ftness and tremor of his
voice, especially when speaking to Johnny, who, as the night drew on,
asked him over and over again, at short intervals, "Don't you think,
Arthur, that we shall certainly find land to-morrow?" This was truly
distressing.

As to Max, his feelings rose and fell capriciously, and without any
apparent cause; he was sanguine or depressed, not from a consideration
of all our circumstances, and a favourable or unfavourable conclusion
drawn therefrom; but according as this view or that, for the moment,
impressed his mind. He rendered no reasons for his hopes or his fears.
At one moment, you would judge from his manner and conversation that we
were indeed out upon some "holy day excursion," with no serious danger
impending over us; the next, without any thing to account for the
change, he would appear miserably depressed and wretched.

Soon after sunset the moon rose--pale and dim at first, but shining out
with a clearer and brighter radiance, as the darkness increased. The
wind held steadily from the same quarter, and it was determined to
continue through the night, the arrangement for taking charge of the
sailing of the boat, in turn. Browne and Max insisted on sharing
between themselves the watch for the entire night, saying that they had
taken no part in that of the one previous, and that it would be useless
to divide the twelve hours of darkness into more than two watches. This
was finally agreed upon, the wind being so moderate that the same person
could steer the yawl and manage the sail without difficulty.

Before lying down, I requested Max, who took the first turn, to awake me
at the same time with Browne, a part of whose watch I intended to share.
I fell asleep, looking up at the moon, and the light clouds sailing
across the sky, and listening to the motion of the water beneath the
boat. At first I slumbered lightly, without losing a sort of dreamy
consciousness, so that I heard Max humming over to himself fragments of
tunes, and odd verses of old songs, and even knew when he shifted his
position in the stern, from one side to the other. At length I must
have fallen into a deep sleep: I do not know how long it had lasted, (it
seemed to me but a short time), when I was aroused by an exclamation,
from Max, as I at first supposed; but on sitting up I saw that Browne
was at the helm, while Max was sleeping at my side. On perceiving that
I was awake, Browne, from whom the exclamation had