Footnotes1.Mrs. Brassey:“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”Her trip occupied eleven months.2.From a rare work in the author’s possession, entitled,“Songs of the Ship; or the British Seaman’s Jovial andEverlastingSongster.”3.Margharita Weppner, Author of“The North Star and the Southern Cross.”4.“American Notes for General Circulation.”5.The late Mr. W. S. Lindsay, in his“History of Merchant Shipping,”stated that Mr. and Mrs. Inman,“greatly to their credit, made a voyage in one of their earliest emigrant steamers, expressly for the purpose of ameliorating the discomforts and evils hitherto but too common in emigrant ships.”6.Margharita Weppner.7.“Westward by Rail.”8.Videpage 18.9.PronouncedKanyon. The word is of Spanish origin, and signifies a deep rocky defile.10.All in the territory, and there are now a large number of miners, who are not believers in the Mormon faith, are considered outsiders and“Gentiles.”11.The highest newspaper offices in the United States, and, it is hardly to be doubted, in the world, are in Colorado. Georgetown, 8,452 feet elevation, has one; Central City, has two dailies, published at 8,300 feet above the sea level.12.Although the railway had remained intact, avalanches had occurred that winter in the mountain districts of Nevada and Utah, accompanied by serious loss of life.13.“A Ramble Round the World.”Translated by Lady Herbert.14.A. D. Carlisle, B.A., in“Round the World in 1870.”15.A. W. Guillemard:“Over Land and Sea. A Log of Travel Round the World in 1873-4.”16.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India, and Cashmere.”17.This fine vessel while lying at anchor in the roadstead of Yokohama, on the 24th of August, 1872, was destroyed by fire. In seven minutes after the first flames were discovered the ship from stem to stern was one sheet of flame. At the last moment the captain, terribly burnt, threw himself in the water and was rescued. Three Europeans and sixty Chinamen were either burnt to death or drowned. The Chinese, determined not to lose their savings, dawdled a little, and then threw themselves all together on a ladder, which broke with their weight. The gold found on their corpses proved that not one had returned poor from California. It is needless to say that Hübner’s description of the size of theAmericais incorrect.18.“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”19.Hübner.20.Vide“Over Land and Sea.”21.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter.”22.In“Australia and New Zealand.”23.In 1872 there were 41,000,000 sheep and 4,340,000 horned cattle in Australia. The tinned meat and extract works employ a large number of hands at good wages.24.Let the reader compare the following verses of Genesis:—“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”—Chap. vii., verse 11.“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”—Chap. viii., verses 13 and 14.25.Vol. III., First Series, page 509.26.This chapter is based on the works of Tennant, Darwin, Gosse, Figuier, and other authorities.27.About £48,000.28.In“The Origin of Species.”29.The bulk of this chapter is derived from the following works:—“The Conquest of the Sea,”Siebe;“English Seamen and Divers,”M. Esquiros; an Article in“The Shipwrecked Mariner,”Vol. XXII.; &c.30.“Tales of Mystery and Imagination.”31.This account is mainly derived from the“History of the Atlantic Telegraph,”by Dr. Henry M. Field;“The Story of Cyrus Field;”and Dr. Russell’s letters in theTimes.32.Leblond:“Voyage aux Antilles.”33.“A Year by the Sea-side.”34.“La Mer.”35.The popular idea regarding the necessity for the letterrin the open months for oyster-eating is tolerably correct in Europe, but will not apply to all parts of the world.36.The varied information concerning the oyster contained in this chapter is mainly derived from Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea”; Figuier’s“Ocean World”; and from an interesting littlebrochureentitled“The Oyster, Where, How, and When to Find;”&c.37.The ancients masticated their oysters, and did not bolt or gulp them down. Many distinguished modern authorities agree with them. Dr. Kitchiner says it must be eaten alive.“The true lover of an oyster,”says he,“will have some regard for the feelings of his little favourite, and contrive to detach the fish from the shell so dexterously that the oyster is hardly conscious he has been ejected from his lodging till hefeels the teethof the piscivorous gourmet tickling him to death.”38.“The Harvest of the Sea.”39.Vide“The Natural History and Fishery of the Sperm Whale.”40.In“The World of the Sea.”M. Tandon is commenting on the account published by M. Sabin Barthelot, then French Consul at the Canary Islands.41.This account of the crustaceans is derived from the works of Milne-Edwards, Pennant and Bell, Gosse, Couch, Broderip, Rymer Jones and Major Lord, Figuier and Tandon.42.Louis Cecil.43.The contents of this chapter are derived from Dr. Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea,”Figuier’s“Ocean World,”Hartwig’s“Sea and its Living Wonders,”Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America,”&c.44.The reader interested in further details will do well to peruse J. Mortimer Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America.”45.A very stout man, placed where no food is obtainable, will (health and age being identical) live longer than a lean one. There is a recorded case of a fat man living nearly sixty days without food.46.In his“Rambles beyond Railways.”47.This watcher also receives a percentage on the“take”of fish.48.The contents of this chapter are derived mainly from the works of Owen, Beale, Maury, Scammon, Gosse, and Timbs.49.Formerly, when spermaceti was only used in medicine, many tons of it were annually thrown into the Thames as useless, the supply being so much in excess of the demand.50.From an article entitled“Shipmates I have Known,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner: Journal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.51.The bulk of this chapter is derived from Philip Henry Gosse’s“Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast;”“Tenby: a Seaside Holiday;”“A Year at the Shore;”the Rev. J. G. Wood’s“Common Objects of the Sea-shore;”and Madame de Gasparin’s charming idyl,“By the Sea-shore.”52.“By the Sea-shore.”53.The reader may have found in his own experience that a garment which has been well drenched in salt water will always attract damp, however much dried by the fire. The only remedy is to thoroughly wash it in fresh water, and then dry it.54.This account is mainly derived from Wilkie Collins’s“Rambles beyond Railways,”and the Rev. C. A. Johns’s“Week at the Lizard.”55.