Calms, light breezes, and currents made every thing uncertain.

Nor had we any method of estimating our due westward progress, except by what is called Dead Reckoning,--the computation of the knots run hourly; allowances' being made for the supposed deviations from our course, by reason of the ocean streams; which at times in this quarter of the Pacific rim with very great velocity.
Now, in many respects we could not but feel safer aboard the Parki than in the Chamois.

The sense of danger is less vivid, the greater the number of lives involved.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another.

In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
Still, in the brigantine there were many sources of uneasiness and anxiety unknown to me in the whale-boat.