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Arthur Conan Doyle: "Itu pada hari-hari ketika kekuatan Perancis sudah...

"Itu pada hari-hari ketika kekuatan Perancis sudah pecah di laut, dan ketika lebih dari tiga tingkat nya berbaring membusuk di Medway daripada yang dapat ditemukan di pelabuhan Brest. Tapi fregat dan korvetnya masih menjelajahi samudera, diikuti oleh saingannya. Di ujung paling ujung bumi, kapal-kapal mungil ini, dengan nama-nama manis gadis atau bunga, saling hancur dan hancur satu sama lain demi kehormatan empat meter bunting yang berkibar di ujung galah mereka."

--- Arthur Conan Doyle

Versi Bahasa Inggris

It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.