“A Week at the Lizard.”56.The writer acknowledges his indebtedness to a series of papers entitled“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”published in theJournal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society. That noble institution relieved in 1878-9 no less than 3,452 shipwrecked persons, by clothing them, and forwarding them to their homes, and in the case of fishermen, helping them to repair damage done in gales, &c., to their boats and fishing-gear. Seven thousand four hundred and ninety widows of mariners were relieved during that period, while 2,400 receive smallannualallowances. A Seamen’s Provident Fund is also managed by the Society, to which 50,000 mariners contributed. During the period mentioned above ten gold and silver medals, a handsome sextant, and £25 in money, were awarded for saving fifty-one lives on the high seas or abroad. The society also organised the“Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen’s Institution,”the home of which, at Belvedere, Kent, shelters about 100 poor mariners, and relieves by an out-pension a still larger number. Readers of this work who have been moved by the many tales of peril and heroism undergone and displayed by seamen and fishermen, will do well to remember, and remember practically, this worthy and most economically-managed society.57.United Service Gazette.58.United Service Gazette.59.This account of the loss of theGrosser Kurfürstis condensed from an article in theUnited Service Gazette.60.R. M. Ballantyne;“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands.”61.“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner.62.Sarah Doudney.63.In a letter toThe Shipwrecked Mariner, January, 1873.64.Leander.“Who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?)To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”65.The feat of swimming across the Dardanelles was also successfully accomplished by Lieut. Moore and Gunner Mahoney, of H.M.S.Shearwater, on the 25th November, 1872.66.We are indebted to Captain Webb’s“Art of Swimming,”edited by A. G. Payne;“The Channel Feats,”&c., by“Dolphin”; the Journals of the National Life-Boat Institution and the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.67.It will be remembered that Captain Webb has since remained respectivelysixtyandseventy-twoconsecutive hours in the water, with, of course, little attempt at natatory exertion.68.United Service Magazine.69.Edwin Hodder;“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War.”70.“Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.,”edited by his son.71.Thebrochurewhich Mr. Reade wrote with the view of raising a fund for poor Lambert is entitled,“A Hero and a Martyr.”It was printed mainly for private circulation.72.A wean wastit—a child thrown away.73.Flood.74.Tense of the old verb“wend”—to go.75.Run and squeal.76.Upset.77.Fan.78.These.79.Those.80.The scale of relief to members, their widows, orphans, or parents (when dependent) is as liberal as one could expect. A fisherman or mariner receives compensation for loss of boat or clothes; a widow with two children may obtain as much as £19 2s. 6d.; and with four children, £25 10s.81.Extract from address of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh at annual meeting.82.“English Seamen and Divers.”83.Condensed from an article by W. Senior in theShipwrecked Mariner.84.The most powerful fog-horns introduced into this country are those known as the Siren signals, which are illustrated in our plate. This name is given to them on account of the sound being“produced by means of a disc, with twelve radial slits, being made to rotate in front of a fixed disc exactly similar. The moving disc revolves 2,800 times a minute, and in each revolution there are, of course, twelve coincidences between the two discs; through the openings thus made steam or air at high pressure is allowed to pass, so that there are actually twelve times 2,800 (or 33,600) puffs of steam or compressed air every minute. This causes a sound of very great power, which the cast-iron trumpet, twenty feet in length, compresses to a certain extent, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound-beam in the direction required.”The Siren, which was originally designed in New York, and was first adopted by the American Lighthouse Board, can be heard in all kinds of weather at from two-and-a-half to three miles, and on favourable occasions at as many as sixteen miles out at sea.85.Francis Quarles.86.“Virgil’s Sea Descriptions,”Cornhill Magazine, October, 1874.87.Bermudas.88.Let Shakespearian students note the allusions to piracy contained in the following references:—Twelfth Night, Act V. scene 1;Measure for Measure, I. 2, and IV. 3;Merchant of Venice, I. 3; Second Part ofHenry VI., IV. 1, 9;Richard III., I. 3;Antony and Cleopatra, I. 4, II. 6;Pericles, IV. 2, 3–V. 1;Hamlet, IV. 6.89.Pillaged.90.Wanton.91.The father, Charles Dibdin, and his two sons, one of the latter of whom was the author of the popular“All’s Well.”Many popular sea-songs, written by others during the epoch of the Dibdins and later, are, however, very commonly but erroneously placed to their credit. Among those often ascribed to them are the following, really written by the subjoined authors:—“The Death of Nelson”(S. J. Arnold),“The Bay of Biscay”(Andrew Cherry),“Rule, Britannia”(J. Thompson),“The Saucy Arethusa”(Prince Hoare),“The Storm”(“Cease, rude Boreas”: G. A. Stevens),“The Sailor’s Consolation”(“One night came on a hurricane”: W. Pitt),“Ye Mariners of England”(Thomas Campbell),“Ye Gentlemen of England”(Martin Parker). The well-known song“William and Susan,”in the nautical drama“Black-eyed Susan,”is in like manner sometimes attributed to Douglas Jerrold, the real author of the ever-verdant play, but the ballad itself was written by Thomas Gay.92.The reader not familiar with the poetical works of this authoress is recommended to peruse“’Tis a Wild Night at Sea”and“TheRover’sDeath.”93.TheCornhill Magazine, March, 1871.Transcriber’s NoteThe illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.Pages which contain only an illustration have been left out in the pagination on the margin.An illustrationwhich was missing from the List of Illustrations has been added to it.The following changes have been made to the text:page iii, dash added after“Soaped Rails”page iv, dash added after“The First Idea of the Atlantic Cable”and after“The Employment of theGreat Eastern”page vi, dash added after“Bold and Timid Lads”and after“The‘True Ring’”page 11, quote mark added after“petulantly.”page 38, double“the”removed before“captain”page 66, quote mark added before“I saw”page 74, quote mark removed after“breadth.”page 90,“suphuretted”changed to“sulphuretted”page 91, period added after“hour”page 133, dash removed after“that”and added before itpage 134, second quote mark added before“That”,“The oysters”and“True,”page 153, comma removed after“lucky”page 165, quote mark added after“stage.”page 256, quote mark removed before“If”page 299, quote mark removed before“Rover’s”page 303, quote mark added before“new departure”page 304, quote mark added after“sea.”page 308,“vovage”changed to“voyage”page 310,“Fiskernœs”changed to“Fiskernæs”Additionally, the punctuation in the General Index has been regularized in several places.Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.
