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--- --- --- --- Total 898 210 688 23 TOTAL PASSENGERS AND CREW Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved. Men 1662 315 1347 19 Women 439 336 103 77 Children 105 52 53 49 ---- --- ---- --- Total 2206 703 1503 32 CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. BY THE SAME AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD OF HIS DISCOVERY. With Frontispiece in colour by Norman Wilkinson. Portrait, Maps, Illustrations, Appendices and a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, K.P. Large Post 8vo, cloth, gilt. 7_s._ 6_d._ net. (Third Edition.) Mr. Henry Vignaud, late Secretary of the American Embassy and distinguished historian of Columbus, says: "_In this book the hero who discovered the New World is shown for the first time as a living man.... A more true and lively picture of the great discoverer than is contained in any other work._" "Mr. Filson Young has done nothing better ... there is not a dull page in the seven hundred. His descriptions of visible things, of streets and hills, and seas and men, are vivid in his accustomed manner. His narrative is rich and marching, yet sufficiently precise.... For the modern taste there is really nothing about Columbus to compare with Mr. Young's for matter and style."--_The Morning Post._ "If these volumes do not bring the figure of Columbus into closer relation with the mind of the present generation, it must be because people simply do not care to learn about anything that lies a few yards beyond their own thresholds. Our hope, however, is better; and we imagine that there will be a wide public for a narrative so fresh and spirited. "Mr. Filson Young tells his story, without turning to the right hand or to the left, in a free and fluent fashion.... Very vigorous too are the passages dealing with his voyages, for Mr. Filson Young has drunk deep of the spirit of the sea and nowhere writes so well as in his account of the seafarer's business in great waters.... The book abounds in interludes of suggestive thought and clear, vigorous expression. But, the book must be commended for the keen, eager spirit
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