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LONDON RIVER.
A NOVELIST'S. VOYAGE OF
PILGRIMAGE
NO WE CAME TO GREENWJCN. So we came to Greenwich, on au evening flooded with sunlight, and brought up alongside a line of barges THAMES", "ROMANCE OF BUSINESS, foreshore. The divinely lovely buildings lying ten-deep some way cut from the
"That is what sailors call it-London lavished his rich genius, ruck one of Greenwich Hospital, on which Wren River, Thames is only for boat-racs afroh, as ever. with their dignity and enthusiasts
and the punt-borus sense of repose, with the spacious salm haunters of the upper reaches. London River! means the Port of pute..
And that is born only of beauty beyond dis London-the greatest port in work. Ships sailed from the Port of London yacht, the hour when it is possible for Morning, (And that means, on 16 in the days of the Romans, and ships the boy to get fresh milk), Morning, and sail from it still-which is not by any cups of tea, and still that frail, thin Inevirs a thing that follows as sunlight, clear as glas Morning and a natier of course, in these days when fine morning to sights. We sightsnw. the draught of ships has so increased We went and to our credit fet it he that many a harbour which flourished said, not for the first time-to Greenwich in old days is now left hare and Hospital, But let ny add that folk who desolate
'go exploring from the land miss the fuel "Ships of twenty thousand tons can lie rapture of those who do it from a vessel, within three miles of London Bridge; However many thousand times you step and the waters that bore the leather ashore, it never loses its thrill-it is on sailed boats of the Brittany feets in of the few things in the world which has the days of Caesar, the up-curved perpetual virginity. Yen dégeend as from prows of the Saxons and Scandina another planet," to view the sons and vian, the gulleys of the Mediter daughter of man, and you fad them mnean peoples, the high-pooped car fair, but when you have seen them you vels of the Middle Ages, the nimble retreat to your island fastness and henve merchantmen of Tador times. the a sigh of relict as your foot touching the great three-deekers of the seventeenth deck, such as only a wild animal kiows and eighteenth centuries, and the ex- when it comes home to its burrow. Shore quisite Colonial and Chipa elippery-dwellers know it not when they hand their most beautiful of all the beautifu!! hats in the hall of an evening. It is n ships that ever graced the sea-bearjesenje from one universe to another. also the broad atcel bottoms of modern steamers, and part as sweetly
stems.
to the cleavage of their towering There is only one thing the river below London Bridge is no longer, and that is a pleasure river."
F TENNYSON JESSE.
Fule Rerer.
A MEMORY OF NELSON,
Hospital and its beauty that is not super- * What can One say of Greenwich
of its relics of Nelzon, of Franklin, and tuous? What can one say of the appeal of other men whose greatest virtue human beings can have that of courage-which he be of soul, indeed, who can pass by would not be an impertinence? Dull must WORLD'S GREATEST WATERWAY.
those stained and faded clothes-so Miss F. Tennyɛnn Jesse has a charmpathetically small-which are dyed with ing article in the Yule Review on "A Nelson's lifeblood, and not feel his heart Cruise Up London River,"
beat higher and his mind enriched by the Hardly a white bow breaks the waters revived memory of sath deathless bra- of London River to-day, never a dock very! Slow indeed must be the imaging. shelters the folded snowy pinions of rncer tion of him who sees the relics of Frank- or cruiser," she says. The traffic of the fin's quest without a stirring at the roots world's goods, the masses of her spices, of his own being. her ivory, her meats, her fruits, ber silk, her wool-all the long list of accessities for the apes and peahens-thess have grad brilliantly than ever, and we went to the The next morning dawned · Moro nally turned the pleasure of London River Tower: We were English, and dwellers into scheduled utilities. Ye-and here in London in the ordinary way, and yet was the inspiration of our pilgrimage-
AT THE TOWER.
because of this, there is more pleasure to went to the Tower, and not for the be found now along the world's greatest boast, Again I say that no one who has first time either, though I do not wish to waterway than over before. Acute plen sure thrilling pleasure, the sort so rarely met with that makes the check burn with interest and the mind leap, the pleasure of the beautiful and unknown.
