Wealth, however, could not give Laszlo Nopesa the same excitement which he obtained by a lite of crime. naval families no less than the quarter-deck, and they can be relied On to keep up a steady flow of re-emits. Curiously enough the next county on the list is neither of those, Kent and Devon, which contain the other two naval "home ports," Chatham.and Devonport, and contributed 819 and 696 respectively, but Lancashire with 940. Lancashire has a long established seafaring connection. and it may be that the shrinkage of the Merchant Navy of recent years, by reducing that outlet for youth that would follow the?sea, has brought up the county's naval average. But counties, after all, are arbitrary divisions, varying in size as well as in character, and the fact that Devon comes only fourth in the recruiting statistics does not give a true measure of her connection with the Navy, which is as close to-day as it was in the days of Drake and Grenville.
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