“THE CAPTAIN HAS A RELAPSE. val

downwards, and it seemed as if the next roller
would send her back on the bar. It glided under
her, however, and then she appeared floating,
as it were, almost at rest on its summit, and then
downwards she slid, slowly making her onward
way.

In a few- minutes more we were in the free open
ocean, and the dark sombre river, with its gloomy
associations, was far astern. Every inch of canvas
the vessel could carry was set, that we might get
a good offing before nightfall, when a calm was to
be expected.

‘I never wish to see that place again,’ I could
not help exclaiming.

‘ Don’t say that, Harry,’ answered the captain.
‘We may hope to have better luck the next time.
If you ever want to grow rich you must run some
- risk, We have had an unusually sickly season,
which may not again occur; and if the owners
ask me to go back, I am not the man to refuse
to do so, and I should look to you to go along with
me.’

Can it be possible, I thought, that a man, after
running so fearful a risk, would willingly again
expose himself to the same danger, merely for the