290 TO GO, OR NOT TO GO, HOME. 



And now, the general feeling that pervaded the 

 ship's company was a wish for a speedy return home : 

 all being convinced of the inutility of a longer 

 absence. But whether the captain would act in 

 accordance with it remained to be seen. His mind 

 fluctuated, with the tide of time, between these two 

 points : to go, or not to go. This was the question 

 which he appeared to be continually debating in his 

 own mind. One moment, "going home" was in 

 the ascendant; the next, all his sympathies were 

 enlisted in favor of staying out for another cruise : 

 points which were perhaps ultimately decided to our 

 disadvantage. 



