Excerpt from To Jamaica and Back
Seated on a camp-stool in my cabin, with a sofa-pillow across my knees as a substitute for a table, I take my pen in hand to carry out your parting injunction to register the events of my voyage. The writing is occasionally interrupted by a lurch of the vessel, for we are arriving on the verge of the Bay of Biscay, and the rollers come with a bang on the quarter, as though they wished to give our good ship an undeserved slap in the face.
I left Radley's excellent hotel at Southampton on Monday morning, May 18th; the tender being announced in waiting to take off passengers to the Royal Mail steamer Nile.
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