His name Sam Lavroff.

He come from New York on ship.

Steward say he very young for carpenter, maybe twenty- two, three years old." As I approached the open port over my desk I again heard the swish and gurgle of water and again realized that we were under way.

So steady and noiseless was our progress, that, say seated at table, it never entered one's head that we were moving or were anywhere save on the solid land.

I had been used to steamers all my life, and it was difficult immediately to adjust myself to the absence of the propeller-thrust vibration.
"Well, what do you think ?" I asked Wada, who, like myself, had never made a sailing-ship voyage.
He smiled politely.
"Very funny ship.