the hearts of the striving men. 'But,' says Walter, if it had not been for one of those calms, I should not have been here now. We had a chance to board the ship "C. L. Carney," of New York, and the captain gave me some Fryar's Balsam, which cured a grievous hemorrhage, which put my life in danger.' "One can hardly believe that such a diminutive craft as the 'Nautilus' could stand the wear and tear of ocean travel as he gazes at her thin half-inch deck and sides. There is not room for a grown man to turn over in her little cabin. The Andrews brothers were compelled to keep their wet clothes on day after day, and their sleep was always broken. Sometimes they did not rest at all for a week. They had hot coffee but few times in the forty-five days, and they ate but little. They set their whole reserve force, and it appears to have been great, to the task of getting across. Such men deserve cordial recognition. They are not even sailors. They are artisans. They had their own lack of knowledge against them. But they have demonstrated what strong will can do. Go and see the 'Nautilus.' It is something which you will never forget." The Paris Figaro was equally generous and enthusiastic in their praise. The New York Herald devoted two columns to the "Nautilus" and crew; also the London Standard, and other journals on both sides the Atlantic. The papers in fact were all very profuse with both illustrations and articles, and the brothers modestly said, "We unite in humbly thanking the press of the world for the courtesy that has been extended towards us." CHAPTER V. START OF THE We must now recross to the American side, and go back to June 7th, 1878, when the "Nautilus" started from the harbour of Boston, Massachusetts. The following appeared in the Boston Herald of the following day, June 8th: "DEPARTURE OF THE NAUTILUS THE ANDREWS BROTHERS SAIL FROM CITY POINT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN THEIR LITTLE BOAT-A GOOD START AND MUCH WARM ENCOURAGEMENT. "At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the very smallest boat that ever started to cross |