302 OUR HERITAGE THE SEA 



were constructed, we are confronted by the amazing 

 fact that the actual death-roll was really trivial as 

 compared with that of many of the conflicts at sea in 

 the Middle Ages : the sea-fight of Lepanto, for in- 

 stance, in which some 33,000 perished, or fully six 

 times as many as died at Tsu-Tshima, although the 

 boats of the modern iron-clads, when armed, were far 

 more powerful than the galleys of the mediaeval 

 mariners. 



Therefore, those of us who long for the days when 

 war shall cease, and who shudder at the awful spectacle 

 of man warring upon the sea, may be encouraged, and 

 hope that, with each advance in the destroying capabili- 

 ties of ships of war, the time may be brought nearer 

 when the ocean shall no longer be used as a battle-field, 

 but remain simply the grand open road, toll free, and 

 uniting the nations which it divides. 



