CHAPTER XXII.

SKETCHES OF OUR SOUTH COASTS (_concluded_). Eastbourne and its Quiet Charms—Hastings—Its Fishermen—The Battle 235 of Hastings—Loss of the _Grosser Kurfürst_—The Collision—The Catastrophe—Dover—The Castle—Shakespeare’s Cliff—“O’er the Downs so free”—St. Margaret’s Bay—Kingsdown—Deal—A Deed of Daring—Ramsgate and Margate—The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands—Ballantyne’s Voluntary Imprisonment—His Experiences—The Craft—The Light—One Thousand Wild Ducks caught—A Signal from the “South Sand Head”—The Answer—Life on Board