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passengers regretted, almost to a man, that they had ventured of the ocean. These periods of remorse were subsequent to "upheavals of the deep", or followed soon after our honest endeavour to enforcce temperance by emptying all the vinous and spirituous beverages - into ourselves.
The equator was the strangest looking object seeon on the voyage. it is invisible except to those who have never seen it before. The north side is smooth & level. When we crossed it there was a fall of about eighty feet followed on the south side by rapids and rough weather - and the remorse & headache previously referred to.