'Golden days, that turn to silver, then to lead,' writes Victor.

Eh, well! Do you know how much longer we are to remain upon this abominable sea?
This must be something like the eighteenth of April." "The voyage has been unusually prosperous, Captain Bouchard says.

We sight Acadia in less than twenty days.

It will be colder then, for huge icebergs come floating about in the water.

We shall undoubtedly reach Quebec by June.