were sailors from boyhood is erroneous. William once visited the Grand Banks as a fisherman, and that is the sum total of his experience in navigation. He is marriedhas a wife and three children. They saw him off yesterday, and will remain here till they hear from him. A. Walter Andrews, aged twenty-three years, is unmarried, was born in Beverly, Mass., at which town both young men were reared. Walter has been to the Grand Banks several times as a fisherman, and has an inborn love for the sea. He has had several narrow escapes from drowning.

"The start, that had been announced for Friday, naturally drew an immense throng of people, who crowded about the piers, piazzas, and roof of Mr. P. Coyne's hotel. Both sexes and all ages were represented. The bay was alive with craft-yachts, rowboats, and sculls from the rowing-club houses. Dories skimmed hither and thither. Several

steam yachts kept up a constant whistling and puffing, adding a great deal of commotion to the scene.

"At ten minutes to three o'clock, while a light breeze was fanning up from the westward, the "Nautilus," with her snow-white lateen sail fully set, gracefully tacked away from the floating stage to which she had been moored, and dropped leisurely out into the bay, about fifty yards from the shore, and then paused for about ten minutes.

"At her peak were the Stars and Stripes of the United States and the Tricolour of France. The two flags snapped out loudly as they flashed in the wind. Walter Andrews sat smilingly at the helm; standing in front of him, and peering vaguely towards the cast, was William, over whose face was a clearly defined expression of anxiety. As he stood · there he seemed to be measuring the magnitude of the dangers that he had to face. On

the boat sat Dr. Deering and his sister, friends of the brothers Andrews.

"Sharp at three o'clock, three loud cheers rang out from the throngs along the piers, and the little boat started eastward on her perilous journey. As she passed through the flotilla of yachts that were sailing about the bay, she received many cheers. The yacht 'Hermes' was the first to salute the 'Nautilus' with a gun. Salutes were then fired in the following order by the following yachts: -'Enterprise,' ' Wivern,' 'Gracie,' and 'Ivy,' the latter following up until opposite Long Island Light, and then gave the parting salute. The steamer 'Governor Andrew,' the Three Brothers,' the Shawmut Boat Club steamer, and many others, honoured the tiny boat with salutes. The yachts,

Gracie,' 'Louella,' ' Brenda,' 'Prima Donna,'

'White Swallow,' 'Mist,' and a number of

smaller craft, followed the young adventurers

far out beyond Long Island Light. Light. Here Dr. Deering and sister bade farewell to their friends, the Andrews Brothers, and got on board of the Prima Donna,' and returned to City Point, while the 'Nautilus' kept eastward on her course, until she faded out of sight. After she had disappeared, at five o'clock a stiff west wind blew up.

They will make Land's End, England, first, and then proceed to Havre, France."

So much for the "Boston Herald's " narrative, which mentions various things better told by another than by the heroic voyagers. And now to the

LOG OF THE "NAUTILUS."

Friday, June 7th, 1878.-Left Captain Coyne's Wharf, City Point, South Boston, Massachusetts, for Havre, France, at three o'clock this p.m., amid an enthusiastic send

off. When off Long Island wind shifted to east. Was advised to go to Beverly, and take the next fair wind from there; so we parted company of friends. But the wind soon came round to S.W., and we bore away on our course. Yacht "Violet" spoke us off Boston Light, bidding us "God speed." Soon after tug-boat "Camilla" overhauled and spoke us. Soon left Minots Light out of sight, and shortly after sighted Highland Light, Cape Cod. The wind blowing a gale, the top of our binnacle came off, and went overboard. Shortly our white light lantern, our only light except the binnacle, went out by the pitching of the boat. Shortly after, the globe cracked and the side fell out. Soon our small binnacle light burnt out dry, leaving us in total darkness. Walter had to turn out

and fill it in the dark as best he could, our little craft pitching heavily. Shortly after something very serious happened, and then