VOYAGE OF THE GERMANIA AND HANSA. 31 



greasy food, and the impossibility of finding any work 

 to occupy us, all acted greatly on both mind and 

 stomach. But we got accustomed to it in time ; and the 

 day comes when a man is able to look at such disagree- 

 ables in a brighter light. Droll accidents, however, 

 sometimes came to enliven the dulness of our situation. 

 We scientific men found ourselves badly enough off in 

 our berths. Like bedsteads, they were provided with a 

 board that the occupants should not be thrown out. But 

 as we had packed the greater part of our books, clothes, 

 and small instruments under the mattresses, that means 

 of protection answered no longer ; and those lying on the 

 leeward side were obliged every evening to prop it up 

 with heaps of books. Even then, it often happened, if 

 the ship rolled heavily, that one of us would be pitched 

 from the upper berth into the middle of the cabin near 

 the stove, and there lie in a state of astonishment. 



The stay on deck, too, was not always very agreeable, 

 for boxes and packages of all kinds lessened the already 

 narrow space to a painful degree. In a high rolling 

 sea the ship was nearly always on her leeside, and more 

 often took water on both sides, so that it was really only 

 aft that we could keep our feet dry, or indeed move at all. 



The stormy weather of the 17th and 18th of June brought 

 on a heavy sea, so that, in order not to get too far from 

 each other the Hansa was obliged to keep more to lee- 

 ward, but towards evening neared us again. The first look 

 and the first words upon coming on deck naturally related 

 to the Hansa, and so the oft-repeated question came to 

 be a by-word, " Where is the Hansa ? " "To leeward ! " 



On the 19th, it was calm with fine weather, and a slight 

 sea-roll to windward from the north. We took this 



