In my opinion the _Ebba_ has been travelling at the rate of from ten to eleven knots an hour.

As to the direction we have been going in, it is always the same, and I have been able to verify this by casual glances at the binnacle.

If the fore part of the vessel is barred to Warder Gaydon he has been allowed a free run of the remainder of it.

Time and again I have glanced at the compass, and noticed that the needle invariably pointed to the east, or to be exact, east-southeast.
These are the conditions in which we are navigating this part of the Atlantic Ocean, which is bounded on the west by the coast of the United States of America.
I appeal to my memory.

What are the islands or groups of islands to be found in the direction we are going, ere the continent of the Old World is reached?
North Carolina, which the schooner quitted forty-eight hours ago, is traversed by the thirty-fifth parallel of latitude, and this parallel, extending eastward, must, if I mistake not, cut the African coast at Morocco.