rouds, that
had been shot away in the engagement.

CHAPTER XXII.

But now, t' observe romantic method,
Let bloody steel awhile be sheathed:
And all those harsh and rugged sounds
Of bastinadoes, cuts, and wounds,
Exchanged to Love's more gentle style,
To let our reader breathe awhile.

HUDIBRAS.

The damages done on board the Albatross were all repaired before sunset;
the dead body of the poor fellow that was killed was committed to its
watery tomb with becoming solemnity, and by the next morning the
north-east trade-wind was blowing fresh and steady, and, as it usually
does in both the Atlantic and Pacific, from almost due east. The ship,
with booms rigged out and studding-sails set on both sides, dashed
swiftly towards the west, rolling almost gunwales under at every motion,
and initiating the two females into all the mysteries of sea-sickness.
However, in two or three days the sea, that is always heaviest near the
land, subsided into the long, regular undulation peculiar to the ocean,
properly so called, and Isabella recovered from her sea-sickness, and,
by keeping as much as possible in the open air, and walking the deck
almost constantly, assisted at first by the arm of some one of the
gentlemen, soon got her _sea-legs_ on.

I would substitute some other phrase, if, by so doing, I could make
myself intelligible; but as the case is, it is impossible to mince the
matter--fashion has not yet, thank God, invaded the "Dictionary of
Sea-Terms;" and ladies, when off soundings, must still be content to
have "legs" like other folks--on shore they may vote it indecent to have
even "ankles," for aught I care.

Captain Williams, having neither missionaries nor tracts on board, did
not stop at the Sandwich Islands, nor did he even pass within sight of
them; but holding on his course, on the fortieth day after leaving St.
Blas, he saw Cape Espiritu Santo, the southern extremity of the island
of Lugonia, or Lucon, one of the Philippine Islands. Passing through the
Straits of Samar, he changed his course to the northward and westward,
and steered for Macao, where he arrived six days afterwards.

The passage across the Pacific Ocean afforded the two lovers numerous
moonlight quarter-deck walks. Morton, as first officer, had the first
watch, from eight to twelve, every other night, and on these occasions
was invariably accompanied by his fair bride elec