Penang--Penang Hill--Nearly Wrecked--Deliverance--West Coast of Sumatra--Padang--Padang Thieves--Padang Church--Malay Ordination--Padang Drives--Natives--Captain Blowhard--Insolence. CHAPTER VIII. Another Voyage in the "Dublin"--Second Mate--Mr. Howard's Grievances--Mr. Howard Leaves--Leaking--The New Mate--Second Mates' Duties--Ships' Work--Squalls--Old Harry--At the Fore-truck--Amsterdam--Dutchmen--The Captain's Relapse--Worrying the Second Mate--Dreams--A Growl--A Cabin Conference--An Irish Sailor--Two Finnish Sailors. CHAPTER IX. Another Voyage in the "Dublin" concluded--A North Sea Gale--The Lee Shore--In Distress--Good-bye to Old Harry--Captain's Yarns--Bullies--Gothenburg--Another Start--Decks Swept--Stopping the Leak--Hurrying the Crew--A Hard Life--A Freezing Gale--A False Bearing--Weatherwise--Leaving the "Dublin"--Mr. Wright's Letter--Capt. Streeter's End. CHAPTER X. Land Again--The "Flying Dutchman"--A Cape of Good Hope Gale--Gales--Rolling Down to St. Helena--Watch and Watch--Tarring Down--Sailors' Growls--Sailors' Opinions--Discontent in the Cabin--Ills of Sea Life. CHAPTER XI. Sailors' Resources--The Tar Barrel--A Wild Ship--Boarding a Vessel--Ready for Port. CHAPTER XII. Sailors' Songs--Bully or Coax--Treatment of Sailors--Schooner "Jane"--A Mackerel Shower--Fog on the Coast--Taking a Pilot--Arrived--Paying off--Scraping Belaying Pins. "Once more upon the waters, yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider." --_Byron's Childe Harold._ "Who would not sell a farm and go to sea?"--_Sailor Proverb._ ON BOARD THE "ROCKET." CHAPTER I.