Rulers of East and West (Part I)
in The Reader (New York, NY, USA) Vol. 10 (Aug 1907): 
pp.226–336
- First extracted as The Mirror of the Sea: V. The Rulers of East and West in The Pall Mall Magazine (London, UK) (May 1905)
- Subsequently extracted as The Mirror of the Sea: VI. The Rulers of East and West in The Pall Mall Magazine (London, UK) (Jun 1905)
- Collected as Rulers of East and West in The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
- Subsequently serialized as Rulers of East and West (Part II) in Putnam's Monthly & The Reader (New York, NY, USA) (Oct 1908)
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Additional opening sentence. Later included as sections XXV-XXVII of "The Mirror of the Sea", entitled "Rulers of East and West."