Narrative of a Journey Round the World
Comprising a Winter-Passage Across the Andes to Chili; With a Visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &C (Classic Reprint)

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It excites a singular feeling to be on board of a vessel, still at anchor in the harbor of your native country, but ready to start every minute on a long, long voyage. You no longer belong to your home, although, in fact, you have not yet left it, nor have you yet begun your new wandering life. You feel only this restless waiting, this not being able to leave the ship, and hour after hour passed without your moving a step. You find yourself for once in your life between the future and the past, without a present, and wish at last for that which you have so dreaded before - the moment when you shall bid farewell to your home.

But emigrants are not always visited by these emotions. Most of them have closed their account with their old mother country - leaving mother country also not unfrequently in debt to them, and feeling now only suspense. This spreads over the whole ship, and people walk about on deck with dissatisfied and peevish looks, grumbling and growling, and by no means in a humor for sentiment.

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