Once in California, you will have less trouble than if you were loaded down with clothes.

I must get you to tell me your story when there is time." They came on deck just in time to see the steamer swing out of the dock.
There were some of the passengers with sober faces.

They had bidden farewell to friends and relatives whom they might not see for years--perhaps never again.

They were going to a new country, where hardships undoubtedly awaited them, and where they must take their chances of health and success.

Some, too, feared seasickness, a malady justly dreaded by all who have ever felt its prostrating effects.