The small cask contains fish: will you open it to see how the spirit has stood the evaporation of the Tropics.

On board the ship everything goes on as well as possible; the only drawback is the fearful length of time between this and the day of our return.

I do not see any limits to it.

One year is nearly completed and the second will be so, before we even leave the east coast of S.America.And then our voyage may be said really to have commenced.

I know not how I shall be able to endure it.