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Show Ocean's Path of Light. The night before the Islands were to come In view Ihe sea was lit by p phosphorescence so magnificent tho even my shipmates, absorbed In es carte below', called to one another c view It, The engine look us along -at about six knots and every wavei that broke over us was a lamp of loveliness. Tin- wake of the Morn- I Ing Star whs a milky-pathway lit wljh I trembling fraxmeniH ef brilliancy nnd i below the surfnece, heslrin the rudder, I was n strip of green light fn.ni which billion spsrks of -Are bt to Ihe air., Var behind, until the borlron closed upon the ocean, our wake was enrloitsly mindful nf the boulevard of a great city seen through a mist, the lights fndjng In the dim distance, sparkling still. It was as ir I lightning played beneath ihe waves so luminous, in scintillating the water j mid lis reflection upon the ship. j "White Shadows 'In the South Seas." |