MILES. Acapulco to San Francisco 1,850 Aden to Bombay 1,635 Aden to Colombo (Ceylon) 2,100 Aden to Zanzibar 1,770 Auckland to Honolulu 3,915 Auckland to Suva (Fiji) 1,140 Cadiz to Teneriffe (Canaries) 698 Cape Horn to Rio de Janeiro 2,350 Cape Town to Plymouth (Eng.) 6,016 Cork to St. John’s (N. F.) 1,730 Ceylon to West Australia 3,305 Glasgow to New York 2,790 Havre to Martinique 3,560 Havre to New York 3,160 Hobart (Tas.) to Invercargill (N. Z.) 930 Hong Kong to Manila 650 Hong Kong to Shanghai 800 Hong Kong to Yokohama 1,620 Leith (Scot.) to Iceland 1,050 Lisbon via Dakar (W. Af.) to Pernambuco 3,297 Lisbon to Cape Verd Islands 1,537 Liverpool to Barbadoes 3,646 Lisbon to Para 4,000 Liverpool to Lisbon 983 Liverpool to Madeira 1,430 Liverpool to New Orleans 4,767 Liverpool to New York 3,057 Liverpool to Para 4,010 Liverpool to Quebec 2,634 Marseilles to Algiers 410 Montevideo to Magellan Strait 1,070 New Orleans to Havana 570 New York to Colon 1,980 New York to San Francisco, about 17,000 New York, via St. Thomas, to Para 3,130 Panama to San Francisco 3,260 Porto Rico (San Juan) to Havana 1,030 Rio de Janeiro to Plymouth 4,941 San Francisco to Honolulu 2,080 San Francisco to Yokohama 5,280 Shanghai to Yokohama 1,033 Singapore to Hong Kong 1,430 Suez to Aden (length of Red Sea) 1,308 Suva to Honolulu 2,783 Sydney to Auckland 1,281 Sydney to Vancouver (B. C.) 6,780 Teneriffe to Porto Rico 2,790 Trieste to Bombay 4,317 Yokohama to Honolulu 3,445 Yokohama to San Francisco 4,750 Yokohama to Victoria 4,320 Zanzibar to Bombay 2,400 [Illustration: Chapter end decoration showing ships] CHAPTER VIII ROBBERS OF THE SEAS