Show two sundays in one wook week when I 1 was a young roan man which was long before the swiftly sailing steamships began crossing the tile atlantic I 1 set sail in a chater hiller for a voyage around the world it required years to accomplish such a voyage at that time almost as long as it took captain cook the great birc circumnavigator which made the world seem seeni very much larger to me at least than it does now but the scenes of that voyage left a vivid impression on my boyar min mind and seem at times to pass like a series of pictures before it the cape of good hope the indian ocean the tile shores OPT of tasmania as mania the vast pacific the romantic romal itic island of pitcairn where dwelt the descendants of the mati of the bounly the thi lo neHa q afa 1 we were guided at knitht night by the light of one of earths highest volcano esthe antarctic seas with their ice fields lights sunless seasons and sublime u b scenery the tile summer islands isla n ds and the paradise of the tropics the snow glittering peaks of cape horn and then again the blue waters of the atlantic as we drew near to our home in the course of eur our voyage an Oc occurrence curren cc happened the announcement of which may perhaps surprise tho the young reader we came to a place where wo we had bad a double sunday that is two sundays with nc no other day between them this took place in the pacific ocean not far from the meridian of longitude it ca came me quite t e unexpectedly to me who had h aai little lit 1 l e experiences perien ces in sea voyages and I 1 would have been glad to have had a whole week of sundays could we have fared as well on all of them a as we w did on this I 1 it was a custom on sunday to have an extra dish called duff dult but on this extra sunday we not only did no work and had duff but our captain graciously ordered the cook to give us flapjacks flap jacks flapjack flapjacks Flap jacks 9 for seamen we could hardly credit it for a time but when the flapjacks flap jacks came we could no longer doubt they were flap acks there was no mistake the ermias erm was most appropriately applied I 1 used to like flap jacks at home locc as I 1 believe most boya boys doand was naturally inclined to make the most ot of these but there was a consistency in them that was hard ha wu arwe seemed to be made up in durable quality they seemed eo durable la fact that jack short our best forecastle man proposed that we ill make ike monkey jacksu of them but we ate the flapjacks flap jacks indigestible tible as they were an extra allowance lawan ce of molasses known among wha lemen as long tailed sugar having been given us to go with them but how bow came we to have that extra sunday it happened from the fact that we had bad sailed cast halfway balfay way round the globe from the meridian of london landon or from the observatory at greenwich from which longitude ia is reckoned east and wes west L As the earth revolves to the eastward at the rate of one degree in four minutes it follows that whoever is one degree aas eastward from london will ece see the sun rise four minutes earlier than he jaho ubo is at london so in sailing c eastward one degree wo we gain four minutes in time by the eum we had bad passed over degrees of longitude etude eastward and consequently ed had gained minu minute teP or 12 houra hours time should wo we still continue eastward degrees more we would come again upon the meridian of london and have gained one day our time would have been baars hoars ahead of london time and while we should call the day monday it would be really sunday ihra must be a change a going back somewhere here in the reckoning of time toj to fix the day properly and this is is 9 generally ene rally made about the time of cross crossing ing the meridian of course that sail sa il west wese lose instead in of gaining time and then the 8 tailors get no extra sunday and pro probably bably no flapjacks flap jacks |