The Cruise of the Branwen

CRUISE OF THE BRANWEN exactly four and twenty hours we were at anchor off the Salute, after a slow passage through the sea-entrances in a golden dawn. Our voyage was at end. We celebrated the birthday of the Branwen's owner on the evenmg of May 9 in the Capello Nero. Hie dies anno redeunte festus Corticem astrictum pice dimovebit Amphorre fumum bibere institutre Consule Tullo. We have repeated that little festival every year since then, and long may we all live to meet on many another anniversary. Three days after its first celebration was completed, I was in Paris. We did not all meet again until we were home in London by the middle of June, and hard at work on the preliminary preparations for the Olympic Games of 1908. THE ENGLISH KNIGHTS DEPART