[Transcriber's notes: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, hyphenation has been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Missing pages numbers correspond to blank pages or moved illustrations. In the formulas, "Power of" are in brackets { } and roots have been rendered as: square root: [V¯]; cubic root: [3V¯]; fifth root: [5V¯].] [Illustration: THE JACK OF 1606 A.D. _St. Andrew of Scotland._ _St. George of England._ _St. Patrick of Ireland._ THE UNION JACK.] The Badminton Library of SPORTS AND PASTIMES EDITED BY HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G. ASSISTED BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON _YACHTING_ I. YACHTING BY SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, BART. LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B., C. E. SETH-SMITH, C.B., G. L. WATSON R. T. PRITCHETT SIR GEORGE LEACH, K.C.B., Vice-President Y.R.A. 'THALASSA' THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY E. F. KNIGHT and REV. G. L. BLAKE [Illustration: Yachts.] IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. I. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY R. T. PRITCHETT AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS_ LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1894 _DEDICATION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES_ BADMINTON: _May 1885_. Having received permission to dedicate these volumes, the BADMINTON LIBRARY of SPORTS and PASTIMES, to HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, I do so feeling that I am dedicating them to one of the best and keenest sportsmen of our time. I can say, from personal observation, that there is no man who can extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of horsemen, when a fox breaks covert, more dexterously and quickly than His Royal Highness; and that when hounds run hard over a big country, no man can take a line of his own and live with them better. Also, when the wind has been blowing hard, often have I seen His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and partridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rate workmanlike style. He is held to be a good yachtsman, and as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron is looked up to by those who love that pleasant and exhilarating pastime. His encouragement of racing is well known, and his attendance at the University, Public School, and other important Matches testifies to his being, like most English gentlemen, fond of all manly sports. I consider it a great privilege to be allowed to dedicate these volumes to so eminent a sportsman as His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and I do so with sincere feelings of respect and esteem and loyal devotion. BEAUFORT. [Illustration: BADMINTON.] PREFACE