SEA. POWER.
uro Tile EDITOR. ON Till "SrnoTATort."]
Sin,—The following quotation from Enook's " Peru " (p. 82) may be of interest to your readers:—
" Thus was this sea-fight terminated, for the loss of the Iluascar was the loss of Peruvian power upon the sea. Both nations [Chile and Peru] had shown their fighting qualities as seamen. Ship had been given for ship : the Enmeralia had been avenged in the Huascar, and the brave Prat had been followed to a sailor's grave by the gallant Grau. The value of armoured ships had been shown and—lasting lesson to nations whose existence depends upon sea power—the necessity for upkeep of the fleet. For had Peru possessed but a single now ironclad, the issue of the war which was to devastate and humble her might have been very different."
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