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So Ave went on easily for sixteen hours, the wise 

 captain judging and his judgment proved true that the 

 centre of the storm was crossing our course ahead; and 

 that if we waited, it woukl pass us. So, as he expected, 

 we came after a day or two into an ahnost windless 

 sea, where smooth mountainous waves, the relics of the 

 storm, were weltering aimlessly up and down under a dark 

 sad sky. 



Soon we began to sight shij) after ship, and found ourselves 

 on the great south-western high-road of the Atlantic; and 

 found ourselves, too, nearing Mftheim day by day. Colder 

 and colder grew the wdnd, lower the sun, darker the cloud- 

 world overhead ; and we went on deck each morning, with 

 some additional garment on, sorely against our wills. Only 

 on the very day on which we sighted land, we had one of 

 those treacherously beautiful days which occur, now and. 

 then, in an English February, mild, still, and shining, if not 

 w4th keen joyful blaze, at least with a cheerful and tender 

 gleam from sea and sky. 



The Land's End was visible at a great distance ; and as we 

 neared the Lizard, we could see not only the lighthouses on 

 the Cliff, and every well-known cove and rock from ]\rullion 

 and Kynance round to St. Keverne, but far inland likewise. 

 Breage Church, and the great tin-works of Wheal Yor, stood 

 out hard against the sky. We could see up the Looe Pool to 



