At noon Weber told him he was going to "the place where ships are anchored that go to Samoa," and led him to "a very magnificent house, with carriages inside and a wonderful roof of glass"; to wit, the railway station.

They were benighted on the train, and then went in "something with a house, drawn by horses, which had windows and many decks"; plainly an omnibus.

Here (at Bremen or Bremerhaven, I believe) they stayed some while in "a house of five hundred rooms"; then were got on board the _Nurnberg_ (as they understood) for Samoa, anchored in England on a Sunday, were joined _en route_ by the famous Dr.Knappe, passed through "a narrow passage where they went very slow and which was just like a river," and beheld with exhilarated curiosity that Red Sea of which they had learned so much in their Bibles.

At last, "at the hour when the fires burn red," they came to a place where was a German man-of-war.

Laupepa was called, with one of the boys, on deck, when he found a German officer awaiting him, and a steam launch alongside, and was told he must now leave his brother and go elsewhere.