now except the g een hands that came aboard this year this is rather an important matter outward bound or everything depends upon the officers for instance who will be captain asked with assumed indifference i shall of course replied with becoming modesty that s a settled matter i suppose yes without a doubt it is i may not ag ee to that suggested new convert you have already agreed to it you have promised to obey your but who are my i am one of them who appointed you i appointed myself i got up the chain i think i have just as much right to that place as � you have j i don t see it do you expect me to get up this i thing and then take a subordinate position demanded indignantly let members choose the captain that s the proper way perhaps they will choose neither one of us very well i will agree to serve under any fellow who is fairly elected when shall he be chosen asked who was so sure of a majority that he was disposed to adopt the suggestion when we have thirty links say � will agree to it the separated each to obtain as fast as he during the latter part of the day young america afloat the gale began to and at sunset its force was broken but the sea still ran fearfully high the fore course was shaken out and the ship filled away again plunging madly into the savage waves on sunday morning the gale had entirely subsided but the wind still came from the same quarter and the weather was cloudy the sea had its fury though the still rolled high and the ship had an ugly motion during the night the had been turned out of the the flying and had been set and the young america was making a course east south east sail ho shouted one of the crew on the after the watch was set where away demanded the officer of the deck over the lee bow sir was the report which came through the officers on duty the report created a sensation as it always does when a sail is seen for one who has not spent days and weeks on the broad expanse of waters can form only an inadequate idea of the companionship which those in one ship feel for those in another even while they are miles apart though the crew of the young america had been shut out from society only about three days they had already begun to realize this craving for association � this desire to see other people and be conscious of their existence after the severe gale through which they had just passed this sentiment was stronger than it would have been under other circumstances the ocean lashed into unwonted fury by the mad winds a fierce gale had been raging for full twenty four hours outward bound or and the tempest was suggestive of what the sailor most � with its long train of disaster � suffering and death it was hardly possible that such a terrible storm had swept the sea without carrying down some vessels with precious of human life the young america had safely ridden out the gale for all art could do to make her safe and strong had been done without regard to expense no owners had built her of poor and insufficient material or sent her to sea weakly and with officers the ship was heavily eighteen or twenty men would have been deemed a sufficient crew to work her and though her force consisted of boys they would average more than two of the muscle and skill of able there were other ships abroad on the vast ocean which could not compare with her in strength and and which had not one third of her working power on board no ship can absolutely defy tlie elements and there is no such thing as absolute safety in a voyage across the ocean but there is far less peril than people who have had no experience generally suppose the have been running more than a quarter of a century with the loss of only one ship and no lives in that one � a triumphant result achieved by strong ships with competent men to manage them poorly built ships short with officers unfit for their positions constitute the harvest of destruction on the ocean mr believed that the students of the academy ship would be as safe on board the young young america afloat america as they would on shore he had taken a great deal of pains to his theory to parents and though he often failed he often succeeded the young america had just passed through one of the of the year and in for the next three years she would hardly encounter a more terrific storm she had safely it the boys had behaved splendidly and not one of them had been lost or even injured by the trying exposure the principal s theory was thus far the watch to breakfast when the sail was discovered too far off to make her out the boys all manifested a deep interest in the distant wanderer on the sea mingled with a desire to know how the stranger had the gale many of them went up the into the tops and the spy glasses were in great demand do you make her out captain asked mr as he came up front bis breakfast and discovered the commander watching the stranger through the glass yes sir i can just make her out now her and have gone by the board and she has the union down hoisted at her replied the captain with no little excitement in his manner indeed exclaimed the teacher of as he took the glass you are right captain and you had better keep her away shall i speak to 