Sce land. i (Written in July, 1841). 
246 VOYAGE TO ST. THOMAS, ST. KITT'S, ETC. 
Having reposed and refreshed ourselves, we commenced 
our wanderings down into the steep cratér. It took us about 
an hour to reach the clayey bottom, covered with grass. 
Only on the sides are some hills still smoking and covered 
with sulphur, and a few puddles of boiling water. We had 
to force our way through underwood of Mertensia dicho- 
toma (?), and had then the happiness, besides other things, to 
find a very pretty fern, which I consider new. 
It took us at least two hours to climb up out of the crater, 
and was very troublesome. We did not reach home before the 
dark of night ; our negroes were heavily laden with botanical 
booty, and we highly satisfied with the rich enjoyments 
afforded us by nature. This excursion was the jewel of my 
voyage, and it will be ever delightful to my memory. . 
We proceeded from St. Kitt’s, by steam, to Antigua. This > 
island agrees in botanical character more with the Danish | 
West India islands. In St. John’s, we got on board a vessel 
loaded with sugar, on which we returned to Europe. Whilst 
writing this, we are on the Atlantic ocean, becalmed, and in 
. want of water—a great want for me, to whom it is an indis- ; 
-pensible necessary. But a kind God, who has so far helped 
us, will not now suffer us to perish. He has the winds m 
his hands, and can open the windows of the heavens to pour 
down rains and waters. He preserved our lives, when storms 
howled and waves raged. He cared for our health under 
the burning heat of the sun. He will surely carry us back to 
our beloved and our children, whom we left in our father 
J. Curistian BREUTEL. 
Bethelsdorf, near Herrnhuth. 
