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was an excellent artist. I remember also Edward
Millhauser, a commercial traveler from New York,
whose unfailing humor lightened the tedium of the
long journey, and Lyman Sperry, a well-known lec-
turer on temperance, furnished with an abundance of
texts after we reached Australia.

The Moana's first officer being an excellent chess
player, we played together each day during his free
time. For a while he won nearly every game, but by
and by I discovered that he handled his queen much
better than I did, and that by forcing an exchange of
queens I could always beat him. That was not
theoretically good chess, only good strategy, and
every time he lost he was surprised to see how it had
come about. Crossing the Atlantic in 1879, I played a
good many games with different people, usually win-
ning. Finally it was suggested that a man in the
steerage would like to try his hand. A rough-looking
fellow who spoke no language I knew then came for-
ward and met me under the shadow of one of the life-
boats. To him I lost regularly.

Chess on
the
"Moana"

Near the equator we passed Mary Island, a beauti-
ful atoll of which I made a fairly decent sketch -- a
ring of coral bearing palms and flowering bushes, and
bounding a lagoon with the usual opening by which
water levels are preserved. In "Eric's Book of
Beasts" 1 my drawing was reproduced with the fol-
lowing stanza:

A magic
circle

I know a magic circle in the sea
Etched on the blue with pale gray coral sand;
A mountain sank there once amid the spray,
Its eddying circles stiffening into land
With lazy surges flapping on the strand.

____________________
1 See Vol. I, Chapter II, page 28, and Vol. II, Chapter XXXIV, page 250.

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