bad hand at finding out secrets if they have any. Really, perhaps the best thing one can do is to allay the foolish fears of aggression which come up every now and then."

The following letter was also written about this time :

"ST. PETERSBURG, October 10, 1871.

"I have been reading Sir John Pakington's very noble-minded speech on Education, &c., at the Social Science Congress. I hardly expected him to be so outspoken, but it shows to what lengths an earnest man is carried who has faithfully and logically accepted the conclusions to which his observation and reason have led him. His speech will do more good among the young Conservatives than a dozen from a Liberal speaker, and will gain any number of votes for the Government. Anything that all the Navy and Army of England can do singly and independently is not equal to a hundredth part of the strength which would be gained to the country by following Sir John Pakington's advice-looking at it from that limited point of view alone. But what a glory if we should lead the world in knowledge, in justice, in brotherly kindness, and in goodness,—what an end to work and live for, or to die for, even to contribute in the least towards it."

From St. Petersburg, going south, he visited Nicolayeff and Odessa, whence three days and nights of railway travelling brought him to Vienna; from there he proceeded at once to Berlin, arriving just in time to be present at the debates on the naval estimates in the German Chamber. From Berlin he visited Dantzig, Kiel, Willhelmshafen, and a gun-foundry establishment at Egger.

At the end of December he proceeded to Paris, where he remained for four months, acquainting himself with all the details of the French navy, and renewing his former friend

ships with many officers of that service whom he had met with on different foreign stations. He visited by turns Cherbourg, Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon. From one of the French dockyards he brought back the following story concerning the inauguration of the republic. Orders having been received to announce the establishment of the republic, an admiral mustered the crew of his flag-ship on the quarter-deck, and informed them of the change in the government, and that the motto of France from henceforth would be "Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité!" The men were dismissed, and were leaving the deck, when he suddenly recalled them, adding, "Seulement, mes enfants, souvenezvous d'une chose c'est que la liberté n'embarque jamais !"*

Of this continued travelling he says:

"An old friend writing to me says, 'I hope your appointment is not to be your Capua,' to which I reply, 'My only Capua is a first class railway carriage, and that has not many enticements.''

Still we see that he could find pleasure in railway travelling, too :-

"TOULON, April 26th, 1872.

"We left Paris yesterday. For the first time in my life I thought that flat country between Paris and Dijon lovely. The fresh spring leaves and grass have made it so. The moon was well up as we came out of Lyons, and the effect on one or two reaches of the Rhone was magnificent. I woke at Arles at five, just in time to see the first rays of the sun lighting the walls of the amphitheatre, and at six caught the first glimpse of the Mediterranean,

* Only my men, remember one thing, liberty never goes afloat !

calm and still, too calm to give back the deep blue of the sky overhead."

In April he proceeded to Italy, spending a week at La Spezzia, where the new dockyard and arsenal were visited; and then went to Rome, in order to see the Italian Minister of Marine. His business kept him but five days at Rome, too short a time on a first visit to see much of its treasures of antiquity and art; but what hours he could spare from work he eagerly devoted to visiting the wonders of that city, which was to him a source of the greatest enjoyment.

After spending two days at Venice (which enchanted him, and which he laughingly said was the place where a naval attaché ought to live) he crossed to Trieste, to begin his report on the Austrian navy. Here he was joined by his brother, Colonel Goodenough, R.A., who was at that time military attaché to the English embassy at Vienna; and the two proceeded to Pola, a beautiful spot on the Adriatic, where is the great Austrian dockyard, and where some artillery experiments were at that moment being conducted. From Pola he proceeded to Fiume, further south on the Adriatic, where the Austrian Naval Academy is established. From thence the brothers returned. to Vienna, where Captain Goodenough concluded his report on the Austrian navy. Thence he went to Constantinople, following the course of the Danube to its mouth. He arrived there just in time for the fairy-like illuminations in honour of the Sultan's birthday. At Constantinople he found several acquaintances who welcomed him very kindly : nearly all the young commanders of the Turkish ironclad squadron having been attached as lieutenants to the Eng

lish navy a few years before, having served in the various ships of our Channel squadron.

From Constantinople Captain Goodenough returned by Syra, Corfu, and Trieste to Paris; and shortly afterwards, in August, 1872, asked leave to resign his appointment, as he did not wish, nor did he think he could, with much advantage to the public service, go over the same ground at once again; and also he was anxious, as soon as possible, to return to the regular line of naval service afloat.

This was the first year of the Autumn Manœuvres, and Captain Goodenough threw himself heartily into the interest they afforded-first visiting various regiments which were encamped in the neighbourhood of the New Forest, where he was living; and afterwards following the whole of the actual manœuvres on horseback. This was to him a delightful holiday, and one which he enjoyed with all the force of his varied powers of interest and appreciation.

CHAPTER VI.

APPOINTED COMMODORE OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATION-VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND-FIJI-SYDNEY—MELBOURNE-TASMANIA-CAPTAIN COOK

ADELAIDE-NEW HEBRIDES.

CAPTAIN GOODENOUGH spent the next winter in London - studying, attending lectures, working both at gunnery and other things connected with the naval service, till in April, 1873, he received from the First Lord of the Admiralty the offer of going to Australia as Commodore in command of H.M.S. "Pearl." This was a command which for some years he had looked upon as one which would specially interest him, and he at once began to prepare himself for his new work, trying to learn as much as he could of those seas, then quite unknown to him, as he wished to arrive on his station possessed of all the knowledge of it which he could obtain. He visited the different missionary societies who were labouring in those latitudes, asking for all the information he could get. He at once set about collecting all the records of the early discoverers and voyagers of the South Seas, and succeeded in getting together a large collection of their works.

The Pearl was commissioned in May, 1873, and sailed from Spithead in June.