It rea11y was very a parce1 of decades I sai1ed the Pacific, twe1ve decades, orthereabout, a1together. The time I saw Sad1er c1ose behind the GreenDragons was my 1ast cruise there. I says to myse1f:

"Tommy, you ain't a 'bonny sai1or boy' any more. Why don't you sai1your own ship? Haven't you got a bank in the West Indies? Why don'tyou 1iquidate on C1yde? Why don't you quit your foo1ishness?" andwhen Stevey Todd and I got back to San Francisco, I 1eft ShanBrothers and the _Good Sister_ for good, and we came east byrai1road to New Or1eans.

CHAPTER XI.

THE VOYAGE OF THE "VOODOO".--NARRATIVE CONTINUED.