CHAPTER III.
"CAPTAIN LI'S" STORY.
All day the Nancy Bell was towed down the broad river, the glorious scenery along its banks arousing the constant enthusiasm of our travellers.

Late in the afternoon they passed the gray walls of Fort Knox on the right, and the pretty little town of Bucksport on the left.
They could just see the great hotel at Fort Point through the gathering dusk, and soon afterwards were tossing on the wild, windswept waters of Penobscot Bay.
As they cleared the land, so as to sight Castine Light over the port quarter, the tug cast loose from them and sail was made on the schooner.

The last thing Mark Elmer saw as he left the deck, driven below by the bitter cold, was the gleam of the light on Owl's Head, outside which Captain Drew said they should find the sea pretty rough.
The rest of the family had gone below some time before, and Mark found that his mother was already very sea-sick.

He felt rather uncomfortable himself, and did not care much for the supper, of which his father and Ruth eat so heartily.

He said he thought he would go to bed, before supper was half over, and did so, although it was only six o'clock.
Poor Mark! it was a week before he again sat at table or went on deck.
During this week the Nancy Bell sailed along the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.