Footnotes1.Mrs. Brassey:“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”Her trip occupied eleven months.2.From a rare work in the author’s possession, entitled,“Songs of the Ship; or the British Seaman’s Jovial andEverlastingSongster.”3.Margharita Weppner, Author of“The North Star and the Southern Cross.”4.“American Notes for General Circulation.”5.The late Mr. W. S. Lindsay, in his“History of Merchant Shipping,”stated that Mr. and Mrs. Inman,“greatly to their credit, made a voyage in one of their earliest emigrant steamers, expressly for the purpose of ameliorating the discomforts and evils hitherto but too common in emigrant ships.”6.Margharita Weppner.7.“Westward by Rail.”8.Videpage 18.9.PronouncedKanyon. The word is of Spanish origin, and signifies a deep rocky defile.10.All in the territory, and there are now a large number of miners, who are not believers in the Mormon faith, are considered outsiders and“Gentiles.”11.The highest newspaper offices in the United States, and, it is hardly to be doubted, in the world, are in Colorado. Georgetown, 8,452 feet elevation, has one; Central City, has two dailies, published at 8,300 feet above the sea level.12.Although the railway had remained intact, avalanches had occurred that winter in the mountain districts of Nevada and Utah, accompanied by serious loss of life.13.“A Ramble Round the World.”Translated by Lady Herbert.14.A. D. Carlisle, B.A., in“Round the World in 1870.”15.A. W. Guillemard:“Over Land and Sea. A Log of Travel Round the World in 1873-4.”16.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India, and Cashmere.”17.This fine vessel while lying at anchor in the roadstead of Yokohama, on the 24th of August, 1872, was destroyed by fire. In seven minutes after the first flames were discovered the ship from stem to stern was one sheet of flame. At the last moment the captain, terribly burnt, threw himself in the water and was rescued. Three Europeans and sixty Chinamen were either burnt to death or drowned. The Chinese, determined not to lose their savings, dawdled a little, and then threw themselves all together on a ladder, which broke with their weight. The gold found on their corpses proved that not one had returned poor from California. It is needless to say that Hübner’s description of the size of theAmericais incorrect.18.“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”19.Hübner.20.Vide“Over Land and Sea.”21.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter.”22.In“Australia and New Zealand.”23.In 1872 there were 41,000,000 sheep and 4,340,000 horned cattle in Australia. The tinned meat and extract works employ a large number of hands at good wages.24.Let the reader compare the following verses of Genesis:—“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”—Chap. vii., verse 11.“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”—Chap. viii., verses 13 and 14.25.Vol. III., First Series, page 509.26.This chapter is based on the works of Tennant, Darwin, Gosse, Figuier, and other authorities.27.About £48,000.28.In“The Origin of Species.”29.The bulk of this chapter is derived from the following works:—“The Conquest of the Sea,”Siebe;“English Seamen and Divers,”M. Esquiros; an Article in“The Shipwrecked Mariner,”Vol. XXII.; &c.30.“Tales of Mystery and Imagination.”31.This account is mainly derived from the“History of the Atlantic Telegraph,”by Dr. Henry M. Field;“The Story of Cyrus Field;”and Dr. Russell’s letters in theTimes.32.Leblond:“Voyage aux Antilles.”33.“A Year by the Sea-side.”34.“La Mer.”35.The popular idea regarding the necessity for the letterrin the open months for oyster-eating is tolerably correct in Europe, but will not apply to all parts of the world.36.The varied information concerning the oyster contained in this chapter is mainly derived from Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea”; Figuier’s“Ocean World”; and from an interesting littlebrochureentitled“The Oyster, Where, How, and When to Find;”&c.37.The ancients masticated their oysters, and did not bolt or gulp them down. Many distinguished modern authorities agree with them. Dr. Kitchiner says it must be eaten alive.“The true lover of an oyster,”says he,“will have some regard for the feelings of his little favourite, and contrive to detach the fish from the shell so dexterously that the oyster is hardly conscious he has been ejected from his lodging till hefeels the teethof the piscivorous gourmet tickling him to death.”38.“The Harvest of the Sea.”39.Vide“The Natural History and Fishery of the Sperm Whale.”40.In“The World of the Sea.”M. Tandon is commenting on the account published by M. Sabin Barthelot, then French Consul at the Canary Islands.41.This account of the crustaceans is derived from the works of Milne-Edwards, Pennant and Bell, Gosse, Couch, Broderip, Rymer Jones and Major Lord, Figuier and Tandon.42.Louis Cecil.43.The contents of this chapter are derived from Dr. Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea,”Figuier’s“Ocean World,”Hartwig’s“Sea and its Living Wonders,”Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America,”&c.44.The reader interested in further details will do well to peruse J. Mortimer Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America.”45.A very stout man, placed where no food is obtainable, will (health and age being identical) live longer than a lean one. There is a recorded case of a fat man living nearly sixty days without food.46.In his“Rambles beyond Railways.”47.This watcher also receives a percentage on the“take”of fish.48.The contents of this chapter are derived mainly from the works of Owen, Beale, Maury, Scammon, Gosse, and Timbs.49.Formerly, when spermaceti was only used in medicine, many tons of it were annually thrown into the Thames as useless, the supply being so much in excess of the demand.50.From an article entitled“Shipmates I have Known,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner: Journal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.51.The bulk of this chapter is derived from Philip Henry Gosse’s“Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast;”“Tenby: a Seaside Holiday;”“A Year at the Shore;”the Rev. J. G. Wood’s“Common Objects of the Sea-shore;”and Madame de Gasparin’s charming idyl,“By the Sea-shore.”52.“By the Sea-shore.”53.The reader may have found in his own experience that a garment which has been well drenched in salt water will always attract damp, however much dried by the fire. The only remedy is to thoroughly wash it in fresh water, and then dry it.54.This account is mainly derived from Wilkie Collins’s“Rambles beyond Railways,”and the Rev. C. A. Johns’s“Week at the Lizard.”55.