A certificate to this effect, besides the official documents from the many consulates, health offices, and customhouses, will seem to many superfluous; but this story of the voyage may find its way into hands unfamiliar with the business of these offices and of their ways of seeing that a vessel's papers, and, above all, her bills of health, are in order.
The lieutenant's certificate being made out, the _Spray_, nothing loath, now filled away clear of the sea-beaten rocks, and the trade-winds, comfortably cool and bracing, sent her flying along on her course.

On May 8, 1898, she crossed the track, homeward bound, that she had made October 2, 1895, on the voyage out.

She passed Fernando de Noronha at night, going some miles south of it, and so I did not see the island.

I felt a contentment in knowing that the _Spray_ had encircled the globe, and even as an adventure alone I was in no way discouraged as to its utility, and said to myself, "Let what will happen, the voyage is now on record." A period was made..