... a sense of vast responsibility—not of selfish alarm for our own skins—revives the spirit of Drake, recalls him from the Caribbean Sea, and enables the British race to hear the beating of his drum. • Sir Herbert Tree has done many a good stroke of work ...

... enjoyed the use of the wirelen system his storm-beaten ships in 1806 would never have been seen in the green waters of the Caribbean. Supposing two inconceivable propositions came to pan, first, that an expeditionary force of seventy thousand fighting mon ...