“A Week at the Lizard.”56.The writer acknowledges his indebtedness to a series of papers entitled“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”published in theJournal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society. That noble institution relieved in 1878-9 no less than 3,452 shipwrecked persons, by clothing them, and forwarding them to their homes, and in the case of fishermen, helping them to repair damage done in gales, &c., to their boats and fishing-gear. Seven thousand four hundred and ninety widows of mariners were relieved during that period, while 2,400 receive smallannualallowances. A Seamen’s Provident Fund is also managed by the Society, to which 50,000 mariners contributed. During the period mentioned above ten gold and silver medals, a handsome sextant, and £25 in money, were awarded for saving fifty-one lives on the high seas or abroad. The society also organised the“Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen’s Institution,”the home of which, at Belvedere, Kent, shelters about 100 poor mariners, and relieves by an out-pension a still larger number. Readers of this work who have been moved by the many tales of peril and heroism undergone and displayed by seamen and fishermen, will do well to remember, and remember practically, this worthy and most economically-managed society.57.United Service Gazette.58.United Service Gazette.59.This account of the loss of theGrosser Kurfürstis condensed from an article in theUnited Service Gazette.60.R. M. Ballantyne;“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands.”61.“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner.62.Sarah Doudney.63.In a letter toThe Shipwrecked Mariner, January, 1873.64.Leander.“Who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?)To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”65.The feat of swimming across the Dardanelles was also successfully accomplished by Lieut. Moore and Gunner Mahoney, of H.M.S.Shearwater, on the 25th November, 1872.66.We are indebted to Captain Webb’s“Art of Swimming,”edited by A. G. Payne;“The Channel Feats,”&c., by“Dolphin”; the Journals of the National Life-Boat Institution and the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.67.It will be remembered that Captain Webb has since remained respectivelysixtyandseventy-twoconsecutive hours in the water, with, of course, little attempt at natatory exertion.68.United Service Magazine.69.Edwin Hodder;“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War.”70.“Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.,”edited by his son.71.Thebrochurewhich Mr. Reade wrote with the view of raising a fund for poor Lambert is entitled,“A Hero and a Martyr.”It was printed mainly for private circulation.72.A wean wastit—a child thrown away.73.Flood.74.Tense of the old verb“wend”—to go.75.Run and squeal.76.Upset.77.Fan.78.These.79.Those.80.The scale of relief to members, their widows, orphans, or parents (when dependent) is as liberal as one could expect. A fisherman or mariner receives compensation for loss of boat or clothes; a widow with two children may obtain as much as £19 2s. 6d.; and with four children, £25 10s.81.Extract from address of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh at annual meeting.82.“English Seamen and Divers.”83.Condensed from an article by W. Senior in theShipwrecked Mariner.84.The most powerful fog-horns introduced into this country are those known as the Siren signals, which are illustrated in our plate. This name is given to them on account of the sound being“produced by means of a disc, with twelve radial slits, being made to rotate in front of a fixed disc exactly similar. The moving disc revolves 2,800 times a minute, and in each revolution there are, of course, twelve coincidences between the two discs; through the openings thus made steam or air at high pressure is allowed to pass, so that there are actually twelve times 2,800 (or 33,600) puffs of steam or compressed air every minute. This causes a sound of very great power, which the cast-iron trumpet, twenty feet in length, compresses to a certain extent, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound-beam in the direction required.”The Siren, which was originally designed in New York, and was first adopted by the American Lighthouse Board, can be heard in all kinds of weather at from two-and-a-half to three miles, and on favourable occasions at as many as sixteen miles out at sea.85.Francis Quarles.86.“Virgil’s Sea Descriptions,”Cornhill Magazine, October, 1874.87.Bermudas.88.Let Shakespearian students note the allusions to piracy contained in the following references:—Twelfth Night, Act V. scene 1;Measure for Measure, I. 2, and IV. 3;Merchant of Venice, I. 3; Second Part ofHenry VI., IV. 1, 9;Richard III., I. 3;Antony and Cleopatra, I. 4, II. 6;Pericles, IV. 2, 3–V. 1;Hamlet, IV. 6.89.Pillaged.90.Wanton.91.The father, Charles Dibdin, and his two sons, one of the latter of whom was the author of the popular“All’s Well.”Many popular sea-songs, written by others during the epoch of the Dibdins and later, are, however, very commonly but erroneously placed to their credit. Among those often ascribed to them are the following, really written by the subjoined authors:—“The Death of Nelson”(S. J. Arnold),“The Bay of Biscay”(Andrew Cherry),“Rule, Britannia”(J. Thompson),“The Saucy Arethusa”(Prince Hoare),“The Storm”(“Cease, rude Boreas”: G. A. Stevens),“The Sailor’s Consolation”(“One night came on a hurricane”: W. Pitt),“Ye Mariners of England”(Thomas Campbell),“Ye Gentlemen of England”(Martin Parker). The well-known song“William and Susan,”in the nautical drama“Black-eyed Susan,”is in like manner sometimes attributed to Douglas Jerrold, the real author of the ever-verdant play, but the ballad itself was written by Thomas Gay.92.The reader not familiar with the poetical works of this authoress is recommended to peruse“’Tis a Wild Night at Sea”and“TheRover’sDeath.”93.TheCornhill Magazine, March, 1871.Transcriber’s NoteThe illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.Pages which contain only an illustration have been left out in the pagination on the margin.An illustrationwhich was missing from the List of Illustrations has been added to it.The following changes have been made to the text:page iii, dash added after“Soaped Rails”page iv, dash added after“The First Idea of the Atlantic Cable”and after“The Employment of theGreat Eastern”page vi, dash added after“Bold and Timid Lads”and after“The‘True Ring’”page 11, quote mark added after“petulantly.”page 38, double“the”removed before“captain”page 66, quote mark added before“I saw”page 74, quote mark removed after“breadth.”page 90,“suphuretted”changed to“sulphuretted”page 91, period added after“hour”page 133, dash removed after“that”and added before itpage 134, second quote mark added before“That”,“The oysters”and“True,”page 153, comma removed after“lucky”page 165, quote mark added after“stage.”page 256, quote mark removed before“If”page 299, quote mark removed before“Rover’s”page 303, quote mark added before“new departure”page 304, quote mark added after“sea.”page 308,“vovage”changed to“voyage”page 310,“Fiskernœs”changed to“Fiskernæs”Additionally, the punctuation in the General Index has been regularized in several places.Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.
