The Seven Seas. (Methuen & Co., 1896.) By permission of author and publishers.
l. 9. Bergen. A town on the west coast of Norway.
10. Disko. An island off the west coast of Greenland.
floe. The surface ice of polar seas.
12. Dogger. A sandbank in the middle of the North Sea.
18. Musk-ox. A long-haired animal of the ox tribe, found in Arctic America.
21. Virgins. A group of small islands in the West Indies.
23. sea-egg. Sea-urchin.
25. Keys. Islands near the coast (Spanish cayo, a sandbank).
37. Kuriles. A group of islands in the North Pacific.
39. Praya. Capital of the Cape Verde Islands.
Kowloon. A town in China, near Hong-Kong.
43. Hoogli. The Ganges.
50. Winds. Scents, smells.
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The Times (July 17, 1897). Suggested by the celebration of Queen Victoria’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ (June 22). By permission of the author and the editor of The Times.
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The Spectator (December 16, 1899). By permission of the author and the editor of The Spectator. The poem is written to an old Gaelic air.
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A Gun-Room Ditty Box (Cassell & Co., 1898). By permission of author and publishers. ‘Snotties’ is the naval equivalent of ‘midshipmen.’