swinging along at a good round gait, everything taut and trim, andthe wind in my favor--I judged I was going about a million miles aminute--it might have been more, it couldn't have been less--when Iflushed a most uncommonly big one about three points off mystarboard bow. By his stern lights I judged he was bearing aboutnortheast-and-by-north-half-east. Well, it was so near my course
