My kind friends the Brauers accompanied me to the steamer, and I took a grateful leave of them.
I soon discovered the steamer _Christian VIII._, of 180-horse power, to be a vessel dirtier and more uncomfortable than any with which I had become acquainted in my maritime excursions.

Scrubbing and sweeping seemed things unknown here.

The approach to the cabin was by a flight of stairs so steep, that great care was requisite to avoid descending in an expeditious but disagreeable manner, by a fall from top to bottom.

In the fore-cabin there was no attempt at separate quarters for ladies and gentlemen.

In short, the arrangements seemed all to have been made with a view of impressing the ship vividly on the recollection of every traveller.
At nine o'clock we left Kiel.