Time is a panacea for every ill; and after the lapse of ten or twelve days, as the brig was drawing towards the latitude of Bermuda, my sickness disappeared as suddenly as it commenced; and one pleasant morning I threw aside my shore dress, and with it my landsman's habits and feelings.

I donned my short jacket and trousers, and felt every inch a sailor! The Bermudas are a cluster of small islands and rocks lying in the track of vessels bound from New England to the West Indies.

The climate is mild, and the atmosphere remarkably salubrious, while the trace of ocean in the vicinity has long been noted for severe squalls at every season of the year.

A squall at sea no unusual occurrence is often the cause of anxiety, being attended with danger.

Sometimes the rush of wind is so violent that nothing will resist its fury, and before the alarm is given and the canvas reduced, the masts are blown over the side or the vessel capsized.