He looked upon it as a matter of course and felt just the same as he did when diving with Captain Balbo, or bush-whacking under Colonel Sawyer.
Towards the end of May he had his arrangements completed for his second attempt to cross the channel.

This time he determined to reverse the course.

Instead of starting from England, he decided to leave from Cape Grisnez, France, and land on any part of the English coast he could.

A couple of days before the attempt, he went to Boulogne.

It was arranged that he should leave at three o'clock in the morning, when the steamer containing the English correspondents would arrive.
John Laty, a well known London newspaper man wrote the following account of his second attempt: "As we draw near Cape Grisnez light, aboard the Earnest, Capt.