—Copernicus.
LOG First Day
NOTE.—The writer of this record, being the only sober passenger aboard the Good Ship “Lithia,” has been requested by the Captain to keep the Log. The Captain kindly explains that a log is a thing in which you put down the daily occurrences on board ship. I have kept a dog, and a valet, and a thirst, and other things, but a log is sure a new proposition. But, dash my tarry toplights, here goes. Avast there, my hearties! Yeo-heave-ho! Yo-ho!
At midnight we left the Bar, and got under way, with a big tide and the wind souse-souse-east and piping free.
Everybody aboard, barring the writer, is thoroughly saturated. I counted fifty-seven varieties of pickle.
[22] ]Later.—It seems I was mistaken about having left the Bar. The Captain announces through the ventilator that he is stuck on the Bar. Loud cheers from the passengers, and cries of, “So say we all of us!”