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Title: A Yacht Voyage Round England

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: April 10, 2008 [EBook #25032]

Language: English

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A Yacht Voyage Round England, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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This is a most remarkable book, copiously illustrated with interesting
engravings. A young boy and his brother are sent home early from their
boarding-school, because of illness among the pupils. Their father is a
retired captain in the Royal Navy, who has had a beautiful yacht built.
He suggests that the family should spend this lengthened summer holiday
sailing round England. This means sailing round the southern part of
Scotland, passing through the Caledonian Canal.

The boys were instructed to keep journals, in which they were to note
everything that took their interest. This is Kingston's vehicle for
delivering to us an excellent story, full of comments on the places they
visited or passed by. Your reviewer has sailed much of the same route,
and can vouch for the intrinsic truth of the descriptions, after making
allowance for the hundred years between our voyages.

We have tried to bring you the illustrations, though reduced in size,
and therefore you will get the best flavour of the book from the html
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A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLAND, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

THE START.

We had come home from school much earlier than usual, on account of
illness having broken out there; but as none of the boys were
dangerously ill, and those in the infirmary were very comfortable, we
were not excessively unhappy. I suspect that some of us wished that
fever or some other sickness would appear two or three weeks before all
the holidays.

However, as we had nothing to complain of at school, this, I confess,
was a very unreasonable wish.

The very day of our arrival home, when we were seated a