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C0URTESIES FROM THE ADMIRAL
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goods against even a longing glance. But when I came to a great island nearer home, stout locks were needed; the first night in port things which

Captain Slocum, Sir Alfred Milner (with the tall hat), and Colonel Saunderson, M. P., on the bow of the Spray at Cape Town.

I had always left uncovered disappeared, as if the deck on which they were stowed had been swept by a sea.

A pleasant visit from Admiral Sir Harry Raw-