Except the two years that I came ashore for the King Philip business, when every man that could carry a gun was needed on the border, I've never been three casts of a biscuit from salt water, and I tell you that I never knew a better crossing than the one we have just made." "Ay, we have come along like a buck before a forest fire.

But it is strange to me how you find your way so clearly out here with never track nor trail to guide you.

It would puzzle me, Ephraim, to find America, to say nought of the Narrows of New York." "I am somewhat too far to the north, Amos.

We have been on or about the fiftieth since we sighted Cape La Hague.

To-morrow we should make land, by my reckonin'." "Ah, to-morrow! And what will it be?
Mount Desert?
Cape Cod?
Long Island ?" "Nay, lad, we are in the latitude of the St.Lawrence, and are more like to see the Arcadia coast.