Footnotes1.Mrs. Brassey:“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”Her trip occupied eleven months.2.From a rare work in the author’s possession, entitled,“Songs of the Ship; or the British Seaman’s Jovial andEverlastingSongster.”3.Margharita Weppner, Author of“The North Star and the Southern Cross.”4.“American Notes for General Circulation.”5.The late Mr. W. S. Lindsay, in his“History of Merchant Shipping,”stated that Mr. and Mrs. Inman,“greatly to their credit, made a voyage in one of their earliest emigrant steamers, expressly for the purpose of ameliorating the discomforts and evils hitherto but too common in emigrant ships.”6.Margharita Weppner.7.“Westward by Rail.”8.Videpage 18.9.PronouncedKanyon. The word is of Spanish origin, and signifies a deep rocky defile.10.All in the territory, and there are now a large number of miners, who are not believers in the Mormon faith, are considered outsiders and“Gentiles.”11.The highest newspaper offices in the United States, and, it is hardly to be doubted, in the world, are in Colorado. Georgetown, 8,452 feet elevation, has one; Central City, has two dailies, published at 8,300 feet above the sea level.12.Although the railway had remained intact, avalanches had occurred that winter in the mountain districts of Nevada and Utah, accompanied by serious loss of life.13.“A Ramble Round the World.”Translated by Lady Herbert.14.A. D. Carlisle, B.A., in“Round the World in 1870.”15.A. W. Guillemard:“Over Land and Sea. A Log of Travel Round the World in 1873-4.”16.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India, and Cashmere.”17.This fine vessel while lying at anchor in the roadstead of Yokohama, on the 24th of August, 1872, was destroyed by fire. In seven minutes after the first flames were discovered the ship from stem to stern was one sheet of flame. At the last moment the captain, terribly burnt, threw himself in the water and was rescued. Three Europeans and sixty Chinamen were either burnt to death or drowned. The Chinese, determined not to lose their savings, dawdled a little, and then threw themselves all together on a ladder, which broke with their weight. The gold found on their corpses proved that not one had returned poor from California. It is needless to say that Hübner’s description of the size of theAmericais incorrect.18.“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”19.Hübner.20.Vide“Over Land and Sea.”21.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter.”22.In“Australia and New Zealand.”23.In 1872 there were 41,000,000 sheep and 4,340,000 horned cattle in Australia. The tinned meat and extract works employ a large number of hands at good wages.24.Let the reader compare the following verses of Genesis:—“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”—Chap. vii., verse 11.“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”—Chap. viii., verses 13 and 14.25.Vol. III., First Series, page 509.26.This chapter is based on the works of Tennant, Darwin, Gosse, Figuier, and other authorities.27.About £48,000.28.In“The Origin of Species.”29.The bulk of this chapter is derived from the following works:—“The Conquest of the Sea,”Siebe;“English Seamen and Divers,”M. Esquiros; an Article in“The Shipwrecked Mariner,”Vol. XXII.; &c.30.“Tales of Mystery and Imagination.”31.This account is mainly derived from the“History of the Atlantic Telegraph,”by Dr. Henry M. Field;“The Story of Cyrus Field;”and Dr. Russell’s letters in theTimes.32.Leblond:“Voyage aux Antilles.”33.“A Year by the Sea-side.”34.“La Mer.”35.The popular idea regarding the necessity for the letterrin the open months for oyster-eating is tolerably correct in Europe, but will not apply to all parts of the world.36.The varied information concerning the oyster contained in this chapter is mainly derived from Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea”; Figuier’s“Ocean World”; and from an interesting littlebrochureentitled“The Oyster, Where, How, and When to Find;”&c.37.The ancients masticated their oysters, and did not bolt or gulp them down. Many distinguished modern authorities agree with them. Dr. Kitchiner says it must be eaten alive.“The true lover of an oyster,”says he,“will have some regard for the feelings of his little favourite, and contrive to detach the fish from the shell so dexterously that the oyster is hardly conscious he has been ejected from his lodging till hefeels the teethof the piscivorous gourmet tickling him to death.”38.“The Harvest of the Sea.”39.Vide“The Natural History and Fishery of the Sperm Whale.”40.In“The World of the Sea.”M. Tandon is commenting on the account published by M. Sabin Barthelot, then French Consul at the Canary Islands.41.This account of the crustaceans is derived from the works of Milne-Edwards, Pennant and Bell, Gosse, Couch, Broderip, Rymer Jones and Major Lord, Figuier and Tandon.42.Louis Cecil.43.The contents of this chapter are derived from Dr. Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea,”Figuier’s“Ocean World,”Hartwig’s“Sea and its Living Wonders,”Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America,”&c.44.The reader interested in further details will do well to peruse J. Mortimer Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America.”45.A very stout man, placed where no food is obtainable, will (health and age being identical) live longer than a lean one. There is a recorded case of a fat man living nearly sixty days without food.46.In his“Rambles beyond Railways.”47.This watcher also receives a percentage on the“take”of fish.48.The contents of this chapter are derived mainly from the works of Owen, Beale, Maury, Scammon, Gosse, and Timbs.49.Formerly, when spermaceti was only used in medicine, many tons of it were annually thrown into the Thames as useless, the supply being so much in excess of the demand.50.From an article entitled“Shipmates I have Known,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner: Journal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.51.The bulk of this chapter is derived from Philip Henry Gosse’s“Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast;”“Tenby: a Seaside Holiday;”“A Year at the Shore;”the Rev. J. G. Wood’s“Common Objects of the Sea-shore;”and Madame de Gasparin’s charming idyl,“By the Sea-shore.”52.