. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... r all looked through the glass and thought it was land. I took the glass and looked again, and saw a cloud resembling land lying low on the horizon, but following it along could see between the horizon and the edge of the cloud. The navigator, however, would not give in, but said the chronometer had thrown us three or. once, peer-amongst aclouds nowpathway of 70 TO THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. four hundred miles out of our course. That was proof torne that I was r
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... r all looked through the glass and thought it was land. I took the glass and looked again, and saw a cloud resembling land lying low on the horizon, but following it along could see between the horizon and the edge of the cloud. The navigator, however, would not give in, but said the chronometer had thrown us three or. once, peer-amongst aclouds nowpathway of 70 TO THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. four hundred miles out of our course. That was proof torne that I was right, for the chronometer had no errorsdown to Bahia, and I could not believe it was wrong now,but he said he was afraid it was wrong, and he wouldfigure on his old course just the same, but would keep acourse from this land mirage, and with the two he couldnot go wrong. CHAPTER IV. THROUGH THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN. A DESERTED SHEEP-RANCH. — DUCK SHOOTING IN A STRANGE LAND. WE SEE GLACIERS AND EXPLORE A PATAGONIAN JUNGLE. OUR FIRST NEWS FROM HOME. I will now mention some of my own troubles, so thereader may fully understand about how I found myselfsituated on board the Diver. It was novel to me andsometimes comical, for I was signed master of the schooner ;sometimes I was mate and all hands, and there weretimes I had no place at all. The men did not understandthe difference between a master and a boatswains mate. and Rounds were maki
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