NEWS FROM HOWIE 181 



tion of our captain's seamanship. We had to 

 tack innumerable times from one side of the 

 channel to the other, our jib-boom at every tack 

 projecting over the land before the brig came 

 around. We finally dropped anchor opposite 

 the old, cross-crowned Greek church which 

 stands in the center of the struggling village. 



