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spects, true enough descendants of the Argo- 

 nauts. The oceans are still harried and quar- 

 reled over in the name of gain; and that race 

 hatred, which has so often turned the sea into 

 a plain of battles and tinged the blue waves 

 crimson, has been the natural consequence of 

 the pursuit. Yet not every ship has flown the 

 red flag of hate, and not every crew has been 

 on conquest bent. The peaceful trader has al- 

 ways skirted the coasts. The honest merchant- 

 man, the carrier, the middleman of the nations 

 with his cargoes of stuffs, dyes, jewels and fair 

 produce runs back to Egyptian days. Even 

 with the great discoverers of Spain there went 

 out caravels on missions of peace and good-will 

 to men; and, in our own time, lines of full- 

 rigged ships have gone around the Capes in the 

 Oriental trade and swift-traveling clippers have 

 come and gone to Europe and to China, to 

 Australia and the islands of the seas, in the 

 interests of morality and religion as well as 

 commerce. 



They still come and go, faster now with 

 steam than in the days of the famous " Dread- 

 nought " and " Red Jacket " ; and the compen- 

 sation for envy and race hatred is coming in 

 with a better understanding among the nations. 

 Moreover the growth of commerce and the 



Race 

 hatred on 

 the sea. 



The early 

 carriers and 

 merchant- 

 men. 



Ocean 

 liners of 

 to-day. 



