Being slung to the same rails, when one man moved, no matter how slightly, the rest were set rocking; and whenever I dozed somebody was sure to struggle back to the position from which he had slipped, and arouse me again.
Many hours passed before I won to sleep.

It was only seven in the evening, and the voices of children, in shrill outcry, playing in the street, continued till nearly midnight.

The smell was frightful and sickening, while my imagination broke loose, and my skin crept and crawled till I was nearly frantic.

Grunting, groaning, and snoring arose like the sounds emitted by some sea monster, and several times, afflicted by nightmare, one or another, by his shrieks and yells, aroused the lot of us.

Toward morning I was awakened by a rat or some similar animal on my breast.