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 a favorable wind, and the next day, at three o'clock, the yacht steamed out through the Porto di Malamocco into the Adriatic, and down the coast.

The weather continued fair, and the yacht encountered no storms as she passed again through the Strait of Otranto and rounded Cape Santa Maria di Leuca. Fen had carefully put the Venetian glasses on either side of Thoth, the three together making for him a sort of shrine. The voyage was uneventful, with the exception of some passing commotion caused by Larry's hurling himself against the corner of a berth one day during a slight blow and cutting a gash in his forehead. The excitement quickly subsided, however, and Larry's unconcealed pride in the bandage above his eye became tiresome.