the owner-alias the Commodore-who holds a master's certificate, Orvis, who acts as master when the Commodore is not on board, Jack, and a cabin boy, Arthur.

Next morning the clocks on shore were just striking 4 as we passed through the gates. There was very little wind outside, but it breezed up during the day, and we had fresh winds, shifty from N.N.E., down to Plymouth. Two reefs down in the mainsail the whole way. As the Commodore had made up his mind that his twelve-foot wooden dinghy, which by the way had. already been damaged on the journey from Aldeburgh, was not only inconvenient on deck, but also very dangerous in rough weather, he decided to put into Southampton and buy a Berthon collapsible boat; accordingly we ran into Southampton about 11.30 A.M., on Wednesday morning, and had left our own boat and got the new Berthon on board by 9 in the evening.

We got under-way next morning at 6 o'clock, and brought up at Plymouth, inside the Cattwater, at I P.M. on Friday. Anything so cold as the weather we had after leaving Dover none of us. had ever experienced. Orvis went so far as to say that he had never felt it so cold in the North Sea. I only know that although I was wearing a double allowance of underclothing, two suits of clothes

and a thick muffler, I could not manage to keep

warm.

After sending a telegram to Underhill, we spent the rest of the day over the fire in the smokingroom at the hotel, trying to thaw our frozen limbs. Underhill came on board at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning, and made such a terrific noise that, seeing no chance of being allowed to go to sleep again, we reluctantly turned out, and while Mac was still grumbling, he was formally introduced to the disturber of our repose, whom he had not met before. The best part of the day was spent in getting the topmast on deck, taking down the cross-trees, and making all snug for crossing the Bay. In the evening the Commodore divided us into two watches; himself, Underhill, and Jack taking the starboard watch, while Mac, Orvis, and I were in the port watch. As we had plenty of stores of all kinds on board, including a medicine chest, which, I am happy to say, was only once called into use, we were under no restrictions except as regarded water.

The Chiripa's tanks only holding 250 gallons, we were forbidden to use fresh water for drinking or washing purposes. This order, more especially as regarded the first part, met with everybody's most cordial approval and was strictly obeyed. The weather being so cold, the fresh meat we took

on board at Plymouth lasted till we got to Vigo, and it was only on the passage from Tangiers to Lisbon that we were obliged to have recourse to our tinned things; the salt beef was always preferred.