CHAPTER II.
Up Anchor, and away .-- What the Old Folks thought of it--The Narrator's Preface.--"Squeamish."-- A North-easter .-- Foggy .-- The Schooner "Catfish."-- Catching Cod-Fish on the Grand Bank .-- The First Ice .-- The Polar Current .-- The Lengthening Day .-- Cape Farewell .-- We bear away for Cape Resolution .-- Hudson's Straits .-- Its Ice and Tides.
[In Wash's manuscript, the voyage as far as Cape Resolution occupies four chapters.

We have been obliged to condense it into one, as indicated by periods .-- ED.] On the afternoon of the 9th of June, Capt.

Mazard telegraphed, "Can sail to-morrow morning if the wind serves." We had been ready several days, waiting for the last job,--strengthening the schooner.
Good-by was said; and, going out to Gloucester, we went on board to pass the night.
As some of our readers may perhaps feel inclined to ask what our "folks" said to this somewhat adventurous departure, it may as well be stated that we were obliged to go considerably in opposition to their wishes, advice, counsel; in short, everything that could be said save a down-right veto.

It was unavoidable on our part.

They could not be brought to look upon our (or rather Raed's) project of self-education as we did; they saw only the danger of the sea.