The sky still looks very threatening; let us return to your mother, and take a light with us." I had contrived a sort of portable lantern, made of isinglass, which lighted us in our offices.

Moreover, a calibash pierced with small holes, with a candle inside, was placed at the top of the winding staircase, and lighted it entirely, so that we were able to descend without danger by night as w ell as by day.

I was, however, uneasy about the way we should bring my wife down, if we found it necessary to remove her during her sickness; I named it to Fritz.
"Have no uneasiness, father," said he, "Ernest and I are very strong now, and we can carry mamma like a feather." "You and I might, my dear boy," said I; "but Ernest cannot be of much assistance to us at present." I then related his misfortune to them.

They were distressed and astonished, not comprehending the cause, which I promised to explain.
They wished now, however, to see their brother.

Fritz then requested, in a low tone of voice, that he might go to Tent House, to see if the vessel and the captain had arrived.