“By the Sea-shore.”53.The reader may have found in his own experience that a garment which has been well drenched in salt water will always attract damp, however much dried by the fire. The only remedy is to thoroughly wash it in fresh water, and then dry it.54.This account is mainly derived from Wilkie Collins’s“Rambles beyond Railways,”and the Rev. C. A. Johns’s“Week at the Lizard.”55.“A Week at the Lizard.”56.The writer acknowledges his indebtedness to a series of papers entitled“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”published in theJournal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society. That noble institution relieved in 1878-9 no less than 3,452 shipwrecked persons, by clothing them, and forwarding them to their homes, and in the case of fishermen, helping them to repair damage done in gales, &c., to their boats and fishing-gear. Seven thousand four hundred and ninety widows of mariners were relieved during that period, while 2,400 receive smallannualallowances. A Seamen’s Provident Fund is also managed by the Society, to which 50,000 mariners contributed. During the period mentioned above ten gold and silver medals, a handsome sextant, and £25 in money, were awarded for saving fifty-one lives on the high seas or abroad. The society also organised the“Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen’s Institution,”the home of which, at Belvedere, Kent, shelters about 100 poor mariners, and relieves by an out-pension a still larger number. Readers of this work who have been moved by the many tales of peril and heroism undergone and displayed by seamen and fishermen, will do well to remember, and remember practically, this worthy and most economically-managed society.57.United Service Gazette.58.United Service Gazette.59.This account of the loss of theGrosser Kurfürstis condensed from an article in theUnited Service Gazette.60.R. M. Ballantyne;“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands.”61.“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner.62.Sarah Doudney.63.In a letter toThe Shipwrecked Mariner, January, 1873.64.Leander.“Who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?)To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”65.The feat of swimming across the Dardanelles was also successfully accomplished by Lieut. Moore and Gunner Mahoney, of H.M.S.Shearwater, on the 25th November, 1872.66.We are indebted to Captain Webb’s“Art of Swimming,”edited by A. G. Payne;“The Channel Feats,”&c., by“Dolphin”; the Journals of the National Life-Boat Institution and the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.67.It will be remembered that Captain Webb has since remained respectivelysixtyandseventy-twoconsecutive hours in the water, with, of course, little attempt at natatory exertion.68.United Service Magazine.69.Edwin Hodder;“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War.”70.“Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.,”edited by his son.71.Thebrochurewhich Mr. Reade wrote with the view of raising a fund for poor Lambert is entitled,“A Hero and a Martyr.”It was printed mainly for private circulation.72.A wean wastit—a child thrown away.73.Flood.74.Tense of the old verb“wend”—to go.75.Run and squeal.76.Upset.77.Fan.78.These.79.Those.80.The scale of relief to members, their widows, orphans, or parents (when dependent) is as liberal as one could expect. A fisherman or mariner receives compensation for loss of boat or clothes; a widow with two children may obtain as much as £19 2s. 6d.; and with four children, £25 10s.81.Extract from address of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh at annual meeting.82.“English Seamen and Divers.”83.Condensed from an article by W. Senior in theShipwrecked Mariner.84.The most powerful fog-horns introduced into this country are those known as the Siren signals, which are illustrated in our plate. This name is given to them on account of the sound being“produced by means of a disc, with twelve radial slits, being made to rotate in front of a fixed disc exactly similar. The moving disc revolves 2,800 times a minute, and in each revolution there are, of course, twelve coincidences between the two discs; through the openings thus made steam or air at high pressure is allowed to pass, so that there are actually twelve times 2,800 (or 33,600) puffs of steam or compressed air every minute. This causes a sound of very great power, which the cast-iron trumpet, twenty feet in length, compresses to a certain extent, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound-beam in the direction required.”The Siren, which was originally designed in New York, and was first adopted by the American Lighthouse Board, can be heard in all kinds of weather at from two-and-a-half to three miles, and on favourable occasions at as many as sixteen miles out at sea.85.Francis Quarles.86.“Virgil’s Sea Descriptions,”Cornhill Magazine, October, 1874.87.Bermudas.88.Let Shakespearian students note the allusions to piracy contained in the following references:—Twelfth Night, Act V. scene 1;Measure for Measure, I. 2, and IV. 3;Merchant of Venice, I. 3; Second Part ofHenry VI., IV. 1, 9;Richard III., I. 3;Antony and Cleopatra, I. 4, II. 6;Pericles, IV. 2, 3–V. 1;Hamlet, IV. 6.89.Pillaged.90.Wanton.91.The father, Charles Dibdin, and his two sons, one of the latter of whom was the author of the popular“All’s Well.”Many popular sea-songs, written by others during the epoch of the Dibdins and later, are, however, very commonly but erroneously placed to their credit. Among those often ascribed to them are the following, really written by the subjoined authors:—“The Death of Nelson”(S. J. Arnold),“The Bay of Biscay”(Andrew Cherry),“Rule, Britannia”(J. Thompson),“The Saucy Arethusa”(Prince Hoare),“The Storm”(“Cease, rude Boreas”: G. A. Stevens),“The Sailor’s Consolation”(“One night came on a hurricane”: W. Pitt),“Ye Mariners of England”(Thomas Campbell),“Ye Gentlemen of England”(Martin Parker). The well-known song“William and Susan,”in the nautical drama“Black-eyed Susan,”is in like manner sometimes attributed to Douglas Jerrold, the real author of the ever-verdant play, but the ballad itself was written by Thomas Gay.92.The reader not familiar with the poetical works of this authoress is recommended to peruse“’Tis a Wild Night at Sea”and“TheRover’sDeath.”93.TheCornhill Magazine, March, 1871.
