[Footnote 221: Town, Canada, Province of Alberta; on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 2,262 miles west of Montreal.] [Footnote 222: Capital of Ontario, Canada; second city of the Dominion; on north-west shore of Lake Ontario.] [Footnote 223: Town, 60 miles south-west of Toronto.] [Footnote 224: An over-great love of war.] [Footnote 225: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, born 1874, First Lord of the Admiralty since 1911. He first became a minister in 1906.] [Footnote 226: _Val-kar-tyā´._] [Footnote 227: Capital of Province of Quebec, on north bank of St. Lawrence, 145 miles north-east of Montreal.] [Footnote 228: Parish priest.] [Footnote 229: James Wolfe (1727-59) defeated the French on the Heights of Abraham, to the west of Quebec, and by this victory won Canada for the British. He is referred to in the first verse of "The Maple Leaf," Canada's national song, which runs as follows:-- "In days of yore from Britain's shore Wolfe, the dauntless hero, came, And planted firm Britannia's flag On Canada's fair domain! Here may it wave, our boast, our pride; And joined in love together, The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine The Maple Leaf for ever!"] [Footnote 230: Opposite to Quebec, on the other side of the river.] [Footnote 231: To the east of Point Levis.] [Footnote 232: Seaman of Devonshire, a relation of Sir Walter Raleigh, whom he assisted in founding Virginia. In 1591 he engaged a whole Spanish fleet with his single ship the _Revenge_, and was fatally wounded in the fight.] [Footnote 233: Cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh. He took possession of Newfoundland (1583), but went down in the _Golden Hind_ on the return voyage.] [Footnote 234: Served under Drake, and fought against the Spanish Armada. Perished in the Arctic Ocean, 1594.] [Footnote 235: Francis Drake (1540-1596), the greatest of English admirals, the first Englishman to sail round the world (1577-1580). He singed the King of Spain's beard in 1587, and fought against the Spanish Armada (1588).] [Footnote 236: Group of twenty coral islands in the Indian Ocean, 700 miles south-west of Sumatra. They produce cocoanuts.] [Footnote 237: German protectorate on the east coast of the Chinese province of Shantung. It was seized from China in 1897. The port is Tsing-tau. The Japanese first attacked this place on August 23, and declared that at the end of the war they would give it up to China.] [Footnote 238: Largest city of New Zealand, in a fine harbour in the north of North Island.] [Footnote 239: Tall, brown-skinned natives of New Zealand. They are a clever, cheerful race, very fond of games, riding, and feasting. Some of them visited this country in 1889, as members of a New Zealand football team.] [Footnote 240: Louis Botha, born 1863, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.] [Footnote 241: Dutch farmers of what was formerly the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.]