mes, soon after starting, it had once
caught the back of my head, and knocked my face down on the deck, where a
bloody nose (but no worse result) speedily settled the question as to
which must yield when the boom and the captain are at loggerheads. I
learned more lessons of this sort when, in 1871, I had a lonely voyage in
a "yawl canoe" through Holland and the Zuyder Zee, and Friesland and the
Texel. An account of it was published in the 'Graphic' for November of
that year.

{272} At a southern watering place lately there were forty ladies each
in a canoe on one afternoon.

{275} Bravely they worked to save life on the Goodwin in the fearful
gale that came soon afterwards.

{280} The recent legislation for the proper care of the women and the
education of the children on barges was much needed, and it was
successfully accomplished by our late excellent Home Secretary, who was
himself one of the best "oars" at Cambridge, when the late Foreign
Secretary of France was another.

{284} The use of the word "bloody" is now general among the lowest
classes all over England. The meaning intended by this is not what
scholars would agree to. Hundreds of times the word is employed only for
"very," and it is strange how soon one's first shudders at the sound
become faint, and even die.

{287} The _Royal Canoe Club_ has elected about 600 Members, including
several ladies. Some of the Members are in Australia, India, Japan,
China, Canada, and North and South America. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
is our Commodore, and he has several canoes. There are also several
branches of the Club besides other Canoe Clubs on the Mersey, the Clyde,
the Forth, the Trent, the Humber, and four Clubs in America. The Office
of the R.C. Club is at 11, Buckingham Street, Adelphi, London, where also
is "The Pure Literature Society," with 3600 books and 42 periodicals all
good to read and to choose from.

{291} We need not he surprised that sharks should get entangled in the
Bay of Biscay. Even at Margate one was caught a short time after I had
swam in the water there, and six more sharks were captured in the summer
on the English south coast.

{296} As this was being urged upon friends, a telegram came from the
Admiralty for "Twenty-five boys from the 'Chichester.'"

{297} A description of these vessels will be found in the Appendix.

{325} The late Professor J. D. Forbes, who used this lamp, says it was
introduced into this coun