one reply: "I will never leave the rock until every
soul is safe."

Forty-four stout sailors had made their perilous way to 30
shore. The forty-fifth looked round and saw a poor woman
lying helpless, almost lifeless, on the rock, unable to move.
He took her in one arm, and with the other clung to the
rope. Alas! the double weight was more than the much-tried
rope could bear; it broke halfway, and the poor
woman and the sailor were both swallowed in the eddy.

Captain Baker and three seamen remained, utterly cut 5
off from hope of help. The men in best condition hurried
off in search of help, found a farmhouse, obtained a rope,
and hastened back; but long ere their arrival the waters
had flowed above the head of the brave and faithful captain.
All the crew could do was, with full hearts, to write 10
a most touching letter to an officer who had once sailed
with them in the _Drake_, entreating him to represent their
captain's conduct to the Lords of the Admiralty.

"In fact," said the letter, "during the whole business
he proved himself a man whose name and last conduct 15
ought ever to be held in the highest estimation by a crew
who feel it their duty to ask, from the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, that which they otherwise have not the
means of obtaining; that is, a public and lasting record
of the lion-hearted, generous, and the very unexampled 20
way in which our late noble commander sacrificed his
life in the evening of the 20th of June."

This letter was signed by the whole surviving crew of the
_Drake_, and in consequence, a tablet in the dockyard chapel
at Portsmouth commemorates the heroism of Captain 25
Charles Baker.

--_A Book of Golden Deeds._

1. Retell the main events of this story as briefly
as you can. You can do this best by making a
careful outline of the points set forth. Hand your
topics to your teacher.

2. What is the rule aboard ship in case of
abandoning the vessel? What accidents at sea do you
know about?

THE WALRUS HUNT

BY ROBERT M. BALLANTYNE

The following episode is from _Ungava: A Tale of
Eskimo Land_, a "classic" of the fifties and
sixties. _Ungava_ is full of thrilling adventure,