among those who by sermon or lecture or address added to the enjoyment or instruction of others.

The most popular speaker among the score or more of clergymen on board was Dr. Knight, of Boston, the author of "The Song of Our Syrian Guest” and “The Love Watch.”. His addresses, "Over the Bow of the Arabic," "Four Shadows on the Sea," and "Keying the Mind for Palestine," will long remain a cherished memory.

It is scarcely fair to describe the idiosyncrasies of fellow-travelers, lest the pit that one digs should be his own burial-place. The breeze which seemed gentle to most passengers was doubtless a "hurricane" to the one who "never crossed before." The slight roll, or the occasional dip, probably suggested "turning turtle" or preparing for "Davy Jones's Locker," and historic experiences are on record where ships have turned over or gone down. There is a difference between "dialect" and “derelict,” but when one uses the former term in referring to a water-logged vessel, he is excusable.

One wearer of the Cloth described the first day out the kind of young women whom he desired to meet on the journey:

"They must be ideal, or I shall not seek an introduction," he said.

"And your standard of ideality in a woman is— what?" suggested one who was desirous of rubbing off the rough corners of what had been authenticated as a veritable "diamond."

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"No woman is really attractive unless her face is beautiful, her dressing exquisite, her form perfect, her vocabulary without a flaw, and to this she must add a bank account of no mean size.”

"And in exchange for all this you can offer-what?" 'Absolutely nothing but myself.

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"You have omitted an important asset."

"What is that, pray?"

"An abundance of nerve.

The better part of two days was spent at Funchal, in Madeira, the first stopping-place. Glad indeed were all to be on land again, especially those who had felt, like Henry Ward Beecher, afraid first that they should die, and then that they couldn't. The quaint sleds drawn by oxen; the ride up the mountainside and the slide in a wicker sledge down to the starting-place; the visit to the shopping district; the prayer-meeting at the Methodist Mission; the ball at the Casino, with the gardens a veritable fairyland-one was sorry to hear the steamer's whistle summoning him to return in order to take up the journey from a Portuguese possession to Spain.

A sail past the Pillars of Hercules with Gibraltar and Trafalgar Bay on the right and not far away, and then the Arabic anchored near the place from which Columbus set sail when he started on his great voyage of discovery. After the verdure of Madeira the white walls of the Cadiz buildings strike many unpleasantly It takes the edge off of the novelty of other Spanish

towns to see them after one has been in Seville. One could well afford to go a long distance to see the old Cathedral with its tomb of Columbus and its picture of St. Anthony, from which a piece of canvas was cut not long ago and later restored; to stand before the Giralda,

the wonderful tower near the Cathedral erected as an observatory by the Moors; and to stroll through the palace grounds of the Alcazar with their beautiful gardens. When one goes to Granada he wishes to get away from the crowd and with one, or at most two or three, walk slowly through the Alhambra.

The sail from Gibraltar to Algiers was enlivened by

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the recital of experiences in Spain and Morocco, by a concert and a lecture on the countries next to be seen. In Algiers carriages took the visitors through the Arab quarter to the Governor's Palace, and over a picturesque drive, through the Botanical Gardens, ending with a visit to the mosques and the markets.

Interest was divided as one approached Malta between the fortifications constructed by Great Britain and the Bible narrative of St. Paul's shipwreck. Breakfast was forgotten as the steamer whistle announced that the place where Paul's little boat went to pieces was less than a half-mile to starboard. Two or three small parties, not satisfied with the view of the bay from the steamer, drove out to the "place where two seas met' while the rest of the company were visiting the public gardens, the church of St. John so closely identified with the Knights of Malta and the Chapel of Bones, sufficiently grewsome to thrill the most staid members of the party.

Two days were spent in Athens; a small party visited Corinth as well. Through the illuminating lecture on Athens given on the way from Malta it was easy to locate the buildings as soon as one came in sight of them. The fact that the lecturer himself visited Greece for the first time on this Cruise did not detract from the interest of his description; on the contrary, he entered more into detail doubtless than he would if he were describing the city now that he has seen it.

The ride through the Dardanelles gave one an op