We saw nothing but land and water till we arrived the next morning at the Scheren, and steered for Gottenburg.
August 31st.
The sea had been rough all night, and we therefore reached Gottenburg three hours later than usual.

In this agitated sea, the surging of the breakers against the many rocks and islets near Gottenburg has a very curious effect.
The few travellers who could keep on their feet, who did not suffer from sea-sickness, and remained on deck, spoke much of the dangerous storm.

I had frequently marvelled to hear people who had made a journey, if it were even only a short one of forty to sixty leagues, relate of some fearful storm they had witnessed.

Now I comprehended the reason, when I heard the travellers beside me call the brisk breeze, which only occasioned what seamen call a little swell, a dreadful storm; and they will probably tell at home of the dangers they have passed.

Storms are, fortunately, not so frequent.