ILLUSTRATIONS

Emigrant Fleet in Hobson’s Bay	[Frontispiece]
Mr. James Baines	To face page [23]
Marco Polo	[27]
Plate of House-Flags	[32]
Sovereign of the Seas	[48]
Lightning	[60]
Red Jacket	[63]
James Baines	[77]
Donald Mackay entering Port Phillip Heads	[83]
White Star	[85]
Blue Jacket	[114]
Royal Dane	[114]
Lightning on Fire at Geelong	[117]
Light Brigade	[120]
Young Australia	[120]
Plate of House-Flags	[128]
Orient, arriving at Gibraltar with Troops from the Crimea	[148]
Pekina and Coonatto at Port Adelaide, 1867	[154]
John Duthie at Circular Quay, Sydney	[154]
Torrens	[157]
Torrens at Port Adelaide	[157]
Sobraon	[163]
City of Adelaide, David Bruce Commander,	[178]
South Australian	[178]
Captain John Wyrill, of Berean	[183]
Berean	[183]
Mr. Thomas Carmichael, of A. & J. Carmichael	[200]
Darling Downs	[204]
Antiope	[204]
Antiope	[206]
Theophane	[208]
Dharwar	[208]
Patriarch	[212]
Thomas Stephens	[214]
Mermerus alongside	[225]
Miltiades	[225]
Hesperus	[230]
Collingwood	[239]
Samuel Plimsoll	[239]
Rodney	[250]
Loch Garry	[250]
Thessalus	[254]
Loch Vennachar	[262]
Salamis	[266]
Thomas Stephens, Cairnbulg, Brilliant and Cutty Sark,in Sydney Harbour	[266]
Woollahra	[270]
Aristides	[274]
Harbinger	[276]
Argonaut	[280]
Pericles	[282]
Mermerus in Victoria Dock, Melbourne, 1896	[284]
Brilliant	[284]
Loch Etive	[286]
Argonaut in the Clyde	[286]
Cimba	[290]
Sophocles	[296]
Illawarra	[301]
Captain Pattman	[301]
Loch Torridon, with perforated Sails	[308]
Loch Torridon	[318]
Port Jackson	[323]
Port Jackson in the Thames	[323]
Derwent, off Gravesend	[327]
Mount Stewart	[327]
Torridon	[328]
Mount Stewart	[335]
Cromdale	[335]
Brierholme	[340]
Crusader	[352]
Cospatrick	[352]
Wild Deer	[355]
Christian McCausland	[364]
Piako	[364]
Turakina, ex-City of Perth	[370]
Otaki Becalmed	[370]
Akaroa	[377]
Invercargill, off Tairoa Heads	[377]
Timaru	[382]
Wellington, at Picton, Queen Charlotte Sound	[382]
Westland	[384]
Taranaki	[384]
Ben Venue	[386]
Lady Jocelyn	[386]
PLANS.
Champion of the Seas	[73]
Lightning	[73]
Sail Plan of Ben Cruachan and Ben Voirlich	[234]
Sail Plan of Loch Moidart and Loch Torridon	[304]

THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS.

PART I.
THE EMIGRANT SHIPS.

Those splendid ships, each with her grace, her glory,

Her memory of old song or comrade’s story,

Still in my mind the image of life’s need,

Beauty in hardest action, beauty indeed.

“They built great ships and sailed them” sounds most brave,

Whatever arts we have or fail to have;

I touch my country’s mind, I come to grips

With half her purpose thinking of these ships.

That art untouched by softness, all that line

Drawn ringing hard to stand the test of brine;

That nobleness and grandeur, all that beauty

Born of a manly life and bitter duty;

That splendour of fine bows which yet could stand

The shock of rollers never checked by land.

That art of masts, sail-crowded, fit to break,

Yet stayed to strength, and back-stayed into rake,

The life demanded by that art, the keen

Eye-puckered, hard-case seamen, silent, lean,

They are grander things than all the art of towns,

Their tests are tempests, and the sea that drowns.

They are my country’s line, her great art done

By strong brains labouring on the thought unwon,

They mark our passage as a race of men

Earth will not see such ships as those again.

—John Masefield.

ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I.THE EMIGRANT SHIPS.

PART I.
THE EMIGRANT SHIPS.