Submarine voyaging is an entirely different profession from that of the old-time navigator." "I know all that," said Sammy.

"I know how everything is a machine nowadays; but I shall never forget what a glorious thing it was to sail on the sea with the wind blowin' and the water curlin' beneath your keel.

I lived on the coast, and used to go out whenever I had a chance, but things is mightily changed nowadays.

Just think of that yacht-race in England the other day--a race between two electric yachts, with a couple of vessels ploughin' along to windward carryin' between 'em a board fence thirty feet high to keep the wind off the yachts and give 'em both smooth water and equal chance.

I can't get used to that sort of thing, and I tell you, sir, that if I am goin' on a voyage to the pole, I want to have a sailor along.