And pictures--pictures pictures--an enchanting procession of them! I was impatient for the morning to come.
When it came it brought disappointment, of course.

Cholera had broken out in the town, and we were not allowed to have any communication with the shore.

Thus suddenly did my dream of twenty-nine years go to ruin.
Messages came from friends, but the friends themselves I was not to have any sight of.

My lecture-hall was ready, but I was not to see that, either.
Several of our passengers belonged in Honolulu, and these were sent ashore; but nobody could go ashore and return.

There were people on shore who were booked to go with us to Australia, but we could not receive them; to do it would cost us a quarantine-term in Sydney.