spirited steed, released after being long held in check, the In f atigable passed down the roads with a swift gait and a majestic air. Opposite Flushing, the Superior-General, Mother Constantine, and the superiors of Notre Dame and of the houses of Namur and Ghent, took the most touching farewells of the other sisters, several of whom melted in tears. At the close of the day the foreign pilot turned the helm over to ours and took his leave.
Thereupon we entered the North Sea, where all soon perceived the first symptoms of sea-sickness. At supper it de clared itself positively. The feasters, with Father Louis [Vercruysse] at their head, were seen to rise briskly from the table, as if smitten by some sudden pang.' They advanced hesitatingly, the ship being now in full swing - imitating children learning to walk, or as the Engiish Log-book puts it, stepping like little green parrots; clawing at benches, chairs and the shoulders of passengers who were better off, until they gained the door and clambered up the stair. Once on deck and feeling more at liberty, they all paid their tribute to Neptune, and each one made efforts to imitate, as far as was in his or her power, the exhaust of a steam-engine. " O misery! misery! who would have thought it? " murmured Father Louis in his anguish - and directly a second explosion took place, and he cried " Good-by to my supper! there go the tea, the biscuits, the cheese - " A third and fourth fit followed swiftly, as if the soul was about to quit this earthly abode - that was the case with poor Father Louis. His dinner, the Bordeaux wine, the beer - all cruelly bad-tasting in a second edition, mingled with bile - potatoes, cabbage, salt meat, chicken, ham and all the
a Father Vercruysse, in his journal of this voyage, distinctly puts Father De Smet at the head of those overcome by sea-sickness on this occasion.-Father Vercruysse's journal is published in volume VI of the third Belgian edition of Father De Smet's writings. It is identical to a large extent with that here translated from Father De Smet's manuscript; it would appear that the two Fathers had kept a species of joint journal, or had copied reciprocally from each other.