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CONTENTS 
CHAPTER VII 
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An Account of how Two Boys came to Stow away in the Balcena, 
written by one of them — Hot Weather and Blue Seas, . . 79 
CHAPTER VIII 
We run into the North-East Trades — Fishing Bonita — In the Dol- 
drums — Heat, Calms, and Squalls — Yarns, .... 89 
CHAPTER IX . 
We Cross the Line — Neptune comes on Board — A Great Function — 
Full description of the Actors and Ceremony — £ Ships that pass 
in the Night ' — Our Day at Sea — Pleasure and slight Discomforts, 100 
CHAPTER X 
A Tropical Storm- — Grey Sea south of Line — Sea-bird Life south of 
the Line — Fishing Petrels — The Albatross — Stormy Weather in 
the Forties — Ossian, . . . . . ■ . . .120 
CHAPTER XI 
Albatross Fishing — The Ship's Dog — Gales again — The Doctor visits 
a vessel in Mid-Atlantic — £ A Girl with a Blue Press on ' — Heavy 
Seas — Whales — Strong Gales in the Forties, .... 130 
CHAPTER XII 
Changeable Weather — Yarns about Bears — We approach the Falk- 
land Islands — The Watch below— Charlie spins his Yarn, . 146 
CHAPTER XIII 
The Falkland Islands—Port Stanley— Birds— On Shore again— A 
Colonial Store and Bar — We go shooting Specimens — The Bag- 
pipes — We stop a Night on Shore with a Family — Notes on the 
Islands— Trout, People, etc. — Government House — Sir Rodger 
Tuckworth Goldsworthy— The Dr. and the Upland Goose- 
Wild Duck — Sea Fishing— Malvina— Interior of an Old Colonial 
Farm House— Men of the Islands— The Climate— A Gold Digger 
from 'the Coast,' 164 
