Our passage is taken in the Lord Hungerford; the most celebrated of the huge floating hotels which run between London and Calcutta.

She is more renowned for the comfort and luxury of her internal arrangements than for her speed.

As we are to stop at the Cape for a short time, I hardly expect to be with you till the end of May, or the beginning of June.

I intend to make myself a good German scholar by the time of my arrival in England.

I have already, at leisure moments broken the ice.