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 if three will not do. But see what this lusty Master of the Rolls and his men did in their big boat in their day.

The official record says:

No mere four-mile race there. No little dainty paper shells, with skeleton outriggers and spoon-oars. Boats, no doubt, twice as heavy as those of to-day, cumbrous, slow, and rowed probably on the gunwale. It took good men to row such a race, and under such conditions.