course the man did not have to run the risk of the penalty he could have remained on the bank in a sweet and placid of summer air sunshine and only he was not made that way in that swift mid air moment he lived as he could never have lived on the bank as for myself td rather be that man than the fellows who sat on the bank and watched him that is why i am building the i am so made i like that is all the trip around the world means big the of the moments of living bear with me a and look at it here am i a little animal called a man � a bit of matter one hundred and sixty five pounds of meat and blood nerve bones and brain � all of it soft and tender susceptible to hurt and frail i strike a light back handed blow on the nose of an horse and a bone in my hand is broken i put my head under the water for five minutes and i am drowned i fall twenty feet through the air and i am smashed i am a creature of temperature a few degrees one way and my fingers and ears and toes and drop off a few degrees the other way and my skin and away from the raw quivering flesh a few additional degrees either way and the life and the light in me go out a drop of poison into my body from a snake and i cease to move � forever i cease to move a of lead from a rifle enters my head and i am wrapped around in the eternal blackness and frail a bit of like life � it is all i am about me are the great natural forces � colossal of destruction monsters that have less concern for me than i have for the grain of sand i crush under my foot they have no concern at all for me they do not know me they are unconscious and they are the and lightning flashes and cloud bursts tide and waves and great and and and that thunder on rock and seas that leap aboard the largest that float crushing to or them off into the sea and to death � and these monsters do not know that tiny sensitive creature all nerves and weaknesses whom men call jack london and who himself thinks he is all right and quite a superior being in the and chaos of the conflict of these vast and it is for me to thread my precarious way the bit of life that is i will over them the bit of life that is i in so far as it in them or in them to its service will imagine that it is it is good to ride the tempest and feel i dare to assert that for a speck of to feel is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel here is the sea the wind and the wave here are the seas the winds and the waves of all the world here is ferocious and here is difficult the achievement of which is delight to the small quivering vanity that is i i like i am so made it is my own particular form of vanity that is all there is also another side to the voyage of the being alive i want to see and all the world is a bigger thing to see than one small town or valley we have done little of the voyage only one thing is definite and that is that our first port of call will be beyond a few general ideas we have no thought of our next port after we shall make up our minds as we get nearer in a general way we know that we shall wander through the south seas take in new new guinea and and go on up through the to then will come china india the red sea and the the of the after that the voyage becomes too vague to describe though we know a number of things we shall surely do and we expect to spend from one to several months in every country in europe the is to be sailed there will be a engine on board but it will be used only in case of emergency such as in bad water among and where a sudden calm in a swift current leaves a sailing boat helpless the of the is to be what is called the the is a compromise between the and the of late years the has proved the best for the the virtues of the and in addition to embrace a few of the sailing virtues of the the foregoing must be taken with a pinch of salt it is all theory in my head i ve never sailed a nor even seen one the theory itself to me wait till i get out on the ocean then i ll be able to tell more about the and sailing qualities of the as originally planned the was to be forty feet long on the water line but we discovered there was no space for a bath room and for that reason we have increased her length to forty five feet her greatest beam is fifteen feet she has no house and no hold there is six feet of and the deck is unbroken save for two and a for ard the fact that there is no house to break the strength of the deck will make us feel safer in case great seas thunder their tons of water down on board a large and sunk beneath the deck with high rail and self will make our days and nights more comfortable lo the of the there will be no crew or rather and i are the crew 