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A quick voyage across the Atlantic Is one of the most desirable things possible to the voyager, whose sighs are continually heav- ing for land. To he sailor il Is of no great importance, unless fo the master, whose ambition centres upon the swiltness o his barque; and even to him, like to the 'finny tribe water Is his darling element. But 10 the passenger, who holds in fear and dread the storm, the calm, and the dangers of the seas. the sooner he leaves the great deep, the safer does he feel himself, even in d strange land. He Is ready, like old Christo Colnmbo, to bow the knee and kiss the earth, as more congenal to his earthly feel ings. Nevertheless, the time, the warm and sincere affection of the jolly tar, the short but friendly acquaintance of fellow passengers. and the many ioviai and amn- sing anecdotes, tales from the company, the night watch, Nepiune's barber shop, and the anxious Hook out for a sail bring to the imagination very pleasing recollec- lions.

 In the course of the summer of 1915, when the summer sails were indicative that but little breeze was in motion, and when

 

 lly. gllde along the smooth, calm waves af the Bay of Bscay, on our reinrn home 10 the peaceful shores of America, we were much diverted at the singular proceedings of fellow passenger, by the name of Du- boscq, recently from the land of Gascony. s nls belng hlS first trip, and naturally of d cowardly turn, he was the sport of the whole crew, and helped to pass off the te- diousness oi a iong passage. Duboscq, ] like all Gascons, was very fond of good wlne, and being in easy circumstances and very avaricinus, laid up for himself a plen- tliul stock of the choicest nectar, which was only noticed waen our common stock was exhausted. Not drop could be purchased of hlm for either love nr money. Every 5 one who has measured the seas well knows 5 me value of a little wine for the stamach's @ sake; and to be entirely without fl is cer- talnly d privation, particularly when the M shores we had left were so well furnished and the article so cheap. A stratagem was resorted to by one of the passengers, which resulted in supplying ali, and affording us the pleasure of toasting him secretly for at E least week

 Dnboseq, who had q constant dread of the Algerines and pirates, and whose mind had been still more inhamed by readIng books on the subject, scarcely allnwed his eyes to close but at late hour; and the exaggera- ted accounts related by the passengers, tended still more to alarm the poor Giscon. During one of those nights, number of passengers and sailors equipped themselves

 

 y concealed in the forecasile until the alarm was given that pirates were aboard.

 Nc sooner did Dubnscq hearit, than he in ned'ately repaired to his gold, and while engaged in the cabin he was suddenly shu,