CHAPTER VIII.
OUTWARD BOUND.
Mr.Lowington read the merit roll, announcing the officers as he proceeded.

The occupants of the after cabin, who were appointed for the succeeding three months, during which time the ship crossed the Atlantic, and visited various European ports, were as follows:-- CHARLES GORDON, _Captain._ Joseph Haven, _First Lieutenant._ Paul Kendall, _Second "_ Samuel Goodwin, _Third "_ Augustus Pelham, _Fourth "_ William Foster, _First Master._ Henry Martyn, _Second "_ Thomas Ellis, _Third "_ Joseph Leavitt, _Fourth "_ Joseph O.Rogers, _First Purser._ Edward Murray, _Second "_ George W.Terrill, _First Midshipman._ John Humphreys, _Second "_ Mark Robinson, _Third "_ Andrew Groom, _Fourth "_ The students mentioned in the list made the required promise to behave themselves like gentlemen, and faithfully discharge the duties of their several offices, and were duly installed in their new positions in the after cabin.

Most of them had been officers before, but all of them were higher in rank than at any former period.

Richard Carnes had been captain four terms, for no one could get ahead of him.
The new captain had been first lieutenant, during the preceding year, three terms out of four, and was certainly the best qualified student on board for the command.

He was a young man of high moral aims, with much dignity of character and energy of purpose.
The officers went to the after cabin, put on their uniforms, and assumed their proper places.