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In the meantime from the north the British Grand Fleet had been closing at utmost fleet speed on a southeast by south course.

Once, at the wheel, when the ship was heading southeast by south half-south, he had been asked the course, and answered: "South-southeast half-east, sir."

No man who walks with his toes pointing southwest by south, and southeast by south, when he is going south, will ever get into France on his own feet, carrying a knapsack and a rifle.

Nevertheless in due season the Rotge left the Greenland shore and pointed her inquiring beak southeast by south.