I found extreme difficulty in keeping my feet, especially at the cross-roads, where I was more than once all but blown over.

At last I reached my house, but even then my struggles were not quite at an end.

It was a very long time before I could gain admittance.

The servant who had been carrying the lantern had arrived, and, missing me, imagined that I must have returned to the house at which I had dined.

The men with whom I chummed, thinking it unlikely that I should make a second attempt to return home, had carefully fastened all the doors, momentarily expecting the roof of the house to be blown off.