Had we been sailing eastward, a day would have been added to our calendar.

A naval officer once told me that he sailed eastward over this meridian on Sunday.

On the following morning the chaplain was surprised to receive orders to hold divine service.

He obeyed promptly, but could not understand the situation.

With a puzzled look he said to an officer-- "This part of the ocean must be better than any other or we would not have Sunday so often." Sir Francis Drake, who sailed around the world in the time of Queen Elizabeth, did not observe this rule of the navigator, and found on reaching England that he had a day too much.