A pleasant visit from Admiral Sir Harry Rawson of the Royal Navy and his family brought to an end the Spray’s social relations with the Cape of Good Hope. The admiral, then commanding the South African Squadron, and now in command of the great channel fleet, evinced the greatest interest in the diminutive Spray and her behaviour off Cape Horn, where he was not an entire stranger. I have to admit that I was delighted with the trend of Admiral Rawson’s questions, and that I profited by some of his suggestions, notwithstanding the wide difference in our respective commands.
