AN UN-PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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there is a very strong probability in favour of the New World having been peopled from 

 not merely the Old World, but the Oldest World Asia. 



The Pacific Ocean generally bears itself in a manner which justifies its title. The 

 long sweeps of its waves are far more pleasant to the sailor than the " choppy" waves of 



OUR " PATENT SMOKE-STACK." 



the Atlantic. But the Pacific is by no means always so, as the writer \ery well knows. 

 He will not soon forget November, 1865, nor will those of his companions who still 

 survive. 



Leaving Petropaulovski on November 1st, a fortnight of what sailors term " dirty weather " 

 culminated in a gale from the south-east. It was no " capful of wind," but a veritable tempest, 

 which broke over the devoted ship. At its outset, the wind was so powerful that it blew 

 the main-boom from the ropes which held it, and it swung round with great violence 



