We expect from twenty-five to thirty days' passage....

We have a piano-forte on board and two gentlemen who play elegantly, so we shall have fine times.

I am in good spirits, though I feel rather singularly to see my native shores disappearing so fast and for so long a time.
I am not yet seasick, but expect to be a little so in a few days.

We shall probably be boarded by a British vessel of war soon; there are a number off the coast, but they treat American vessels very civilly.
He kept a careful diary of the voyage to England and again resumed it when he returned to America in 1815.

The voyage out was most propitious and lasted but twenty-two days in all: a very short one for that time.