ballasted so heavily that it will sink when it fills.

When you belay the sheets of your sail, make a knot that can be untied
by a single pull at the loose end: any boatman will show you how to do
this. _Never make fast the sheets in any other way._ Hold the sheets in
your hands if the wind is at all squally or strong. Do not venture out
in a heavy wind. Stow your baggage snugly before you start: tubs made by
sawing a flour-barrel in two are excellent to throw loose stuff into.
Remember to be careful; keep your eyes open, and know what you are going
to do before you try it. The saying of an old sea-captain comes to me
here: "I would rather sail a ship around the world, than to go down the
bay in a boat sailed by a boy."


RECKONING LOST.

It often happens in travelling, that the sun rises in what appears the
north, west, or south, and we seem to be moving in the wrong direction,
so that when we return home our remembrance of the journey is confused.
Perhaps a few hints on this subject may help the reader. Supposing your
day's journey ends at Blanktown, where you find your compass-points
apparently reversed. It then becomes natural for you to make matters
worse by trying to lay out in your mind a new map, with Blanktown for
the "hub," and east in the west, and so on. You can often prevent these
mishaps, and can always make them less annoying, by studying your map
well both before and during your journey; and by keeping in your mind
continually, with all the vividness you can, what you are really doing.
As far as Blanktown is concerned, you will have two impressions, just as
we all have two impressions with regard to the revolution of the earth
on its axis: apparently the sun rises, goes over and down; but in our