The combination of that almost unique four-master the ' Pamir
' and the ' Prospect of Whitby' was too much for me. Would I come and see the one and lunch at the other? I would and did, regardless of the neglect of numberless duties entailed thereby. The Prospect of Whitby' is one of the best-known of Thames land- marks from the river. The land approach to it is less familiar, but the journey down Commercial Road and then a right turn to the river is abundantly worth while. There are not many taverns that were first licensed, as this claims to be, while Henry VIII was King ; there are fewer still possessing a bar with a reredos,' so to speak; packed like the ' Prospect's,' with nautical curios of all kinds. I fancy the hostelry was known to Dickens, but someone else will have to verify that. As for the ' Pamir,' she lies in the London Docks, and though the public can, I believe, go on board her on one or two afternoons a week, it is as surveyed from a distance that she displays all the beauty of her rig. There are few of her type left,
and they will soon be fewer still. * * * *
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