140 DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 



traction is its church, around which are buried 

 the victims, many hundreds in number, of this 

 treacherous coast. A small slate slab denotes 

 the spot where a hundred and twenty were buried 

 who lost their lives in the wreck of the ship John. 

 Within the church is a marble slab which gives the 

 names of the officers that were drowned when the 

 transport ship Dispatch was lost, and below their 

 names are stirring lines which tell how by the cruel 

 irony of Fate these brave young fellows, the perils 

 of war, in a distant land, all safely passed, were 

 overwhelmed in sight of home. The most con- 

 spicuous monument in the churchyard is a granite 

 cross above the Mohegan grave, in which are buried 

 many of the victims of the disaster to that emigrant 

 vessel. It was on the occasion of the loss of this 

 ship that the men of Porthoustock fought so bravely 

 and so well to save life, and succeeded in bringing 

 forty-four safely to land while the ship's boats were 

 all broken against rocks and their occupants lost. 

 I am ready who is not? to raise my hat to 

 the brave men who will leave their beds while a 

 midnight storm is raging and go out amongst 

 the Manacles. 



That we managed to have a happy health-giving 

 time in this little, old-world spot was possibly in 

 some measure due to the fact that most of us 

 had learned that : 



" From our own selves our joys must flow, 

 And that dear hut, our home." 



We had each brought with us what constitutes 

 our home and their presence made us joyful with a 

 reasoned joy that fitted in well with the atmos- 



