Haven't seen the sun for a week.

Not far from forty-five degrees, I reckon." "Are we in any danger of Cape Race ?" "Not a bit.

We're more than a hundred miles east of it, I think." The little schooner, of not more than sixty tons, drifted slowly past.
There were seven hands on deck; all boys of sixteen and eighteen, save one.

This is the training which makes the Gloucester sailors so prized for our navy.
...

During the evening, we heard at a distance the deep, grum whistle of the Inman steamer going down to Halifax,--whistling at intervals to warn the fishermen.