CHAPTER II. 
TO SAO PAULO DE LOANDA. 
B ~ IT Loango, by invitation of Commander 
Hoskins, R.N., I transferred myself 
on board H.M. Steamship “Zebra,” 
one of the nymphs of the British navy, 
and began the 240 miles southwards. There was 
no wind except a slant at sunset, and the current 
often carried us as far backwards as the sails drove 
us onwards. The philosophic landlubber often 
wonders at the eternal restlessness of his naval 
brother-man, who ever sighs for a strong wind to 
make the port, and who in port is ever anxious to 
get out of it. I amused myself in the intervals of 
study with watching the huge gulls, which are 
skinned and found good food at Fernando Po, and 
in collecting the paper-nautilus. The Ocythoe 
Cranchii was often found inside the shell, and the 
sea was streaked as with cotton-flecks by lines of 
eggs several inches long, a mass of mucus with 
