It may interest you to know that I had decided to resign next month and go home.

I'm a living man, and a living man objects to a living death.

It's worse than I had thought, I came out here in the hope that there would be excitement, life, interest.

The only excitement I get is when the ships call twice a month.

I've even prayed that our beastly old volcano might erupt and do all sorts of horrible things.