AN ELEVEN TON YAWE
only gone sightseeing from the abore morning was full of Americans and yet knows its full delights. The Tower that we were the only explorers there. We had landed to see the Tower. The river rau sparkling before the old, gray walls, "For what Londoner really knows bis the trees were banner of green, the river! To him it is not only liquid jackdaws looker huger and glossier than history but liquid mystery, and the pity ever, but the deep mournfulness of the of it is he should be content to let is Tower's history gripped the mind. remains, Here is whole Arabian Nights Entertainment at his doors and
LONDON RIVER.
he never realises its preSPICE, And I London "River is not only the swak not of the lure of Limehouse as reenerful end of the voyage to the mer vealed to us by Mr. Thomas Burke, orchantmen who dock there. It is, as well, of the historic if macabra odour of Exe the respite from ceaseless cares and reg cution Dock.. I speak of the magic of posibility, the temporary end to dangers trade and of the imperishable beauty of such as landsinen would think out of all ship.
reason and senmen accept as a matter of course; a blessed hiatus in continual "The Gudgeon, an eleven-ton yaw stress, an oasis in a desert of storms and travel-stained from fifteen hundred miles worries. Not a sailor enters that lored of cruising in five weeks, miled up the river without a lifting of the heart, month of the estuary on a gray. rainy though he returns to an ungrateful
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day, bound for Tilbury tidal basin. For country that recsgniss him not. Such is Gudgeon was going to do the thing that the charm and danger of England! And yachts so rarely do nowadays she was everything that has gone to make her the going exploring up London River irrational, beloved, annoying, beautiful Though of the exempt class, by reason country that she is, may be found in that of her small tonnage, she was to" bay most characteristic manifestation of her- a pilot rather for the purpose of obtain London River." ing a guide, philosopher, and friend than breuse she would have got into any dificulties.
"One sees nearly all the strange evali of the river below Grävesend. The ex-")
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A GREAT KUNDAY."
AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
plosive-carriers, the oiltankers, stubby Australian trade statistics for the year Scandinavian vessels with wicked deck ended June 30th show imports to the loads of timber piled. golden and value of approximately £132,000.000, and shinning to the bridge; a ship exactly on exports £118,000,000. The value of in- Bryant and May's match-boss, but bear; ports in the year 1991-1 was £103,000,000 ing on her side in huge letters the warn and in 191-2 £103,000,000, exports fur ing Powder Magazine and coalhulkshore two years boing £132,000,000 and lying black and stark against the green #128,000,000 respectively. It prices" are Kentish shore,
taken into consideration, the volume of imports in 1022-3 has exceeded the record year 1920-1, The decline in expert, has "It poured with rain all Saturday been mainly due to the partial failure zight-rain that wished dimally upon of the wheat crop, exported wheat being the conch houm roof, that dropped in at valued at £8,500,000, as compared with the open skylight and gathered on the £34,500,000 in 1320-1, and £26,500,000 in rius of the tiny ports ready to shower in 1921-2. Weel exports showed a consider. ward at a touch, Yet Sunday morning able increase £55,500,000, this being dawned fair and pale, with a wan sun-£14,000,000 Over 1020-1 figures சப light that strengthened as the day waxes, £9,000,000 over thone of 191-2.
There and a soft wind that blew the smoko were substantial, increase in the expert from chimneys and steamer funnels like of fresh and dried fruits, mutton, hides, plumes about the dappled sky. It was rabbit and sheep skins, tallow, lead, zine, morning when it was good just to befand silver. Butter, beef, milk, four, alive, far better to be geing up Londoa jams, copper, and gold show decreas River, knowing you were going to lie un The principal increases in imports over by the Tower and live on board,, your 1021-2 are to be found in apparel. boat with a' this wonderful and beautis £2,500,000; textiles, £7,000,000 and
ful traffic of slips going on past you as machines and machinery, £10,000,000, out loss lucky folk may live in a house and of which motorcars accounted for see the motorbuses pass their door,
£4,000,000.
"We caught the early afternoon tide and started on our pilgrimage with that thrill which only comes at the first time
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can nover be renewed, however much of deepor, quieter emction may take its 1 place.
Gudgeon was to go un-river under her motor (and the pilot said after wards hers was the only motor he had ever known make the journey "without a 'breakdown), and ahead of us a.ketch tacked against a head wind—a bluff. bowed sturdy little trader that yet looked | like some aqueamish, dainty gir! as she atood and shivored before going about, taking her time to fill. Gudgeon arnt a wash slapping against her reluctant quarter and passed her with all the callousness that a boat underpower always seems to display towards one that waits upon the wind-much the "samo rather vulgar insensitivencess that an ex- press manages to convey to the minila of people waiting upon a platform till some humbler train stop, for their accommoda- tion.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
SEPTEMBER 20th, 1997, Hongkong and Shanghai
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