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Show HOW SHIPS ARE. LOST ; . ' The statement ,of a shipmaster tola' local paper here on Sunday, that' the captain;' of the Valencia had missed his reckoning -by thirty-four miles is another an-other reminder that there should be more' than one man to make those daily calculations on board ship. If it were the rule that, the first of fleer, should, like the master, take the daily observations and that the two should . compare .notes,' it would save many a ship and life. The, most careful men have sometimes some-times brief aberrationsLof mind, or in computations make an error in calculations.;, ; The master of, the great steamer the City of Paris drove his ship straight on to the rocks off the Lizard four or flvie years ago because he reckoned his time from Southampton instead of from the French port he had just left. 'It is the i old and careful care-ful engineer who h"is his cage up into the shieves. |