"autumn. Like many deep sea water ship masters, Captain Pickels and Captain Comer are great story tellers and the evening of our first long voyage was made memorable to me by the narration of some of their varied experiences. for the first twenty four hours at our run first under engine power and then under sail, was 125 sea miles. If we could maintain even that record as an average the suc- cess of our undertaking would be assumed, but internal-com- bustion engines are uncertain agents and the wind is famed for its unreliability. During the following night the engine was put out of commission by a crack which developed in the hub of the flywheel caused by