THE DREAM SHIP 



Photograph hy J. Perestrello 



whi<;n the "dream ship" dropped the palms op the canaries below the 

 horizon, the voyage to the south seas hal) begun in earnest 



Ultimately, a light-house gave us the 

 clue, and we found that, owing to a 

 current that has the unpleasant knack of 

 running at anything from a half to three 

 knots an hour, we were still fifty miles 

 from our objective ; so we headed for 

 sea and hove-to until 



daylight. 



TERRIFYING REFLECTIONS OFE THE 

 PANAMA CANAL 



All night, as we lay rolling in a heavy 

 swell, steamers passed us by, floating 

 palaces of light, and with the dawn we 

 joined the procession of giants making 

 for the Panama Canal. 



'AYe wished to go through the canal? 

 Very well ; a measurer would be sent off 

 to determine our tonnage, and we must 

 he ready to take the pilot aboard at five 

 o'clock the next morning." 



That, in effect, is what the Canal au- 

 thorities said, and 1 answered it with a 

 smile that T trust was sufficiently engag- 

 ing to hide the fact that 1 was not at all 

 sure we had enough money among us to 

 pay the tolls. 



It must be an expensive business, this 

 passing from Atlantic to Pacific: I had 

 never thought of that. There was quite 

 a lot T had not thoueht about. What if 



