48 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



And, if need be, I am sure that it will 

 last me for my time. Have I not been in 

 foreign parts ? Have I not lived under 

 strange skies and looked upon strange 

 waters ? And what waters ! Ah ! when I 

 remember that first hour in Castle Harbour, 

 after the terrible voyage, it seems to me 

 that I then attained the impossible. If 

 that actually was, there was nothing which 

 might not be. The common, every-day 

 world was no more, for I was in Shake 

 speare s &quot;still vex d Bermoothes.&quot; 



By the way, is it not odd that we are in 

 the habit of placing the scene of &quot; The Tem 

 pest &quot; in the Bermudas, when that is almost 

 the one sole spot of all the globe which 

 Shakespeare excludes ? Ariel says : 



Safely in harbour 

 Is the king s ship; in the deep nook, where 



once 



Thou call dst me up at midnight to fetch dew 

 From the still-vex d Bermootlies, there she s 



hid: 



The mariners all under hatches stow d ; 

 Whom, with a charm join d to their suffer d 



labour, 

 I have left asleep; and for the rest o the 



fleet, 



Which I dispers d, they all have met again, 

 And are upon the Mediterranean llote, 

 Bound sadly home for Naples. 



