Vl CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XX. 



SKETCHES OF OUE COASTS COENWALL (continue*). 



Wilkie Collins's Experiences as a Pedestrian Taken for" Mapper," "Trodger," and Hawker An Exciting Wreck at 

 Penzance The Life-line sent out An Obstinate Captain A Brave Coastguardsman Five Courageous Young 

 Ladies Falmouth and Sir Walter Raleigh Its Rapid Growth One of its Institutions A Dollar Mine Religious 

 Fishermen The Lizard and its Associations for Voyagers Origin of the Name Mount St. Michael the 

 Picturesque Her Majesty's Visit An Heroic Rescue at Plymouth Another Gallant Rescue 218 



CHAPTER XXI. 



SKETCHES OF OUE SOUTH COASTS SOUTHAMPTON. 



Southampton: its Antiquity Extensive Commerce -Great Port for Leading Steamship Lines Vagaries of a Runaway 

 Steamer The Isle of Wight Terrible Loss of the Eurydice Finding of the Court-martial Raising Her from the 

 Bottom - ' London by the Seaside " Newhaven andSeaford Beachy Head An Attempt to Scale it A Wreck there- 

 Knowledge Useful on an Emergency -Saved by Samphire The Coast-guard: Past and Present Their Compara- 

 tively Pleasant Lot To-day The Coast-guard in the Smuggler Days Sympathies of the Country against them . 22.'> 



CHAPTER XXII. 



SKETCHES OF OUE SOUTH COASTS (concluded}. 



Eastbourne and its Quiet Charms Hastings Its Fishermen The Battle of Hastings Loss of the Grosser Kurfurst 

 The Collision The Catastrophe Dover The Castle Shakespeare's Cliff" O'er the Downs so free" St. Margaret's 

 Bay Kingsdown Deal A Deed of Daring Ramsgate and Margate The Floating Light on the Goodwin 

 Sands Ballantyne's Voluntary Imprisonment- His Experiences -The Craft The Light One Thousand Wild 

 Ducks caught A Signal from the " South Sand Head "The Answer Life on Board 235 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



SKETCHES OF OUR EAST COASTS : NORFOLK YORKSHIRE. 



Harwich ; its fine Harbour -Thorpeness and its Hero Beautiful Situation of Lowestoft Yarmouth ; its Antiquity- 

 Quays. Bridges The Roadstead Herring and Mackerel Fishing Curing Red Herrings and Bloaters A Struggle 

 for Life Encroachments of the Sea A Dangerous Coast -Flamborough Head Perils of the Yorkshire Fisherman's 

 Life" The sea gat him !" -Filey and its Quiet Attractions Natural Breakwater -A Sad Tale of the Sea Scar- 

 borough ; Ancient Records The Terrible and the Gay The Coupland Helpless - Lifeboat out Her men thrown oul 

 Boat crushed against Sea Wall Two Killed Futile Attempts at Rescue A Lady's Description of a Scarborough 

 Gale Whitby Robin Hood's Bay An Undermined Town 217 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



THE AET OF SWIMMING FEATS IN NATATION LIFE SAVEES. 



Lord Byron and the Hellespont The Art of Swimming a Necessary Accomplishment The Numbers Lost from Drowning 

 A Lamentable Accident Captain Webb s Advice to Beginners Bold and Timid Lads Best Places to Learn in 

 Necessity of Commencing Properly-The Secret of a Good Stroke Useful and Ornamental Natation -Diving- 

 Advice - Possibilities of Serious Injury Inventions for Aiding Swimming and Floating The Boyton Dress Matthew 

 WebbBrave Attempt to Save a Comrade The Great Channel Swim Twenty-Two Hours in the Sea Stung by a 



Ellerthorpe - Lambert The " Hero ot the Clyde 



The Crowning Feat Blinded and Neglected Appreciation at Last 257 



CHAPTER XXV. 



THE HAVEN AT LAST HOME IN THE THAMES. 



The " Mighty Thames " Poor Jack Home Again-Provident Sailors-The Belvedere Home and its Inmates- -A Ship 

 Ashore Rival Castaways Greenwich Pensioners The Present System Compared with the Old Freedom Outside 

 the Hospital - The Observatory The Astronomer Royal Modern Belief in Astrology Site of Greenwich Park- 

 Telescopes and Observations The Clock which Sets the Time for all England Sad Reminiscences r The Loss of the 

 Princess ^IKce-The Old Dreadnought The Largest Floating Hospital in the World -The Trinity House: Its 

 Constitution, Purposes, and Uses Lighthouses and Light-vessels Its Masters 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



WHAT POETS HAVE SUNG OF THE SEA, THE SAILOE, AND THE SHIP. 



The Poet of the Sea still Wanting -Biblical Allusions-The Classical Writers Want of True Sympathy with the Subject 

 Virgil's "JEneid"- His Stae:t> Rfnrms The Immortal Bard His Intimate Acquaintance with the bea and. the 

 Sailor -The Golden Days of "Maritime Enterprise -The Tempest Miranda's Compassion Pranks of the Airy 

 Spirit" The Merchant of Venice -Piracy in Shakespeare's Days A Birth at Sea Cymbeli^e : the Queens 

 Descrintion of our Isle Byron's " Ocean "- Falconer's " Shipwreck" His Technical Knowledge The 1 rue King 

 The I )ibdins " Tom Bowling " -" The Boatman of the Downs "Three Touching Poems Mrs. Hemans, Longfellow, 

 and Kin.orsley Browning's "Herve Riel" The True Breton Pilot A New Departure Hood's Demon bnip ~ 

 Popular Songs of the Day -Conclusion 



GENERAL INDEX . 305 



