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Whatever the danger may have been, much or little, I can truly say that the moment was the most serene of my life.
It was when I anchored in the lonely places that a feeling of awe crept over me.
The Fuegians, being cruel, are naturally cowards;
Blessed island of Juan Fernandez!
I sailed with a free wind day after day, marking the position of my ship on the chart with considerable precision; but this was done by intuition, I think, more than by slavish calculations. For one whole month my vessel held her course true; I had not, the while, so much as a light in the binnacle. The Southern Cross I saw every night abeam. The sun every morning came up astern; every evening it went down ahead. I wished for no other compass to guide me, for these were true. If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great
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They have great reason to love their country and to fear the white man's yoke, for once harnessed to the plow, their life would no longer be a poem.
but owing to a vast amount of ice drifting up from the Antarctic, this was all changed now and emphasized with much bad weather,
"Man, man," said he, "great nervousness is only a sign of brain, and the more brain a man has the longer it takes him to get over the affliction; but," he added reflectively, "you will get over it." However, in my own behalf I think it only fair to say that I am not yet entirely cured.
neuralgia
Whitsunday Pass,
Cape Observatory. An hour with Dr. Gill was an hour among the stars. His discoveries in stellar photography are well known.
The ladies of all these institutions of learning wished to know how one might sail round the world alone, which I thought augured of sailing-mistresses in the future instead of sailing-masters. It will come to that yet if we men-folk keep on saying we "can't."
Oise in the Arethusa
On May 8, 1898, she crossed the track, homeward bound, that she had made October 2, 1895, on the voyage out.
The document, by regular course, is now lodged in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C.
The 19th of June was fine, but on the morning of the 20th another gale was blowing, accompanied by cross-seas that tumbled about and shook things up with great confusion.
on June 27, 1898, cast anchor, after the cruise of more than forty-six thousand miles round the world, during an absence of three years and two months, with two days over for coming up.
She did not leak a drop—not one drop! The pump, which had been little used before reaching Australia, had not been rigged since that at all.
