Then Mr. Grahame-White, surprised by the news that M. Paulhan
had started, left Park Royal after sunset the same evening. He was much troubled by a dangerous wind, and descended at Roade, sixty miles from London, in the dark. Early on Thursday morning both men restarted from their stopping-points. Mr. Grahame-White started in the dark before three o'clock, but was forced by the high wind to come down at Polesworth, a hundred and seven miles from London. M. Paulhan started at four o'clock, and without another stop landed at a point beyond Manchester at half- past five. It was a truly marvellous performance, accom- plished in spite of all the difficulties of wind and darkness. Thus M. Paulhan won the prize about thirty hours after disembarking his aeroplane in crates at Folkestone. Every Englishman, while heartily congratulating M. Paulhan, will sympathise with Mr. Grahame-White in his bad luck. But every one will be glad to know that he paid a most generous tribute to M. Paulhan. " He is the best aviator the world has seen," he said. "I am only a novice compared to him."
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