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eighteen days from Honfleur to Tadoussac and 

 end with King George V's sixty-seven hours 

 from land to land, when he speeded home in 

 H.M.S. Indomitable from Champlain's ter- 

 centenary at Quebec in 1908, handling his 

 shovel in the stokehole by the way. 



Here are some purely sailing records worth 

 remembering. A Newfoundland schooner, the 

 Grace Carter, has sailed across to Portugal, sold 

 her fish there, gone to Cadiz for all the salt that 

 she could carry, and then reported back in New- 

 foundland within the month. A Canadian 

 schooner yacht, the Lasca, has crossed easterly, 

 the harder way, in twelve days from the St 

 Lawrence. In 1860 the Yankee Dreadnought 

 made the Atlantic record by going from Sandy 

 Hook to Liverpool in nine days and seventeen 

 hours, most of the time on the rim of a hurri- 

 cane. Six years later the most wonderful sea 

 race in history was run when five famous 

 clippers started, almost together, from the 

 Pagoda Anchorage at Fu-chau for the East 

 India Docks in London. This race was an all- 

 British one, as the civil war, the progress of 

 steam everywhere except in the China trade, 

 and the stimulus of competition, had now given 

 Britishers the lead in the East, while putting 

 them on an even footing with Yankees in the 



