One of the sailors, who occupied a portion of the foretop as a sleeping room, unfortunately rolled over the rim of the top one night while locked in the embraces of Somnus.

He fell to the deck, where he would inevitably have broken his neck were it not for the dense body of mosquitoes, closely packed, which hovered over the deck, awaiting their turn for a delicious banquet.

This elastic body of living insects broke Jack's fall, and let him down gently to the deck without doing him harm.
Fortunately it was not necessary to tarry a long time in Para.

We took on board a cargo of cacao in bulk, and sailed on our return to Salem.

As we approached the coast of the United States we experienced much cloudy weather, and for several days no opportunity offered for observing any unusual phenomena in the heavens.