into gangs of eight, each laboring six hours at a stretch. The shoveling goes on all day and all night, never stopping from the beginning to the end of the voyage. Comin" again upon deck, we find ourselves far out at sea. There is no land in sight, and the captain tells us we shall see none for ten days, or until we reach the islands along the east coast of Asia. We shudder at the possi-
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"The shoveling goes on all day and all night."
bility of breaking down in these watery wastes of the Pacific, where we might float for days and weeks without meeting a steamer; and we wonder what we should do in case of a wreck.
feel a little safer a few days later when the captain says we are just off the Aleutian Islands, and that the course here is so near the shores that the passengers can sometimes hear the foxes bark as the ship goes by. We next approach the Kuril (kōō′ril) Islands, a rocky chain belonging to Japan, and then turn to the south and sail for
