daylight for weeks. There was so much light, even at midnight, that our old cook, "Yankee Nathan", had difficulty in adapting himself to it. Soon after two one morning Captain Pickels found the cook busy making coffee in galley. When the captain asked what was going on, the cook replied "Why, sir, I'm late for breakfast now. Just look at the sun!" About midnight one night I heard Nathan in the cabin calling "Charlie, Charlie! -- that boy. Why don't he answer. Charlie!" I asked what he wanted at that time of night. "I want Charlie, sir", said he, "because it's time to begin to get breakfast and that boy's sound asleep.. Charlie! Get up." But Charlie remained dead to the world, and the cook finally became