He has the alternative of shutting himself in his room and appearing only at meal times, but as solitude has few charms, and cabins are badly ventilated, seclusion is accompanied by _ennui_ and headache in about equal proportions.
[Illustration: CHARACTER DEVELOPED.] Wishing to make a journey round the world, I did not look favorably upon the ocean route.

The proportions of water and land were much like the relative quantities of sack and bread in Falstaff's hotel bill.
Whether on the Atlantic or the Pacific, the Indian, or the Arctic, the appearance of Ocean's blue expanse is very much the same.

It is water and sky in one place, and sky and water in another.

You may vary the monotony by seeing ships or shipping seas, but such occurrences are not peculiar to any one ocean.

Desiring a reasonable amount of land travel, I selected the route that included Asiatic and European Russia.