Footnotes1.Mrs. Brassey:“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”Her trip occupied eleven months.2.From a rare work in the author’s possession, entitled,“Songs of the Ship; or the British Seaman’s Jovial andEverlastingSongster.”3.Margharita Weppner, Author of“The North Star and the Southern Cross.”4.“American Notes for General Circulation.”5.The late Mr. W. S. Lindsay, in his“History of Merchant Shipping,”stated that Mr. and Mrs. Inman,“greatly to their credit, made a voyage in one of their earliest emigrant steamers, expressly for the purpose of ameliorating the discomforts and evils hitherto but too common in emigrant ships.”6.Margharita Weppner.7.“Westward by Rail.”8.Videpage 18.9.PronouncedKanyon. The word is of Spanish origin, and signifies a deep rocky defile.10.All in the territory, and there are now a large number of miners, who are not believers in the Mormon faith, are considered outsiders and“Gentiles.”11.The highest newspaper offices in the United States, and, it is hardly to be doubted, in the world, are in Colorado. Georgetown, 8,452 feet elevation, has one; Central City, has two dailies, published at 8,300 feet above the sea level.12.Although the railway had remained intact, avalanches had occurred that winter in the mountain districts of Nevada and Utah, accompanied by serious loss of life.13.“A Ramble Round the World.”Translated by Lady Herbert.14.A. D. Carlisle, B.A., in“Round the World in 1870.”15.A. W. Guillemard:“Over Land and Sea. A Log of Travel Round the World in 1873-4.”16.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India, and Cashmere.”17.This fine vessel while lying at anchor in the roadstead of Yokohama, on the 24th of August, 1872, was destroyed by fire. In seven minutes after the first flames were discovered the ship from stem to stern was one sheet of flame. At the last moment the captain, terribly burnt, threw himself in the water and was rescued. Three Europeans and sixty Chinamen were either burnt to death or drowned. The Chinese, determined not to lose their savings, dawdled a little, and then threw themselves all together on a ladder, which broke with their weight. The gold found on their corpses proved that not one had returned poor from California. It is needless to say that Hübner’s description of the size of theAmericais incorrect.18.“A Voyage in theSunbeam.”19.Hübner.20.Vide“Over Land and Sea.”21.E. K. Laird:“The Rambles of a Globe Trotter.”22.In“Australia and New Zealand.”23.In 1872 there were 41,000,000 sheep and 4,340,000 horned cattle in Australia. The tinned meat and extract works employ a large number of hands at good wages.24.Let the reader compare the following verses of Genesis:—“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”—Chap. vii., verse 11.“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”—Chap. viii., verses 13 and 14.25.Vol. III., First Series, page 509.26.This chapter is based on the works of Tennant, Darwin, Gosse, Figuier, and other authorities.27.About £48,000.28.In“The Origin of Species.”29.The bulk of this chapter is derived from the following works:—“The Conquest of the Sea,”Siebe;“English Seamen and Divers,”M. Esquiros; an Article in“The Shipwrecked Mariner,”Vol. XXII.; &c.30.“Tales of Mystery and Imagination.”31.This account is mainly derived from the“History of the Atlantic Telegraph,”by Dr. Henry M. Field;“The Story of Cyrus Field;”and Dr. Russell’s letters in theTimes.32.Leblond:“Voyage aux Antilles.”33.“A Year by the Sea-side.”34.“La Mer.”35.The popular idea regarding the necessity for the letterrin the open months for oyster-eating is tolerably correct in Europe, but will not apply to all parts of the world.36.The varied information concerning the oyster contained in this chapter is mainly derived from Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea”; Figuier’s“Ocean World”; and from an interesting littlebrochureentitled“The Oyster, Where, How, and When to Find;”&c.37.The ancients masticated their oysters, and did not bolt or gulp them down. Many distinguished modern authorities agree with them. Dr. Kitchiner says it must be eaten alive.“The true lover of an oyster,”says he,“will have some regard for the feelings of his little favourite, and contrive to detach the fish from the shell so dexterously that the oyster is hardly conscious he has been ejected from his lodging till hefeels the teethof the piscivorous gourmet tickling him to death.”38.“The Harvest of the Sea.”39.Vide“The Natural History and Fishery of the Sperm Whale.”40.In“The World of the Sea.”M. Tandon is commenting on the account published by M. Sabin Barthelot, then French Consul at the Canary Islands.41.This account of the crustaceans is derived from the works of Milne-Edwards, Pennant and Bell, Gosse, Couch, Broderip, Rymer Jones and Major Lord, Figuier and Tandon.42.Louis Cecil.43.The contents of this chapter are derived from Dr. Bertram’s“Harvest of the Sea,”Figuier’s“Ocean World,”Hartwig’s“Sea and its Living Wonders,”Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America,”&c.44.The reader interested in further details will do well to peruse J. Mortimer Murphy’s“Rambles in North-Western America.”45.A very stout man, placed where no food is obtainable, will (health and age being identical) live longer than a lean one. There is a recorded case of a fat man living nearly sixty days without food.46.In his“Rambles beyond Railways.”47.This watcher also receives a percentage on the“take”of fish.48.The contents of this chapter are derived mainly from the works of Owen, Beale, Maury, Scammon, Gosse, and Timbs.49.Formerly, when spermaceti was only used in medicine, many tons of it were annually thrown into the Thames as useless, the supply being so much in excess of the demand.50.From an article entitled“Shipmates I have Known,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner: Journal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.51.The bulk of this chapter is derived from Philip Henry Gosse’s“Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast;”“Tenby: a Seaside Holiday;”“A Year at the Shore;”the Rev. J. G. Wood’s“Common Objects of the Sea-shore;”and Madame de Gasparin’s charming idyl,“By the Sea-shore.”52.“By the Sea-shore.”53.The reader may have found in his own experience that a garment which has been well drenched in salt water will always attract damp, however much dried by the fire. The only remedy is to thoroughly wash it in fresh water, and then dry it.54.This account is mainly derived from Wilkie Collins’s“Rambles beyond Railways,”and the Rev. C. A. Johns’s“Week at the Lizard.”55.