Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Up Anchor, and away. —What the Old Folks thought of iL —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 Besolution. — 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 winds 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 incited 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, every thing that could be said save a downright veto. It was unavoidable on our part. They could not be brought to look upon our (or rather Eaed's) project of self-education as we did: they saw only the danger of the sea. Had we done as they advised, we should have staid at home. I shall not take it upon me to say what we ought to have done. As a matter of fact, we went, or this narrative would never have been written. Nor can I say conscientiously, by way of moral, that we were ever, for any great length of time, sorry that we went: on the contrary, I now believe it far the best way we could have spent our money ; though the experience was a rough one. It may also be added, that we did not publicly state our intention of going so far north as Lab...