CHAPTER III.
THE ENGLISH SETTLE IN BRITAIN.
Proximity to the sea turns robbers into corsairs.

When predatory tribes reach the seaboard they always take to piracy, provided they have attained the shipbuilding level of culture.

In the ancient AEgean, in the Malay Archipelago, in the China seas, we see the same process always taking place.

Probably from the first period of their severance from the main Aryan stock in Central Asia, the Low German race and their ancestors had been a predatory and conquering people, for ever engaged in raids and smouldering warfare with their neighbours.

When they reached the Baltic and the islands of the Frisian coast, they grew naturally into a nation of pirates.