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ingly misnaming stars, enthusiastically playing 

 an atrocious game of shuffle-board, or estimating 

 the ship's log with methods of cunning mathe- 

 matical accuracy, but hopeless financial results. 

 All these things I have done and shall doubt- 

 less continue to do on future voyages, but there 

 is an additional joy of striving to break with 

 precedent, to concentrate on the alluring possi- 

 bilities of new experiences, new discoveries, on 

 board ship. 



If the vessel is an oasis in a desert, or in 

 a " waste of waters " as is usually announced at 

 table about the second or third day out, then I 

 am a true Arab, or, to follow more closely the 

 dinner simile, a Jonah of sorts, for my interest is 

 so much more with the said waste, or the things 

 in it and above it, than with my swathed, hiber- 

 nating fellow mortals. 



Precedent on board ship is not easily to be 

 broken, and much depends on the personality 

 of the Captain. If he has dipped into little- 

 known places all over the world with which you 

 are familiar, or if you show appreciation of a 

 Captain's point of view, the battle is won. A 

 few remarks about the difficulty of navigation 

 of Nippon's Inland Sea, a rebuke of some 



