24 VOYAGE TO RIO DE JANEIRO. 



before us, and yet I could not look without interest at the lofty masts 

 of the good ship (now in a state of repose), which, after so many- 

 dangers happily overcome, had brought us hither in safety from dis- 

 tant lands. The traveller, who has, for a long time, found a home 

 on the surface of the boundless ocean, in such a floating ark, feels 

 a certain gratitude towards it, when he is to leave it ; and to the un- 

 polished, but honest seaman, who was so long his support, he wishes 

 a cordial farewell, and good fortune in his farther peregrinations 

 upon the fickle and deceitful element to which he has dedicated his 

 life. 



