2 THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. 



Church — the Eev. Henry "Ward Beecher — by the 

 agonies of sea-sickness, that "those whom Grod 

 hateth he sendeth to sea." 



We had a very rough passage, fighting against 

 head winds nearly all the way; but rapidly getting 

 our sea-legs, we sufiered little from ennui, being 

 diverted by our observations on a somewhat curious 

 collection of fellow-passengers. Conspicuous amongst 

 them were two Eomish bishops of Canadian sees, on 

 their return from Eome, where they had assisted at 

 the canonisation of the Japanese martyrs, and each 

 gloried in the possession of a handsome silver medal, 

 presented to them by his Holiness the Pope for their 

 eminent services on that occasion. These two digni- 

 taries presented a striking contrast. One, very tall 

 and emaciated, was the very picture of an ascetic, 

 and passed the greater part of his time in the cabin 

 reading his missal and holy books. His inner man 

 he satisfied by a spare diet of soup and fish, gratify- 

 ing to the full no carnal appetite except that for snufF, 

 which he took in prodigious quantity, and avoiding 

 all society except that of his brother bishop. The 

 latter, "a round, fat, oily man of Grod," of genial 

 temper, and sociable disposition, despised not the good 

 things of this world, and greatly afiected a huge 

 meerschaum pipe, from which he blew a cloud with 

 great complacency. As an antidote to them, we 

 had an old lady afflicted with Papophobia, who 

 caused us much amusement by inveighing bitterly 

 against the culpable weakness of which Her Majesty 

 the Queen had been guilty, in accepting the present 



