How I envied my companion! she could sleep day and night, which I could not.

I was nearly always awake, much to my discomfort; for the hatches and the entrance were closed during the storm, and an Egyptian darkness, as well as a stifling atmosphere, filled the cabin.
In regard to food, all passengers, captain and crew, ate of the same dish.

The morning meal consisted of miserable tea, or rather of nauseous water having the colour of tea.

The sailors imbibed theirs without sugar, but the captain and the steersman took a small piece of candied sugar, which does not melt so quickly as the refined sugar, in their mouth, and poured down cup after cup of tea, and ate ship's biscuit and butter to it.
The dinner fare varied.

The first day we had salt meat, which is soaked the evening before, and boiled the next day in sea-water.