On 18th December, 1871, _Yatala_ left Adelaide in company with the Elder Line clipper, _Beltana_, which she led to the Horn by a day. The _Beltana_ arrived safely after a tedious light weather run from the line, but the _Yatala_ got ashore near Cape Gris-Nez on 27th March, 1872, when almost in sight of home. Her wool cargo was nearly all saved, but the ship herself became a total loss. Of the other Orient composites, the _Goolwa_ disappeared from the Register in 1880, but _Borealis_ and _Argonaut_ lasted some years longer. The “Beltana,” and Captain Richard Angel. The _Beltana_, which raced the _Yatala_ in 1871-2, was a composite clipper, belonging to A. L. Elder & Co., a well-known firm in the Adelaide trade and the agents for the celebrated _Torrens_. Built by Laing, of Sunderland, in 1869, the _Beltana_ measured:— Registered tonnage 734 tons. Length 172.5 feet. Beam 33.6 „ Depth 19.2 „ She was a beautiful little ship, a fine sea boat with a good turn of speed. In 1872, when running her easting down, she did a day’s work of 335 miles under foresail, three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail. She made her reputation as a heeler under Captain Richard Angel, a sail carrier of the most determined character, as the following anecdote will prove. The _Beltana_ was rounding the Horn, homeward bound and reeling along before a heavy westerly gale under topgallant sails, when a vessel was sighted ahead, head-reaching under three close-reefed topsails, though bound the same way as the _Beltana_. Angel, to show his contempt of such caution, immediately bore down on the stranger, and passing ahead of him, put his helm down and brought his yards on the backstays. As the _Beltana_ came up to the wind, she lay right down until the amazed crew of the stranger could almost see her keel, and momentarily expected to see her capsize or her masts go overboard. But the little ship bore this harsh treatment in the bravest manner, and, though her rail was fathoms deep in the scud to leeward, never stranded a ropeyarn. Having crossed the stranger’s bows, Angel rounded to close under her stern, then squared his yards and raced ahead again. This manœuvre of “sailing round a vessel” was not one that most men would care to attempt in Cape Horn weather. [Illustration: “TORRENS.”] [Illustration: “TORRENS” at Port Adelaide.] Indeed, hardly was the _Beltana_ on her course again before Angel’s trembling mate approached his captain with a request to be allowed to shorten sail, only to be met by the scornful order of:—“Get the royals on her; and then, if you can’t find anything else to set, go below and ask Mrs. Angel to lend you her petticoat.” Such an order was worthy of Bully Forbes himself.