In 1895, when outward bound to Tasmania and in the doldrums north of the equator, _Berean_ fell in with the four-master Loch liner _Loch Carron_, bound to Adelaide. The two ships after a chat with signals parted on opposite tacks and did not sight each other again until crossing the Great Bight of Australia, when at lunch one day the welcome cry of “Sail-ho!” was heard. Going on deck the chief officer and myself naturally looked ahead for the stranger, but a ship on our starboard quarter was pointed out. _Berean_ was steering due east for Tasmania with the wind right aft, the worst point for fine-lined ships, head sails all becalmed; the _Loch Carron_ hauling up for Adelaide was carrying the wind 2 or 3 points on the quarter, all sails drawing, and was gaining on the _Berean_. When she got into our wake she kept off on the same course as if intending to speak, but finding she could not gain on that course hauled to again, crossing astern, and with the difference in the courses the two ships were soon out of sight of each other. The picture of the _Loch Carron_ as she sheered away under all sail, scattering the feathery foam from her bows, still lives, forming one of the series of mental photographs an old sailor naturally collects. Another still more interesting meeting was with the famous _Thermopylae_. Both ships were outward bound, and the _Thermopylae_ overhauled and passed the _Berean_ to the southward of the Cape, the weather being unsettled, and the _Thermopylae_, being able to bear more sail than the little _Berean_, soon went out of sight ahead. Nevertheless she only passed Cape Otway 17 hours ahead of the _Berean_, so Captain Wyrill was not quite broken-hearted. On another occasion the _Berean_, when outward bound, crossed the southern tropic in company with Green’s _Melbourne_ (afterwards the well-known cadet ship _Macquarie_) and the little barque arrived in Launceston two or three days before the big iron ship arrived in Hobson’s Bay. Again, when homeward bound, the _Berean_ was passed off the Falkland Isles in a strong breeze by Green’s fast Blackwall frigate _Windsor Castle_, nevertheless the _Windsor Castle_ docked in London four days later than the _Berean_. All the above trials of speed were with vessels very much larger and more powerful than Mr. Walker’s clipper barque, but the _Berean_ once had a very interesting race round the world with another well-known barque, the little _Harriet McGregor_, of 331 tons, belonging to Hobart. The two ships left Tasmania together, and the _Berean_ arrived at Gravesend, 90 days out, beating the _Harriet McGregor_ by a week. On the return passage, the _Harriet McGregor_ was loaded first and got away about nine days ahead of _Berean_, but again Walker’s clipper got in ahead of her, this time by one day only, after making the run to Launceston in 77 days. “Berean” as an Ice Carrier.