This was accompanied by one of those ugly seaways so common in the North Atlantic, and the vessel rolled and tumbled in a manner sufficiently trying, without the addition of the manifold discomforts inseparably attendant on a first start.

These, too, were, as may well be supposed, not a little aggravated by the hurried manner in which the transhipment of stores from the Agrippina and Bahama had perforce been conducted.

Everything, in fact, was in the wildest confusion.

The ship herself was dirty and unsettled, and her decks below lumbered in all directions with all manner of incongruous articles.

No one was berthed or messed, nothing arranged or secured.