America Sells her Clippers to Great Britain 113 Notes on the Later American-built Passenger Ships 114 Black Ballers in the Queensland Emigrant Trade 115 _Sunda_ and _Empress of the Seas_ Carry Sheep to New Zealand 115 After Life and End of the Liverpool Emigrant Clippers 116 The Burning of the _Lightning_ 117 _Blue Jacket’s_ Figure-head 118 The Loss of the _Fiery Star_ 118 Some Famous Coal Hulks 120 Loss of the _Young Australia_ 120 The Fate of _Marco Polo_ 121 PART II.—THE WOOL CLIPPERS The Carriers of the Golden Fleece 122 The Aberdeen White Star Line 129 Wood and Composite Ships of the Aberdeen White Star Fleet 131 The _Phoenician_ 132 The Lucky _Nineveh_ 134 The _Jerusalem_ 134 Captain Mark Breach’s First Encounter with his Owner 136 The _Thermopylae_ 137 The _Centurion_ 137 The _Aviemore_ 137 The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers 138 Duthie’s Ships 140 Passages of Aberdeen Ships to Sydney, 1872-3 142 The South Australian Trade 143 The Orient Line 146 The _Orient_ and Her Best Outward Passages 148 _Orient_ nearly Destroyed by Fire 149 _Orient_ Delivers her Carpenter’s Chest to the _Lammermuir_ in Mid-Ocean 151 The Little _Heather Bell_ 152 The _Murray_ 153 The Orient Composite Clippers 154 _Yatala_ 155 The _Beltana_, and Captain Richard Angel 156 The Wonderful _Torrens_ 157 _Torrens’_ Outward Passages 161 The Great _Sobraon_ 163 Messrs. Devitt & Moore 176 _City of Adelaide_ and _South Australian_ 178 The Speedy Little _St. Vincent_ 179 _Pekina_ and _Hawkesbury_ 180 Mr. T. B. Walker 180