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CHAPTER II.

The captains cabin was an exceed
iugly comfortable one, with large
chart table in the middle, cushioned
transoms around the sides, and sew
cral luxurious rattan chairs. II was
situated upon the hurricane deck di-
rrctly under the wheel house, and had
large windows instead of the usual
rorts, 81 that we had an uninterrupted
view of everything that was going on.
While smoked an after dinner cigar
PLd enjoyed the breeze which blew
through our quarters, the strange and
rapid succession of events that had
resulted In my being bound for the
most forgotten corner of the carth's
surface struck mr very forrihly. ENery
!tw moments some "reminiscences OF
cid times would occur to one or the
othc uf H.. and finally asked Hal
.trnd If he were married.
NO" he said: I'm not. was just
going to ask the same question. IL
seems rather odd that we two should
lave reach, Il the age let's see: I'm
IS. and ,ou can't be- far from it
without settling down. DO you know,
cid chap, I'm beginning to think
haven't made much of success in
life"
"Oh, don't know. You're likely to
have ship as long as you want To go
20 sea, aren't YOU? And the house
would probably uflcy fairly good
l.erth ashore, If you felt lisr taking it,"
81 suppose so, as long as the pres
.nt management remains unchanged.
hut, even 80. there's no chance of
r4nking fortune at it. Here we are,
you and I. two men in the prime of life,
aud able thoroughly to enjoy all the
good thing, in It. yet ! suppose we are
likely TO keep on drudSing for some
ole else a long as W. live. In the
long run tie fellow who persistrntly
drudgCs comes ont ahead, and then
he's too old to enjoy his good fortune.
IT takes IA young man to appreciate
the things that money will buy. Now
why can't we strike n bit of luck some
where. find buried treasure or some
thing of the sort, and then live like
princes in London or New York, in
stead of frying our gizzards ont in
;ne East Indies? Isn't there a fairy
aodmother that we might propitia,e?'
M nm, don't seem to remember
any in my family. But. speaking of
treasure, aren't we sailing over pretty
much the same track as that followed
l'y the old galleons?"
That's right; same track, TO mile.
Tomorrow morning I'll show you
Port San Jacinto. on the island of
ricao, where they used to whit for a
favorable wind in beating through the
San Hernardino passage. Anson's
hips watched for them just outside
he 'Embocadero,' as il is called in
spanish, and they all stopped at the
Iadrones for pigs and water on the
NINage across"
We'll, weren't they usually loaded
with a pretty rich cargo?"
Rich! Why. man. the Acapulco gal
ICON brought between two and three
millions-in silver dollars, gold doub-
looms. and indigo-to Manila, once or
twice every year. You see, the junks
used TO come down from Hong Kong
"a March or April, loaded with silk bro
cades fine linen. gold ornaments and
Jewels, which the Manila Spaniards
bought and. after keeping what they
wanted for personal use, shipped to
Acapulco on speculation. Mexico vas
4 viceregal province then, and the
Philippines WINS n subdependency The
return galleon brought the proceeds
# these speculations; though, as the
hcletas. or shipping permits for trans
rortation space, were issued by the
gobernadors for revenue, they prac-
'ically amounted TO Philippine sub
siiy."
That's about as remember 1t.
There were good many galleons
arecked on the coral islands, weren't
;here?"
Lots of them; they were great NV
wieldy tubs, always loaded beyond
their carrying caIacity. And, b, the
way, that reminds me of an instance
which | happen to know about, more
or less directly. Last voyage, Padre
Julian, who has been in charge of the
mission on Saipan for 80 or 40 years,
came home with me. The old chap
is a good deal of a student, and has
the history of these islands at his
iinger-ends-best judge of rum and
sherry | ever saw. ! used to fill him
up with good liquor, just to see him
enjoy il and hear the stories he told
when the stuff got into his blood"
tTo BIZ Continued