300 Voyage of the Novara. 



regular emigration, which very speedily came to a conclusion, 

 by each and all having the melancholy satisfaction of per- 

 ceiving that Fortune had set to work with rigorous impartiality, 

 and had resolved to let each one of us feel the weight of her 

 displeasure. And so we passed the long dreary hours in our 

 comfortless huts, that gave free entrance to wind and rain, with 



umbrellas outspread or wrapped in our India-rubber cloaks, 

 gazing moodily at the numerous cases full of valuable instru- 

 ments, which, instead of being serviceable to science, were, 

 by the loss of so many splendid opportunities, doomed to 

 inactivity. 



Fortunately, all showed themselves animated by the utmost 

 zeal for the undertaking and its successful issue ; and, in a word, 



