CHAPTER II.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes.

One or two days later we crossed the 25th parallel of north latitude, and then, by order, the officers of the ship laid away their blue uniforms and came out in white linen ones.

All the ladies were in white by this time.

This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool, and cheerful and picnicky aspect.
From my diary: There are several sorts of ills in the world from which a person can never escape altogether, let him journey as far as he will.

One escapes from one breed of an ill only to encounter another breed of it.