290 TEE CRUISE OF THE " CACHALOT:' 



During the progress of these melancholy operations 

 we had drifted a considerable distance out of our course, 

 no attention being paid, as usual, to the direction of our 

 drift until the greasy work was done. Once the mess 

 was cleared away, we hauled up again for our objective — ■ 

 Futuna — which, as it was but a few hours' sail distant, 

 we hoped to make the next day. 



