There seems no reasonable doubt that the cause of the disaster was the Spanish steamer _Murillo_, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar with iron rails. The affair was denied by the Spanish captain, officers, and crew of the _Murillo_, but stated positively by the two engineers and a passenger, the only three Englishmen on board, who, as the newspaper reports at the time stated, proved superior to the threats and intimidation which had closed the mouths of the rest. The _Murillo_ was examined by the Spanish authorities, and declared to bear no traces of the collision, and so was released. That unsatisfactory finding was the last ever heard of the affair. Nine miles of coastline lead from Dungeness to Camber-on-Sea, passing on the way the solitary “Hope and Anchor” inn, and three coastguard-stations. At Camber the recently opened light railway from Rye is reached, together with the channel of the river Rother. There, ahead, stands the old town of Rye, perched upon its hill, in Sussex. The Kentish Coast is ended. INDEX Abbey Wood, 26 Acol, 136 Aldington, 333, 336, 340 Allhallows Fort, 48 Augustine, St., 67, 180, 182–5 Barton, Elizabeth, 336–41 Bell’s Hard, 48 Beltinge, 121 Beluncle, 50 Belvedere, 26, 28 Birchington, 136–8, 142 Bonnington, 341 “Botany Bay,” 156 Broadstairs, 158, 160–4, 227 Brookland, 348–51 Cæsar, Julius, 3, 219 Camber-on-Sea, 369 Chalk, 40 Channel Tunnel, 285, 301–3 Charles II, 4, 16, 18, 52, 157 Chatham, 52, 58–62 Chislett, 124 Cinque Ports, The, 168, 194–201, 281, 310, 326, 330, 346 Cliffe, 41 Cliffs’ End, 178, 185 Cliftonville, 156 Coal in Kent, 285, 303–5 Cobbett, William, 219, 259, 281–3, 324–6, 344 Cobb’s Hall, 336, 338 Conyers Quay, 100, 101 Cooling, 42–5 Court-at-Street, 334 Crayford, 29 Dandelion, 141 Dartford, 29, 31 Davington, 88, 102, 122 Deal, 3, 197, 214–27, 234, 241 Denton Wharf, 38 Deptford, 2, 5–14 Dover, 3, 4, 196, 243, 259, 269–98, 330 Downs, The, 241 Dungeness, 38, 197, 324, 334, 361–9 Dymchurch, 324, 330, 343 Eastchurch, 81 Ebbsfleet, 3, 178–80, 182–5 Egypt Bay, 47 Elmley, 84 Erasmus, 341 Erith, 2, 26, 29 Evelyn, John, 11, 13, 53, 240 Fairfield, 352 Faversham, 3, 86, 88, 91–3, 102, 103, 197 Folkestone, 4, 197, 301, 306–15 Funton, 66 Gillingham, 63 Godwin, Earl, 104, 231, 278, 330 Goodnestone, 104 Goodwin Sands, 158, 227–52, 267 Grain, Isle of, 3, 49 Grange, or Grench, 64 Graveney, 104 Gravesend, 2, 36–8 Greenhithe, 32 Greenwich, 2, 5, 15–23 ---- Hospital, 15–18 Grove Ferry, 124 Harty, 83, 86 Hengist and Horsa, 3, 179 Henry VIII, 9, 15, 200, 220–2, 228, 286, 316, 319, 339 Herne, 118–21 Herne Bay, 3, 116–18 High Halstow, 47 Hillborough, 121 Holy Maid of Kent, 336–41 Hoo, Hundred of, 47–56, 59, 63 ---- St. Mary, 47, 48 ---- St. Werburgh, 50–52