Under reduced canvas, at nine o'clock the Bhip was passing through the water at five and a half ; the green fire burnt in the holes in her furrow, and very Bteady on our quarter ; within pistol-Bhot, back-fin clear, floated at the exact; speed of the ship a largo phosphorescent ehapa of shark— big as a grampus he looked in his husk of luminous mist. The women hung about the decks till a late hour thiß night; they were too restless and excited to turn-in at the usual hour. I called a number of them up to look at the wonderful picture the shark made; amongst theße were many of my crew ; and they liked this part of the deck so well I would not suffer Mr Harding, who had charge till midnight, to order them off. When the moon rose and shone white, making ivory of the decks, with the shadows of the rigging in every trance betwixt the rolls looking like ebony inlaid, it was the Btrangest thing to see the crowds of women moving about the main deck; their clothes were tinged with silver and their shapes, seemed unsubstantial; the only solid part seemed their ink-black shadows. From time to time, at consider able intervals, a voice sang hoarsely in the lore-chains, and went to pieces in twenty echoes aloft. I put Kate's arm under mine for a turn, and kept her at my side for an hour. I was feverish with thought, and it did me good to talk. Waß the island where Bull eaid it was ? Would the men be satisfied with it ? Would the women shrink at the last moment ? Would there be. recoil in any of the crew with the Bpot, repellant in desolation in proportion as it was appealing in beauty, hung within aa easy pull ? I could talk about nothing else. Somewhere about five bells, whilst I was looking at the wake of light und9r the moon— a broad, trembling, glorious breast it was — I caw a ahip swim into it about four mile 3 off, a black, leau Bhape, the sharp of her sails being at us. She was probably a whaler. It was the first vessel *re had sighted for weeks, and I looked at Ser with as much interest as though I had never seen a ahip before. 