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he wishes himself back on the ship. When the boat 

 gets near him he is shouting like a good fellow, and 

 swimming for dear life. He now weareth a chain. 

 When we reach Colombo (Ceylon) he will be relieved 

 from the difficulties and dangers of the ocean and 

 allowed to do a little work for the benefit of the State 

 and for his board simply to teach him that insub- 

 ordination at sea is a game which cannot be played 

 with impunity. 



We have just crossed the equator for the second 

 time, having crossed it about nine thousand miles east 

 of this point in March last. We are once more in the 

 Northern Hemisphere. We are having very pleasant 

 weather. Temperature, 82. 



INDIAN OCEAN, January 14th, 1888. 



