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INTENSE HEAT—HUMAN NATURE AS EXHIBITED BY THE PASSENGERS—DANGER, NOT 
APPREHENDED—A TATTLER—A “DUTCH JUSTICELONG TOM COFFIN”—A QUAKER 
HAT—AN INDIVIDUAL RUNNING WILD—HIS OATHS, DEPREDATIONS, MUSICAL ACCOM¬ 
PLISHMENTS, SHOWMAN PROPENSITIES, AND PUGILISTIC DEVELOPMENTS—“ BLUBBER,” 
BUCKSKIN, AND “THE LAST RUN OF SHAD ”—A CAPSIZED WHALE-BOAT—THRILLING 
SENSATION—HARPOON USED—A SHARK—“LAND HO !”—GULF OF PANAMA—SOUTH AME¬ 
RICAN COAST—“ SAIL HO !”—DOLPHIN FOR DINNER—A WHALE—A TERRIFIC GALE—OUR 
SAILS AND SPARS CARRIED AWAY. 
January 8th. Calm with intense heat. Our ship rolls about 
at the mercy of the sea, the spars creaking, and the sails dis¬ 
playing as little ambition as if they designed to enfold the yards 
in an eternal sleep. This example of tranquillity was but illy 
followed bjr the passengers; it appeared to foment their pas¬ 
sions, bringing the evil ones to the surface. Each was disposed 
to demand an apology from his neighbor for wrongs either real 
or imaginary, (mostly of the latter;) the neighbor declaiming, 
in the most vehement manner, that he is the injured party. 
What a motley group ! what an exposition of the dissimilarity 
of human nature ! Here are my friends Fairchild and Seymour, 
all they should be, disposed to look upon the brightest side of 
the picture ; McGr. offering $100 for the strength he once had; 
“he would whip that d—d Englishman,” the Englishman, at 
the same time, swelling and blowing about, with the pomp and 
glory of “ Old England” flitting through his imagination, quite 
ignorant of his impending danger. Grates, on the alert for news 
for the captain’s ear, for which he gets an occasional cup of 
coffee, together with the universal detestation of the passengers; 
the “Dutch Justice” strutting about with all the pomp of brain¬ 
less vanity; the professor, learned in love, law, and physic, which 
comprises, in his estimation, all that can be learned in this world ; 
“Long Tom Coffin,” the very “ beau ideal ” of the hero himself, 
