attack of 1804 on the Boulogne flotilla, and was present in the Canopus in Sir John Duckworth’s action off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. Being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 2 April following, Mr. Andrew next joined, on 24 July in the same year, the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western, under whom he subsequently escorted the royal family of Portugal to the shores of South America. In July, 1809, he was appointed to the Ajax 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, and during the two years that followed he saw a good deal of active boat-service in the Mediterranean. After acting for six weeks as Captain of the Rainbow frigate, he assumed oificial command, 26 Sept. 1811, of the Weazle 18, and on 21 Feb. 1812, was in company with the Victorious 74, in the Gulf of Venice, when that ship encountered an enemy’s squadron, consisting of the Rivoli 74, Mercure and Jéna, of 18 guns each, and Mamelouck 8. During the operations that ensued, Capt. Andrew, whose exertions were extremely creditable, was for 40 minutes engaged in close action with the Mercure, which eventually blew up; then chased and put to flight the Jéna, by whom he had also been opposed; and, having likewise driven off the Mamelouck, bore up to the assistance of the Victorious, stood across the bows of the Rivoli, and twice poured in a broadside – shortly after which the latter ship surrendered. For his gallant and exemplary conduct he was presented, on completing his time, with a Post commission, dated 26 Sept. 1812. He lastly officiated as Captain, from 1 Oct. 1814, to 24 Jan. 1816, of the Dee 24, and during that period visited Hudson’s Bay. He accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Andrew was nominated a C.B. 4 June, 1815.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Andrews, Edward

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​ANDREWS. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Edward Andrews (b) was born in 1782.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Oct. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Musette 12, Lieut.Commanders Bevan, Dundas, and Simpson, on the Home station, where, in June, 1805, he joined the Beagle 18, Capts. Geo. Digby, Fras. Newoombe, and Wm. Brooking Dolling. While under Capt. Newcombe he assisted at the capture of the Hazard, Vengeur, and Fortune, privateers, carrying altogether 44 guns and 155 men; bore a warm part in the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, 11 April, 1809; and accompanied the ensuing expedition to Flushing. In the early part of 1811 he was thrice recommended for promotion by his Captain for his gallant conduct on as many different occasions: the first time, in consideration of his having with a detached party captured three smuggling-boats, after he had landed and had desperately fought their crews, although supported by a body of French soldiers; secondly, for the spirited manner in which, with a single boat, he had compelled two sloops to run on shore near Boulogne; and next, for having in a similar manner chased and put to flight an enemy’s privateer. On another occasion Mr. Andrews, with but one boat again under his orders, and within sight of the French shore, effected the capture, in the handsomest manner, of two other smuggling-vessels. His exertions were at length rewarded with a commission, dated 20 July, 1811; after which he appears to have served, from Jan. 1812, to Jan. 1815, on board the Comet sloop, Capts. Wm. Shepheard and Geo. Wm. Blainey, on the Newfoundland, West India, and Mediterranean stations. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Andrews married, in 1815, Miss Mary Rowse Brooking, by whom he has issue ten children.