CHAPTER XXI. 



SUNRISE. 



February 18th. 



Heaven be praised! I have once more seen the 

 sun. 



Knowing that the sun would appear to-day, every- 

 body was filled with expectation, and hastened off 

 after breakfast to some favorite spot where it was 

 thouQ-ht that he mio-ht be seen. Some went in the 

 right direction, and were gratified ; others went in 

 the wrong direction, and were disappointed. Knorr 

 and others of the officers climbed the hills above Etah. 

 Charley limbered up his rheumatic old legs, and tried 

 to get a view from the north side of the harbor, for- 

 getting that the mountains intervened. Harris and 

 Heywood climbed to the top of the hill behind the 

 harbor, and the former shook his Odd Fellow's flag 

 in the sun's very face. The cook was troubled that 

 he did not have a look at " de blessed sun ; " but he 

 could not gratify his wish without going upon the 

 land, and this he could no more be induced to do 

 than the mountain could be persuaded to come to 

 Mahomet. He will probably have to wait until the 

 sun steals over the hills into the harbor, which will 

 be at least twelve days. 



My own share in the day's excitement has been 

 equal to the rest of them. Accompanied by Dodge 



