The sea was very rough, and this exchange was therefore extremely difficult to effect.

Neither of the steamers would lower a boat; at last our steamer gave way, after midnight, and the terrified and wailing passengers were lowered into it.

I pitied them from my heart, but fortunately no accident happened.
August 21st I could see the situation of Sandesund better by day; and found it to consist only of a few houses.

The water is so hemmed in here that it scarcely attains the breadth of a stream; but it soon widens again, and increases in beauty and variety with every yard.

We seemed to ride on a beautiful lake; for the islands lie so close to the mountains in the background, that they look like a continent, and the bays they form like the mouths of rivers.