As we had no timepiece with us the lengthening shadows of the mountain peaks admonished us that it was time to return to the ship. We launched our boat, in which set we were weil baptized by the waters of Crusoe's core. We made our way back to the ship and were in time to turn to work and get the ship under way. The chain was hove short, all the sails were loosed, the bunts were dropped and sails sheeted home, the yards mast-headed, the anchor was tripped, and away we went on the home-stretch for San Francisco. we squared away for the equator the order was given to put all sail on the ship. By eight o'clock P. M. we had every drawing sail on the ship, topgallant stun'sails and all, and she was reeling it off at about ten knots an hour.

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At eight bells the watches were set, and the watch on deck was kept busy lashing the water casks. At eight bells, when the other watch came on deck, they had to take up the work where the other watch left it. And the work was continued until all the water casks were lashed, the wood stowed, and the immense gathering of fruit packed away, and everything made ship-shape again.

After we had left the island everybody on board showed an unusual buoyancy of spirits; they felt that the worst part of the tedious journey was over and that they would soon reach the goal of their ambition, there to engage in the delightful occupation of filling their pouches with glittering, shining gold.

After the passengers had recovered from the fatigue of their three days tramping and climbing on the island, they began to utilize their great store of fruits: peach pies, peach puddings, and stewed quinces were their daily fare, all prepared by themselves, as the cooks were not equal to the task of doing more than the most ordinary cooking, while we, the sailors, were well satisfied to eat the peaches in their natural condition.

March 26th, lat. 29 45 S., long. 83 06 W., wind southeast. We have now steady trade-winds and very pleasant weather; everything that can pull a pound is on the shipstun'sails on both sides, with steady breeze right aft.

I think that the officers of the ship are throwing off that reserve which is deemed essential to the maintenance of good discipline on board of a ship. I have noticed this same disposition on board of other ships. When we were near the end of the voyage the officers would show more urbanity of manner towards the crew, although there was no laxity of necessary dicipline. As the nights were very pleasant, and the wind being dead aft, it left us nothing to do but to walk the deck. At this time, Mr. Mulroony, the second mate, threw off the reserve that appertained to his station, and unbosomed himself to me as to his plans and purposes. He told me that he was a native of Nova Scotia, and had served his apprenticeship on board of a vessel of his native province, and after he was out of his time had been promoted to the position of second mate of a ship. The captain, under whom he had served his time, urged him to stick by him, and that he would advance him to the position of chief mate as soon he could pass the necessary examination. But he said that he had become tired of going voyage after voyage to Liverpool with a ship loaded with deals. He was inspired by an ambition to see other parts of the world, and for that reason he had left his ship in Saint Johns, New Brunswick, and had gone to Boston, where, with the recommendation from the owners and captain of the ship on which he had sailed so long, he experienced no difficulty in obtaining a berth as the second mate of the ship "Vancouver," in the China trade. He had made one voyage on the ship to Hongkong, and would have continued in the ship if the California fever had not broken out, which induced him to ship on the "Urania" to go to California, and try his fortune in that golden land. He said that he had stipulated with the captain and owners that he would leave the ship when she arrived in San Francisco, from whence he intended to go the mines, and, if success should attend his efforts, he would return to his native land, Nova Scotia, where there was a sweet little cherub awaiting his return, and then they would be married and settle down in a cosy little nook, a short distance inside of Sambro light-

house, where he could keep his boat and catch codfish and haddock, set his lobster pot, and be as grand as the governor of the Province. Why," said he, "I found, after I came up to Boston, that the Yankees think that America begins at Old Quoddy Head, at the mouth of the Saint Croix river-that divides the United States from New Brunswickand they think it ends in the Gulf of Mexico; but I can tell you that they are laboring under a delusion. While it is admitted, all the world over, that the people of the United States are a great people-that they produce fine mechanics, great inventors, and very enterprising merchants—they must understand that all the balance of the world is not standing still. There are the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; they build and turn out as fine modeled and well built vessels as can be seen in the port of Liverpool today. I have seen the 'Ocean Monarch,' built by Donald Mac Kay, in East Boston. She was a splendid specimen of naval architecture, but I have seen just as fine in Saint Johns, New Brunswick."

March 24th. We now have a continuous steady breeze, and going along at about seven knots per hour. As we have watch and watch and have only to sway up the yards by the halyard, every twenty-four hours, it seems to us like a continuous holiday.

Every night watch on deck, unless it is my trick at the wheel or my lookout forward, the second mate comes to the waist of the ship as soon as the passengers go below, and resumes his conversation.

In speaking of ship building, he said: "The Yankees built a topsail schooner in Eastport, Maine, to run as a packet to Boston. She was a beauty, and a very fast sailer, and she was called the 'Echo.' They challenged the world to excel her. Well, without the blowing of trumpets, the 'Blue Noses,' as they call us of the Provinces, went to work and built a little full-rigged brig for the Boston trade, and called her the 'Boston.' She runs between Halifax and Boston. She looked around for the famous 'Echo.' At last they met, off the Island of Grand Mennan, both bound

to Boston; wind southwest dead ahead. The race began. It was in the summer, and the wind on the New England coast during the summer season blows about southwest, with the regularity of a trade wind.

"The captain of each vessel realized that it wasn't simply a race between two fast sailing vessels, but it was between New England shipbuilders and the shipbuilders of the British Provinces. Well, sir, the Boston,' although a square-rigger, and having to beat to windward, right in the wind's eye, arrived in Boston eight hours before the 'Echo,' thereby proving to Brother Jonathan that while he is making long strides in ship building that the rest of the world is not standing still."

I was impressed by the remarks of the second mate. When a good man is speaking of his native country it brings out the best attributes that are in his nature. And that can truthfully be said of the people that are born under the English flag--in Gibralter, Malta, or the West Indies it is the same.

I remember that the Negroes on the Island of Barbadoes had a saying, "Queen Victoria, never fear so long as Barbadoes stand strong."

March 30th, lat. 17 31 S., long. 93 12 W. The wind during the past four days has been light and our headway. has been correspondingly slow. The weather is now becoming very warm and the crew has been kept busy sewing windsails to be placed in the hatchways to cool the 'tween decks. The quarter-deck is protected by an awning, and as the wind is light, the ladies seat themselves on the trunk of the cabin and sew and knit just as if they were at home.

The contrast between the ship off Cape Horn on February 25th and her appearance March 30th is really remarkable, showing what a change in the temperature it makes between 59 06 south latitude and 17 31. Whereas February 25th was intensely cold and unpleasant, to-day, March 30th, the weather is so warm that the passengers in the 'tweendecks cabin have to be furnished with windsails to promote their comfort.