Yet in spite of all difficulties these lors. persevered, and by dint of savage courage and dogged determination, forced a hostile country to beautifully masted, rakish and sweetly proportioned. One of her officers. writing of her tu "The Yachtsman" says:: "No academic ian ever draped a classic figure with more consummate taste and art than that with "which our sailmaker draped the Falcon.
She was easy, handy and' smart; she sailed like 2 duck and steered like a fish. She was fast themselves in very bad odour with their fellow countrymen, How - the matter was finally arranged is not clear, but an amicable agreement arrived at and the ship continued to call. She was followed in turn by other steamers until gradually steam ousted sail from the waters of the Huangpu practically altogether, except for Chinese craft, yet dry.
The precise date when foreign vessels first began to use the port somewhat vague, for not every that sailed these seas in those Inwless times was anxious to ad-
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