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Contents CHAPTER I PAGE ADVENTURE UPON ADVENTURE i CHAPTER II AN EARLY TRIP 17 CHAPTER III SMALL LINKS, BUT STRONG 26 CHAPTER IV A SHIP WITH A CREW OF Two 40 CHAPTER V AN EXPLOSION 47 vi CONTENTS MY ENTRANCE TO PATMOS SORROW ON THE SEA CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII PAGE RUSTICATING 78 CHAPTER IX OH, THAT SERVICE 9 CHAPTER X GOING TO THE BALL 102 CHAPTER XI quotWHEN GOD GAVE THE BRIDE AWAYquot . . .117 CHAPTER XII Two DEEP 129 CHAPTER XIII quotLAUNCH OUTquot 147 60 66 CONTENTS vii CHAPTER XIV AN EVANGELIST S LIFE ..... 6 EXPERIENCES CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI PAGE MORE EXPERIENCES ....... 4 A NEW SPHERE CHAPTER XVII I BEGIN LITERARY WORK . CHAPTER XVIII . 193 LITERARY METHODS, ETC....... 209 CHAPTER XIX quotHE LED THEM FORTH BY THE RIGHT WAYquot . . 225 SOME EXTRACTS A NEW LEASE OF LIFE CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI 233 271 viii CONTENTS REFLECTIONS CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII Au REVOIR . 297 Chapter I ADVENTURE UPON ADVENTURE who have read the first volume of this L look-out o er life s sea will remember that space compelled me to close that book, with the remark that the incidents which were immediately to follow were to lead up to the second greatest event ofmy life allowing that a man s reconciliation with God is the greatest event in life. It wanted three days only to Christmas, always an important day with Jack, and since there was much shopping to be done if the Christmas was to be the time of feasting which Jack likes to make it, one hand was chosen from each mess to go on shore, and make the purchases for all the sixteen to twenty men who comprised a mess. In the case ofnumber nineteen mess, the lot fell upon me, and with the eight or ten pounds in gold entrusted to me, and with thelist what a length it was of articles for the general catering, and another list almost as long as the first of purely personal things required by the different individuals of the mess, I took my place on the quarter-deck among some twenty-five others, to be inspected previous to going down into the boat. It was a bitter cold day, the skies were heavy and leaden-hued, the wind was north, and chilled one to the very marrow. Our teeth chattered, our noses grew blue, and the cold creeps moved snake-like up over the scalp. Oh, the unnecessary waiting, under the sun of the tropics, and in the bitter cold and winds of winters, while officers loiter about before coming to inspect men drawn up for inspection By the way, a real nautical yarn crosses my mind here anent waiting for inspection. I was cruising in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea once, in a very smart man-of-war, and all hands were suffering intensely from the tropical rays, and from that wretched Eastern scourge prickly heat. A crowd of us were on the t gallant fo c sle, and what talk there was turned on the topic of heat. Yarn after yarn, each tougher in the strand than the last, was told, when a middle-aged man, who had the mildest, most baby-innocent expression of face of any man whom I ever met, with the quietest, oiliest voice possible to conceive, whom his shipmates had quot nicknamed but who was the hardest nut to Softly, quot crack in the ship, cleared his throat and said, quot Yes, it is warm but it ain t as warm as He stopped short, yawned, covered his mouth with his hand when theyawn was finished looked at us with his baby-innocent eyes, as though he wondered why we all watched and waited upon him. quot quot Out with theyarn, Softly quot quotThe yarn cried a score ofvoices...

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