When she heard that I was actually coming up the street she barricaded her doors, and did not come out while I was on the island, a period of eight days.

Governor Roberts and his family did not share the fears of their people, but came on board at the jetty, where the sloop was berthed, and their example induced others to come also.

The governor's young boys took charge of the _Spray's_ dinghy at once, and my visit cost his Excellency, besides great hospitality to me, the building of a boat for them like the one belonging to the _Spray_.
My first day at this Land of Promise was to me like a fairy-tale.

For many days I had studied the charts and counted the time of my arrival at this spot, as one might his entrance to the Islands of the Blessed, looking upon it as the terminus of the last long run, made irksome by the want of many things with which, from this time on, I could keep well supplied.

And behold, here was the sloop, arrived, and made securely fast to a pier in Rodriguez.