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On BOARD New ENGLAND.

~ Ah't 1880
On BOARD New ENGLAND,
February s, 1900.
A different feeling pervades the
minds of people this morning and
there is a stir of new life clearly
manifest. All day yesterday the
probable time of our arrival at
Madeira island was discussed, and it
is amazing how many claimed to
know OH authority of the captain or
some other of the boats crew just
when it would be. For instance |
talked with one who eats at table
with the captain, and he assured me
that the captain said we could not
reach Madeira till night. | then
walked into the room adjoining and
was assured by another fellow On the
same captains authority that the
vessel would reach Madeira at 3
o'clock. This morning. however. all
differences OF opinion were bro.z
into agreement by the following,
printed at the bottom of our break
fast menu cards: Notice. arrive
Funchal (the port of Madeira) 2:3o p.
m. Leave at 8 p. m. First dinner
! p. m, second sitting 8 p. m. As
we sat at first table we will have to
come aboard before Z o'clock, but as
it is dark at that time we would wish
to do so any way. And now every
body is looking forward to discovery
of land. Every ore imagires himself
a veritable Christopher Columbus.
1t is surprising how often that
great explorers name has been men
toned. Ii any on board ever lacked
respect for him it will never be so
again. To think of his blowing
through the unknown waters, against
the wishes of his mutinous crew, not
a week, but two months, away to the
far west, until he came to land I'M
heard of-and then to think of his
rude ships, and the superstitions
that inhabited the regions of the
great deep withcruel monsters whose
existence was for the very purpose
of devouring human beings-to think
of all this and more that ome to
making gives one such a sense of the
courage of that intrepid discoverer
as to cause one to regard him as
truly one of the greatest of men.
Some sense of the romantic comeS TO
us, too, when we remember that
Columbus loved and won't the daughter
of the first governor of Madeira, the
very island to which we are now APP
preaching; that here he lived and
observing the warm currents of the
gulf stream reasoned correctly that
away to the westward is a land from
whence it comes.
Speaking thus of Columbus, re
minds me of other things that have
come to mind because of the voyage.
They may seem simple but neverthe-
less they come. While rocked to and
fro by the pillows one easily thinks
of Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep, as literally true. Then ire
sistibly comes to mind that one of
infantile days, "Rock-a-by-Baby on
the Tree Top" Then again comes
to mind psalms 107, 22-30: They
that go down to sea in ships that do
business in great waters; these see
the works of the Lord. and his won
ders in the deep. For he commandeth
and raiseth the stormy winds, which
lifteth up the waves thereof. They
mount up to the heaven, they 90
down again to the depths; their soul
is melted because of trouble. They
reel to and fro, and stagger like a
drunken man, and are at their wit :
end. Then thew cry unto the Lord
in their trouble end He bringeth
them out of their distreSses. He
maketh the storm n calm, so that the
waves thereof are still. Then are
they glad because they be quiet: so
be bringeth them mite their desired
haven" How literally true this
seems to many now on this vessel.
Last night after dark we saw an
other sail vessel o more than two
miles distant, and this morning vet
another. This indicates that we are
near the conveyance of sailing
routes.
And 10 III 60 on deck and be
to have the first glimpse of
land. 1t may be long before it ap-
pears, but wei watch anyhow. The
Richmond party have all gone but
myself. When next | write il will
be to tell of what we saw in the
island of which so little is known.
ELLwooD o. ELLIS