“A Week at the Lizard.”56.The writer acknowledges his indebtedness to a series of papers entitled“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”published in theJournal of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society. That noble institution relieved in 1878-9 no less than 3,452 shipwrecked persons, by clothing them, and forwarding them to their homes, and in the case of fishermen, helping them to repair damage done in gales, &c., to their boats and fishing-gear. Seven thousand four hundred and ninety widows of mariners were relieved during that period, while 2,400 receive smallannualallowances. A Seamen’s Provident Fund is also managed by the Society, to which 50,000 mariners contributed. During the period mentioned above ten gold and silver medals, a handsome sextant, and £25 in money, were awarded for saving fifty-one lives on the high seas or abroad. The society also organised the“Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen’s Institution,”the home of which, at Belvedere, Kent, shelters about 100 poor mariners, and relieves by an out-pension a still larger number. Readers of this work who have been moved by the many tales of peril and heroism undergone and displayed by seamen and fishermen, will do well to remember, and remember practically, this worthy and most economically-managed society.57.United Service Gazette.58.United Service Gazette.59.This account of the loss of theGrosser Kurfürstis condensed from an article in theUnited Service Gazette.60.R. M. Ballantyne;“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands.”61.“Visits to the Sea Coasts,”inThe Shipwrecked Mariner.62.Sarah Doudney.63.In a letter toThe Shipwrecked Mariner, January, 1873.64.Leander.“Who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?)To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”65.The feat of swimming across the Dardanelles was also successfully accomplished by Lieut. Moore and Gunner Mahoney, of H.M.S.Shearwater, on the 25th November, 1872.66.We are indebted to Captain Webb’s“Art of Swimming,”edited by A. G. Payne;“The Channel Feats,”&c., by“Dolphin”; the Journals of the National Life-Boat Institution and the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.67.It will be remembered that Captain Webb has since remained respectivelysixtyandseventy-twoconsecutive hours in the water, with, of course, little attempt at natatory exertion.68.United Service Magazine.69.Edwin Hodder;“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War.”70.“Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.,”edited by his son.71.Thebrochurewhich Mr. Reade wrote with the view of raising a fund for poor Lambert is entitled,“A Hero and a Martyr.”It was printed mainly for private circulation.72.A wean wastit—a child thrown away.73.Flood.74.Tense of the old verb“wend”—to go.75.Run and squeal.76.Upset.77.Fan.78.These.79.Those.80.The scale of relief to members, their widows, orphans, or parents (when dependent) is as liberal as one could expect. A fisherman or mariner receives compensation for loss of boat or clothes; a widow with two children may obtain as much as £19 2s. 6d.; and with four children, £25 10s.81.Extract from address of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh at annual meeting.82.“English Seamen and Divers.”83.Condensed from an article by W. Senior in theShipwrecked Mariner.84.The most powerful fog-horns introduced into this country are those known as the Siren signals, which are illustrated in our plate. This name is given to them on account of the sound being“produced by means of a disc, with twelve radial slits, being made to rotate in front of a fixed disc exactly similar. The moving disc revolves 2,800 times a minute, and in each revolution there are, of course, twelve coincidences between the two discs; through the openings thus made steam or air at high pressure is allowed to pass, so that there are actually twelve times 2,800 (or 33,600) puffs of steam or compressed air every minute. This causes a sound of very great power, which the cast-iron trumpet, twenty feet in length, compresses to a certain extent, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound-beam in the direction required.”The Siren, which was originally designed in New York, and was first adopted by the American Lighthouse Board, can be heard in all kinds of weather at from two-and-a-half to three miles, and on favourable occasions at as many as sixteen miles out at sea.85.Francis Quarles.86.“Virgil’s Sea Descriptions,”Cornhill Magazine, October, 1874.87.Bermudas.88.Let Shakespearian students note the allusions to piracy contained in the following references:—Twelfth Night, Act V. scene 1;Measure for Measure, I. 2, and IV. 3;Merchant of Venice, I. 3; Second Part ofHenry VI., IV. 1, 9;Richard III., I. 3;Antony and Cleopatra, I. 4, II. 6;Pericles, IV. 2, 3–V. 1;Hamlet, IV. 6.89.Pillaged.90.Wanton.91.The father, Charles Dibdin, and his two sons, one of the latter of whom was the author of the popular“All’s Well.”Many popular sea-songs, written by others during the epoch of the Dibdins and later, are, however, very commonly but erroneously placed to their credit. Among those often ascribed to them are the following, really written by the subjoined authors:—“The Death of Nelson”(S. J. Arnold),“The Bay of Biscay”(Andrew Cherry),“Rule, Britannia”(J. Thompson),“The Saucy Arethusa”(Prince Hoare),“The Storm”(“Cease, rude Boreas”: G. A. Stevens),“The Sailor’s Consolation”(“One night came on a hurricane”: W. Pitt),“Ye Mariners of England”(Thomas Campbell),“Ye Gentlemen of England”(Martin Parker). The well-known song“William and Susan,”in the nautical drama“Black-eyed Susan,”is in like manner sometimes attributed to Douglas Jerrold, the real author of the ever-verdant play, but the ballad itself was written by Thomas Gay.92.The reader not familiar with the poetical works of this authoress is recommended to peruse“’Tis a Wild Night at Sea”and“TheRover’sDeath.”93.TheCornhill Magazine, March, 1871.
“Who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?)To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”
“Who was nightly wont
(What maid will not the tale remember?)
To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!”
Transcriber’s NoteThe illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.Pages which contain only an illustration have been left out in the pagination on the margin.An illustrationwhich was missing from the List of Illustrations has been added to it.The following changes have been made to the text:page iii, dash added after“Soaped Rails”page iv, dash added after“The First Idea of the Atlantic Cable”and after“The Employment of theGreat Eastern”page vi, dash added after“Bold and Timid Lads”and after“The‘True Ring’”page 11, quote mark added after“petulantly.”page 38, double“the”removed before“captain”page 66, quote mark added before“I saw”page 74, quote mark removed after“breadth.”page 90,“suphuretted”changed to“sulphuretted”page 91, period added after“hour”page 133, dash removed after“that”and added before itpage 134, second quote mark added before“That”,“The oysters”and“True,”page 153, comma removed after“lucky”page 165, quote mark added after“stage.”page 256, quote mark removed before“If”page 299, quote mark removed before“Rover’s”page 303, quote mark added before“new departure”page 304, quote mark added after“sea.”page 308,“vovage”changed to“voyage”page 310,“Fiskernœs”changed to“Fiskernæs”Additionally, the punctuation in the General Index has been regularized in several places.Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.
Pages which contain only an illustration have been left out in the pagination on the margin.
An illustrationwhich was missing from the List of Illustrations has been added to it.
The following changes have been made to the text:
Additionally, the punctuation in the General Index has been regularized in several places.
Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.