[384] Hitherto the official books of Instructions and Signals had been of folio size.
[385] A "cornet" is a swallow-tailed flag.
[386] According to present practice no signal made with more than one flag is obeyed until the officer making it hauls it down.
[387] Nicholas, Letters and Dispatches of Lord Nelson, iii, 230.
[388] Richard Hall Gower, an officer of the East India Company's fleet, suggested in the 2nd edition of his Treatise on Seamanship, 1796, the use of a dictionary with the words numbered consecutively from 1 upwards under each letter of the alphabet. The letter and number were to be shown on a large board.
[389] The hoists were: Telegraph flag; 253 (England); 269 (expects); 863 (that); 261 (every); 471 (man); 958 (will); 220 (do); 370 (his); 4, 21, 19, 24 (duty). In the hoist for 220 the second flag was the "substitute," duplicating the numeral "2."
[390] See the last column of [Plate XIII].
[391] In 1808 the 1799 book was reprinted, and the manuscript additions incorporated, but its form was not changed.
[392] He produced in 1804 a signal code for the East India Company's ships.
[393] During the war this flag was altered to one divided vertically yellow, red yellow, in order to obviate the use of the Pilot Jack as an ordinary signal flag.