290" dashed along sometimes at a speed of upwards of thirteen knots an hour.

It was not, however, without a certain amount of risk that this pace was maintained.

Amongst other less serious damages the bow port was stove in by a heavy sea, and altogether the vessel showed manifest symptoms of the speed at which she had been driven.

But accidents of this kind were of minor importance compared with the supreme value of time.

Once fairly off, and the news of the escape must spread rapidly through the kingdom.